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Now that I've done my strange little grammar rant, I guess I should weigh in on the subject of the thread.
I've read a lot of book series. For most of them, order means nothing. For some, it's somewhat important, but not essential. For a few, reading out of order can change your conception of the over-arching series completely. Jack L. Chalker's Well of Souls series was like that for me--I started in the middle, and thought it was ok. Then I found the first one a few years later and realized that the book I read had backstory. I then read the books in order and was much happier with all of them, including the first that I had read and thought was just "ok".
Shari
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