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Do you ever feel depressed when you finish a book and realize you've just read the LAST one of a series? Its like saying goodbye to good friends - who the book's characters have become.
Do you ever feel Great joy - when you read a book you really like and then find out the author has written a whole series of them - featuring the same cast of characters - albeit different mysteries or life circumstances.
I hurry to collect the whole series and then polish them off one at a time.
Slower, slower - almost dreading to pick up and read that last one - knowing its the last one.
A series that you once loved that gets progressively worse and worse with each new book. It's obvious the writer is just churning out a product and all passion is gone.
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It doesn't even take a series or the same characters. I could read a book by an author who I'm convinced cannot possibly write a bad book, since the one that I just read was so perfect. And that's where I'd be wrong...
This is being mentioned on another thread, but I'm positive that some of the series I started out loving (James W. Hall, Scott Turow, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Stuart MacBride) either stop writing and just sell their names or develop a second or third character and have someone else write that series while they put their name on it so it'll sell. So if you read two books with the same author's name on them and have the feeling the same person couldn't have written both, you're most likely right. Anyone can be "off" a bit due to whatever may be going on in their life or yes, having to meet a contractual obligation, but one series switched from the third person to the first person and I took it back and never read another.
A series that you once loved that gets progressively worse and worse with each new book. It's obvious the writer is just churning out a product and all passion is gone.
Totally agree with this. It's happened to me with a couple of authors.
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