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Is It Necessary To Read BF Before tHD?

#1 Gothos

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Posted 16 July 2005 - 03:01 PM

I got my Blood Follows for less than 2 quid, suckers Posted Image

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#2 caladanbrood

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Posted 14 July 2005 - 09:35 AM

Ok. Cheers Posted Image

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#3 caladanbrood

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 07:24 PM

BEcause I have the latter, but not the former. Should I not read it yet, or does it not really make any difference?

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Posted 27 July 2005 - 05:34 PM

So then Blood Follows is first chronologically?

#5 kettle

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Posted 15 July 2005 - 12:07 AM

yes you must read them in order I insist upon it Posted Image

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nah...it doesn't really matter if you read HD first but as Syntax said BF is the better of the two novellas, so you must get yerself a copy of it sometime Posted Image

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Posted 13 July 2005 - 07:36 AM

Shouldn't make a difference. But Blood Follows was in my opinion much better than The Healthy Dead.

#7 caladanbrood

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Posted 16 July 2005 - 01:18 PM

I will at some point, hopefully. Tis quite a bit more expensive though Posted Image

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#8 Brys

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Posted 10 March 2006 - 10:52 PM

syntaxhorror said:

Shouldn't make a difference. But Blood Follows was in my opinion much better than The Healthy Dead.

I actually thought it was the other way round entirely - Blood Follows wasn't a bad introduction for Emancipor Reese, but the story was very lacking and it wasn't that well written. The Healthy Dead was much closer in style to Midnight Tides, and the story fit properly within the brief space it had - it was structurally more sound, and read much more like a Lankhmar short story than anything else.
Blood Follows is chronologically first, but you don't need to read it to understand The Healthy Dead any more than you need to read it to understand Memories of Ice.

#9 werewolfv2

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Posted 11 March 2006 - 04:46 PM

syntaxhorror said:

Shouldn't make a difference. But Blood Follows was in my opinion much better than The Healthy Dead.

ditto

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 09:20 PM

doubleditto.

HD is good fun, but BF is a little more 'malazan', a little creepier, just overall a bit more fun.

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