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From: kentb@tekchips.UUCP (Kent Beck)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Steven Brust
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 20:33:55 EST
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> From: hmiller@mit-speaker (Herbert A Miller)
> 
>     I have several friends who, along with myself, have read both
> "Jhereg" and "Yendi" and we all came away from these books dying for more!
> 
>     However, two questions come to mind, concerning these novels:
>     
> 	1)  Why was "Jhereg" published first, followed by "Yendi"?
> 	    The chronological order, should be:
> 		"Jhereg" prologue, "Yendi", "Jhereg" body.
> 	    If the books are read in order of publication, then
> 	    "Jhereg" gives away a lot of the action that should
>  	    be a suprise in "Yendi".
> 
> ...

Don't believe it for a minute.  These novels were written to be read
backwards.  Recently someone else on the net claimed that they should be
read in chronological order, so to prove it to myself, I did (I might add
that I have read them in published order several times).  Yuch!!!  There is
far more information given away reading "Yendi" first than the other way
around.  One of the beauties of these books is that "Jhereg" sets up several
puzzles that are solved in "Yendi," and they are intended to be read that
way.  

Now, Steven, when are we going to find out what happened at Deathsgate Falls?

Kent Beck
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