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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I've always considered The Gap Cycle Donaldson's finest work ... by far (though I've always found the tiny first book/intro The Real Story to be an odd way of kicking off such a massive epic).
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Indeed. This is a fantastic series. But you're right, the opening book is truly disturbing, and I imagine some people never get past that. As strange a choice as it was, it really did set up well for what was to come. The series, it seems to me, turns out to be constructed as one large story that just happened to be split into five books - with the last long book one very big climax. When seen in that light, the short first book becomes almost just a prelude to the "real story".