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#29340

tutuu!!!

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#29341

start the book then tell me what its about!!

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#29342

You asked me now to tell you what’s it about

#29343

you can find that out by reading the first 10 pages!

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#29344

puss in boots 2

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#29345

harry potter book 1 is deffo not the best

nor is it the best of the movies

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#29346

doesn’t >66% of media with sequels have the sequels be better

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#29347

HONGLOUMENG

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#29348

what happens when we start including albums in this

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#29349

…i have to assume the artist’s first work tends to be less good than their second in the majority of cases, if we count it as “full albums”

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#29350

but i don’t really listen to albums

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#29351

usually yeah

but i guess that’s not necessarily fair since it would be like rating somebody’s first book against a later book

rather than the next book in the same series

music doesn’t often have the same kind of sequel progression ig

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#29352

Its the only one i remember. Both film and book

#29353

ehhh i guess so?
but that effects sequels either way, regardless of same continuity. plus the first tends to be relatively smaller world building wise which can be built off of

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#29354

For tv series i think it’s rare for season 1 to be worse than 2

#29355

like everyone with basic taste can agree red room vol. 1 is worse than the owl and the elephant which is probably worse depending on how you choose than counterfeit arcade but then it gets really muddy

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#29356

I think second album is notoriously almost always worse than first tbh

first album you get published as a musician/band is a collection of all your ideas and songs, typically written over a (long) span of years for as long as you have been trying to finally break big

second album is “oh shit we have had a massive hit album and we now have a big agent who is pressuring us for a second album within a year or two”

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#29357

Nobody ever wants to listen to me about Dream of the Red Chamber. It is the best book of all time.

It’s fair cause I don’t think I would’ve kept up with it in the same way if I didn’t have book club to keep up with & discuss it with. And it’s like. “How good it is really sets in around the 40th chapter or so” which is not easy.

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#29358

My problem is that my favourite book is one of the most popular books in the world. Exclusively in a language I don’t speak

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#29359

I think it depends on the TV show type – I think a lot of shows w/ more episodic formats rather than overarching plots “come into their own” a little better after Season 1

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