I find marking books (with pens, pencils, or dog-ears) blasphemous.
But while reading Moby Dick, I couldn’t keep myself from dog-earing. It started with a bit of prose I just didn’t want to lose, and usually I’ll take a picture or write it out, but for some reason I dog-eared it and then I couldn’t stop. I marked six places.
Anyone have a book that made them act in a way outside their character?
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Normally i don’t like starting a book series until it is finished. But then Christian Cameron started a sequel series to his “The Long War” books and i wasn’t going to not read it.
I usually read one book of a series then move to another book of another series, so I don’t get “fatigue” of reading the same series for a long period of time. Not with Hyperion. I had to read Fall of Hyperion immediately. I left Endymion for later… and when I did read it, I immediately started Rise of Endymion.
I generally refuse to read a book in a series outside of its numerical or chronological order.
Discworld and The Hainish Cycle both saw me breaking this rule.
Discworld has more than 40 books, some are rarer than others, and there are a multitude of reading order guides such as [this one](https://d4804za1f1gw.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/07/24165448/Discworld-Reading-Order.jpg) that explicitly suggest you read them out of order for best enjoyment/cohesion/understanding.
The Hainish Cycle is not really connected by any notable in universe chronology, [as it accepts the reality of even simple space travel taking many years at maximum speeds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible), wherein an anthropologist sent to another planet may well live and die there with a minimal impact on the society of their planet of origin, a posting with no intention or methodology of return to what was once home. It doesn’t matter if you’re reading a book that takes place 500 years before another. The stories are also so unique that they are standalone cultures in their own right, I will long contend that Le Guin was a modern philosopher.
The Televisionary Oracle by Rob Brezsny
That book ended up with wine stains, dog ears, underlines, highlights, and margin notes.
The only thing I can think of is genres. I have never liked any kind of fantasy books (tried LOTR multiple times for example, can’t do it) but I love Harry Potter.