Dunes son and another author need the series with a pair of books but did what Disney did with star wars and dived right in to ending the series immediately with out getting their footing. The other books they wrote in the series are ok though.

I dunno. I've heard arguments on both sides. Personally, I would love if they didn't do it, but I guess it is his work and he can do what he wants with it, even if it is a horrible thing for archivists and completionists.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series will never be finished and its always such a shame

oh I'll never get to read them? sounds like i just have to live to be 115, np

Glad SA Corey was able to finish the expanse.

I'm so mad I can't know

This is my signal great motivator for time travel. I don't even need the books, just give me the sub series and title.

Well Innocent family Spiralling into an inescapable supernatural hole of darkness is peak horror!

I know where my next book-job is gonna be.

Richard Scarry, one of my favorite first video games!

When I die, I want all my unfinished novels to be published. Should be an easy enough to do, I haven't started on any of them.

I was really looking forward to “The Dark Incontinent”

I am reading Infinity jest and I am so impressed by the translator's skills. I do not know sooo many terms in polish which appear in this book and she (translator) had to know it (or to search it which is sometimes extremeley difficult despite the existence of the Internet (I used to work as a french translator)).

😂 legends. Just proves the lengths readers will go to read a book❤👍

i miss Terry Pratchett so much. Discworld is one of my favourite novels ans helped me get through some dark times.

1) Schlep is a Yiddish word. So I’m not sure what ppl mean by it being “printed for the first time” in Ulysses. I’m sure you weren’t aware, but it’s disrespectful and Anglocentric misinformation. 2) The thing about Gravity’s Rainbow and all of Joyce’s books is that they’re prose novels, not typical novels. They’re meant to live somewhere between poetry and fiction. Once you accept that and stop trying to figure everything out, they’re a brilliant ride. 3) The moment you dread how long a book is, stop reading it. Don’t read it at all if that’s a turn off. I would have read 3,000 pages of Gravity’s Rainbow bc I never wanted it to end.

I'm very glad that you mentioned Butler, but I wish you'd mentioned Pratchett.

Once again, from the top, comics and cartoons aren't just for kids. Anime is not a genre, it's a medium. I am glad more discussion is occurring around this because the communities from all of the above are tired of having their interests belittled. I was lucky in that my dad was a comic book nerd so it wasn't odd in my household. I was also born when anime and manga were becoming more socially acceptable (it was a trip to see a popular girl reading shoujo in free period.) I wasn't bullied for my interest as I grew up but I still get odd looks for my enthusiasm as an adult.

I will put myself in an ice chamber to read these books

The Man of War series won’t be finished either, H. Paul Honsinger died a few years ago from Covid and had plans for another 6 books. He was a really good author.

So what’s the third volume of this called? Netan-maus?

Gravity's Rainbow was the first book I didn't finish (finishing a book used to be a question of honor for me). It taught me a valuable lesson, though: life is too short to waste it on something you don't really want to do. Art needs to maintain a delicate balance between communication and personal expression. These books are skewed towards the latter, rendering them oböique and impactless.

We will probably never get the 10th book from the night world series by L.J. Smith and I always get pretty angry about it.

People alive today will be able to see it, is impressive but I would have chosen 200 works, practically ensuring no one alive at the beginning would be there for the end, there is some beauty in that, but I would only need to get to 120 to read them, some people watching this would only need to get to 100 and people being born today would need to get to 80, and even Donald Trump gets to 80 so one does not need a particularly healthy life for that. And my family history of people I know has people around 90 and still alive and well, so, 50 more years of medical advances and I think I will get to live in 3 different centuries, and I will watch the bicentenary man to celebrate when that happens at 106, I hope I remember it by then.

i mean, did they start with a 26 pass erase and a drill press? someone with enough resources could potentially get that data off those drives (assuming they werent already melted for scrap)

Reading harms eyes.

Also keep in mind the man had a "thunderbolt iron" sword, forged from a meteroite, that he refused to turn over to the government.

I have it paused cuz im a discworld fanatic. I know a couple have been published sonce he died it seems like. The shepards crown was supposed to be the last discworld i thought... but my life also kinda fell apart around that same time so i lost the thread.

I now need to live to at least the age of 112, to be able to read this. Goal unlocked

the guy who published kafkas work reasoned that kafka could not have been serious about this request because he entrusted the task of destroying the work to the one person who would never do such a thing

And for what. Only chronicaly online people find that old book bothering

Me who plans to live to 106 to see it 😈

I adore Terry Pratchett's books, and it delights me that his last wishes were followed.

Guys, ill be 110.... Its possible for me to be alive but unlikely!!

Same with Douglas Adams. Was it a Dirk Gently's was it a hitchhikers? Forensically recovered it was made into a hitchhikers. The only dead that exercise their rites are the walking dead.

If I live to 102 I could read them

I read a lot of it and enjoyed it, but found a lot of the characters hard to relate to. This family would have been average and normal in the 80s and just seem alien in the modern day.

It’s the most terrible book I ever read… and one of the best.

I hate that shit. Except when it was done 100 years ago. The I love it.

My ADHD says the first writer is a jerk. Joyce's book had to be smuggled into the US because it was considered to be obscene.

You should read reverend insanity

I've just come to the conclusion that quantity of books doesn't matter, what matters is enjoyment. If you are enjoying and having a nice time just read whatever you want no matter how long it takes. If we kept thinking about all the books in the world we won't read in this life, it would be a mental catastrophe. Just relax, enjoy what you are currently reading and prioritize quality over quantity.

Life: A-Y Death: Z

UUUUFDa okay author here and I don't know. I'd like to say my art my choice. But what if someone sees something in it that I did not, more than just $$... To be clear I write vampire buddy cop novel, nothing deep. But my point remains

I was heading out to watch the original movie of this book when I received a call from my family to let me know that a young lady who had been very dear to me had just died. I had made multiple commitments to go to the movie as I was in Germany in the US Army and it was only being played one night near me. Combined with the chilling nature of the story that made it the most disturbing movie I had ever seen.

Larson actually had an idea for books four and five of the Dragon tattoo series. Unfortunately, he planned out most of five and a little bit of four, and then he died. Because he was not married his girlfriend lost the rights to the books to his family, who ended up writing the other books in the series.

I've read some of Michael Crichton's books that were published post-humously, and while not terrible, they do read as somewhat rougher than his earlier works, so I can believe that other authors probably don't want their legacy tainted by having their name associated with less than phenomenal books because they died before doing the necessary rewrites and editing to make them good.

Nice

What a pointless piece of "art". The money that could have been raised and donated from selling those books would have been far better.

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