Reading habits.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Or how about The Business - Ian Banks not his SF but it is alternate reality an may be an interesting book to get them hooked.

Sorry Just looked at this again and it is in the wrong FRED. And I can't rememember/find which one it should be in.

 

[Pyan]

This, by any chance, mate?

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/43422-what-would-you-choose.html

 

[zedlav]

Considering that you are asking in regards to books following A Game of Thrones, my advice would be to spread them out. I read them rabidly once I found them, and then found myself waiting two years for what I thought was the end of the series. Only to discover that there were TWO more books to come, and I have now been waiting years for even one of them. No word of a lie, it will be post 2010 before the series is finished.

On a more positive note, by the time the next book comes out, you may have forgotten enough to safely and hopefully enjoyably reread the books. I know I will.

 

[Razorback]

Although I enjoy a good stand-alone, I read a lot of Sci-Fi series books. I rarely if ever read series books back to back. I like to intersperse other authors and books between volumes. I’ve accumulated a large TBR pile over the last couple of years. If a series captures my fancy, I typically read one a month for the first 3 or 4 volumes. With longer series, my reading pace usually slows down after that, but I rarely drop a series without completing it once started.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

I try to read all the series in a row so that I don't forget things. With ASOIAF, I would suggest reading all 4 of the ones that are out in a row. There are so many things to forget, and each book builds on the others. Yes it will be a long wait until the series is done, but I think it is worth reading them all in a row.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Thanks Pyan indead it was, see there is proof that a few beers or shorts does not always refresh the parts that others can't.

 

[Fried Egg]

I used to read series back to back (where possible) but now I don't ever. I much prefer to break up series by reading other books in between each volume. I even try to ensure I don't read two books by the same author in a row. And if possible, I avoid reading two books in the same genre in a row.

I also break up short story collections by reading something else in between each story. I find I give each story time to digest that way.

The last time I broke my rule and read an entire series in one go was with the Chronicles of Amber (which I read a couple of years ago). It was so gripping, so intense that I just couldn't resist reading on (lord knows I tried!)

 

[AE35Unit]

If its a series that does definitely follow on i will only start reading book one if i have the other books to hand. I won't read Icerigger until I can find the last book,The Deluge Drivers.