if you hit "More Options", you get to a page that lets you do "Preview".
Publishing order is usually the Right Thing. The only cases where it might not be is where you have someone whose earlier works should be tossed because s/he hadn't quite developed enough as a writer yet -- and I imagine there probably are people who make this argument w.r.t. Kay and Fionavar (cf. my college roommate the book editor who rejected Summer Tree when it showed up on his desk back ca. 1985. I still give him shit about it. To be fair, he's not really a fantasy person and he particularly hates the modern-Americans-translated-to-fantasy-world subgenre...).
I suppose the other argument is that the later books are better, so if you really only have one week left to live, then go straight to the Sarantium books, where Kay is in full-on Gonzo-batshit Plotting Mode...
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Publishing order is usually the Right Thing. The only cases where it might not be is where you have someone whose earlier works should be tossed because s/he hadn't quite developed enough as a writer yet -- and I imagine there probably are people who make this argument w.r.t. Kay and Fionavar (cf. my college roommate the book editor who rejected Summer Tree when it showed up on his desk back ca. 1985. I still give him shit about it. To be fair, he's not really a fantasy person and he particularly hates the modern-Americans-translated-to-fantasy-world subgenre...).
I suppose the other argument is that the later books are better, so if you really only have one week left to live, then go straight to the Sarantium books, where Kay is in full-on Gonzo-batshit Plotting Mode...