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Site that let's me filter by standalone novels only?
(lemmy.world)
gasp
And there are even recommended tag mashes for different genres! I have found my people who have been similarly hurt by picking up a book that they thought was a standalone, then running right into a cliff hanger wall and an unfinished series.
Once you find some, feel free to put some reviews on bookwyrm.
I also am glad to have this tool but am responding to you in particular to find out what the certain book series is where 8/9/10 are filler novels, because I hate read things sometimes
Not the OP but I thought it was Harry Potter but I could be wrong
Wheel of time I assume
Spot on!
I remember in middle school when I was given the series I was hooked after reading the first book!
Then as I was getting more through the series it was more a sense of stubborn wanting to see it through than anything.
I tired reading it and just couldn't get into it at all. Which is a shame because I've heard good things
By not falling in love with book 1 you saved yourself some pain, so don't fret too much.
Not familiar with that series so I'll take your word for it lol
If you google "which wheel of time can I skip" you will find many discussions about it.
You'll also find fan edits where for a ton of chapters are skipped and instead gives a small update of anything important that happened.
Famously, despite women being incredibly powerful and it having tons of female characters that talk to one another, he gives a lot of them quirks that get brought up all the time.
Thanks for this!
Thriller novels have exactly the same problem
In case you haven't already read him Terry Pratchett has some excellent works and while in theory the books are set in the same universe... in practice they're all stand alone novels. I'd suggest starting with Guards! Guards!
There are even some reading guides depending on what sub-genre you are interested in if you don't want to read the whole cannon. They all standalone pretty well though.
King Killer chronicle fans... I'm sorry, but the author is dead even if the man remains
wtf happened?
Nothing, and I think that's the point
Fans who follow more closely can correct me if I'm wrong, but....
The author streams and does events, but hasn't given any updates in a long time. He did a fund raiser where a goal was releasing the first chapter of his next book, which he supposedly has been working on since 2011, and he never did despite meeting the goal. Sure feels like despite supposedly working on it for 2011 he hasn't even made a draft of the opening chapter.
Additionally, his previous editors and publisher have said they haven't seen any indication he is working on them at all. So it doesn't seem like he's agonizing over revision 512 and still not happy with it. Seems like he just never made a first draft.
Yikes. Thx for the summary.
Lots of times you can 'one and done' a series. Dune comes to mind as a great novel on it's own even if you ignore the rest of the series.
But I understand what you mean. The only time I've been glad to read an entire series was Kings "Gunslinger".
My Canon ends with Dune so thats a good point!
Most people only care about the first book though, so I'm not special there.
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