Hating series
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 | Book
I’m the first to admit that upon finishing a good book I’d love to have a continuation of the story. However, in reality they’re often disappointing because there’s only so much plot to a story until it becomes forced. What I hate is that at the moment all the promising stories turn out to be part of a series. I don’t want to buy all of these books, once read they’re just in the way. And libraries are often missing one book. Also it seems that the writers fill the pages with endless descriptions of rooms, clothes, hairdos, etc or get lost in background stories for the characters. Seems to me a profit-making business: stretching out a story over as many books as possible.
Then there’s of course the authors who are doing the endless descriptions thing in a normal novel. Just read one by Josephine Cox. I bore all of those and the almost pathetic descritpions of the most heartfelt love ever only to find out at the end of the quite long novel that there was no happy-end. Surely, I deserved at least that in this case?! Good quality writing as well as gripping stories sure do come along seldom.
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