{"id":11036,"date":"2015-08-16T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=11036"},"modified":"2015-08-15T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:52:11","slug":"done-with-darkover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=11036","title":{"rendered":"Done With Darkover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time I decided to continue rereading Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover<\/em> series<\/a>. It has taken almost 2.5 years to do it, but I’m finally done.<\/p>\n

Or at least as done as I intend to be. I did not read every single book. I skipped all the anthologies, most of the co-written works, and all of the ones written by someone other than MZB. I also skipped three non-anthology, MZB-penned books—The World Wreckers<\/em>, The Forbidden Tower<\/em>, and Two to Conquer<\/em>—for the simple reason that I remembered disliking them the first time around, and I thought my opinion unlikely to have changed. I reread Hawkmistress!<\/em> in 2014 but did not review it (I gave it a B+, which was just good enough for me to keep it as part of my Darkover<\/em> set). I also read Exile\u2019s Song <\/em>(Grade: B), The Shadow Matrix <\/em>(Grade: C+), and Traitor\u2019s Sun <\/em>(Grade: B), and then gave them away.<\/p>\n

And that’s it. I’m glad that I decided to read these books. Not only was it fun to revisit a favorite fictional land, but it also felt good to dispose of some books that I did not need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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