Hi all. This email...
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:57:26 -0000
> From: "cooper" <
jane@almaludo.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS; Whassis like
then? and "I Hate That Book"
>> Do you keep on reading an author you hated at
first in hope you will
>> eventually love him/her? How many of these books
will you read until you
>> decide you really hate the author?
>
> In short, No. I decided long ago that life is too
short to waste on books
> that I don't like. If someone whose opinion I
respect suggests I give a
> book/author another go I may if I'm in a good
mood(or have run out of books)
> but generally first para, then page then chapter,
then Good Night Vienna.
> Regards
> Jane
... got me to thinking the situation described is turned
around. I can't imagine continuing to read a series (or
string of stand-alones) hoping I'll come to like the author.
Not likely! I'm a 40-page-and-out guy myself. As someone here
said, too many books to fool with something I'm not enjoying
reading. There have been times when someone has convinced me
that a later book by an author is so good I ought to him that
author second chance, but I can count those instances on a
hand and have the thumb free.
No, what happens much more often is reading an author and the
series starts to go downhill after a number of books. In that
case, if I was buying in hardcover I switch to paperback,
then if things don't get nay better I stop buying. With me it
happened this way with Robert B. Parker, Sue Grafton,
Laurance Sanders and others. When a series goes downhill like
this (I call it "series fatigue") I don't see any reason to
keep reading. I can tell when I'm worn out on an author when,
rather than enjoying the book in hand, I'm looking longingly
at something in the TBR pile...
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