I honestly just avoid anything more than three books long. I don’t got time for that shit. Last trilogy I read was the Imperial Radch and each of those books were fairly easy reads.
Yea I learned my lesson from asoiaf, I’m fine waiting until a series is finished so I don’t end up waiting for the end of a story that won’t come
Now that I think about it an unfinished series was what killed my childhood interest in Star Wars. That and the whole legends/canon fiasco (young me was very invested in the Star Wars EU and was not happy about changes to canon lol)
Oh boy Legends. I wasn’t happy they ditched that canon either, but at the same time (and at the time) I felt the EU was suffering from the comic book problem of endlessly continuing the story with “the gang” without any real resolution. IMHO short stories like Rogue One or the EU’s Tales series are peak because they thrive in the world building without bogging themselves down with Canon.
Star Wars as a franchise is like a major or rather the CASE of “lore bloat”, especially since even in legends things contradict or do not fit (thematically or otherwise). In all long running franchise there is this symptom (especially if not pedantically vetted), alongside the “special inflation” aka when objects/cultures/powers/traits who are considered extremely rare or a “big deal” suddenly appear in every instalment. In Star Wars case it is the whole another story where the protag or important side-character is a “Jedi that survived Order 66”, even worse when they constantly make characters that previously died in Order 66 survive it (Shaak Ti (my personal exception), Jocasta Nu, Barriss Offee, Luminara Unduli, etc…) like that devalues the event quite a lot.
I have read and watched enough unfinished tales that I basically wait until everything is complete before picking them up.
I honestly just avoid anything more than three books long. I don’t got time for that shit. Last trilogy I read was the Imperial Radch and each of those books were fairly easy reads.
I can fuck with longer series (Glen Cook’s Black Company comes to mind) but it does need to end somewhere.
Doris Lessing’s Shikasta series is pretty good and it’s 5 books. They’re not that long or anything
Yea I learned my lesson from asoiaf, I’m fine waiting until a series is finished so I don’t end up waiting for the end of a story that won’t come
Now that I think about it an unfinished series was what killed my childhood interest in Star Wars. That and the whole legends/canon fiasco (young me was very invested in the Star Wars EU and was not happy about changes to canon lol)
Oh boy Legends. I wasn’t happy they ditched that canon either, but at the same time (and at the time) I felt the EU was suffering from the comic book problem of endlessly continuing the story with “the gang” without any real resolution. IMHO short stories like Rogue One or the EU’s Tales series are peak because they thrive in the world building without bogging themselves down with Canon.
Star Wars as a franchise is like a major or rather the CASE of “lore bloat”, especially since even in legends things contradict or do not fit (thematically or otherwise). In all long running franchise there is this symptom (especially if not pedantically vetted), alongside the “special inflation” aka when objects/cultures/powers/traits who are considered extremely rare or a “big deal” suddenly appear in every instalment. In Star Wars case it is the whole another story where the protag or important side-character is a “Jedi that survived Order 66”, even worse when they constantly make characters that previously died in Order 66 survive it (Shaak Ti (my personal exception), Jocasta Nu, Barriss Offee, Luminara Unduli, etc…) like that devalues the event quite a lot.