Do you read books of a series in chronological order?
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Do you read books of a series in chronological order?
Do you absolutely have to read your books in chronological order?
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I also feel flustered when I read books out of order, feeling as if it has messed up the story in some way.
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I used to read books out of order when I was younger because I didn't know to ensure that the book was part of a series (e.g. The Boxcar Children or Nancy Drew etc.). However, the book was still exciting as ever. However, now that I know better, I feel uneasy when I skip a book. It does not mean that the book isn't as good; I'm just not experiencing what I feel the author wants the readers to when he or she wrote the series in that particular order.
Nowadays, I find that even when you mess up the order of books, most of them make little recaps when they refer to an event that happened in an earlier book so readers wouldn't be completely clueless.