No, heavens, never.
Okay...the real and truthful story? My best friend was reading the Tawny Man and although she didn't torment me with accounts, I could tell she was impressed with it. So when I went to Canada for the Gathering and wandered around the bookstores drooling, I was looking for some good fantasy to buy. The book caught my eye and although I gathered that it wasn't the beginning of the beginning, I...I just didn't care, I guess. Read the first page, got sucked in, had to buy it.
Now of course I won't be able to experience Farseer the same way you did...but you'll never experience it the same way I will. I think I welcome this baggage.
It's an either or...and were the books less brilliant I might lose in the bargain, but Hobb's writing is so beautiful that even knowing all the twists, I only want to find out about them in detail. I feel like I've seen the trailer to a film, in a way.
(though in real life I watch trailers, I avoid all reviews, and if I can help it, never read the back covers of books.)