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   mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 22:18:17 JST mark

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   • Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:

   @kimlockhartga I tend to read read incomplete series anymore. Robert Jordan and his "trilogy" killed everything for me.

   This is helpful for things like the dark tower, as not having any time gaps in reading helped me remember details across fairly distant episodes. I was low key pissed when King released a book 5.5 or whatever it was.

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     Kim Possible :kimoji_fire: (kimlockhartga@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 22:18:18 JST Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:

     Does it seem like more and more books are trilogies, or a series? Some narratives really are longer stories that work well in installments, but others feel stretched. One in particular that I remember repeated the same phrases over and over, and restated the same sentences. Yet, that duology is very popular.

     Some of my favorite books are in a series, so perhaps I'm being hypocritical here, but it seems like until recently, most novels were standalones. I worry that this is marketing, and wonder if authors are pushed to do it.

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