It's not fair!

[glynndah]

I recently bought a book. It was an enjoyable romantic suspense novel which I was thoroughly engrossed in. As the ending grew nearer and nearer, I began to worry that there was too many unanswered questions and too few pages left to wrap up all those nagging questions.

Sure enough, I get to the end and read those dreaded words: Read his story in the next book Damn! Damn! Damn! Since I brought it at the Goodwill store, I figured I'd never find the sequel so I just shrugged it off.

Then Friday I was back in the Used Book section and found a stack to take home. As I'm going over my hoard at home, I discover that one of the books just happens to be the one mentioned in the other book! Oh, Joy! Oh, Rapture! Until I get to the last few pages and think, "Wait a minute! What about this and this and this?"

You guessed it! Read the author's next exciting story in August, 2007!

It's not fair!

 

[Divulgence]

*****

 

[glynndah]

I hate that.

Tell me the book series so I can avoid it!

They need warning labels in big red letters:

BOOK 2 OF A 3 BOOK SERIES

BOOK 3 IS OUT OF PRINT

THERE WILL BE A 2 YEAR GAP BETWEEN BOOKS

AUTHOR IS BORED (OR DEAD) AND WILL NOT COMPLETE THE SERIES

I shop a lot at a certain used book store. I finally begin marking the top of the pages with an colored ink dot from a bingo marker because I kept buying books I'd already read and traded. Of course, the bookseller pointed it out to other patrons and they thought it was such a good idea that they're going to be doing it, too. So if you ever come across a used paperback with a dot on it, it might have been mine.

 

[damppanties]

AUTHOR IS BORED (OR DEAD) AND WILL NOT COMPLETE THE SERIES

That'll be me.

 

[only_more_so]

That reminds me of a fantasy series that I've been reading, actually a couple. The first one, many people have probably heard of, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. I remember buying the first book for my brother for Christmas 1992 (after it had been out for 2 years!). He still hasn't finished the blasted series and is only up to book 11. So it takes more than a year and a half to get each book. To make it worse each book has more and more separate plot threads so there is even less progress in any given thread with each successive book!

I've also had a problem where a book was the first in a series that got canceled. At least I've never been able to find any of the other books.

If I ever get into writing books, especially that turn into a series, I won't be such a bastard about it. hrmm... although my lit series can be kind of bad that way.

 

[Guest]

They need warning labels in big red letters:

BOOK 2 OF A 3 BOOK SERIES

BOOK 3 IS OUT OF PRINT

THERE WILL BE A 2 YEAR GAP BETWEEN BOOKS

AUTHOR IS BORED (OR DEAD) AND WILL NOT COMPLETE THE SERIES

I shop a lot at a certain used book store. I finally begin marking the top of the pages with an colored ink dot from a bingo marker because I kept buying books I'd already read and traded. Of course, the bookseller pointed it out to other patrons and they thought it was such a good idea that they're going to be doing it, too. So if you ever come across a used paperback with a dot on it, it might have been mine.

These are great!

We need 'em!

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

August isn't that far off. Remember Steven King's Dark Tower Series? He took 20 bloody years to finish is

 

[MagicaPractica]

LOL We should have a writer's oath. I promise never to write a book that cannot be read as a stand alone. Douglous Adams had five books in his Hitchhiker's trilogy and they all stood on their own.

 

[glynndah]

LOL We should have a writer's oath. I promise never to write a book that cannot be read as a stand alone. Douglous Adams had five books in his Hitchhiker's trilogy and they all stood on their own.

Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I promise never to say "I'm not going to write a sequel to this one, even though all my fans are begging me for one."

 

[starrkers]

August isn't that far off. Remember Steven King's Dark Tower Series? He took 20 bloody years to finish is

And I still haven't finished reading it.

Anyone else hanging for the end of the Harry Potter saga?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

And I still haven't finished reading it.

Anyone else hanging for the end of the Harry Potter saga?

The Dark Tower Series will piss you off. "Wolves of the Calla" ends in the middle of the story. The next book, "Song of Suzanna" does the same thing, only worse. Then finally finises up with "The Dark Tower". Drove me nuts. From "Calla" to "Dark Tower" was like four years

At least Harry Potter has ended now with the last book. And each of those stories all stood alone.

 

[Trombonus]

And I still haven't finished reading it.

Anyone else hanging for the end of the Harry Potter saga?

Yes I am

Also went through this same excruciating problem with the Transformer novel trilogy. Anyone who is a hardcore fan of something would know how I felt while waiting for the next book to come along. Truth be told, they weren't even that great, or even very good. Now if I wrote it...