Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion

I usually read a book in a series concurrently with another book that isn't. In a sense, I do read books in a series "back-to-back", but somewhat in parallel to other books. Haha not sure if that made sense....

I try to read them in order:)

It depends on the series and how quickly I can get my hands on the next books in the series. If it is a series that has all the books out, I usually try to read it if it is good. If it is a new series and it is good I have to wait I just suffer through it. If I have a ton of other books to read I will some thing in between.

I space series books out, usually 2-4 books in between. If I read series books back-to-back I'd get tired of that series very fast.

I usually read any where from three to ten books at a time...so i'll switch up per day or even per chapter...you gotta have a variety!

I have to read them in order.

It depends on the series. If they're quick reads, a good story, and the entire (small) series has been published, then I'll read them straight through. If it's a large series (more than 3-4), all the books haven't come out, or they're slow reads, then I'll break it up. The Hunger Games I read straight through, but I had to break 'em up for Harry Potter. That was a one-at-a-time series for me simply because reading it felt like eating too much candy -- it was pleasant in small doses, but too much at once just made me sick (of the series).

I always read other books in between a series. I will even start other series. I don't get confused at all and I always rememeber what had been happening previously. I get bored if I read the same series back-to-back.

I read them back to back. I'd get too confused if I read something else in between.

I do both. Sometimes I read back to back other times I read others in between

Many series can easily be read at one time but there are exceptions. The Fifty Shades Trilogy must be diluted with other books to keep the reader from overdosing on sexual platitudes and repetitious trivia. It is the perfect example of literature the readers love to hate but taken all at once it would destroy the senses and leave the reader numb.

While I have read series back to back I usually read a book outside the series before moving onto the next in the series. Unless I've picked up one that just grabs a hold of me.

I read books in between series unless the series is so good that I have to continue reading them.

I usually buy my books at second hand stores and the like so it's sometimes difficult to get a complete set. Other times I've bought a book and read it and then realized it was part of a series. Preferably I would like to read them in order, one after the other because the details would get mixed up otherwise.

I always read multiple books at a time...mainly to add variety, but also to limit any stagnation from setting in.

Most of the times I do, but sometimes if I only have say the first 2 books in a series of 4, I read something in between until I have the complete set.

If I have a series that I'm very into, I will always hunt the rest of them down and read them back to back. It depends on the genre and how much it grabs me too. With mystery series, for example, I can usually wait. With Urban Fantasy, etc., I always have to get the rest right away if I like them

I read the books back to back. When I can trying to pick out a book to read I read the back cover and first chapter, if it suck in me in then I end of buying it.

I think it really depends on the series and when I discover it. If there's 4 or 5 books and they're already out I might just plow through, especially if its really captivating. I read the first 3 Game of Thrones books without stopping. I've decided to not read the last two until I go on vacation. The books were just taking over my life.

I used to read series straight back to back if I had all the books. Some examples were Harry Potter Boxset, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, The Name of the Wind and The Night Angel Trilogy.

Lately I've been having to take a break in between them. I love the Dresden Files, but haven't read two of those books back to back. Same with Game of Thrones.

Think this has to do more with my reading habits changing than the quality of the books. I know Goodreads has had a lot to do with it as well. I've been finding so many great potential reads that I don't want to get trapped in one series when there's a lot I'm looking forward to reading.

I've powered through the first four Harry Potter books this week and I think it's given me temporary brain damage. Reading the other three in this state would probably be a disservice to them. Thankfully I've got some non-fiction from the library to get me through the next couple of days then maybe I can go back feeling refreshed. I won't make the mistake of mainlining a series again for a while at least.

As I said earlier in this thread: "I usually read series' books as they come out or as I get hold of them from the library, so I'm often reading multiple series at one time." But I just realized that I do sometimes read a series' books back to back, or rather I REread a series' books that way. From time to time when I have the time and the interest, I do reread a whole series, usually a short and completed one.

I don't like reading books by the same author back to back. If I do then I feel like I've just read an extra long book and really long books are a turn- off for me.

I usually don't read books in a series back to back. I always feel like I need a little break in between.

depends on the series. i've been reading Joe Nesbo's Harry Hole series inbetween other books. However, i powered through the Beautiful Creatures series back to back. (it's a tragedy how much the movie veered away from the fantastic books).

I do not read in between. I like reading series back to back, for me it makes the story come more alive this way :D

But if I don't have all the books of the serie I will read something else in between untill I buy the rest of the serie :)

If I try back to back, usually I'll pick up another a few pages in. My attention span rarely goes beyond six hundred pages without objecting. Series are the worst for me because of this and it can take me months to finish the end of a series, even if I love it. Also why I rarely read beyond trilogies.

If I'm really into a series I can't even think of touching anything else. I'm like a posessed woman flying through each book I can find. Sometimes it's gotten very extreme like with emergency bookstore trips to get the next in the series lol

If the series is available back to back from the library or online, I'll read it straight but it has to be in order. If I have to wait for the next book in the series then I'll read something completely different (even from a different genre) to appease me until the series comes.

I like to take a break in between series as I have many I'm on, of course most of the time I read two or three books at a time. I would like to be able to get through the stacks and go back to some of my series that are finished and start them again, reading all of them at once this time. I think that would be great!

it depends for me. I used to read series straight through all the time when I was younger (I remember ripping through Animorphs and Tamora Pierce's books when I was in middle and high school), but anymore I read multiple books at a time, so that seems to satisfy the need for following up with a series straightaway. It doesn't mean I don't want to keep going with the series though :) I'm psyched to start on Days of Blood & Starlight in particular!

For me it depends on several factors. The total number of books in the series and new releases that I may have been waiting a year for, lol.i just recently re read the entire Stone Barrington series, by Stuart Woods. About 30 books. I would read 2-3 and then read a new release from another series.

I used to have to read a series back to back until it was finished before I could move on to something else. And I had to start at book 1! But I've found that so many series repeat so much of what has happened that it was just too repetitive so now I read a book from a series skip to another series, and another ... of course now it takes forever for me to actually finish a series, but I find I enjoy them more when the same thing isn't told to me a million times!

I read a couple books in the series in a row, then I take a break with some standalones.

That depends on two things: 1) The series and 2) my mood.