Do You Feel Guilty?
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Do You Feel Guilty?
| 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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I started about a year (or two?) ago collecting everything by Terry Pratchett.
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
Liz
Did he really quit?
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.
Jackie,
Someone wrote in another thread that SK is coming out with a new book!
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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