This is certainly not a challenge.
I certainly am not challenging you to tell me how you go about reading a series of books.
What happens when you read series? If it's a completed series, do you jump straight to the next book when you've finished the first one?
What if you didn't realise that the book was part of a series? You finish one book and then go adgfsfjdhl;f and realise it's part of a twelve book cycle. Or you expected it to be trilogy and suddenly it has seven books. You know. Magical multiplication and stuff. Do you still invest time in it?
What if it's a series that's still not finished and there's this long, looooong gap between books? (Or one which its author dies before the last volume comes out? *shifty eyes go here*) What happens then? Do you just plunge into the next novel when it comes out, or do you actually reread the books, or flip through them, or, uh, read the wiki about the series?
Haha, that's a lot of questions.
I used to plough through whole series of books at one go if I had all the books -- I finish one and go straight to the next one. I still do this, but not so often any more. It depends on how dense the book is, I guess. I'm currently reading Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and I won't even attempt to try reading the books one after another. I'm a bit afraid my brain will explode from trying to make sense of sixteenth century Europe.
Not realising a book is part of a very long series will be the end of me. Or, more likely, my wallet. Especially fantasy books -- for some reason I always think it'll be a trilogy, but of course I'd be wrong. I remembered thinking that Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time couldn't possibly go over seven volumes, but of course they did. I still read the next books -- I can't stand not knowing how things will end -- but I think I got exasperated somewhere after volume seven. Don't they write stand-alone fantasies anymore?
I think the long wait between books for GRR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series made me forget stuff, and I haven't picked up the latest book yet. Actually, I can't even remember if I've read A Storm of Swords -- it's that vague in my memories now. I probably will have to reread (or is it just read?) that one again. I'm pretty sure once I start reading his books again I'll be sucked in again, but ehehe maybe I'll just put it off a while longer? XD
For the next not-challenge, I tag . . . muggy_mountain!
P/S: Thanks, Nay, for fixing the posting problem. :D
What happens when you read series? If it's a completed series, do you jump straight to the next book when you've finished the first one?
What if you didn't realise that the book was part of a series? You finish one book and then go adgfsfjdhl;f and realise it's part of a twelve book cycle. Or you expected it to be trilogy and suddenly it has seven books. You know. Magical multiplication and stuff. Do you still invest time in it?
What if it's a series that's still not finished and there's this long, looooong gap between books? (Or one which its author dies before the last volume comes out? *shifty eyes go here*) What happens then? Do you just plunge into the next novel when it comes out, or do you actually reread the books, or flip through them, or, uh, read the wiki about the series?
Haha, that's a lot of questions.
I used to plough through whole series of books at one go if I had all the books -- I finish one and go straight to the next one. I still do this, but not so often any more. It depends on how dense the book is, I guess. I'm currently reading Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and I won't even attempt to try reading the books one after another. I'm a bit afraid my brain will explode from trying to make sense of sixteenth century Europe.
Not realising a book is part of a very long series will be the end of me. Or, more likely, my wallet. Especially fantasy books -- for some reason I always think it'll be a trilogy, but of course I'd be wrong. I remembered thinking that Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time couldn't possibly go over seven volumes, but of course they did. I still read the next books -- I can't stand not knowing how things will end -- but I think I got exasperated somewhere after volume seven. Don't they write stand-alone fantasies anymore?
I think the long wait between books for GRR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series made me forget stuff, and I haven't picked up the latest book yet. Actually, I can't even remember if I've read A Storm of Swords -- it's that vague in my memories now. I probably will have to reread (or is it just read?) that one again. I'm pretty sure once I start reading his books again I'll be sucked in again, but ehehe maybe I'll just put it off a while longer? XD
For the next not-challenge, I tag . . . muggy_mountain!
P/S: Thanks, Nay, for fixing the posting problem. :D