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Originally Posted by theducks
I will say that SOME books are better with knowing the back story, but only serialized books tend to not hold their own.
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I think that the vast majority of series could be read in any order. If you binge read a series in order, it's easy to see how often each book has enough backstory to catch you up. At times, it can become annoying, like "previously on" for TV shows you are bingeing.
Most detective/cop/lawyer/secret agent figures out the crime/evil plan series don't really have a hard ordering. Even when there was some joining story, you often didn't need to know that Joe Cop is now married to (instead of dating) Jane Lawyer.
I'm not saying that reading out of order is better, but there's few problems with most series if you miss a book or get a couple out of order.