Reading Order
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:07 pm
hi..i just stumbled upon waht seems to be a rich and expansive world or "Enderverse"
i was totally new to any books in the "Ender's Game" series..i looked up a few differnt sites and found that although teh author says you can enter teh Enderverse at any point wit any novel there are 2 more distinct reading formats:
▪chronolgical-following teh timelines in the books (ie starting Star Wars at Phantom Menace)
▪publish date-reading tehm in the order they wrre written or atleast published
i was going to go chronologically but felt maybe i would lose some of teh authors vision by doing this..but i had alrdy read ¾ of "First Meetings" i stopped after Ender's Game feeling like i might have totally spoilered teh novel Ender's Game by reading teh short story version..anyway..i started reading Ender's Game the novel and realize that now i am reading this book with a preconditioned imagination of the story and it's world..but things are alrdy incongruous wit the First Meetings version..
▪Have i ruined teh overall experience of reading these books by starting with First Meetings?
▪Should i continue chronologically since i alrdy read First Meetings?
any insights would be appreciated..thank you
i was totally new to any books in the "Ender's Game" series..i looked up a few differnt sites and found that although teh author says you can enter teh Enderverse at any point wit any novel there are 2 more distinct reading formats:
▪chronolgical-following teh timelines in the books (ie starting Star Wars at Phantom Menace)
▪publish date-reading tehm in the order they wrre written or atleast published
i was going to go chronologically but felt maybe i would lose some of teh authors vision by doing this..but i had alrdy read ¾ of "First Meetings" i stopped after Ender's Game feeling like i might have totally spoilered teh novel Ender's Game by reading teh short story version..anyway..i started reading Ender's Game the novel and realize that now i am reading this book with a preconditioned imagination of the story and it's world..but things are alrdy incongruous wit the First Meetings version..
▪Have i ruined teh overall experience of reading these books by starting with First Meetings?
▪Should i continue chronologically since i alrdy read First Meetings?
any insights would be appreciated..thank you