Yep. Ditch it. If you want to try again, it will always still exist later.

I was the same way with audio books and ended up to resorting to just reading. I found I’d have to draw more attention to focus on what was happening and if not, I had to restart the chapter. I am also super picky when it comes to who is reading the book and if their voice “matches” the dialogue.

Probably not what you're looking for, but my copy of the Iliad has a cover that matches your description to a tee…

I feel like there are 2 types of unfished series. There are those like ASOIAF where we don't know if GRRM will actually get it done strictly to his complete lack of attention to it, or things like Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson where its just an absolutely massive project that he is continuously chipping away at (ie publishing books every 18 months or so)

I'd highly recommend the Eisenhorn books (starting with 'Xenos') by Dan Abnett (same author as Horus Rising).

They're a great jumping off point into the whole Warhammer universe, they don't assume you have any background knowledge.

(Also, while looking it up to make sure I was spelling 'Eisenhorn' right, I just discovered there's a fourth book that I haven't read yet. Immediate buy for me!)

Avoiding unfinished series hurts authors and means they'll never get finished, cause the sales aren't there. It's really sad to me that two big names seem to have ruined this for everybody. I advise treating them like the exceptions they are rather than assuming all authors are going to be like this.

Does the book have all the erotic subtext between Hannibal and Graham that the show does (and that before I watched it I thought fanfiction authors totally made up)?

>I was thinking Martin and Rothfuss backstabbed other writers by delaying their work by decade, and I was wondering if thats true, or just me overthinking.

I don't think they owe anything to any other writers, even as a fan, the only thing that I would ask is that they try to write the best books that they can. I wonder if the idea that an author should put out one book in a series per year is a relatively new idea

I started reading COMC and am listening to classical music and it is giving me such a vivid picture of each scene.

I literally came to this Sub to ask about Kingkiller.

3 years ago I was gifted book 1 and 2.

I read book 1 in 5 days. Unheard of for me. Loved it. Got 150 pages into book 2 and found out B3 isn't even out yet. 9 Months later, today, I'm picking it back up.

Is there even word when 3 will be out ???

My fav chilean writer is Marcela Paz, but she's a kids writer (Papelucho series, is super funny) but there's this one, María Luisa Bombal. She's popular tho

Yeah there are some cheesy books but there’s also lots of top notch sci-fi books aswell.

If you’re looking for recs check out Night Lords Omnibus or something. I’m a big fan of night lords lore.

Isn't ASOIAF considered the best fantasy series by many? I would still read it even without an ending.

The Brothers Karamazov was supposed to have follow-up books but didn't, people still read it.

And if you are including any series that wasn't completed from the original author, that takes away a lot of good books. Including Wheel of Time, Dune, Foundation, James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Odyssey/Iliad, the Bible, Grimm/Arabian Nights/Aesop's Fables/pretty much any older compiled story collection of old.

You're free to dislike the book, but this isn't a particularly accurate summation of Dark Matter. It feels forcibly reductive, like squinting hard enough to make two kind of similar things appear identical. Did you read the book, or just read a summary?

>!"working in a tech field" He's a college professor?!<

>!"mistaken identity/circumstance" Yeah, but when does this happen in Upgrade?!<

>!"injected with a substance" He's drugged? Just a regular old knock-out cocktail, not super sci-fi brain juice!<

>!"run away from shadowy organization" ??? He escapes a lab at one point, if that's what you mean?!<

>!"who am I?" I mean, kind of? The way the book questions "what makes a person who they are, their choices, or their experiences?" Again, though, pretty reductive.!<

>!"Sci-fi fuckery happens." "I miss <Wife> and <Child.>" These are accurate.!<

Depends on the type of book series. If it's a grand high fantasy series I tend to agree. More episodic series like Bernard Cornwell books I don't care because they may never be finished but a new book added here or there doesn't really change the series.

Wait what? I love Children of Time.

If you're asking about Dark Matter, just about everything. The main character was annoying and his actions didn't make any sense, the other characters were completely flat, and the writing was really bad (enough to make me laugh at it). It's been a year since I read it, so I don't have a lot of specifics anymore.

To be fair, if Butcher stopped writing Dresden Files I don't feel like we'd really be missing much. I say this as a fan of the Dresden Files.

wow. I'll definitely check atleast some of these out. Also I heard when breath becomes air is a super book. Incase you are looking for something.

In school, very early, we learn to read by sounding things out. But then, because reading out loud in a classroom of 30 kids would be unworkable, we are taught to sound things out silently which leads to silent reading. I think silent reading is preferred just because it's a must in the educational environment. But when you're home, why not read aloud if it makes more sense to you? If I'm puzzling out an emotional passage, I'll read it out loud, playing with different emotional emphasis to see what feels right or what else I might discover if I read it differently.

I started reading the Storm light Archive becuase I'd read someone say it was a complete trilogy. I didn't look further into it for fear of spoilers. And then came to discover it's not a trilogy, it's just that 3 books are out, one is due next year and he has 6 (!) more planned. And each of them is 1200 pages long. As much as I've loved it so far I doubt I'd have started it if I didn't know it wasn't complete. I'll likely have forgotten a lot of the story by the time the series progresses over the next 5 years and I don't really have the time to reread 1200 page long books.

I would really like to read ASOIAF but fuck doing that until it's finished.

Oh cool! I love a good memoir. Some I’ve enjoyed: Dry by Augusten Burroughs, Paula by Isabel Allende, anything by David Sedaris or Anne Lamott, Marbles by Ellen Forney, Fun Home by Allison Bechdel, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers; anything by Bill Bryson or Jon Krakauer; Wild by Cheryl Strayed; anything by JoannDidion, but especially The Year of Magical Thinking

Are you still up for young adult novels? Try anything by John Green, the Divergent and Hunger Games series, Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian…

If you’re up for trying mysteries, try Louise Penny or of course Agatha Christie.

For adult fiction, I like Kate Atkinson, Jennifer Egan, the book Revolutionary Road; Tom Perrotta, Frederick or Donald Barthelme; David Foster Wallace; Watership Down, Gameof Thrones, All the Light We Cannot See, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera; anything by Ocean Vuong or James Baldwin or George Orwell. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.

FYI many libraries can provide a list of reading suggestions based on your preferences.

It’s no VALIS

Meh. As much as I would love to have the authors finish both series, I don't regret reading (and re-reading) them. They are both among my all-time favorites, endings or no. They certainly aren't going to turn me off to series still in progress.

I was first burned by the Mages of Ambrai, but those are such wonderful books that I still recommend that people read the first 2. I guess I'd rather have half of an epic story than none of it.

Idk, I think the authors work for themselves, and I buy their product. They don't work for me so I don't take it personally when they dnf writing a series

If this how you read and you're enjoying reading, that's all that matters. How you do it, silently or reading out aloud is irrelevant.

FWIW I would focus more on what makes me happy, than what anyone might think.