It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
I like to read the ending first.
Reading 'The New Yorker' - I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read 'Shouts and Murmurs.' Then I read the reviews. Then I read the articles that immediately appeal to me.
I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.
People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
