Don't say: "From beginning to end", because it's not funny
What I mean is this. I've just started to read the Shannara series by Terry brooks. It is very... looooooong, and many books are 400+ pages. While they do tie together, each book is a story onto itself. If you never read a Shannara book, you could just pick one if you wanted, and read it (at least, most of them).
In the past, I've tried to re-read other long series, but tired of it during the third or fourth book, so now I'm thinking to do it differently. There are quite some books that I did not read yet, but that have been on my To-Read list (and often, in my possession, as paper, eBook, or both) for ages.
These are the options I'm considering:
1. Against all odds, try to re-read the entire series from start to finish.
2. Read the series until I tire of it. Then finish the current book, and pick a different one after that. Return to the series after one or two other books.
3. Read one book from a series, then read a different book that is not in a series. After that, return to the series.
4. Read two or three (or more) different series at once. First read a book from the first series, then one from the second, then from the third, and return to the first series again.
As I am a fantasy reader, I have many triolgies, quadrilogies, and series that often span 10 books or more, and I wish to re-read much of them. Also, I am thinking to (finally, after 15 years) branch out into other genres. I do occasionally read books in different genres, but not very much up to this point. I'm thinking about these:
Detectives (Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes)
Mystery (Dan Brown's stuff)
Asian-oriented stuff (in the vein of Shogun, and Musashi, both of which I have read already)
Read more classics
So, how would you handle (re-)reading series, and at the same time, branching out to different genres?