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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

[existence]

In regards to dates, I am for throwing all of December (save perhaps the first week, depending on how the schedule falls from here on out) and giving it a go for the two week range because I would love to be able to do Tiassa soon after it came out. Also I nominate Parfi after Vlad, but bias, there. (Also partially because it just takes me longer to do a Parfi book versus a Vlad book.)

Also, another question: are we going to read Brokedown Palace too? It seems that for a complete reread, we're pretty much only missing that, and it was republished in the last few years, so that with enough time, I'm pretty sure that copies could be found.

Regarding, spoilers, maybe we can do the everything in that book, spoiler cut, and future books in comments in subthreads with appropriate thread subjects. IE, in Taltos, we could talk about That Orca Spoiler if we put it into our comment subjects?

[ambyr]

I'm actually more concerned about November (NaNo, Thanksgiving, when I do the bulk of Yuletide) than December. I think the best strategy might be to lean towards the longer end of things (3 or 4 weeks per book) and just go steadily through rather than try to single out what times of the year are going to be busy. If we do 2 weeks per book I'll still try to participate in discussions, but it's going to be mostly from memory, because I don't think I can read them that fast.

I don't mind being behind on Tiassa, or even just doing it out of order.