So I grabbed a thriller off the library shelf because, mainly, it didn't say "A John Doe Story" or whoever, because if I liked the book, I'd be wanting to have read the series in order. However, now that I've read a bit, I don't like the book. It reads like a Tom Clancy parody, but it's not. After three chapters I've given up, but I looked up the best selling author and he's a Heritage Foundation guy, Fox News commenter, etc. Yeesh. Plus, it IS a book in a series. I"m going to return the book and see if I can get it expunged from my borrower's record. #bookstodon
@killick I choose books that come in series, or are thousands of pages long. And yes, series must be read in order.
@killick I have made a single exception to the movie/book rule, and that was with GoT. After watching season 1, I had to be assured that Geoffrey would die the agonizing death he deserved, so I read the series. Then, of course, by the end of the show it had veered wildly from the books, even though the first 3 seasons followed pretty closely.