As someone who has read/listened to many books, and watched a few TV shows, I am quite familiar with that feeling. The feeling when you end a series, or finish a TV set. At least for me I feel somewhat of a sadness that the story/journey is over, and always wish that there was more of the story. In fact most of the time, I googled:”will there be another book in the (whatever book I was reading) series”. I was always curious why I felt so strongly about these stories, because the fact is, in a matter of days I would be off on another book. Today, in the morning I was thinking to myself about this as I had just finished a great series(the one of us is lying series by karen m. mcmanus). I did a short calculation and almost instantly realized why. This series contained 3 books, I was mixing between reading and listening(through audiobook),and came to the conclusion that it took me around 8 hours to finish each book, meaning 24 hours in total for the entire series. that equates to one whole day! It took me around a month to read/listen the books(mid-june to mid-july), meaning that in this time frame, I had dedicated 1/30 of my life just to this series! To give context, if we took 1/30 of the US population away it would be like taking everyone in ohio, and making them vanish(no offense intentional for anyone who lives in ohio), so of course we draw a connection to the characters and the story! Similar situation with tv shows. The average count of episodes in one series is about 24(usually split up into around 2 seasons), each around half and hour. This sums up to half a day(12 hours), and if you watch the series in a month, that is 1/60 of the time, and I’m sure it’s better of less, because if it was the same as books, I’m quite certain the glasses industry would go off the charts. In conclusion, whenever you feel sad ending a series, come to this post, it’s got all the facts.
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Question of the Day: What is one series you have recently read/watched/listened? Comment your answer down below!
btw: from now on i will post regulars(like this) on sunday and thursday, while posting funnies on tuesday
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