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Old 12-24-2018, 08:09 AM   #15
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I have a friend who will almost never read the last book of a series she loves. She likes to know that she's still got a book in it to read. [...]
Curious. It's not something I've ever really considered. If I like something enough I'll just turn around and re-read it sooner rather than later (on a few rare occasions, the very next day).

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[...] He told me recently that his friends even now resent it when he talks about everything that was wrong with the books, a habit I'm afraid he got from me.
Which reminds me of another of our recent conversations: with great books the faults don't matter. I can see (at least some of) the faults with Harry Potter, but to me they just don't matter. The series absolutely fascinates me (pun intended) each and every time I pick it up.

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The more I like a series or an author's books, the more likely I am to stretch it out. In part to keep the pleasure going, as with Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books, and in part because even the best authors are repetitive. I've got a long-term goal of reading all of P.G. Wodehouse in more-or-less order and he's best served by my not going to that well too often, as tempting as it is.
Wodehouse is definitely one I had to space out ... although maybe not as much as I have. I started working my way through Psmith and some Jeeves and Wooster a few years back, and somehow never got back to finish them. Hmm... maybe that's another one to add to 2019.
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