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Originally Posted by rhadin
I happen to be one of those readers who likes series generally. For example, I have every volume in the Recluse series by LE Modesitt, Jr. and in many of the series that Harry Turtledove wrote, just to identify two.
But your mention of Feist raises another point. Series can change a writeer from interesting to downright dull and boring. I have read many of Feist's books (and own a number of them), but now I can't bring myself to read his writing. I find it has grown stale. Same is true of Robin Hobb's Rainwild series -- the first couple of books wre good but thereafter I couldn't read them.
Series can remain good (David Weber's Honor Harrington and Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series come to mind) through all of the volumes, but then others die with each new volume (Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan are two authors whose series come to mind). I suspect that writing a series is very difficult for authors.
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As for Robin Hobb:
I'm not a fan of most of her works, but the Farseer Series was pretty good.
In fact I read the "Rainwild" series based on my favorable experience with
the "Farseer" series, in my opinion "Farseer" was much better.
There is often a great deal of difference between the sequels and the initial
novel of a serial. "Triplanetary" was the initial novel of the Lensmen series,
but it is a much more polished novel than the rest of the pulp series.
Luck;
Ken