| Re: Ask the Author
Lotr, maybe so. You do read the first part and then want to read the second, but isn't it just that you want more? You finish the last part and you still have the same feeling of wanting more Tolkien.
I actually stopped reading the belgariad at book four, I felt like I could predict the ending and didn't bother to see whether I was right.
Then again this is me speaking and I do tend to never finish things.
Maybe I formulated my expression wrong, I meant that every book should contain one isolated ending storyline. If you consider all other ones superfluous you should end up with a stand alone. Take Lord of the rings for example. Frodo goes to Rivendell, it is a cool journey and in the end he gets there, then he goes on to other adventures (ringquest thingie). It's not 100%, but you will get my point. Why do we read 'unfinished tales'? Isn't it because even though they are unfinished they contain closed storylines? |