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I am reading the 9th book in a book series but it drives me insane that they keep going over and over and over again and again about what happened in the last book, as well as the other books before that. Do I need to be reminded what happened?! It makes me crazy. I want to meet the person that picks up the 9th book in a series and reads from there
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I noticed it strongly in HP, too; it was really bad in CoS and PoA-- and I remember being annoyed with PoA in particular since by then Harry Potter was this worldwide phenomenon and I thought (and still think) there was no excuse for not knowing which book came first and reading them in order. (And if you picked up one of the books post-2000 without already knowing Harry Potter was a wizard who attended a school for magic called Hogwarts, you probably had to be living in a cardboard box floating in the middle of the Indian Ocean, lol).
At least after about book 4 Rowling stopped giving us the full run-down on "Guess what? Harry's a wizard and Hogwarts is a school for witches and wizards and Harry was Sorted into Gryffindor which is one of the four Hogwarts Houses another of which is Slytherin in which was Sorted his rival Draco Malfoy-- " and just went on to show Harry dwelling over whichever character had died most recently. (Which at least made sense for him to be doing, about a month after it happened).
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Old comic books are bad about this too. Okay, it's only issue three, but is how exactly the Avengers formed really that important? The recap page was the best thing that ever happened to comics. :)
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