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• Which C.J. Cherryh book have you read first? Good Choice?

>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 93 11:51:58 -0700
>From: rcrowley@zso.dec.com (Rebecca Leann Smit Crowley)
>Subject: Re:  C. J. Cherryh List

I read _Pride of Chanur_ first.  I borrowed it with a huge stack
of what was, in retrospect, some pretty cheesy sf from an older
cousin (I vaguely recall a bunch of Piers Anthony -- Xanth and
Adept -- novels, a few Zelazney and one of the Stainless Steel
Rat books).  I really liked it, and when I spotted the first
sequel a year or so later, I snapped it up, along with my
own copy of Pride.  Since I then had to wait for the next one,
I haunted used bookstores for a while, reading, I think, _Merchanter's
Luck_, and _Wave Without a Shore_ next.  For some reason, Wave made
a pretty big impression on me, and I've been reading Cherryh
steadily since (but I still haven't read any of the Morgaine).

There's been a pretty substantial thread on r.a.sf.w about having
trouble getting into Cherryh, particularly with _Downbelow Station_.
I confess to finding myself unable to get into that myself.