From: "Gareth Jelley" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Which order?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:58:21 +0100

From: "Nigel Price" 

> Once you start reading
> Short Sun, you'll want to go off and read Long Sun anyway, so why not take
> them in order in the first place?


This is true, and I do indeed want to read the Long Sun now I've started on
the Short Sun; but the other point I'd make is that 'On Blue's Waters' is a
beautiful novel in its own right, and reading it without any other knowledge
of 'Urth' wasn't detrimental (for me, at least). The quality of OBW as a
really marvellous work of literature, in its own right, shone through, and
it never felt incomplete, as a novel. If that makes sense... And this, I
think, is what was at the heart of my devil's advocacy :o)

Best,

G.


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