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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But you don't know what happened in previous books that led up to what happened in #22 and reading #22 could spoil all of that. so no thank you. I'll either read in order or not at all.
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I don't disagree with you on that. In some ways, it's true - you KNOW a character is still alive in book #22 so if you read about something happening to them in book #6, it will take away some of the suspense since you know they won't die. Most scifi is like that, so I do start with the first book and work my way through. Crime thrillers, not so much, because I know Harry Bosch is still going to be there in later books. Then you have series like Dresden Files where by book 4 or 5, you really HAVE to have read books in order because it is an ongoing story arc.
So, I guess it may be helpful to make up a listing of prolific CURRENT authors who primarily write standalones. My contribution for a currently writing author would be Robin Cook with a mention that most of Stephen King's novels are also stand-a-lone.