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He is the only author, that I think I can recognize by his styles of writing alone. MrsJoseph, The only way to do justice is to read the whole series again. That is what I had to do, when the next book would manically appear on the shelf's, with dust filled years between his works. OCD? ![]() I had a friend that kept all of his toenail, and fingernail clippings in a jar that he collected all of his life. ![]() Last edited by DustyDisks; 12-05-2011 at 05:30 PM. |
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I agree, yuck. But he was a very structured person, he had his routines and stuck with them, used to drive his wife nuts trying to get him out of his quirks.
He used to refer to it as his "Nail" collection. ![]() Sorry for the off topic , bend in the thread! ![]() Last edited by DustyDisks; 12-05-2011 at 05:38 PM. |
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I have another gripe with books I know are a series, brought into mind recently whilst reading The Strain. It's a well written book, but at the end, I just couldn't bring myself to read Book 2 as I knew there was a Book 3. This rendered Book 2 redundant, as I knew nothing would be resolved and no matter what, the story would continue beyond the end of it. |
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![]() To me, what you just posted makes as much sense as skipping chapters 20-40 in a novel that has 50 chapters. Why bother reading the middles ones, since the story continues in chapter 41 and nothing is resolved in 40? That makes no sense. If the author envisioned the story as lasting through three volumes, then there shouldn't be anything redundant in there. Only a poorly written series has empty filler volumes. |
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My Stephen King phase was very short lived. I read It, The Shining, The Stand and The Dark Half (my favorite of the lot), but I gave up after not being able to complete Gerald's Game, The Tommyknockers, or Dolores Claiborne. I just couldn't get into any of them. |
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In a 'standalone' book, I will read through the chapters of 'when suddenly nothing happened' - Adam Roberts, I'm looking at you - as in most cases the plot will pick up and move toward a decent ending. Perhaps it's just the fact that I see this as a 400 page plot spread over 1200 pages that's colouring my opinion? |
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![]() The way see it, a 1200 page series had better include a 1200 page plot. Though frankly, a good 1200 page series has multiple plots taking turns being in focus, with one big picture being the main story throughout. The secondary characters in book one are more important in book two, and things like that. |
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![]() Series, that are like that, almost and in some cases does force the reader to go back and reread the previous work. Just to get re synced with the whole again. And that is always good, because it seems the reread is always richer, than the first time around. ![]() |
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My mom and I were talking about this just the other day. We both enjoy series as long as they are good and we like the characters. Its great to see the characters continue on.
However, most of the books I have read in the last few years have been part of a series. I just finished reading a stand-alone book and it was like a breath of fresh air. I didn't finish and wonder what happens next! I agree that part of the problem is publishers...its very similar to remakes and sequels in Hollywood. Its always a safer bet, money wise, to make something that is already well liked. Even badly reviewed and unecessary sequels make good money. Books are probably the same way....if Book 1 did well, "hey, why don't you write another? we know it will sell well and its less of a risk on our part. Not only that, but later on we can repackage the same books as a box set and make more money!". It drove me nuts that everytime a new Harry Potter book came out, the would sell a new box set.....why buy the 4 book box set when you know that there are 7 books? |
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