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Since Everyone Else is Doing It...
Aug. 4th, 2010 11:33 am
At least it'll get me writing...
30 Days of Books
Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)
I don't read many serials. It seems like it's too hard to find the sequels in the libraries. Or, I can find the sequels, but not the first. I'm loathe to start buying a new series because if I hate it, it'll be a pain in the ass to get rid of on amazon.com & I'll end up giving it to someone (or to the library, where they will promptly lose it because, yanno, it's the first book in the series).
With that being said, the series that I've read with any passion or absorption have been Piers Anthony's Immortals, the Harry Potter books, Stephen King's Dark Tower (which spanned two decades of my life)... and a series I loathed - to humor Rob I read Eddings' Belgariad cycle (she said acidly). Honestly, I can't say that I'd want any of them to go on longer. The Dark Tower took 20 years to be finished - I think that's long enough. Maybe the Belgariad would have been better if Eddings had taken 20 years to write it. Ah, I guess I would be happy if Jean M. Auel wrote another book or two for the Clan of the Cave Bear saga (hee hee, there's a press release for The Land of Painted Caves for March of 2011!). That's another series that has lasted two decades. I didn't think about it at first, but I've been getting ahold of all of the books by Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear - all the The People of... books. Even though each one has a single strand tying them together (the wolf bundle), they can be read as stand-alone books. I enjoy that series immensely.
I can't really answer the second part because I'm not in the middle of any series. I've been thinking about picking up The Wheel of Time, but of course - no first book can be found and I don't want to buy the damned thing. I gave up on Anne Rice's vampire books when she started adding in the elements from Lasher & the Taltos stuff. Now she's a born-again Catholic or something.
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Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)
I don't read many serials. It seems like it's too hard to find the sequels in the libraries. Or, I can find the sequels, but not the first. I'm loathe to start buying a new series because if I hate it, it'll be a pain in the ass to get rid of on amazon.com & I'll end up giving it to someone (or to the library, where they will promptly lose it because, yanno, it's the first book in the series).
With that being said, the series that I've read with any passion or absorption have been Piers Anthony's Immortals, the Harry Potter books, Stephen King's Dark Tower (which spanned two decades of my life)... and a series I loathed - to humor Rob I read Eddings' Belgariad cycle (she said acidly). Honestly, I can't say that I'd want any of them to go on longer. The Dark Tower took 20 years to be finished - I think that's long enough. Maybe the Belgariad would have been better if Eddings had taken 20 years to write it. Ah, I guess I would be happy if Jean M. Auel wrote another book or two for the Clan of the Cave Bear saga (hee hee, there's a press release for The Land of Painted Caves for March of 2011!). That's another series that has lasted two decades. I didn't think about it at first, but I've been getting ahold of all of the books by Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear - all the The People of... books. Even though each one has a single strand tying them together (the wolf bundle), they can be read as stand-alone books. I enjoy that series immensely.
I can't really answer the second part because I'm not in the middle of any series. I've been thinking about picking up The Wheel of Time, but of course - no first book can be found and I don't want to buy the damned thing. I gave up on Anne Rice's vampire books when she started adding in the elements from Lasher & the Taltos stuff. Now she's a born-again Catholic or something.
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