I'm joining miker in saying I'm reading lots of new authors,
thanks to you people, and also in complaining about having
too many books waiting for me.
Joy
miker said:
> The bottom line is that finding a good author was a
hit-
> or-miss operation. So when I found someone I liked,
I
> bought every book they wrote and pretty much worked
my way
> thru them. I did that with James Ellroy, Michael
Connelly,
> Martin Cruz Smith, and quite a few
others.
>
> But the rara-avis list has changed that. The
exposure to
> new authors has been hot and heavy. Although I have
whined
> a bit about having some tried-and-true authors'
books on
> the shelf waiting on me, the decision to hit a bunch
of new
> authors has been totally satisfying. I think that
the di-
> verse sampling that it gives me serves to enrich
each new
> one I read.
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