Which should I read first?

[Tyranus]

I just read Prince of the Blood (the rewritten one), and enjoyed it quite a bit. I know however that it is not the first and I would like to know which I should begin with. Any help?

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

Presume you mean "Princes of the Blood" by Raymond E Fiest.
If so, Magician should be your first stop, followed by Silverthorn and finally Darkness at Sethanon.

 

[Tyranus]

No, I meant Prince of the Blood, check the bibliographie. Thanks for the help.

 

[Allanon]

which is the first feist book?

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Magician obviously.

 

[Allanon]

thanx

 

[nixie]

Allanon start with

Magican then...

Silverthorn

Darkness at Sethanon
I'll let you read them before I tell you the rest

 

[essy]

Yup, the essential Feist are -

Riftwar - Magician, Silverthorn, Darkness at Sethanon . note - the new publication has divided magician into - Magician:Apprentice and Magician:Master

Empire Trilogy - daughter, servant and mistress of the empire.

Serpentwar - Shadow of a dark queen, rise of a merchant prince, rage of a demon king and shards of a broken crown.

And the best thing about him is you have lots of little interludes like Jimmy the Hand, The King's Buccaneer, Krondor the betrayal etc...

Haven't read the conclave of shadows yet. Anyone, any comments?

 

[nixie]

Conclave of Shadows,not his best ....although the third book Exile's Return is excellent.The Flight of the Nighthawks first book in the Darkwar saga seems a good solid start to the new series.

 

[Brys]

As everyone's said, start with Magician.

Reading the next two in the Riftwar Saga, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon, is a good idea, but they aren't essential and aren't quite up to the standard of Magician (which IMO is a huge amount better than Prince of the Blood).

But you should also check out the Empire series after that - Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire - which is cowritten with Janny Wurts, and is the best of anything Feist has written.

I've read Conclave of Shadows, and while it was better than his worst, it struck me as typical Feist - entertaining light read, but nothing spectacular, and as usual, it doesn't approach his early work. It was an improvement from the Krondor series and the standalones, but that isn't really saying that much. I'm beginning to doubt that Feist will ever return to the standard he set when he wrote Magician, but I haven't read Flight of the Nighthawks yet.

 

[nixie]

Brys, it's not up to the standard of Magican.Its better than Conclaves a nice entertaining read that passes a few hours,

 

[jof]

When reading the one that comes after..."Kings Buccaneer"(?) did anyone notice a heck of alot of spelling mistakes 0.o

the one i can remember

Fantastic instead of fantatics
Drondorian instead of Krondorian

and quite alot more, i remember telling them all to my friend on MSN. I was rather scared that a book published in 94(?) had so many mistakes 0.o

 

[williamjm]

When reading the one that comes after..."Kings Buccaneer"(?) did anyone notice a heck of alot of spelling mistakes 0.o

the one i can remember

Fantastic instead of fantatics
Drondorian instead of Krondorian

and quite alot more, i remember telling them all to my friend on MSN. I was rather scared that a book published in 94(?) had so many mistakes 0.o

Feist could really do with better editors/proof-readers, I remember one book where there was a glaring spelling error in the first paragraph. By the way, the bad spelling isn't Feist's fault, he has some sort of condition similar to dyslexia that makes it impossible for him to do his own proof-reading reliably, but the publishers should really make an effort to compensate for this.

 

[jof]

Woops, i fell into my own trap there, i put fantatics (sorry ) Fanatics*

 

[Gladestrider]

But you should also check out the Empire series after that - Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire - which is cowritten with Janny Wurts, and is the best of anything Feist has written.

It's funny how tastes can differ; I was going to recommend reading that series last, as I thought it was his weakest. I thought that even the Silverhawk trilogy was better.

 

[The Upright Man]

Into a Dark Realm

the Silverhawk trilogy

The Silverhawk Trilogy, erm...which 1 was that? do u meen the Conclave of Shadows Trilogy. and to all you yanks the 2nd book in the darkwar saga rocks (Into a Dark Realm to those who dont know whats it called).

check out wikipedia 4 info on it

 

[leeb1977]

hi all...

Im looking for a new author to try out and Feist has been suggest by a few people, just wandering - for someone who has read NON of his books... can you suggest a good start point.

Ive been given a copy of prince of blood (i think thats what its called anyway?), is this as good a place as any to start - or would i be better off going for an earlier book to get a good grounding??

I've not really tried out that many authors tbh, i love Rowling, Goodkind and RR Martin.... Hate Guy Gaverial Kay.

Im hoping the RF is going to blow me away....

 

[williamjm]

Ive been given a copy of prince of blood (i think thats what its called anyway?), is this as good a place as any to start - or would i be better off going for an earlier book to get a good grounding??

I'd recommend starting with "Magician". "Prince of the Blood" is probably the weakest of the early books in the series and parts of it will make more sense if you already know the characters (although the actual plot is effectively stand-alone so you could read it first I suppose).

 

[leeb1977]

thanks.

Nice av by the way.... Ive been looking for a decent animated Gene Hunt one for ages.

 

[fingy773]

i reard shadow of a dark queen first then the rest of the serpent war and it explained nearly every thing that happend before it (riftwar etc)