Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Books

Argh.  Another book where the first few (four, in fact), were excellent, and the fifth feels like the author was doing something else while plotting this one.  Its not bad, but it's certainly not as good.  I wonder if books have to be written close together to have the same 'feel'?

4 comments:

RozWarren said...

I feel your pain. I finish one out of every 20 books I start.

Cerulean Bill said...

Wow. I thought I was afflicted, with finishing perhaps 70%. I wonder if anyone has ever done a paper on WHY book X in a series doesn't do well. Course, that might lead to writing formulaicly (is that a word?) which isn't desirable.

Tabor said...

I wonder if the author knew his book was weak and would disappoint but was sick of writing it and so took it to his publisher anyway?

Cerulean Bill said...

And the publisher figured Ah, the groupies will like it, no matter what. Could be right.