A good book series can be a treat to read, but even long-running franchises aren't immune to the dreaded Discontinuity demon, as these cases show. * Le Cinquieme Livre of Gargantua's adventures, allegedly written by Rabelais, may be the most impressive example. People began doubting his paternity starting from its very apparition during the Renaissance. The conflict only really came to a conclusion in 1994 with the help of Mireille Huchon's annotations and arguments. However this does not resolve all issues since this part of Gargantua's adventures seems to have been written through a totally different perspective which does not always fit too well with the saga's previous books. * Many of the readers who read the last book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series now want to forget that