Do you read books of a series in chronological order?
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Re: Do you read books of a series in chronological order?
Thing is, I didn't used to be this way. When I was a kid, I read books any old how. When I was in secondary school, I almost stopped reading novels and ended up reading a lot of manga instead. The thing with manga is that their books are labelled and almost all the titles for each manga are the same, so it's waaay easier to go about reading them in order. And when my fascination in manga leveled off (I still read them, just not as fanatically), I went back to reading novels, say, two years ago.
By then, I was so rusty I didn't even know what genres I liked anymore, so I had to give everything a try. Problem is, I didn't realise that the order of books in series couldn't be easily discerned by their titles. In the end, I was guilty of not reading anything in order - I just grabbed whatever interest me and read it. I didn't even realise some of them were part of a series, until I came across the wonders of Goodreads, and also realised that I could really Google for anything. After that, I never looked back. It's really difficult for me to read books out of order now. I could wait weeks for a book in the library to be available instead of simply going to other books in the same series that were available. You can imagine my frustration when, after I finished the book I waited weeks for to find that the next book, which used to be available, was already borrowed by someone else. Again.
Anyone else got any experiences they've got because they simply must read in a chronological (or at least some sort of) order?
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I agree wholeheartedly!gali wrote:Of course! Like you and Stacy I have to read them in order. I also must have all the books in the series before starting it.
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Could not do that at all
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