I hate waiting for sequels. It's not too difficult if the series is not very good, but if the series is good it can harm my peace of mind. I like reading a series all at once and do so if possible. I also have a standing policy of buying only mass market paperbacks and I would have to wait for them anyway, which would be bad for my changes at unspoiled discussion on this site. Oh well, I'll just have to contend myself to being forever of a low postcount, at least on this site.
By the way, I still haven't started reading that Song of Ice and Fire everyone is always talking about. I think I'll try to wait until Martin finishes it. In contrast I read and enjoy Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. I started it because I heard the books were pretty self-contained. There are maybe a few more loose ends that I expected but it's not too bad and the books do have each a sense of conclusion which makes the waiting tolerable despite the very high quality of Erikson's writing.
Will anyone wait for the entire Third Chronicles?
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I'll wait until they all come out. I much prefer reading them one after another and I really enjoy reading them that way. After reading "The Real Story", I waited until "This Day All Gods Die" before reading the rest; but I did buy the hardcovers of each book. There they sat on my bookcases like a treasury bond. The result? I got to read all 5 books one after another for the first time: an incredibly satisfying feeling.
Similarly, I stopped reading the Wheel of Time books in 1994. Now that's a huge wait and I don't know if it will be worth it (everyone seems to think the books take a dip around book 6 and it remains to be seen if they'll resurface).
On a slightly more morbid note, after Frank Herbert died leaving the last Dune book unwritten and Roger Zelazny died before finishing the Amber books, I was crushed and furious (and I'm still not over it).
If SRD dies before finishing the last chronicles, I'll kill him.
Similarly, I stopped reading the Wheel of Time books in 1994. Now that's a huge wait and I don't know if it will be worth it (everyone seems to think the books take a dip around book 6 and it remains to be seen if they'll resurface).
On a slightly more morbid note, after Frank Herbert died leaving the last Dune book unwritten and Roger Zelazny died before finishing the Amber books, I was crushed and furious (and I'm still not over it).
If SRD dies before finishing the last chronicles, I'll kill him.
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Anonymous wrote:
On a slightly more morbid note, after Frank Herbert died leaving the last Dune book unwritten and Roger Zelazny died before finishing the Amber books, I was crushed and furious (and I'm still not over it).
If SRD dies before finishing the last chronicles, I'll kill him.
I agree 100%. After waiting 20+ yrs it would be horrible for such a thing to happen. Mr D, please keep at least some type of record of how the thing progresses. Just in case!
As far as Dune....I liked the 1st House prequels, but I wish the foolish son had released the conclusion after Chapterhouse before starting on the ridiculous Bulterian stuff.
I will be purchasing the hardcover the moment it is placed on sale and will be devouring every word immediately. I just don't have the patience to wait till all are released.
By the way, I always thought a group of four books was commonly known as a tetrad.
By the way, I always thought a group of four books was commonly known as a tetrad.
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I wouldn't say "commonly" known, but sure, that works...
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Poor choice of words! War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
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Gonna take a page from Gene Wolfe when he was talking about reading LOTR. I'll buy the book when it comes out, reading no more than 1 chapter a week and allowing unlimited rereads of previous chapters.
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I'll do exactly what I did when MN came out -- read each one as they're published, and scream, "He CAN'T leave off there! He just CAN'T!!!!" at the end of each book....
I've also seen a trilogy+1 referred to as a tetralogy. Or you can do with Douglas Adams did with "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", and call the last one "the fourth book in the trilogy"!
I've also seen a trilogy+1 referred to as a tetralogy. Or you can do with Douglas Adams did with "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", and call the last one "the fourth book in the trilogy"!
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Wait for them all to be written before reading any???????!!!!!!!!! 
Yeah right, is anyone on the Watch really going to do that???
I've never bought a hardback in my life, but I will gladly pay £20 a time for these. I want to know the exact day that the first is available, and if the first publish is in the US, I'll mail order and then buy the UK version as well.
Money's no object, it's too important - - it will be the most significant literary event in all out lives.
How could anyone wait for the whole series - that could be upto 10 years.
You'd have to quit the Watch too - you'd have nothing to talk about! ANd that would be like losing a good friend
Man, I'd be in my forties.
Yeah right, is anyone on the Watch really going to do that???
I've never bought a hardback in my life, but I will gladly pay £20 a time for these. I want to know the exact day that the first is available, and if the first publish is in the US, I'll mail order and then buy the UK version as well.
Money's no object, it's too important - - it will be the most significant literary event in all out lives.
How could anyone wait for the whole series - that could be upto 10 years.
You'd have to quit the Watch too - you'd have nothing to talk about! ANd that would be like losing a good friend
Man, I'd be in my forties.
He came dancing across the water...what a killer...
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