Comments | bookfails: Let's Play Ketchup!

beautyizdead in bookfails

Let's Play Ketchup!

Jun 22, 2011 00:56

I am reading the 9th book in a book series but it drives me insane that they keep going over and over and over again and again about what happened in the last book, as well as the other books before that. Do I need to be reminded what happened?! It makes me crazy. I want to meet the person that picks up the 9th book in a series and reads from there ( Read more... )

rants, i love this author but what in the world

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mahasin June 22 2011, 12:09:17 UTC

Eh, it depends on how I'm reading the series. If I'm reading them whenever they come out (which in some cases can mean years) then I don't mind the rehashing, but if I'm reading an older series in order it annoys me if it's excessive.

It's a catch-22.

sternflammenden June 22 2011, 12:11:54 UTC

If they're going to do that, they should at least use the same chapter every time, a la The Babysitters Club. ;)

I hate that too, unless it's something where there is a big gap between books (hi, George R R Martin!), and I don't want to re-read the series.

pnkngrnd3 June 22 2011, 12:26:41 UTC

I'm going to the join the "I don't mind when there's a gap, but yeah, it gets annoying when I'm reading them all in a row" party. I mean, I picked up Harry Potter in book three for whatever reason, and the Sookie Stackhouse series in book four since my library didn't have the first three books. The recaps were pretty helpful.

ayashi June 22 2011, 13:07:04 UTC

That bugs me sometimes too. But other times I appreciate it (when I'm actually caught up on a book series). However, some books seem to have more overkill with that than others. Like the Sookie books... I swear some of the most basic parts of the series are repeated in every single volume.

alicetheowl June 22 2011, 14:05:51 UTC

That's what immediately leapt to mind for me. It seemed like a quarter of the most recent book was recapping what happened in other books. Then she'd run into characters we haven't seen for a couple of books, and I wait for the recap, and . . . nothing! Argh.

87_degrees June 22 2011, 13:07:08 UTC

I remember my school library used to have random books from the middle of series. So if there was a seven book series, the library might have books three and six but none of the rest. I really liked there being a bit of a summary of past events, so long as the author didn't go over the top.

They shouldn't stop the story to explain everything though.