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"Unicorn636" <unicorn636 DeleteThis @aol.com> wrote in message
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 > I would recommend starting with the Deryni Chronicles or the Camber
trilogy.
 > I read the Camber trilogy first.
 >
 > The winter I turned 15, one of the Camber books was the featured selection
in
 > the Science Fiction Book Club (which, like KK's UK publisher stopped
publishing
 > her books after Harrowing). My mom bought me the trilogy for either my
 > birthday or Christmas. I was hooked. When Bishop's Heir was published a
 > couple years later, the SFBC offered the 3-in-1 edition of Deyrni
Chronicles.
 > After that, I eagerly awaited each new book while Katherine wrote.
 >
 >

That's how I got started! Good old SFBC!

Our first one was SAINT CAMBER, and we got CAMBER OF CULDI and DERYNI RISING
shortly thereafter. Funnily enough, I didn't have any problems with
starting the Camber trilogy with the middle book. I was hooked! (I was also
fifteen years old, and not really at a point where the disparity in style
between the young Kelson books and the Camber trilogy was anything to
notice--it was on my second read through that I started nitpicking...)

And all these years later, I still love them all. Even the ones that made
me cry...

Bernadette
(who needs to finish unpacking boxes of books from the move)<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

 >From: "kerelsen" kerelsen.TakeThisOut@earthlink.net

 >That's how I got started! Good old SFBC!
 >
 >Our first one was SAINT CAMBER, and we got CAMBER OF CULDI and DERYNI RISING
 >shortly thereafter. Funnily enough, I didn't have any problems with
 >starting the Camber trilogy with the middle book. I was hooked! (I was
 >also
 >fifteen years old, and not really at a point where the disparity in style
 >between the young Kelson books and the Camber trilogy was anything to
 >notice--it was on my second read through that I started nitpicking...)

That's exactly the order that I read them in as well (except I reread Saint
Camber after reading Camber of Culdi, and anxiously awaited the release of
Camber the Heretic.)

However, I was about 10 years older than you, so the style discrepancy was a
real big deal with me.

Russ<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->