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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I think that the problem with a series of this length, and Wheel of Time and LOTR and other such long running series, is that it gets to the point where you are screaming "Get on with it all ready". In Dresden's case, each book the characters move farther and farther away from their original dispositions and it gets more and more depressing with no real sense that it is going to get better. I don't like how some of the characters have changed, even if the changes are realistic.
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I've always sarcastically called this the "Has kids to put through college" phenomena of series authors. There gets to a point where the original story and premise has been run into the ground and (Especially in the case of Wheel of Time) the series plot is not being advanced by anything in the books that buying the new books feels like being suckered.
I can't stand 'classic' Russian lit, it isn't even the name variations but the boring three page descriptions of nothing. I have a cousin who loves to read classics and looks down his nose at the types of books I like. (Mostly Sci-fi and Fantasy) It almost seems to me that he feels there is some sort of elitism prize for reading the stuffiest books. I've been there and done that and found that reading classic lit isn't all that its cracked up to be.
Nowadays I just read for fun.
ps. Thanks, Akuma Takeshi for the welcome. I've been reading the forum on and off for a few months before deciding to join. It's a pretty cool place!