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Originally Posted by Indio777
There are currently 13 volumes in the series. Volume 14 is supposed to wrap things up. I gave up around volume 6.
What happened to standalone fantasies? They do still exist, but now it seems as if it is almost obligatory to do multi-volumes. A lot of people blame Tolkien for this, but LOTR was written years ago. And I think he wrote the entire saga in one go. I suspect it may have been broken up into multiple volumes because of the size. Per Wikipedia it was first published in three volumes between 1954 and 1955.
I've gotten to the point where I won't read a fantasy/sci-fi novel if I see it is part one of a series, no matter how good it is supposed to be. I will wait until it is completed.Otherwise, I find myself re-reading earlier volumes when a new one comes out.
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I agree on both points! I have noticed that a lot of people blame multi-part fantasies and super long fantasies on Tolkien...but I believe you are right and he did write it as one saga.
And the entire series is smaller than one book in A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Originally Posted by Joshua.P
Like another poster said, a book I keep postponing is The Silmarillion. I read a up to the first chapter, then put it down and repeat the cycle a month later.
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Originally Posted by caleb72
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Originally Posted by caleb72
I've got heaps that I've been postponing for years - sometimes with very odd reasons.
The entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King - I have commitment issues
The Baroque trilogy by Neil Stephenson - see above
The Stand by Stephen King - The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Blackout, All Clear & Passage by Connie Willis - I want to, I need to, but they always get displaced
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss - because yes, I was put off by the thought of reading over 100 pages of fairy sex (also see The Stand)
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky - remedying this in 2013, I promise
Anything by Dan Simmons - Hyperion/Edymion (commitment issues), anything else (see The Stand)
The Slap and Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas - damn worthy, just don't get around to it
There's countless more. Most of it is because I have a strong commitment to indie authors at the moment and the reality is that they dominate my reading time.
However, next year I've scoped out a reading challenge called "Book Bonfire" where I'll be tackling those novels in my bookshelf that have remained untouched for too long.
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The entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King - Its pretty good (so far) but I've only read the 1st four. Then King made me PO'd by going back to write more in a finished series...
The Stand by Stephen King - Great book! I've read it at least5 times.
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss - because yes, I was put off by the thought of reading over 100 pages of fairy sex (also see The Stand) - and there is quite a lot of fairy sex from what I'm told. Quite a lot indeed...