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

[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?