Comment on Site that let's me filter by standalone novels only?

BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ericbomb@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  gasp

  And there are even recommended tag mashes for different genres! I have found my people who have been similarly hurt by picking up a book that they thought was a standalone, then running right into a cliff hanger wall and an unfinished series.

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Once you find some, feel free to put some reviews on bookwyrm.

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  • mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also am glad to have this tool but am responding to you in particular to find out what the certain book series is where 8/9/10 are filler novels, because I hate read things sometimes

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    • ericbomb@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you google “which wheel of time can I skip” you will find many discussions about it.

      You’ll also find fan edits where for a ton of chapters are skipped and instead gives a small update of anything important that happened.

      Famously, despite women being incredibly powerful and it having tons of female characters that talk to one another, he gives a lot of them quirks that get brought up all the time.

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    • JetpackJackson@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not the OP but I thought it was Harry Potter but I could be wrong

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      • Starfarer@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wheel of time I assume

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• Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for this!

  Thriller novels have exactly the same problem

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