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== Literature ==
* Robert Jordan's [[Doorstopper]] series ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' spent so many books getting more and more complicated, that it seemed impossible for ''anyone'' to ever wrap everything up. Jordan himself stated that he would conclude the series with book 12 "whether it's 15,000 pages, Tor has to invent a new binding system, or it comes with its own library cart," since it was very unlikely that he could write a coherent thirteenth book. Robert Jordan's [[Author Existence Failure|death shortly before finishing the last book]] sure isn't going to help matters. Brandon Sanderson, the writer tapped to finish the series in Jordan's stead, eventually deciding that resolving every arc properly would take no less than ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090402105947/http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article/56/Splitting-AMOL three]'' books, though he's approaching the project as if he's writing one book.
** That said, Robert Jordan made it quite clear that he never intended on resolving every plot point, as he didn't want his universe to feel like it just ended abruptly at the end of the last book. There is much fan speculation on which plot points would be intentionally left dangling.
* [[A Series of Unfortunate Events|Daniel "Lemony Snicket" Handler]] deliberately exploited this. The theme at the end of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is that not every mystery could easily be solved, not every question could easily be answered, and there are many mysteries in the world that simply will never get solved. Handler claims this was his intent from book one.
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