[PhoenixRises]

I have been looking at Kindle Daily Deals, and I often find that they put a book on offer that is part of a series or else a book that has history brought over from other books by the author.

Anyway I have this thing that I can not read books out of order, even if the books are not a series. I just can't seem to do it I know people who will happily pick up a book read it and then go back to previous books that were release and I am amazed they can do it.

So I was wondering if there were others out there like me, or can most of you just read anything in any order you wish? It has been preventing me from getting some good deals on the Kindle daily deals (they had some of the Hamish Macbeth books for £1 the other day but I didn't buy them because I knew I would have to buy the other ones too so I could read them in order - should have bought them though)

[alternate]

Depends on how heavy the plot is. If it isn't part of a series I will jump all over the place.

[d0lphin]

I have done it by mistake a couple of times and it doesn't really bother me!

[Chester666666]

I just can't
I give up on books if i realise they are part of a sequence and wait until I have all of the books

[Mishcoll]

I have to read books in order even to the point where if I like an author and buy all their books eg I discovered Marian Keyes a while ago, bought all her books and even though the majority of them are not a series (the walsh family) I read them in the order she wrote them. I do this quite alot when I find a new author I like.

[Croctacus]

I've read most Tess Gerritsens mostly in order but a couple were out of order....I did have to hunt down the books I'd missed though to find out things about characters which, whilst taking nothing away from the book at the time, annoyed me enough to want the details.

[Muggsy]

If it's a series I much prefer to read them in order, but if it's an author I don't know I've sometimes bought one of their books without realising it's one of a series. For instance, I bought and read C J Sansom's 'Sovereign' first and because I enjoyed it so much I went back and read the first two Shardlake books.

[beewee]

AAAAArghhhhhh...read books out of order? There is NO way I could do this.... ever....It would make me feel very uncomfortable. I have a very orderly mind and am a bit of a neat freak so I think there is a link there somewhere. Would make an interesting piece of research.

[poppycat]

I hate reading books out of order. I usually check to make sure a book isn't part of a series but I have been caught out once or twice and been really unhappy about it, especially when you realise that you already know the outcome of a previous book because the follow up that you've read had spoilers.

You can even get spoiled by reading the synopsis on Amazon, which happened to me the other day. I was reading through the descriptions of Diane Chamberlain books and a book called 'Secrets she left behind' is the sequel to 'before the storm' and the description of the sequel pretty much gives away the plot of the first one! So I read the first one but in the back of my mind I knew where it was heading and it really annoyed me, I know they have to describe the book but there must be a way to be vague enough not to give away the plot to the previous one!

[CLL Dodge]

I read the James Bond books out of order the first time around, though each is complete in itself.

I hate it that some publishers have re-ordered the Narnia books. The published order works best. You don't need the prequel first

[moza]

I try not to, but it depends what I have to hand. I didn't start on the Harry Potter books until the movies came out, so read the first four in whatever order I could - I think I read Goblet of Fire second, so I knew about who Sirius was - didn't stop my enjoyment of Prisoner of Azkaban, as I still didn't know how the got there!

The one time I did read out of order on purpose was Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter books - I was so keen to find out more about Acheron, I skipped ahead a few and read his out of sync. Again, didn't spoil it for me, but the way her series is plotted out, you realise on rereads that there's clues for later books planted in early ones!