What's the best way to read Fearful Symmetry
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Yeesh, forgive me for breathing.
As I don't have the paper copy and this is the first flip-book I've come across I was under the impression that the book was designed to be read in either way or concurrently.
Just wanted an opinion and you've certainly given me yours.
I think the point is that if they were meant to be read "in any order" then they wouldn't be labeled as side 1 and side 2 (or book 1 and book 2).
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That's the way I read it, Zatanna. And I think I enjoyed it much more for that fact. The Kira Nerys side actually ends on a cliffhanger so it was more fun for me to have the illiana ghemor side story as an interlude before going back to the "main continutity" story picking up where Warpath left off and providing the prelude for the Soul Key. I think thematically it works much better this way, but that's just me. I really enjoyed the Le Femme Nikita-esque Illiana side and it was the perfect thing to hype me up for the rest, I think if I'd read it the other way around I would have felt let down by "Book 1" and frustrated by the lack of resoultion or story progression in Book 2. I wish they had flipped the numbers so more people would be encouraged to read it this way.
I enjoyed mine with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Oh, and Jello. There's always room for Jello.
What?
I read Terok Nor books 1 and 2, then Fearful Symmetry sides 2 and 1, then Terok Nor book 3.
FS side 2 fits in very well between TN 2 and 3; the consistency between the stories made them really fit together nicely.
davidh
FS side 2 fits in very well between TN 2 and 3; the consistency between the stories made them really fit together nicely.
davidh
There really isn't a "best" or "better" way to read FS. I read the Iliana side first because I wanted to finish the book with the DS9-R regulars. Given that I had just finished the Terok Nor series, it really seemed to fit well going in that direction, but either way seems just as "good" to me.
I've just finished reading it today and I have to say that reading side two first actually makes more sense, and gives you a better idea of her motivations.
I read Side One first. Mostly 'cause Brendan Moody read Side Two first, which was a pretty good indicator that that was the Wrong Way.
Also: One comes before Two.
Also: One comes before Two.
You're meant to understand her motivations after you've read Side One. That's the explicit reason for numbering the sides at all.
Reading them in reverse order is the equivalent of reading the back half of regularly-formatted novel before reading the front half. If that's the way you roll, fine. But it goes completely against the intended reading experience.
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