I hate to do this, but.....

deathsabyss.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com.au (Ashen Shugar) wrote in
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> And thusly dids't "BaJoRi" <bajori.TakeThisOut@cbg.com> speak, to which I
> responded as so...
>
>>No one wants to discuss this book in the Brooks group because I think
>>there is no one left in the Brooks group.
>>
>>But I had to bring up Armageddon's Children. It's just fantastic. A
>>great read.
>>
>>I was convinced that I wouldn't like this book for whatever reason,
>>but I had a flight cancellation at Pittsburgh International yesterday,
>>so found myself wit 5 extra hours and nothing to do. Ended up buying
>>it as the only thing I recognized in the entire store, expecting to
>>hate it the whole way through.
>>
>>Instead, this is turning into my absolute favorite Brooks read. This
>>thing is really enjoyable. Highly recommended (although I am only 100
>>pages in. So maybe an Ewok or caped superhero show up later and ruin
>>it.)
>
> It's good.
>
> And it's way cool how it connects what seemed like different series
> together.
>
> Ashen Shugar

I really do like Terry Brooks' stuff and some of his stuff is in my
"favourites" list but, like every other book he seems to have done,
Armageddon's Children is part of a series. It's not as if it's a
massive 1000 page book that had to stop for size reasons, it seems to be
purely commercial stiffing of his readers.

Feist, Robert Jordan & George R R Martin's "series" have legitimate
reasons for stopping where they do and serialising their books as
they're usually so big despite them being quite tightly written. Even
then, Feist seems to be slipping into the small books in a series mode
that seem to be finished before their even into the story.

Against my better judgement, I bought Armageddon's Children and got
thoroughly hooked in the well written and clever story just when it
ended. Not even a logical end-point, just a cliff-hanger to get you to
buy the next one when it comes out.

Never again. I will not be buying any more Brooks or Feist books until
a particular "series" is complete and I can read them end-to-end without
having to wait for 18 months between books.
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"Craig" <nobody.DeleteThis@dev.null> wrote in message
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> deathsabyss.DeleteThis@yahoo.com.au (Ashen Shugar) wrote in
> news:4541ae28.29219609@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
>
>> And thusly dids't "BaJoRi" <bajori.DeleteThis@cbg.com> speak, to which I
>> responded as so...
>>
>>>No one wants to discuss this book in the Brooks group because I think
>>>there is no one left in the Brooks group.
>>>
>>>But I had to bring up Armageddon's Children. It's just fantastic. A
>>>great read.
>>>
>>>I was convinced that I wouldn't like this book for whatever reason,
>>>but I had a flight cancellation at Pittsburgh International yesterday,
>>>so found myself wit 5 extra hours and nothing to do. Ended up buying
>>>it as the only thing I recognized in the entire store, expecting to
>>>hate it the whole way through.
>>>
>>>Instead, this is turning into my absolute favorite Brooks read. This
>>>thing is really enjoyable. Highly recommended (although I am only 100
>>>pages in. So maybe an Ewok or caped superhero show up later and ruin
>>>it.)
>>
>> It's good.
>>
>> And it's way cool how it connects what seemed like different series
>> together.
>>
>> Ashen Shugar
>
> I really do like Terry Brooks' stuff and some of his stuff is in my
> "favourites" list but, like every other book he seems to have done,
> Armageddon's Children is part of a series. It's not as if it's a
> massive 1000 page book that had to stop for size reasons, it seems to be
> purely commercial stiffing of his readers.
>
> Feist, Robert Jordan & George R R Martin's "series" have legitimate
> reasons for stopping where they do and serialising their books as
> they're usually so big despite them being quite tightly written. Even
> then, Feist seems to be slipping into the small books in a series mode
> that seem to be finished before their even into the story.
>
> Against my better judgement, I bought Armageddon's Children and got
> thoroughly hooked in the well written and clever story just when it
> ended. Not even a logical end-point, just a cliff-hanger to get you to
> buy the next one when it comes out.
>
> Never again. I will not be buying any more Brooks or Feist books until
> a particular "series" is complete and I can read them end-to-end without
> having to wait for 18 months between books.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, you don't have to wait 18 months for
the sequel to Armageddon's Children. It's out in 11 more months.
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In news:sUd0h.51823$x12.48319@fe01.news.easynews.com,
BaJoRi <bajori.DeleteThis@cbg.com> typed:

> No one wants to discuss this book in the Brooks group because I think
> there is no one left in the Brooks group.

I'm there.
--
Brian Tillman
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