Waiting for the next book

[filkferengi]

Jo Walton talks about waiting for the next book in a series over on tor.com, here:

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58830

Megan comes in for lots of love & anticipation in the comments. It must be really cool, seeing your name on a list of books folks are looking forward to, hanging out with Bujold, Brust, Moon, Cherryh, etc.

Comments

[readsintrees.livejournal.com]

The Queen's Thief books are pretty much the only "series" that I keep a close watch on. For the most part, I am burnt out on trilogies and series, and will only start a new one if I KNOW I can read all of the books in a row. (This is a lie. I recently read _A Game of Thrones_ by GRR Martin, knowing full well that the overly long series wasn't finished yet. I read the first one as a trade to get my boyfriend to read The Golden Compass. But, other than that....)

I already summed up my frustration with series back in December.
http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/291938.html

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

MWT's series is the best, for several off-the-top-of-my-head reasons. 1) I never know what to expect. I only know that it will be GOOD. 2) She takes her time writing them, and I think that says something positive about what she's trying to accomplish as a writer. I'm content to wait for something good. Three (related to one), while they look gorgeous together, each book is a different gem.

Another series-in-progress I have a lot of patience with is the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik. One doesn't follow too closely on the heels of the other, in terms of publishing dates, so when a new book does appear you can chew hard on it for a while without becoming exhausted.

I understand your frustration with trilogies, but those don't bother me so much as SERIES that were supposed to be TRILOGIES. *coughEragoncough*

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Has anyone read the Uglies books by Scott Westerfeld? He finished the original trilogy perfectly well and then wrote a fourth book that completely undid the message he'd managed to work into the end of the prior 3 that made me dislike the whole series retrospectively. I hate it when authors do that.

Are the sequels to Eragon any good? I've only read the first one and I've been contemplating going on with it, but now that it seems the series is outgrowing its original shoes, I'm not sure. I can't decide. Is Eldest more interesting or less interesting or about equal to Eragon, do you think?

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Eldest contains some good character development and (without giving too much away) a pretty exciting battle near the end that makes up for some of the poor writing in other places. Brisingr felt like a waste of time to me, because he totally could've wrapped up the series. Instead the story is dragged out over minutiae while major plot and character elements get ignored. I'll probably read book 4 when it arrives... but only to find out what happens to Murtagh. I've talked to some of my friends about the series and they agree that he's the only one carrying the weight of the story at this point. *shrug*

I haven't read the Westerfeld books. Would you recommend reading only the first 3?

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

I love waiting for books, but I concur with the general consensus that when they're horrible, your life, briefly, becomes horrible while you're reading them. And on a side note, I have so many new things to read now after trolling through those comments.