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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
The biggest reason for me is sometimes the authors don't flesh out the world completely and leave portions to the reader's imagination but when they write prequels that flesh out those parts and it ruins the continuity/flow of the story for me.
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Ah ... see, now
that's something I can understand/relate to. I too, prefer more world-
hinting from authors, rather than brick-by-brick building. I like doing the heavy-lifting in that regard. While I've never really experienced a prequel (from an author whose world-hinting I enjoy) where they fleshed out too much for my tastes, I
have encountered the-one-sequel-too-many syndrome quite often.
That's precisely why I prefer series' that only run to 3 or 4 books at the most (the one-story-spanning-multiple-volumes type of series, anyway). Beyond that, they typically start contradicting, or flat-out ruining (with sequel or prequel), the gaps that I had already filled in with my own imagination (or chose to leave empty). Believe it or not, I often don't want every question definitively answered.
Thanks for this. The "detail too far" effect makes a lot of sense to me.
