When you read a trilogy, do you start straight away or wait for all three books to come out?

I read it and then re-read it :D I go through books like water so it makes no difference to me. Although mind you it does annoy me having to wait years to find out more!

by Lisa Morgan

I would always read them as they come out and not wait till they are all out before reading them.

I prefer it this way as I may not like them, so why wait.

by Finy

With fantasy and sci fi series I prefer to read series that already all out because I have been burned in the past with authors taking years to put out the next book (sometimes going off and writing a whole other series in between), by which time I have forgotten the events of the previous book and have to reread it which I find very annoying. But I don't always know when a book first comes out that it's going to be a trilogy (I think sometimes the author doesn't know either) and if a book looks exciting I might just read it and hope for the best.

by Jennifer Muirhead

Well you don't necessarily know that it is going to be a series when the first book comes out, but if I did, I would read them as they come out rather than wait for them all to be released. However, All the trilogies I have read, were already published before I decided I wanted to read them, so it hasn't been an issue yet.

by Bryony Harrison

I read them as they come out but when the subsequent books are published, I re-read all the ones before them first! Except for the Discworld novels or the Falco series, as that would just take too long, so I re-read one or two latest before the newest one.
What I really dislike is when a publisher puts all the books in a trilogy or quartet into one volume, as then it's too big to hold easily!

by VerityG

You read the Falco books too? I love those!

I have to wait for them all to come out, but that hasn't served me well with Game of Thrones because George RR is a painfully slow writer. He's lucky he's good at it because I wouldn't stick about patiently otherwise!

by meggf

I read 'single' books. Not interested in 'trilogies'. Time wasters.

Do read books by same author/ess in chrono. order, though.

by donjo