I’m in the no order category
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Not so much reading as I usually fall asleep after 3 lines but T”he Zones of Thought” series. On the last book and can’t wait for it to end. Hate it! 
I once did a speed reading course , I read War & Peace in 30 minutes
It’s about Russia
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…and, there are passages in French and not so much war.
It’s actually an easy read and significantly shorter than Peter F. Hamilton novels.
I actually have never read it I was joking
I managed Lord of the Rings , Songs of Ice and Fire and wait for it Newman’s Life of Wagner but I’m not normally into BIG reads , just single books
Wagner was fun I read most of it in lull periods on night shift 
Yeah, not happy about Songs of Ice and Fire as it’s unlikely to get finished, and I invested some time reading the volumes many years ago. On a positive note, it did mean that I never watched the TV series beyond the first or second series.
I do enjoy long reads, and recently reread The Great Dune Trilogy, most likely for the last time, but have decided to stop with the third novel. The final two, by his son and Anderson, are awful.
Oh man, “War and Peace” is one of the pinnacles of literature, it really is. It’s my 3rd or 4th favourite book of all times. The tittle is a bit of a mistranslation though, Peace has a broader meaning somewhere around World or society. So more it’s more like “War and the rest of the world that isn’t a battlefield.”
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I started reading “Song of Ice and fire” when the latest one was “A storm of swords”. It had come out a couple of years early already and, in my naiveté, I figured that by the time I caught up, the author would be finishing the story. 3 years latter “Feast of crows” was released, a completely irrelevant book for the general story.
I long since gave up on Ice and Fire but it was a reminder to never start reading a series that still has no end. It might never get there.
The lure of the money , can’t blame him he went from obscure author with one (big) story to a very rich man. Carried away with TV he maybe forgot he hadn’t finished yet
Tolkein missed the TV rights by a few years . LOR was all the rage in my youth as a 1950 baby
At one point I used to do annual re-read
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Series are my downfall as I have a terrible long term memory, I tend to reread the entire lot when the books are released annually. The Wheel of Time became an epic, rereading 1,2,3 up to 13 books in prep for the last one, phew!
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As an alternative there’s always Harvard Lampoon’s Bored of the Rings or the superior, IMHO, BBC Hordes of the Things.
This reminds of the situation around Patrick James Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle series, a (planned as) trilogy still missing its third book after ~ 15 years. I always dislike it when series remain unfinished.
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The guy was out of ideas way before the TV show. You start weaving and weaving your plot and killing every single candidate to main character and good luck tying it down in a nice bow. Remember that TV show “Lost”? I’m still p*ssed off all these years after. One keeps reading/watching to figure out how the writer is going to fit all that in a nice narrative and the answer is… he won’t.
The Wheel of Time is one I’ve avoided because it had no end when I looked into it. I hear it didn’t went well. And like you, either I read the whole thing straight or I’ll have no idea what is what. Same with TV shows. I only watched Breaking Bad etc when they were done
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Martin is more interested in his side projects. The time between the last novel and now is longer than writing all of the books.
Another book I’m waiting for is the final volume of Dean Koontz’ Moonlight Bay trology. That’s a wait of over twenty years.
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I recently chose to re-read Pullman so I know what The Rose Garden is about. A single volume novel next, and Corey’s next instalment in April.
At least Corey is a different series so The Expanse doesn’t have to be re-read 
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If it ends up being a ten book series, it could be a lot of reading …
1 + (1 + 2) + (1 + 2 + 3) + (1 + 2 + 3 + 4) … see I’ve already forgotten what I read a year ago. 
Perhaps I should wait until they’ve written the entire series.
What I usually do nowadays. I’m so tired of series left hanging by authors or, more often, publishers (if English isn’t your first language and most of the books you read are therefore translations). I also started reading books in English to get access to more works.
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