Oh, dear. I’ve finally worked my way down the to-be-read stack to the latest Harry Potter tome. Skimmed the first few pages and decided I’d better reread the preceding book to refresh my memory.
Picked up The Goblet of Fire, read the first chapter, and realized I can’t fight it off any longer:
I am compelled to go back to the first book and reread the entire frickin’ series. :eek:
Sigh… somehow, I knew this would happen. I simply cannot leap headlong into the latest book of a series, if there’s been any appreciable gap since the last book came out. I tried to read the just-released book two in Brust’s Castle Black trilogy, and had to give up – gotta go back and reread the first volume. Will probably wind up going back all the way to The Phoenix Guard.
I’ve been wondering if Julian May will come out with another in the Galactic Milieu/Pliocene Exile series. What’s that, ten books I’ll have to reread before I can tackle the new one?
Oh, well; one bright spot: By the time I’ve waded through all the preceding volumes, book three of the Castle Black trilogy will probably be out. Maybe the third book in Robin Hobb’s Tawny Man trilogy will be on the market by then too, so I can… oh, no! I’ll have to reread her Assassin trilogy first… :eek: