Reading · Niccolo

Hi, fellow Dunnett readers.  The Dorothy Dunnett Society ddsociety has started up a little LJ community dunnettcentral.  Hope to see you there!

I'm making this post primarily so suffolkgirl and I have somewhere to record our thoughts on re-reading Niccolo Rising without spoiling those of you reading it for the first time. ( cut for spoilery chat of what it's like going back to the first book after reading to the end of the seriesCollapse )

ETA: Spoilers for the WHOLE SERIES in comments.

Hi everyone, I found out about this community on bop_radar's LJ, and have come along to join in.  I'm a long time Dunnett fan - I first read Niccolo Rising about 15 years ago and have been meaning to re-read the Niccolo series for a long time, so hopefully joining here will kick-start me into finally doing it.  After book 4 I had to wait to read the next one until it was published, so I've never read them all in one sequence.
I also have a copy of the Dorothy Dunnett Companion which explains historical references and translates some of the quotations used in her books - it covers the first 5 Niccolo books, so if some reference is confusing you I'm happy to look it up and see if it's answered in the Companion.

Warning: I may have been spoiled for a crucial point that seems important to the rest of the novel -- whoops -- so you probably shouldn't read this unless you've finished the whole thing.

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