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From: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com (glencook-fans-digest)
To: glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com
Subject: glencook-fans-digest V1 #77
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glencook-fans-digest Monday, January 29 2001 Volume 01 : Number 077
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:30:41 -0400
From: Richard Chilton <rchilton@auracom.com>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett books
Bill Curran wrote:
>
> I have only read the BC books. If I were to find it, which of the Garrett
> books should I read first???
>
I'd say the first one - Sweet Silver Blues. It introduces all the
characters and explains the setting. The later books are torn between
repeating everything for new readers and not boring readers of the
previous books.
Getting in late in the series can be confusing - same as any series.
For example, pick up the BC during the Glittering Stone bit and you get
a very small idea who Lady is. Read the entire series (starting with
the Books of the North) and Lady is a much fuller character.
With Garrett, there are no big bloodbaths that remove characters, so
someone introduced fully in an earlier books can show up in a later one
- - and this leads to "Who is Blah anyway?"
The opening chapters of the second book (and most of the later ones) has
a big spoiler for the end of the first book. Sometime along the lines
of "X owes big because..." - one of the big surprises of book 1 that is
an important background fact in the early books.
Richard
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:50:19 -0000
From: "Joseph McGrath" <jomcgrath@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
Don,
If you look back about twenty five messages ago you'll see i apologized
profusely.
Blame it on my enthusiasm for the Garrett series.
Joe
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Don <dfgarcia@stic.net>
To: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
> Dude. Warn us for spoilers. Reading that first line sucked. I haven't
gotten
> that far in the series yet.
>
> Don
> "In time, what's deserved always gets served."- COC
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joseph McGrath <jomcgrath@mediaone.net>
> To: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
> Cc: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
>
>
> > Glory Mooncalled is not a Centaur! He is a cynical, manipulative old man
> who
> > is wrung dry of all his secrets, by the Dead Man. The Dead Man takes
> control
> > of him at the end of Faded Steel Heat, from inside a huge beer keg,
while
> at
> > Weider's Estate. Poor chuckles gets disilusioned at the petty
aspirations
> of
> > Mooncalled and Tama Montazuma. After all, Mooncalled was Old Bones's
hero
> > for a while and i think the truth only vilifies and justifies the
> sarcastic
> > opinion that Morley and the Dead Man have about Humans.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ray Washburn <chrome@wwisp.com>
> > To: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
> >
> >
> > > Glory Mooncalled is a centaur, that's how he convinced the Centaur
> tribes
> > to
> > > help him in the Cantard.. Garrett meets him later in the series as
> > > well...which confirms the fact.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <dmeyer@dmeyer.net>
> > > To: <glencook-fans@xmission.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 1:04 PM
> > > Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
> > >
> > >
> > > > In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101221352560.18512-100000@arlen.osc.edu>
> you
> > > write:
> > > > > Morning Glory was a centaur ??????????? This is not how I read
> it....
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm. Glory Mooncalled (!) is human, IIRC.
> > > >
> > > > -- _Faded Steel Heat_ SPOILERS --
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At least, IIRC he shows up as a fairly tired old guy in _Faded Steel
> > > > Heat_.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > David M. Meyer
> > > > dmeyer@dmeyer.net
> > > >
> > > >
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:44:33 -0800
From: Bill Curran <zarathos@vegas.infi.net>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett books
It was a little difficult for me to get through the first book of the BC series,
but I stuck with it and enjoyed the book. As I read the others, I couldnt
believe how hooked I was with the series...
Richard Chilton wrote:
> Bill Curran wrote:
> >
> > I have only read the BC books. If I were to find it, which of the Garrett
> > books should I read first???
> >
>
> I'd say the first one - Sweet Silver Blues. It introduces all the
> characters and explains the setting. The later books are torn between
> repeating everything for new readers and not boring readers of the
> previous books.
>
> Getting in late in the series can be confusing - same as any series.
> For example, pick up the BC during the Glittering Stone bit and you get
> a very small idea who Lady is. Read the entire series (starting with
> the Books of the North) and Lady is a much fuller character.
>
> With Garrett, there are no big bloodbaths that remove characters, so
> someone introduced fully in an earlier books can show up in a later one
> - and this leads to "Who is Blah anyway?"
>
> The opening chapters of the second book (and most of the later ones) has
> a big spoiler for the end of the first book. Sometime along the lines
> of "X owes big because..." - one of the big surprises of book 1 that is
> an important background fact in the early books.
>
> Richard
>
> =======================================================================
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> visit <http://www.xmission.com/~shpshftr/GC/GC-Mail.html>.
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:04:30 -0600
From: "Don" <dfgarcia@stic.net>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
Sorry,
I hadn't read your apology yet when I sent my exclamation. I'm sure I'll
forget what I learned by the time I get around to those books.
Don
"In time, what's deserved always gets served."- COC
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph McGrath <jomcgrath@mediaone.net>
To: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
Cc: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
> Don,
> If you look back about twenty five messages ago you'll see i apologized
> profusely.
> Blame it on my enthusiasm for the Garrett series.
> Joe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Don <dfgarcia@stic.net>
> To: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:11 AM
> Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
>
>
> > Dude. Warn us for spoilers. Reading that first line sucked. I haven't
> gotten
> > that far in the series yet.
> >
> > Don
> > "In time, what's deserved always gets served."- COC
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Joseph McGrath <jomcgrath@mediaone.net>
> > To: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
> > Cc: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
> >
> >
> > > Glory Mooncalled is not a Centaur! He is a cynical, manipulative old
man
> > who
> > > is wrung dry of all his secrets, by the Dead Man. The Dead Man takes
> > control
> > > of him at the end of Faded Steel Heat, from inside a huge beer keg,
> while
> > at
> > > Weider's Estate. Poor chuckles gets disilusioned at the petty
> aspirations
> > of
> > > Mooncalled and Tama Montazuma. After all, Mooncalled was Old Bones's
> hero
> > > for a while and i think the truth only vilifies and justifies the
> > sarcastic
> > > opinion that Morley and the Dead Man have about Humans.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Ray Washburn <chrome@wwisp.com>
> > > To: <glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:08 PM
> > > Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
> > >
> > >
> > > > Glory Mooncalled is a centaur, that's how he convinced the Centaur
> > tribes
> > > to
> > > > help him in the Cantard.. Garrett meets him later in the series as
> > > > well...which confirms the fact.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: <dmeyer@dmeyer.net>
> > > > To: <glencook-fans@xmission.com>
> > > > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 1:04 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Garrett (was: dead)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > In article
<Pine.GSO.4.21.0101221352560.18512-100000@arlen.osc.edu>
> > you
> > > > write:
> > > > > > Morning Glory was a centaur ??????????? This is not how I read
> > it....
> > > > >
> > > > > Hmmm. Glory Mooncalled (!) is human, IIRC.
> > > > >
> > > > > -- _Faded Steel Heat_ SPOILERS --
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > At least, IIRC he shows up as a fairly tired old guy in _Faded
Steel
> > > > > Heat_.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > David M. Meyer
> > > > > dmeyer@dmeyer.net
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > >
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