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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on February 09, 2021, 01:53:53 AM ---I think in every book series, there’s always at least one weak book. It’s sucks when it’s the last one. It sucks for the author if it happens to be the first one. lol
I honestly can’t think of a single series (more than two books or stories) that there wasn’t one where I found myself thinking “well this one was unnecessary.”
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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 09, 2021, 07:39:45 PM ---I feel like as the author, you should do your utmost to make it not be the first one! Then there won't be any others. Unless it's after everyone reads all of them and decides that the first one ended up being the weakest? That might not be the most terrible thing if it was good enough to read the others, but then the others were just that much better in the grand scheme of things? I don't know.
Now I want specifics on the books you thought were unnecessary! haha. Like the most unnecessary Harry Potter or something.
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LOL I replied to Mare before I read your post. In some ways, the first Harry Potter is my least favorite book of the series, but I would never call it weak because it establishes the wizarding world and sets up the whole series. It's important. It's just not my favorite because so much of it is introduction, and it's more juvenile than the rest of the books in the series.
The fifth book, Order of the Phoenix, is my other contender for least favorite HP book because I don't love emo Harry, and my favorite character gets killed off, but it scores points for containing my favorite villain, Umbridge. I still love it, just not as much as the other books around it.
RokofAges75:
For those of you who have written a series, which do you think was the strongest and weakest story? Do you think any stories were unnecessary?
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 09, 2021, 08:39:05 PM ---LOL I replied to Mare before I read your post. In some ways, the first Harry Potter is my least favorite book of the series, but I would never call it weak because it establishes the wizarding world and sets up the whole series. It's important. It's just not my favorite because so much of it is introduction, and it's more juvenile than the rest of the books in the series.
The fifth book, Order of the Phoenix, is my other contender for least favorite HP book because I don't love emo Harry, and my favorite character gets killed off, but it scores points for containing my favorite villain, Umbridge. I still love it, just not as much as the other books around it.
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--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 09, 2021, 08:34:19 PM ---That said, there definitely other series that have this problem. It does suck when it's the last book. My favorite HP is Deathly Hallows, but in other series that I've read in their entirety (which is really not that many that I can think of), the last book was my least favorite. They either felt unnecessary or just went off the rails crazy. Twilight (Breaking Dawn) and Hunger Games (Mockingjay), to name a couple examples.
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Great minds think alike, obviously. I think the juvenileness.. . juvenality... (this is going to bother me...) the fact that it's more juvenile than the others is a strong point of the first book when you consider that the main cast is only eleven. That's how the wizarding world feels to them; obviously they're not all up in the politics and drama of it until later in the series. But of course reading (or rereading) it as an adult, you lose some of that "growing with the characters" that was a pinnacle of coming of age in a world where Harry Potter existed. And then all that business JK Rowling has going on these days, but that's unrelated to this topic.
See, my original joke was going to be that the entirety of Twilight was unnecessary, but it felt mean to say.
The last series I read was most of the Sookie Stackhouse series and I can't remember which one I liked the least that I read... The fourth one was definitely the best one, I remember that. I looked them up and apparently didn't read the last four of them, oops, so maybe the 9th one was the worst one.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 08, 2021, 10:35:31 PM ---Also Nick would murder me in my sleep after the last time! Oh look, here he comes now screaming "THE *@&$ YOU SAY ABOUT KILLING MY FAMILY FOR THE PLOT?!?! VENGEANCE!!!!" And Kevin's standing behind him shaking his head, pulling out some bandages, and calmly calling "Your actions have consequences, Nick!"
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Also, I'm glad we got an interesting discussion about series going, but I am sad no one else thought this was as funny as I did, because it popped into my head a couple times today and I laughed to myself like an idiot for a long time every time.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 09, 2021, 08:48:21 PM ---For those of you who have written a series, which do you think was the strongest and weakest story? Do you think any stories were unnecessary?
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I will let you know eventually and get the nice little "It's been more than 120 days since someone posted in here. Are you sure?" message.
mare:
I didn’t enjoy Chamber of Secrets. I found it really boring and hard to finish, almost to the point that I almost stopped reading it altogether. Keep in mind, I was late to the HP train and read them well into the movies which I have to admit is the only way I got through that book. lol sorry.
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