Series Quitter

There’s not enough time in a lifetime for all the books we want to read, if you’ll allow the cliché. Is it better then to delve into as many worlds as possible or see a specific few to the end? I quit on quite a few series. 

I enjoyed these books. Given unlimited time and money, I would finish them, but I prioritize reading new stories rather than continuing on from others, unless I find the series particularly captivating.
Quitting can, on certain occasions, be a good thing. 


Is this one of those times though?
Here are some of the series I liked but will not be finishing any time soon:
            The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
            The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
            Penryn and the End of Days by Susan Ee
            Legend by Marie Lu
            Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
            Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
            Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
            The Devil’s by Donna Hosie
            The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
            Shattered Sea by Joe Abercrombie
            The Black Jewels by Anne Bishop
            Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D’Lacey
            Between by April Genevieve Tucholke
There are other series I’ve started but have no plan to finish, this time due to a lack of interest, such as Outlander, House of Night, Birthmarked, and anything by James Patterson. Then, there are the more neutral books that I don’t care enough to finish, such as Beautiful Creatures, Miss Peregrin’s Home for Peculiar Children, and Snow Like Ashes. I don’t feel any particular guilt about abandoning these series.
Is it bad to neglect enjoyable series? After all, you aren’t getting the entire story. If you imagine that the entire tale is one book, I am closing the story one-third or even one-sixth of the way through. I have finished some series—Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Series of Unfortunate Events, Percy Jackson, Inheritance Cycle, and The Dark Tower, Chronicles of Narnia of note, and I plan to finish Game of Thrones. Most of those series, however, I finished when I was younger, years before I decided on a wider reading net.

Should I continue these series? Should I bother?

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