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@2ARE TRILOGIES EFFECTIVE?
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Well...I personally like trilogies so long as they are interesting. They
tend to allow more depth to be applied to both the characters and the plot,
wheras single stand-alone books generally have to compress the story or in most
cases weaken the character interaction (Tigana excepted <g>). For the authors
and the publishing companies trilogies offer a way of making more money for
everyone over single books, (a major reason perhaps?) but more importantly
these trilogies seem to be very popular with book buyers. It is strange though
that in most other genre's trilogies are something of a rarity...
There are several disadvantages to this way of releasing novels, the biggest
reason being time. Who out there bought The Dragonbone Chair (Tad Williams) and
then had to wait years for the second and third books to appear? Not only is it
annoying but (for me anyway!) I found that I'd forgotten most of what had
happened in the first book (and at 900+ pages I didn't relish re-reading it!).
The other big problem is money...It's all very nice that the publishers rake in
more money but when you're paying 5 pounds upwards for a paperback these days a
trilogy starts to get a little expensive. Who can say that if certain fantasy
novels were re-published today they wouldn't be split up into two or three
volumes? In fact I'm pretty sure this has happened recently (To Green Angel
Tower I think!). I know for a fact that large paperbacks can be produced as
I've seen a few over 1400 pages, so why are most volumes in fantasy trilogies
only about 4-500 pages???
Alan Merritt