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Originally Posted by HarryT
To me that rather implies that the series will never finish, and that's one of the worst mistakes an author can make - letting a series drag on way too long. A good author knows when it's time to wrap it up, and give it a proper ending. Personally, I prefer not to start a series unless I know that the whole of it is available: I don't want to "anticipate" the next book; I just want to read it.
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Oh, I completely agree. Yes, I know of Neil Gaiman's famous blog about someone's frustration with G.R.R. Martin but an author should have a certain amount of respect for their readers and not leave things hanging too long and, in Martin's case, just not advancing the plot at all. I do get the point that authors are artists and you can't rush or control the creative process but still...
I came to Sandman (yes, I know those are graphic novels) long after it was finished and am now working on Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
Anyway, some of my favorite books/stories are by dead people:
Jane Eyre,
Pride and Prejudice,
The Hobbit, LOTR,
The Light Princess,
The Day Boy and the Night Girl,
Grimm's Fairy Tales,
The Picture of Dorian Gray,
The Happy Prince and Other Tales, the Sherlock Holmes stories, etc.