What is your approach to series?

[o0Ampy0o]

I will not likely read the books of Ice and Fire that follow Storm of Swords even if the final book is great.

You may like to head over to the ASoIaF thread and chat about your reasons *why* you'll likely not read beyond ASoS, o0Ampy0o? As someone who has a troubled relationship with the series, I'd love to hear your thoughts and opinions on it....especially as you noted in the other thread that you felt that Martin is "one of the best character writers".

I would participate in that thread but it has material from the books in the series I have not read. Even though I said I would not likely read anything written after Storm of Swords, I could be convinced otherwise if I heard compelling recommendations there. In truth I would like to believe the remaining books are worth reading like everyone else. I just have not seen evidence that they are.

I last read a book from that series when SoS was released. I have forgotten a lot of things. In reading comments about the books released later, I learned that the most interesting areas to me were not focused on in the next book. Then when another one came out and received similar reviews I decided not to bother. The lack of discipline in editing ends up being a burden on a reader as the two next books are really one bloated book split into two. It makes me angry that such fine work came to that.

This brings to mind some feelings I have about the ending of Tawny Man, actually the ending of the Fitz story (thus far). I could accept it because it looked like Hobb chose to make it a happily ever after fairytale. I suspect Hobb appeased a new lover, a child or discovered God when changing the course of that series finale. It definitely was not the ending everything had lead to. ** Farseer/Tawny Man spoiler**

Spoiler

Many would agree that Fitz was meant to end up with Kettricken and be a shadow king. In the forthcoming books I am not interested in a story of Fitz, Molly and Burrich's children

but I doubt Hobb is going to devote a trilogy to the amended chapter of the Farseer tale. George RR Martin, on the other hand, appears to have lost something in his craft.