Suspicious_Gazelle18 t1_ja8cif2 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 4:31 PM

Reply to comment by diffyqgirl in after ASOIAF and kingkiller I dont dare to start reading unfinished series, I wonder statistically how much people are same and if it sffects other authors? by [deleted]

It’s the tragedy of the commons! If a few people wait until all the books are out, it’s fine. If we all did that, we’d never get the books.

I think the same thing every time people complain about stuff they haven’t yet watched being cancelled on Netflix. If you don’t want it cancelled, then watch it! If it does end up getting cancelled, you will survive.

Like I’m also mad GRRM hasn’t finished ASOIAF yet, but I’ve still gotten so much enjoyment out of what I did read and I will survive if I never get to read another page from that series again.

DafnissM t1_ja8dhtd wrote on February 27, 2023 at 4:37 PM

At this point I know of more cancelled series on Netflix that I know of cancelled books series

mist3rdragon t1_ja8h3q6 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM

In the case of Netflix, I'd say it's different because Netflix has brought that lack of trust on themselves. They even made a small statement about how they didn't want to cancel shows without giving them conclusions then outside of a couple of high profile cases they went on to not change their behaviour at all. (Which was obviously going to be the case, so I don't know why they lied about trying to give shows conclusions).

Authors on the other hand aren't a monolith, George RR Martin isn't responsible for what any other writer promises and visa versa so it's not fair to decide not to read someone else's books because GRRM took a while to write a couple of books.