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Originally Posted by lumpynose
Could be more likely when it's the author that says that. Definitely happened to me once; from the library I check out book one of the second series not knowing it was the second series and in the preface/introduction he said you could read the second series first but he gave lots of information away that will spoil it when reading the first series. Or maybe he said that you could read the second series without having read the first series.
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I'm saying that, and I know people who have read and enjoyed The Scar as a standalone.
When the author does that subtly, it doesn't have to be in an preface/introduction. It can be baked into the text. The Discworld books are like that. And I remember reading many Nancy Drew books that kept reintroducing the characters' relationships to each other.