A Series…of Books
I’m taking inspiration from the archives of Booking Through Thursday once more here on The Book Stacks. If you’ve been with BTT since the beginning and have already answered this question, please leave me the link in the comments section.
In this blast from the past, BTT says:
Probably most books stand on their own. But a lot of them are part of a series. J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy comes immediately to mind, as well as Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap series, Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody series, and lots more.
1. Do you read books that are part of a series?
2. Do you collect all the books in the series before starting?
3. What if the series is brand new, and the only book that’s been published so far is Book 1?
4. As subsequent books in the series are published, do you go back and re-read the preceding books?
I’m definitely someone who reads books in a series, but I have never collected (scratch that – I did once with the Sabriel books) all of the books before reading them. That takes too long, and often I find a series before all the books are out.
I’m certainly not going to wait years to read the next ones.
When I read a series, whether I go back and read the preceding books usually depends on how long it has been between one book getting published and the next. If it’s fairly quick then no.
However, I have done it before. I had one book for a couple years before getting the second one, so I went back and read the first one before reading the second one.
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