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Old Yesterday, 02:17 PM   #2926
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There are some series where they should have stopped after the first book.
Before the first book.
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Before the first book.
A perfect example of that is Ian M. Banks with his Culture series. The first book is abysmal. It starts off pretty good and goes downhill and ends up being abysmal overall.
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A perfect example of that is Ian M. Banks with his Culture series. The first book is abysmal. It starts off pretty good and goes downhill and ends up being abysmal overall.
Hah. I think a number of people might disagree with you on that one.

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Hah. I think a number of people might disagree with you on that one.

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And they'd be wrong too. I read the book for a book club and hardly anyone liked it.
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Luckily I started with the second one, which was great. The Culture is just a set of stories in a shared setting, not an actual serial. Kind of like Discworld, which also had a weak opener.

I try to limit myself to one book ahead in series. It's hard to stick to that when there are bundles and omnibuses, but it does mean I'm only one book down if the series jumps the shark. And also that I don't sink a lot of money into something I might not read for years.
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Luckily I started with the second one, which was great. The Culture is just a set of stories in a shared setting, not an actual serial. Kind of like Discworld, which also had a weak opener.

I try to limit myself to one book ahead in series. It's hard to stick to that when there are bundles and omnibuses, but it does mean I'm only one book down if the series jumps the shark. And also that I don't sink a lot of money into something I might not read for years.
Not at all like Discworld. Discworld is a true series with charters that evolve as series goes on.
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