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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I absolutely love Easter Eggs, inside jokes, winking references, and all the subtle things that can occur with even the most tenuous of connections between an author's various books (when read in such an order that those things reveal themselves in a chronologically "correct" manner). I would be saddened to find out that I missed out on any of those things by not knowing that the books were loosely connected (or part of a shared universe) in the first place, and starting with the wrong (wrong for me) book.
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Whatever gets you through the night, it's all right.
As for me, I just can't imagine feeling anything negative when reading Misery, Annie makes a reference to the Overlook hotel. As the last few pages of this thread shows, YMMV.
Regardless, if someone were about to read Misery as their first SK book (as my co-worker is planning to do) it would never occur to me to tell them they really need to read The Shining first.