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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The thing is, you don't know if you will be spoiled or not if you read out of order and once you are spoiled, you cannot be unspoiled. So when someone says a book in a series is standalone, I don't believe it because if I was to believe it and I did get spoiled, I would not be happy. So it's just easier to read in order. That way I don't get spoiled. I know what some thing is standalone I would think not and that's OK. Just don't try to convince me because I'll think you're wrong and I would be correct.  |
Nowhere in my post did I say that I was trying to convince YOU or anyone else to read books out of order. I personally do not care how other people read. If you want to read a series strictly in order or if you want to post a list of the books on the wall and throw darts at the list in order to choose a random book to start with, it makes absolutely no difference to me.
All was trying to do was to point out that SOME readers are okay with reading out-of-order mystery books as long as the mystery in that book was stand-alone (I meant this as opposed to a story arc over multiple books). I am sorry if I was unclear or if this came across as an attempt to proselytize but that was NOT my intent.
Maybe stating that the mystery in a particular book is "self-contained" would be better terminology than to say that the mystery is a "standalone".