Do You Feel Guilty?

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Do You Feel Guilty?
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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 7:23am

You've found this great series. Can't get enough of them. Do you ever get bored with a series and have to let it go? I don't mean just take a break because you've overloaded on the first 3 or 4 and need a break. Do you keep on going because of that strong "gotta finish what I start" gene. Have you ever felt guilty for letting a series or author slip into the land of the past?

I have let Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwall fade into the sunset. I even purged my shelf of Grafton but can't quite rid myself of Cornwall yet.


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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 8:33am
OOh I have. I had ALL of the John Sanford books, but I was running out of room on my book shelves, so I put them in my yardsale last year. Now I'm having major second thoughts about it and I'm just glad most of them are still boxed up in the attic, and only ended up selling 2 or 3 of them. Since I just rearranged my daughters room, I have a whole bookcase free! I'm thinking of pulling out the box and filling up my new bookcase!
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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 12:16pm
It might take the rest of my life but I plan to get to all of the book series that I started. I admit that I have tried a first in a series and not gone back for me on some lesser known authors but for the most part I plan to read it all someday...yeah right!
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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 4:51pm

I started about a year (or two?) ago collecting everything by Terry Pratchett.

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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 4:58pm
Hehe don't hold your breath since he quit writing. The Dark Tower series was the last of his works, and he only finished that series because he promised his readers.
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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 5:48pm

I think I've mentioned before that I'm giving up on Patricia Cornwall's Kay Scarpetta series & Carole Jackson Braun's Cat Who.... series. But now that new ones are coming out, it feels kind of hard to not go for them. But postings I've read about "Predator" have reinforced the feeling that I won't be happy with reading it. So I guess I'll stick to my guns with both of them. Still enjoying most of the other series I read, but they do have their ups & downs.

Liz

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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 6:51pm

Did he really quit?

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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 7:12pm
Yeah it is very poopie! hehe Especially since he is/was one of my favorites. What made it even worse for me is I thought he was starting to show some real promise again at the end there. Who knows, maybe he will be like Thomas Harris and not put out a single book, then 11 years later make a comeback! We can only hope, right?!
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Tue, 01-10-2006 - 9:36pm

Well, I read the first three Vampire L'Estat books by Anne Rice and then tired of them. I checked out one of the Mayfair witch books to see if it was any better, and didn't think it was.

I also got tired of the Carol O'Connell Mallory series. Mallory as a character didn't appeal to me all that much anyway.

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Wed, 01-11-2006 - 12:09pm

Jackie,


Someone wrote in another thread that SK is coming out with a new book!

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Wed, 01-11-2006 - 12:14pm

Okay, on www.stephenking.com, which purports to be his official website, he said this in answer to the retired question:


Not yet. I'm writing but I'm writing at a much slower pace than previously and I think that if I come up with something really, really good, I would be perfectly willing to publish it because that still feels like the final act of the creative process, publishing it so people can read it and you can get feedback and people can talk about it with each other and with you, the writer, but the force of my invention has slowed down a lot over the years and that's as it should be. I'm not a kid of 25 anymore and I'm not a young middle-aged man of 35 anymore-I'm 55 years old and I have grandchildren, two new puppies to house-train and I have a lot of things to do besides writing and that in and of itself is a wonderful thing but writing is still a big, important part of my life and of everyday


So I guess we'll see?

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