# Books that \*should\* be out of print

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 26, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-should-be-out-of-print/354360 "2006-04-26T21:17:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-should-be-out-of-print/354360/41 "2006-04-28T23:59:18Z")

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Then there are books that continue a “series”, except that the first book was a great stand-alone, and the “series” ruins the first one. Madeline L’Engles’ follow-ups to the outstanding _Wrinkle in Time_ come to mind … as does, to a lesser extent, Dahl’s f/u to _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_, _The Glass Elevator_. Why couldn’t they have stopped after they created something great?

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