I just hope my journal won't be a disappointment since it's going to be mainly non-Dragaera stuff,
Small chance of that, as, having looked through your tags, we have a lot of other small book fandoms in common, including some that are still adding to the canon, like Rivers of London and Dresden Files (well, theoretically anyway. Hurry up, Jim!)
I kinda vaguely knew of it, and even tried to read a random book in the series in the 90s (I absolutely do not remember which one now), and bounced off completely.
It's a really odd series for me, too, because I'd been aware / casually following it for years -- I read part of The Phoenix Guards in high school, and was very confused by the Dumas pastiche, and then read Jhereg not long after, and liked it, but I guess not enough to track down the other books? I kept reading the books as I came across them, completely out of order -- and then at some point, after reading Dzur, I think? which I don't even like as a book that much, but I must have hit some kind of Dragaera critical mass with it? -- the casual reading just sparked into full-blown obsession. I think it's one thing the Dragaera books do amazingly well -- the whole really is greater than the sum of its (entertaining) parts. But it also makes it a really difficult series to recommend to people, I find, because I end up saying things like, "OK, so these books are fun, but to REALLY appreciate them, you have to read the first 5, or 8, or 10" XP
and also to have people to talk to them about! :D
I think you have collected the entirety of Dragaera fandom on DW in this post, which I am delighted about! :D
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Small chance of that, as, having looked through your tags, we have a lot of other small book fandoms in common, including some that are still adding to the canon, like Rivers of London and Dresden Files (well, theoretically anyway. Hurry up, Jim!)
I kinda vaguely knew of it, and even tried to read a random book in the series in the 90s (I absolutely do not remember which one now), and bounced off completely.
It's a really odd series for me, too, because I'd been aware / casually following it for years -- I read part of The Phoenix Guards in high school, and was very confused by the Dumas pastiche, and then read Jhereg not long after, and liked it, but I guess not enough to track down the other books? I kept reading the books as I came across them, completely out of order -- and then at some point, after reading Dzur, I think? which I don't even like as a book that much, but I must have hit some kind of Dragaera critical mass with it? -- the casual reading just sparked into full-blown obsession. I think it's one thing the Dragaera books do amazingly well -- the whole really is greater than the sum of its (entertaining) parts. But it also makes it a really difficult series to recommend to people, I find, because I end up saying things like, "OK, so these books are fun, but to REALLY appreciate them, you have to read the first 5, or 8, or 10" XP
and also to have people to talk to them about! :D
I think you have collected the entirety of Dragaera fandom on DW in this post, which I am delighted about! :D