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You May Soon Binge Books Just Like You Binge Netflix
After each cliffhanger death and betrayal in Game of Thrones, viewers must wait seven days until the next episode delivers resolution. As agonizing as that is, it’s an eye-blink compared to the glacial pace of serial book publishing—something many an erstwhile George R.R. Martin fan knows. Genre fiction, like TV, increasingly depends upon serialized long-arc storytelling; it’s rare these days to see a science-fiction or fantasy novel that isn’t part of a trilogy (or longer). Yet, the book world historically has been unable to match the comparatively rollicking pace of television.
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I hate the way stand alone fiction has started to disappear, but on the other hand I've also attributed to it by reading a lot of series books over stand alone's because I know there is more story and they'll eventually come in an omnibus. On the other hand I also tend to not read a series until several are out.
I do find a problem with serial/binge reading though, if you read through the first three books in a week and the next book is coming next year, I find I don't retain some of the story and am slightly lost once picking up the new book until I start reading things tying back to the first books I read and then they click back in, but maybe my memory is just bad.