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Old 09-22-2022, 12:27 PM   #31056
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
I’ve long thought that the obsessive fixation on reading series books in publication order is deleterious to enjoying the books.

I don't try to read entire series in publication order, I just like to read the first 3 to get a feel for the characters, and to see if they grow on me. It's an old habit, ingrained from my teens, when it worked very well with Marsh & Allingham.

It has not worked for me this year with Sayers, Queen, and now Rendell, and had mixed results with Brian Flynn, so I'm almost certainly not going to bother any more.
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