When Your Favorite Author turns you OFF

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When Your Favorite Author turns you OFF
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Tue, 09-06-2005 - 7:37am
Have you ever had a favorite author turn you off? It seems most of us read lots of books by the same author- especially those mystery series we all seem fond of. So what happens when you gt turned offf- is a passing thing and you give the author a second or third chance or do you just remember fondly those books you did enjoy?

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Tue, 09-06-2005 - 1:39pm

My favorite author, Richard Laymon, has only "turned me off" twice.

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Tue, 09-06-2005 - 2:55pm

I'll usually hang in there for at least a few more books hoping they'll turn things around, but I'm not as tolerant as I used to be. Two I've given up on are Patricia Cornwall, whose books just got to unrelentingly depressing (and unbelievable) & Lillian Jackson Braun, who anymore just seems to lose interest in her books after a bit & just ends them by wrapping up the denounment, kind of in passing, in a few sentences. Very unsatisfactory. But there are others I've gotten fed up with but hung in a littler longer & they got better. Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody books are one example. And Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt series is another one I "burned out" on & didn't read for many years. Then I discovered her William Monk series & really liked it, and went back & caught up with the Thomas Pitt books.

Liz

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Tue, 09-06-2005 - 7:59pm

Two former favorites that I gave up on:

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Tue, 09-06-2005 - 9:59pm

Teri, that's really funny because when I saw the title of this post, I immediately thought, Stephen King and Dean Koontz! :)


I've been a fan of Stephen King since, well, forever.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:36am

Hi Kim,


Every time I see your sig with the pic of your DH "Stinky" and the dog I smile ;-).

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 11:59am

Liz ~


Re: Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series (forensics coroner)


Her earlier books in the series were among my all time favorite mysteries.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 12:13pm

Teri,


Okay, I just bought the "Frankenstein" books by Dean Koontz -- it doesn't seem to follow (too much) his same old plotlines! :)


You know, I went back to Stephen King when the last of the Dark Tower series came out.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 12:40pm

I felt the same way about Koontz. I loved his early stuff (The Watchers is one of my all time faves), and then it seemed like he just started churning out books very quickly and replaced quality with quantity. I haven't read anything by him in a while, but I've read on here some raves about some of his new stuff. I'm looking for more books to read (My TBR list is quickly shrinking), so maybe I'll pick up one of his newer books and give it a try again.

Sarenna

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 4:34pm

Oh, I agree with your feelings about Stephen King & Dean Koontz! When King's books got too big to hold comfortably, I started loosing interest. I don't mind big, fat books that I get something out of, but if the only way you can find to build suspense is to make the book longer, then you're doing something wrong, IMHO! I really loved his earlier books too. :-( And Koontz eventually started going the same way. I'm willing to give him another shot though, if "Life Expectancy" is as good as you say.

Liz

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 4:36pm
Stephen King turned me off for awhile with

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