re: #210 Decatur Deb

Only know him from the old Derek Jacobi TV series, which was quite good. (Though I always expected the Praetorians to break in and perform an atrocity.)

Love the books. The TV series was marvelous for the sets and visuals, but didn’t do a good job of sticking to character for some of the characters and plots. Like most adaptations, you can take ‘em as semi-separate entities or just grouse a lot at the discrepancies.

If you’re going to attempt the series (20 books) read ‘em in order. The first one doesn’t read like something intended for a series, but I like it. She really hits her stride in the second one, and goes from there.