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Almost never, my OCD compels me to complete the series. |
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24 | 13.33% |
I feel like I should keep going in case the series gets better again. |
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12 | 6.67% |
It's sad to stop a series you loved, but an author only gets so many "freebies" before I give up on them. |
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92 | 51.11% |
Absolutely, if the series becomes bad, I instantly stop buying. |
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52 | 28.89% |
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I can't really chose an answer. I have always been author oriented. Until recently, I have not had the luxury of being able to find books to read in chronological order.
I have lived in towns with no library, no internet (not even dialup as the phones were radio phones) and not a single book being sold. And this is within the last 5 years. I depended almost solely on the kindness of strangers passing through ![]() Currently I have an internet connection, and there is a one room library with a good 20 bookshelves ![]() I disgress perhaps, but a few years ago if I saw a book I hadn't read by an author I enjoyed I would offer the poor unsuspecting traveller double the cover price. Sometimes they said yes, sometimes they didn't. Sometimes they gave me all the books they had read and brought more the next time they were through. Strangers are often kind. Obviously my criteria is not as stringent as some. Series books like Spenser, Sookie Stackhouse, Jack Reacher, Harry Bosch, Stephanie Plum, John Taylor, Mathew Scudder, and many many more, I like because I have grown fond of the characters. I will eventually buy or borrow any unread books because even if the characters have become stagnant after the first 10 or so books, or I was stupid enough to read too many books in a series in a row I still like them. Take Robert B. Parker's Spenser for example or Simeon R. Green's Nightside. After x books what can you do to develop the character, plot etc. Read six in a row and it gets a little old. Haven't read one in a while and it is like water to a parched plant. |
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How in the world has this thread gone 5 pages without anyone mentioning Wheel of Time? I gave up on Robert Jordan (may he RIP) and Wheel of Time about book 8. The final book (14?!?!) will be out in 2012, but I wont be reading it
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I'm not really a series person. The first book has to impress me a lot for me to keep on reading it. It has to be at least a 4-star-almost-5-star sort of book. Half the fun of reading books for me is reading about different settings, and the characters and the writing have to be very good for me to give up reading something else. I'm not afraid to consider books wallbangers even if they belong to a series I loved. Fan hype doesn't goad me into it either. I remember growing up with Harry Potter and reading the first five books, but five months later I realized I couldn't even remember the events of the fourth book, which made me think that the series was no longer worth my time. I don't know, sometimes the connection is no longer there, and for me, that's okay. I don't see the point of sticking around with a series that's no longer doing anything for you. It's like a recipe for a bad relationship. |
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I have always started slow with a new series, pick up one or two and see how they go. If good, I start the series. But, as has been mentioned, many get bad, and I give them a book or two to recover, and then drop them.
Clancy really dropped the ball with Executive Orders (I still have not ever read that one fully) and picked up on track with Rainbow Six. Patricia Conrwall has gone off the deep end, and it off my list. Enough so, I did not pick up her earlier books that I liked for my ereader. Lee Child is still going strong. So is WEB Griffin, all of his series. I still pick up James Patterson. And love John Sandford (bit still trying to figure out what Empress File is not epublished). Some new ones, C.J. Box and Jefferson Bass. |
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I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I was hoping to read the series after seeing all the great reviews, but I barely finished that book. It bored me to tears at some points. I had to really push myself through it.
I also had a hard time with the 4th book in the Dean Koontz Frankenstein series, but when the last book came out, I had to finish it. |
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How did you find the final book? I have it on my TBRL, but I don't know if it's worth it. |
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I've never read a series that was bad enough not to want to know how it ends. |
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Did anyone mention the Amelia Peabody books? I loved that series so much... then Ramses turned into a douche and I had to walk away. I know, I know, lots of people love the series... but the appeal for me was the fact that Amelia was so flighty while thinking she was this strong independent kind of woman. Then things went from Ramses point of view and I completely lost all interest because the magic was gone.
How about Anita Blake, by Laurell K. Hamilton? I liked the idea of a bad ass vampire executioner, then around/after Obsidian Butterfly it turned into straight up erotica and I was like "Do not want." The last book of the series I read, I had to flip past like 200 pages to find 5 pages of plot, then it went back to the same sex scenes repeated dozens of times with just a change in hair color and guy. At least LKH was honest about what Meredith Gentry was going to be before she started. Or Robert Aspirin. I loved his Myth series and his Phule's company, then he kind of lost the bubble. And now that he's dead, whoever's taken over for him just doesn't have that same kind of style and it's sad. |
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I usually read finished series that are already acclaimed (even if only within a niche).
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