It might as well be one with how long it isOriginally Posted by MonteGss
Because it is only one book, silly.Nobody has written "War and Peace" yet.
It might as well be one with how long it isBecause it is only one book, silly.Nobody has written "War and Peace" yet.
Uh sorry. I think in Hungarian it's more than one book...It might as well be one with how long it isBecause it is only one book, silly.Nobody has written "War and Peace" yet.
Roland would have understood.
Really, I would be amazed to see such a rare thing, at least to me.
Do you think you could find it Letti
it consists of 4 volumes - not because it is so long that can't be fitted into one volume for reasons of convenience, but because Leo Tolstoy conceived it as a four-volume novel. But it is definitely not a series, and the volumes are not separate parts.
I am not sure, by the way, that the DT is a bona fide series, either. It started, developed, culminated, and ended; isn't it just a long novel consisting of 7 volumes?
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
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Fair enough, well put
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I started to feel sooo stupid.
Thank you.
Roland would have understood.
It would be immpossible for you to be stupid Letti
Don't tell it to anyone but it's in my veins...It would be immpossible for you to be stupid Letti
Roland would have understood.
I don't believe it
Oh, Sandman! I need to add Sandman to my list as well.
The Malazan Boook of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
The Demonwar series by R.A. Salvatore
In Digitized Remorse
i suppose you could argue that Lord of the Rings is not a series either. just one long novel. Harry Potter too.
I don't know. I see how HP could, theoretically, go on and on and on, with all them sons and heirs. LotR is rather amorphous and, thoughSpoiler:, it never seemed to me so really crucial - the lore is spacious, there's always room for more creatures and more artefacts etc etc. I see your point, though. If there isn't an official definition of "series" somewhere, it may be not easy to define in every particular case.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i always thought LotR was a standalone story compared to the Silmarillion and Lost Tales, and the numerous books he wrote that were all tied to middle earth.
I don't know. I'm getting all fuzzy on this "is it a series or not" business. It is a little tough to determine.
supposing, a novel (however long) is a single story (with multiple lines combining to form a whole - doors, rose, beams, todash, the development of all characters etc all culminate towards the denouement), while a series is more or less independent stories in the same setting, with more or less same key characters. (I can see the week point of this, of course, - it's the "more or less" part...) Thus, neither LotR or HP is a series, but they both have at least a potential to be developed into one, while TDT, in my opinion, is exactly what it is.
(HP too, on second thought...)
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess that would make my "People of the..." books a series.
Even though they really have nothing to do with each other. Characters in some end up as legends in others to there is continuity.
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Dune is a good example, because each of the books is basically a self-contained story. Harry Potter, for the most part, as well. There's a problem and resolution at the end of each book, even though there's an overall theme and conflicts that take place over the course of the entire thing.
LotR continues from one book to the next, as does the DT series.
I agree that they have the potential to become series.
MORE DT BOOKS, lets tell King we want a real series
yeah! let's see an entire novel all about Randall Flagg. Or a novel all about the Fall of Gilead and the Battle of Jericho Hill.
Oooh, i'd like that, yessir.
I dread the thought... no, really. It's perfect as it is. I wouldn't mind creating an additional series, though, to combine with Little Sisters of Eluria. Just more Roland backstory; I suppose something that happened to the second ka-tet was omitted, too, and now I would gladly read about it... but not as part of the novel. The novel is finished.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is exactly what I want too
let's hope! I doubt this will ever happen, but I'll hope anyway
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
exactly. like the Silmarillion or Lost Tales to LotR.
Just some fun shit to shed more light on Roland's world and side stories. Eluria is a perfect example.
is that a three bear salute.
I shall also hope
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