Question for those who read the Dragon Ship eArc

[rolanni]

WARNING!  The question as well as any subsequent discussion may contain spoilers for those who have not read Dragon Ship.  You have been warned.


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OK, having now heard/read this at least eight times -- what is it with the assertion that "Dragon Ship stops in the middle of a sentence/ends abruptly/doesn't end (and I'm so mad/upset/disillusioned that I'll never read another Liaden book)?"

Is it possible that some flavor of the eArcs don't contain the complete manuscript?

Comments

[charlie russel (from livejournal.com)]

I think the problem is that some readers have been conditioned by those mega-books of 700-1200 pages to expect all books to be that long. Whereas I just wish someone would actually EDIT them rather than let the poor author make a fool of himself. (And yes, it is almost always HIMself when it gets to overlong and rambling books, IME.)

There were no technical problems with the book, at least in Kindle/MOBI format. And there was nothing structurally wrong with the story or the execution of the storytellers. Yes, it left me wanting more. Yes, there are story lines not fully developed. (Kamele, for one.) But that's the nature of the story, and the point of this book is THEO, not everyone else. For others, we'll have to wait for a future book. So be it.