Do you re-read a series in anticipation of the newest book?
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You are the first person I have heard say this. My daughter gives me so much grief for watching movies so many times. I do read series over but only if I have really loved them. I also love spoilers, which I know is weird but they just get me excited to get to the spoiler. I like to discuss book themes and story arcs and the possible conclusion to the foreshadowing leads.Linkhorn wrote:Exactly the same. I do watch previous movies though, the details don't stick in your mind as well as a book.newlndnfire wrote:I will usually just go on wikipedia and read the summaries of the previous books and I feel that's enough to jump start my memory but if it's been a really long time sometimes I will go back and read the previous novels.
So each book feels like an old friend so sometimes I read them over before meeting a new friend.
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The harry Potter books were published over the course of a decade. Stephen King's The Dark Tower series ran 22 years from publishing beginning to end - 30 years if you bring in late published filler. I can't imagine putting off reading a book by an author I like (or say an author whose books are getting rave reviews, i.e., rowling) for a decade or two or three.
It also depends on what exactly is meant by a "series". Do you include only multi-volume single stories such as those named above?
For most of my life, I have understood a book series to be on-going characters repeatedly appearing. Tim Dorsey has been writing about Serge Storms for 15 years, Ed McBain wrote about the 87th Precinct for 49 years, and readers were introduced by Agatha Christie to Hercule Poirot and then followed him as he aged and eventually died after 55 years of adventures. (I have to mention Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe too).
These aren't series?
That said, I acquired King's Dark Tower VII just this year almost a decade after publication and 5-7 years after I read VI (Wolves or Susannah). I( re-read the full series.
Amusing to me, for some reason 25 years ago or so, I thought Dark Tower was going to be a trilogy. I don't kniow why. I eagerly dove into Wastelands and 100-150 pages before the end realized it could not be ended in the pages left. Surpirse, disappointment - rage!