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I'm really interested to follow along with this! I decided at some point that I feel like series should be read in pub order so I can experience them as they originally happened, and then I can decide if there are other orders in which they could be read, with pros and cons. I think of it as the author didn't even invent this, yet, so they were going back, too.

However, the imposition of one or another interpretation of linear time on how to read a book seems overall silly to me. Like, do whatever. Oh, you found the fourth book of an eight book series and read it first and now you want to read all the other books? Cool! Would that surprise in book three have been better if I hadn't read book four first? Probably. Did that just ruin everything! for me? No. Sheesh.