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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
If the books were written and released one at a time, published order is never "wrong." I'm not saying no one should ever read books out of publication order, but order is. Right/correct/wrong doesn't enter into it.
The C.S. Lewis case, while compelling, is very rare. I'm going to read series books in the order their authors chose to present them to the reading world.
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I'm not sure it's rare and it's baffling that the publisher very much later reordered it in internal chronological order, which spoils The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The box sets (since 1966?) did originally have the correct order (as Lewis wished and in published order. He'd even held back a finished book to ensure it!).
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
If the authors themselves later want to retcon things by suggesting different reading orders, I don't feel the least bit obliged to comply. Nor am I interested in any "best read/viewed" strategies that others come up with.
Everyone should read a series in any order they wish. Just don't apply labels like "right", "wrong", or "best" to those orders.
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Generally I agree with that. Exceptions are rare. In fact the only ones I can think of to not read in Published Order is the Joan Aiken Wolves series and swapping order of maybe two books in first 6 published McCaffery Pern novels.