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[jmtorres]

Follow-up questions re a group reading!

Poll showed preference for chronological by publishing date:
Jhereg
Yendi
Teckla
Taltos
Phoenix
Athyra
Orca
Dragon
Issola
Dzur
Jhegaala
Iorich
Tiassa (due March 29, 2011)

Preference for time per book seemed pretty evenly split in 2-4 week range; I would suggest splitting down the middle at 3 weeks per book except for: when Tiassa's due out. Does anyone who wanted longer think it would be worthwhile to trim it down to 2 weeks a book (+/- a week here and there for Major Holidays(/School Finals), whatever ones we find most relevant distractions in our lives) to be ready jump on Tiassa when it comes out?

appended question: What times of year should we allow more time for our group reading on account of great business? I am personally tempted to throw out most of December due to finals/Hanukah/Yuletide/Christmas; they all overlap and most of December looks pretty overwhelming.

vaguely related question: What do you think the spoiler policy should be for this community? Most recent book goes behind spoiler cut? Everything goes behind spoiler cut out of deference to those of our members who haven't read everything? Everything from a certain year on? I mean, I still refer to The Orca Spoiler and it's been--holy crap--14 years.

separate question: Those of you who want to do a reread of the Paarfi books together, do you want to run that concurrent to the Vlad reread, or after?

Comments

[jmtorres]

There is at least one person reading this comm who has only read the first five books! So s/he'll be a new reader after, what, Phoenix? (Wow, The Orca Spoiler might still be relevant.)

[existence]

hah oh man. The Orca spoiler is still relevant!

I maintain that the policy of doing the last 3 books as spoilers should hold and you can put up a more precise policy on the relevant discussion posts. But, up to you.

[ambyr]

I'm usually pretty "whatever" about spoilers, but I'm in favor of warning/cutting for the Orca spoiler forever, because I never want to be responsible for ruining that single shining moment of "OMGWTFBBQ ::hastily flipping back through every page in the series ever::" for a new fan.

True story: I once spent an hour doing nothing but sitting and watching a friend read Orca just so I could see his expression when he hit that page for the first time.