Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf
With some series, starting where it picks up doesn't work. So that bit of information should be mentioned if such a thread was to be started.
|
Good point.
Actually, I do have one series that I (somewhat) persevered with. "Earth's Children". That's the stuff by Jean Auel. I fought my way through the first book, "The Clan of the Cave Bear". It wasn't bad, just very tedious in places. But there are many good places in that book mixed in with the tedious. The followup book "The Valley of Horses" is one of my favorites. The third book, "The Mammoth Hunters" was pretty good too. I am stuck in the middle of the fourth book, "The Plains of Passage". Not because it is bad, but because I took a different reading direction and never really went back to finish up the Jean Auel series. Can't really blame me - she took over 30 years to write it, I can take the same to read it.
Skipping the first book in this series because it is a bit tedious would have been a mistake.