Ok, I am being extra chatty today, but is it me or is there really a pandemic of trilogies and multi-book series in the publishing world? I was browsing through a listopia list on Goodreads when I came across this..
I scrolled to find series that had upto 30 books in the series! I mean, seriously?!! Why are there so few 'single' books these days? Apart from J.K Rowling who dove into remarkable success with her Potter series, I am yet to find another series that I can bear to re-read. But again that's my personal opinion. I really enjoyed Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy and Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy and thought they were well written, but in both cases the sequels were much less satisfying that the first book. Fans of 'Twilight' may bay for my blood when they read this, but after the first book, I felt as if Meyer kept droning because she was being paid by the word. After reading ALL her books (Stupid of me, but I wanted to see if I was missing something) this dialogue by Jacob in Breaking Dawn aptly sums up Meyer's writing “Where is this psycho crap coming from? Are you making this up as you go?” Ok I had to Google for "Breaking Dawn's worst quotes" to find that one but come on THAT was funny!
I understand this shower of sequels brings in revenue for bookstores and publishing houses, not to mention the writers who are depending on the publication of their next book for their income, but don't you think at some point it is also diluting the number of "good reads"?
I scrolled to find series that had upto 30 books in the series! I mean, seriously?!! Why are there so few 'single' books these days? Apart from J.K Rowling who dove into remarkable success with her Potter series, I am yet to find another series that I can bear to re-read. But again that's my personal opinion. I really enjoyed Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy and Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy and thought they were well written, but in both cases the sequels were much less satisfying that the first book. Fans of 'Twilight' may bay for my blood when they read this, but after the first book, I felt as if Meyer kept droning because she was being paid by the word. After reading ALL her books (Stupid of me, but I wanted to see if I was missing something) this dialogue by Jacob in Breaking Dawn aptly sums up Meyer's writing “Where is this psycho crap coming from? Are you making this up as you go?” Ok I had to Google for "Breaking Dawn's worst quotes" to find that one but come on THAT was funny!
I understand this shower of sequels brings in revenue for bookstores and publishing houses, not to mention the writers who are depending on the publication of their next book for their income, but don't you think at some point it is also diluting the number of "good reads"?
True! Even I noticed the unending number of sequels. No one seems to be writing a single story now-a-days!
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