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Originally Posted by issybird
Sometimes you spoil a series by reading the first book.
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That's probably more true than we would like to believe. And it is actually a fear that I have. Being a slow reader, if I read a book in a series (or by an author) that I don't like, I generally won't go back to that series/author. Since I don't fly through books like many here do, I don't feel I have the time to pursue something that I may not like, just to see if it gets any better later. So I just abandon it. And that may be cutting me out of a bunch of good books where the author took a little time to find their stride.
It would be handy to have a thread here, "Series that started off bad, but got good later". Maybe including a "recommended insertion point" for slow readers like myself to jump in at to avoid the earlier not-so-good books. I wouldn't be the best person to start a thread like that, because I would have zero to contribute (since I currently abandon series rather than persevere if they start out bad).
The opposite situation, where a series starts off good then goes bad, is easy to recognize and each reader can apply their own ideas about what "goes bad" means.