What is your approach to series?

[Farseer]

I don't have an 'approach'...just go with what I feel like at the time. Sometimes it's for the author, sometimes the title, sometimes the blurb on the back, sometimes just for the cover and sometimes just 'feminine instinct' !!

With the exception of the Tomorrow series by John Marsden (I HATED it!!), I've never regretted a decision to go the whole hog and buy an entire series without ever having read one of the books...they've usually turned out ok.

I am someone who likes to buy the book rather than just borrow it, even if it does end up being a bad read, but if I happen to borrow first, I always buy later if I even remotely liked the book...I think it's important to read everything, not just what I enjoy, especially for the sake of conversations with my family ie my sons loved the Tomorrow series and to be able to draw comparisions between good and not-so-good stories and writing. Having said that, I am going to take the plunge one day and look into the Twilight series to see what the fuss is all about. I'm not looking forward to it at all but then I felt the same way about the Harry Potter series and was pleasantly surprised. I think Twilight may be a bit more love story-ish that I'd like but time will tell?!

My only regrets would stem from the financial side of things eg I saw the entire thirteen books of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events (for young readers) in Townsville the other day and bought them all for about $280...then I looked for them on the Book Depository when I got back to a computer and found I could have bought the series for half the price and no postage. Yes, I kicked myself !!!