[Dragaera] Drive-by poll about titles

[John Dallman]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706281153510.10295 at rdpc11.slac.stanford.edu>, 
philiph at slac.stanford.edu (Philip Hart) wrote:

> I'm curious why _Taltos_ is coming up so often.  I don't think the 
> intercutting threads or the deus ex witchcraft ending work all that 
> well.

The "life flashing before Vlad's eyes" structure that the threads build 
works pretty well for me. It's also a fine example of supplying a load 
of information without visible info-dumping: it gives me more sense of 
the world than most of the other books manage. The later ones tend to 
force me to do a lot of recalling of background to understand what's 
going on and why, whereas Taltos tells a whole story quite well. 

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