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Luckily I started with the second one, which was great. The Culture is just a set of stories in a shared setting, not an actual serial. Kind of like Discworld, which also had a weak opener.
I try to limit myself to one book ahead in series. It's hard to stick to that when there are bundles and omnibuses, but it does mean I'm only one book down if the series jumps the shark. And also that I don't sink a lot of money into something I might not read for years. |
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I tend to read cozy mysteries in order too, even though most of them tend to work as standalones. After all, it kind of spoils the "are they the murderer?" in book one when you know that they're still around in book five.
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How the fudge do you explain to people unaware of eInk the answer to "why don't you just use your phone?"
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Trying to explain the advantages of eInk and I just got a "why would you even read in bright sunlight." Probably wasting my time here.
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