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Originally Posted by afa
It's how they finish that count.
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Can't say that I agree with that sentiment at all.
The end of a story is just one aspect of it. I'm more about the overall journey itself, and will often times excuse a lack-luster ending to a story that kept my interest the whole way through.
No final installment has ever been worth suffering through entire books' worth of boredom, IMO. George has bored me for an entire book now. Word on the street is that the latest installment won't give me the warm and fuzzies either.
I hate a book whose sole purpose in life seems to be setting up events for later books (especially if the author forgets that the setup book
needs to be able to stand on its own two feet). Two books in a row like that is unforgivable—and is representative of why one story spread across 6, 7, 8, 9 books is a horrible practice.