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Series order
I've been listening to Gemmell's Drenai series in published order since they first hit the audible a few months ago. I'm up to book 3, "Hero in the Shadows", the first Waylander book. Book 1 of the series "Legend" was the first Druss book. I've read all the series in both paper and ebook over the years.
What's interesting about the various story lines is that Legend is the last chronological Druss book, but there are multiple books that tell his back story. Same with the Waylander books. I thought about trying to listen in chronological order, but decided to stick to publish order.
Quite a few well known series take this approach, with the publishing order being quite different than the chronological order - Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series, McCaffery's Dragonrider series and Bradley's Darkover series to name just a few.
So how do y'all approach such books? Do you prefer publish order or chronological order. My take is for books that I re-read, i.e. the joy is in the journey not what lies at the end, then I prefer publish order.
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