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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
To be fair, it could be more about their assumptions about what you want in a stand-alone book than try to sucker you into reading a series.
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It's not even that I think they're trying to "sucker" me. It's that they're not really thinking about me
at all. They're just bound on pimping their favorite stuff even when they know it doesn't fit my requested criteria. The minute I mention I'm looking for a stand alone book, is when I start getting, "
well this one's part of a series, but ... " , or "
it's mostly self-contained, so...", or "
this one CAN be read without the prior installments if you ...." It can be quite maddening, really.
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
In your comments on this thread, though, it sounds more like you do read series, but don't want to pick up a book in the middle of the series, in case you might later want to read that series.
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I've read a lot of series in the past. I still read a few here and there (mostly after they've been completed), but I shy away from them more and more all the time. I think they tend to be a crutch for readers and authors alike. But yes, I would never knowingly pick up a book in the middle of a series. Not because I might want to later read the series, but because I can't stand the idea of starting in the middle of something--anything. Period.