"Books? You want books?! Ha! We've got books on hairy otters, on onions and on mars! All the fungus you could care for, plus, three triple zillion stars. We've got books on flossing teeth, plus three books on tossing sheep. If we spent our lives just counting books, we'd never get to sleep!" -Leopold the Librarian ("The Great Wishy Woz")
Yes, dear, I'm sorry you'll have to. *cough* It was a disclaimer, for those wondering, just so I couldn't get in trouble for promoting anything more... adult-like.
*cough*
Black, the Lost Books in the 13 year time skip in Black, Red, White, Showdown, Saint, Sinner, and Green, is the 'chronological' order. Though I didn't read the Lost Books until after the original Circle Trilogy and the Paradise novels. It makes the most sense that way, I think.
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Love you always, SnC "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" -Albert Einstein
Termite wrote:Yes, dear, I'm sorry you'll have to. *cough* It was a disclaimer, for those wondering, just so I couldn't get in trouble for promoting anything more... adult-like.
*cough*
Black, the Lost Books in the 13 year time skip in Black, Red, White, Showdown, Saint, Sinner, and Green, is the 'chronological' order. Though I didn't read the Lost Books until after the original Circle Trilogy and the Paradise novels. It makes the most sense that way, I think.
whoa....wait, the Circle Trilogy and Paradise books are PART OF THE SAME SERIES??? since when? oh dear, I didn't know that *sigh*
*remembers* oh wait, I totally knew that, but seeing them all written in order was weird. I think of them as 2 different series, the Paradise novels were good, but confusing as to the big picture.
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Termite wrote:Yes, dear, I'm sorry you'll have to. *cough* It was a disclaimer, for those wondering, just so I couldn't get in trouble for promoting anything more... adult-like.
*cough*
Black, the Lost Books in the 13 year time skip in Black, Red, White, Showdown, Saint, Sinner, and Green, is the 'chronological' order. Though I didn't read the Lost Books until after the original Circle Trilogy and the Paradise novels. It makes the most sense that way, I think.
whoa....wait, the Circle Trilogy and Paradise books are PART OF THE SAME SERIES??? since when? oh dear, I didn't know that *sigh*
*remembers* oh wait, I totally knew that, but seeing them all written in order was weird. I think of them as 2 different series, the Paradise novels were good, but confusing as to the big picture.
if you have read Green you would know how they fit into the big picture. also its because the books of historys. and if you read the lost books chronicles then you would know how they fit into that. (there are lets see 13 books all connecting together.)
From what I know: Showdown is connected to the lost books only by Marsuvees Black and Paradise. But Saint and Sinner are in the same series as Showdown, so David Abraham is in them. I'm not sure who else in it them, though.
Shadowfax wrote:From what I know: Showdown is connected to the lost books only by Marsuvees Black and Paradise. But Saint and Sinner are in the same series as Showdown, so David Abraham is in them. I'm not sure who else in it them, though.
Ok. Oh, and while we're on Ted Dekker, what did you think of Elyon and...the other one with that co-author?
Lunatic? Hm.. they just didn't seem like Dekker's writing. I'm guessing that the other author did most of the writing, or perhaps, all of it. Dekker just got the credit. But I found it creepy, and I couldn't wait to get to the end. It almost lacked adventure, ya know?
Shadowfax wrote:Lunatic? Hm.. they just didn't seem like Dekker's writing. I'm guessing that the other author did most of the writing, or perhaps, all of it. Dekker just got the credit. But I found it creepy, and I couldn't wait to get to the end. It almost lacked adventure, ya know?
What did you think of it?
I just read the first four, 'cause I was under the impression that was the end of the series. (He seriously could have ended it right there.) Even if the other two had been out, I don't think I would have read them, 'cause it had already gotten a little too creepy by the fourth book.
I liked them. Really good allegory to today's world, if you ask me.
Shadowfax wrote:From what I know: Showdown is connected to the lost books only by Marsuvees Black and Paradise. But Saint and Sinner are in the same series as Showdown, so David Abraham is in them. I'm not sure who else in it them, though.
The books make a WHOLE lot more sense if you read The Circle Series, the Lost Books, AND the Paradise novels. Otherwise, alone? Yeah, they're strange.
Love you always, SnC "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" -Albert Einstein
Termite wrote:I liked them. Really good allegory to today's world, if you ask me.
Shadowfax wrote:From what I know: Showdown is connected to the lost books only by Marsuvees Black and Paradise. But Saint and Sinner are in the same series as Showdown, so David Abraham is in them. I'm not sure who else in it them, though.
The books make a WHOLE lot more sense if you read The Circle Series, the Lost Books, AND the Paradise novels. Otherwise, alone? Yeah, they're strange.
I have a question. Does Green sorta close off the whole thing? 'Cause it's the most recent book in the whole....Circle thingy, right?
*cough* It was a disclaimer, for those wondering, just so I couldn't get in trouble for promoting anything more... adult-like. 
Really good allegory to today's world, if you ask me. 
