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All was trying to do was to point out that SOME readers are okay with reading out-of-order mystery books as long as the mystery in that book was stand-alone (I meant this as opposed to a story arc over multiple books). I am sorry if I was unclear or if this came across as an attempt to proselytize but that was NOT my intent. Maybe stating that the mystery in a particular book is "self-contained" would be better terminology than to say that the mystery is a "standalone". |
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Ever read a mystery series out of order and find that a character who's well established as the friend/lover/spouse of the protagonist in, say, book five was a prime suspect in book one of the series? It pretty much destroys any suspense or tension when you read book one.
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Side note: if I had read that one first, it would have turned me off the series. I didn't care for the style of the first book. So I am glad I read them out of order. Last edited by Cinisajoy; 10-22-2017 at 11:33 AM. |
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A lot of long running series start off not all that strong, but they do get better as they go along. But the worst book of the In Death series was not the first one. It was one in the middle. |
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I would guess that this isn't new terminology, but like 4691mls mentioned, it has become more popular in the last fifteen years or so. As a kid, I don't remember chapter books either. |
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Back then we didn't have the Internet so unless the people we actually knew in real life weren't using a term like "chapter books" we didn't know about it, or care - we were too busy walking 10 miles to school in the snow, uphill both ways
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While having to lug all those books.
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