L E Modesitt Jr

[woodsman]

I picked up Magic of Recluse for £1 and thoroughly enjoyed it, but, can never seem to find anymore of his work in bookshops! is this common? Might have to make an internet foray to pick up some more. Loved the way he wrote about woodwork, some superb stuff.

[Perpetual Man]

I have noticed that a lot of his material is unavailable in bookshops, it's generally only his more recent books that turn up there. I've been slowly picking up loads from ebay and amazon, but generally find his Recluce stuff to be the best
(Although it is a different style I have been enjoying his Ghosts series)

[Lenny]

That was one of the problems I had with all of the Recluce series - I decided I was going to buy them about a year ago, but I could find nowhere that sold the early ones. Distraught, I was.

I eventually got extremely lucky and found 11 going in a single auction on eBay - a couple of hours later and I'd have missed them!

A quarter of the way through The Death of Chaos, now. At this point is Modesitt going through some sort of change with his writing styles? The first book was first person in a past tense, two and three were third person in the present tense, and then the fourth (which took some real getting used to) was third person in the past tense. It makes sense for him to go back to first person past tense with a return to Lerris, but it does ones head in when you go straight from one back to another to be met with a different style.

[Perpetual Man]

It's a long while since I read them Lenny, but I felt very much the same thing, although I did read other books in between, which prbably helped a little bit.

If you are enjoyed them though, you are in for a real treat - I thought the end of DOC was magnificent!

[Aleksei]

I have all of the recluce books in hardback, so I'm not complaining..

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by Perpetual Man

If you are enjoyed them though, you are in for a real treat - I thought the end of DOC was magnificent!

It was a good ending, aye.

Finished Fall of Angels last night, and yesterday Wellspring of Chaos, Ordermaster and Natural Ordermage came in the post to complete my collection.

I'll be starting on The Chaos Balance after finishing my Esslemont book - whilst I enjoy the Recluce series, for some reason it's draining. I wasn't even this tired after finishing all seven Erikson books!

[Perpetual Man]

I don't really know. I never read series back to back, spreading them out over months, so I generally come to each book fresh... of course back in the day I didn't used to forget what happened in the previous book quite as much as I do now. (I blame it on the pills not age...)

Am about to start (Once I catch up on my comic reading) Ghosts of the White Nights by Mr Modesitt. The third in a trilogy, which started with Of Tangible Ghosts, then Ghost of the Revelator. I've been really impressed by these, totally different to Recluce - in style as well as content. The main protagonist, Johann is retired even, so no youth learning his way.

It's set on an alternate Earth where Ghosts actually exist, brought into existence by particularly violent deaths... which means for a start that none of the major wars have happened - who would fight a war if it meant the soldiers who died came back to haunt you in their millions!

Mostly they are spy novels, but well worth a look.