Re: John Grimes (A Bertram Chandler) - a little help?

In article <10083hn$3s9qp$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

>
I was looking at my shelves for something to read next, and I realized I
have roughly a dozen novels set in the Rim universe. A few feature Derek
Calver, set before John Grimes emerges as the main protagonist; and
almost all of my Grimes novels are set early in his career.
>
Both isfdb and wikipedia give a pretty good in-universe chronological
order, and of course it's pretty easy to figure out publication order as
well.
>
Any advice on how to go about reading this series? Is it important to
read the Calver stories first? Anything I should be aware of that can't
be deduced from isfdb?
>
Thanks for any help,
Tony

 IIRC Calver was a bit of a sad sack and Grimes was much more entertaining.
Assuming I am recalling correctly, I would say you can skip those
with no ill effects.
 The later, DAW, books let Chandler use a higher page count and were, I think,
better for it.  _The Big Black Mark_ is probably the most pivotal book
in the series, explaining how the older Grimes came to be a big-shot in
a threadbare pond.