Do you think a series can ever be too long?
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Re: Do you think a series can ever be too long?
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Another series, "The Cat Who" by Lilian Jackson Braun. This series never really was big on plot but just had quirky characters. They get duller and more boring the more they go on. The stories are set in a small town, so there isn't a lot to work with there to begin with. I think writers just start capitalizing on their name after a while and just start cranking them out to meet a publisher's quota without working about whether it has any entertainment value or not.
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In a series like that, I don't except character development. I just go to it for the laughs and entertainment. Sometimes, with a really long series, the readers WANT the characters and their world to remain unchanged. It's comforting that they are always the same. Like Sherlock Holmes and Watson, or Jeeves and Bertie. Of course, the Bertie books get better written with time. Maybe that is the problem you are having, maybe the quality of writing is somehow declining?
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