Authors' Burn-out

[Andara Bledin]

I never really cared for LotR, myself.

But there's no way I will put up with wasting time on someone who is thoroughly unlikeable and takes more than two books to get any better, whether it's intentional or not.

Which is a shame, because I like the world a lot; I can't go back, though, as Covenant soured it for me. "Once bitten..." and all that.

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[Mytical]

*nods* Understandable. Oddly enough that was what drew me to the series in the first place. The fact that the 'hero' was as bad, if not worse then the 'villains'. I enjoyed disliking him. Almost was sad when he become sort of kind of likeable.

[Canarr]

Laurell K. Hamilton. I miss Competent!Anita. Her replacement Nymphomaniac!Anita is dull and navel-gazing.

+1 to that. I used to love that series, back when the books still had plot. Unfortunately, LKH doesn't seem to share the opinion that the direction her books are taking is... bad.

[Andara Bledin]

Isn't LKH the one whose books mirror her love life? When it's good, they're all sexy love interest, and when things go sour, the love interest gets offed in a gruesome manner.

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[Canarr]

Not quite, but close; Anita Blake's love (sex) interests don't die, they sort of accrue over time, like debris. The development of the characters, however, mirrors her relationship with the real-life person(s) they're based on. Richard, who's based on her ex-husband, started out as a normal, decent good-guy, but degenerated into a jealous, demanding asshole when her marriage soured.

[Cymberleah]

This accruing of love interests based on the author's personal life makes the introduction of a 16 year old to Nymphomaniac!Anita's harem particularly more squicky.

[PepperElf]

piers anthony - yep. i always chalked it up to outgrowing his style. but you may be right.

pern. i got a little tired of it a book or two after they started rediscovering their history. however i've had a hankering to restart the series too. haven't read her son's books yet tho. (just restarted the crystal singer series while on vacation earlier this week).

jennifer robinson. maybe it's just me but i just lost interest in her shape changer series. after it moved on what, at least 3 generations past the original story I just started losing ability (and desire) to keep track of stuff.


And for a controversial one... Dune. don't get me wrong, i love the series. mostly. but sometimes i just feel daunted by the never-ending aspect of it.

Steven king's dark tower: After I read the sequel to the Talisman and found out that it was related to Dark Tower, I came to the conclusion that ALL of his books are Dark Tower. that somehow each one is related to the dark tower series.

Melanie Rawn - a 3rd book? SWEEET.

Kinda like Elizabeth moon with Paksenarrion. Although the sequel takes place right afterwards (actually there's a touch of overlap), it was written 20 years later. My only regret - book 3 (or rather, book 6) has no paks. i'll still get it but i'll be disappointed that she's not there.

[Andara Bledin]

Steven king's dark tower: After I read the sequel to the Talisman and found out that it was related to Dark Tower, I came to the conclusion that ALL of his books are Dark Tower. that somehow each one is related to the dark tower series.

That's actually kind of reversed. The Dark Tower is related to all of his other stories. It's a sort of meta-series.

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[Cymberleah]

pern. i got a little tired of it a book or two after they started rediscovering their history. however i've had a hankering to restart the series too. haven't read her son's books yet tho. (just restarted the crystal singer series while on vacation earlier this week).

jennifer robinson. maybe it's just me but i just lost interest in her shape changer series. after it moved on what, at least 3 generations past the original story I just started losing ability (and desire) to keep track of stuff.

Do not do not do not DO NOT read anything by her son. I read the first one he wrote, or at least I started it. It reads like bad fanfiction written by a sixteen year old. Characters were horrid, plot was not worth even recalling. I get an atavistic desire to pull away when I think of anything he writes.

Roberson.... I picked up the first book in the series about a month ago. Um... wow, from my current perspective I have no idea how that book got published. I didn't make it ten pages in before setting the book back on the shelf before my inner thirteen year old fan-girl was crushed.

[Gravekeeper]

Not quite, but close; Anita Blake's love (sex) interests don't die, they sort of accrue over time, like debris.

I assume they'll be swirling around the middle of the Pacific Ocean for a while before finally washing up on shore in Vancouver a few years from now.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Have to agree to disagree with views on Piers Anthony's books; every single one I've read, I've loved. Tho seeing as my favourite books in the Xanth series are "A Spell For Chameleon" and "Night Mare"... guess I do prefer the earlier books to the later after all. XD

A good example of author burnout is Ursula le Guin; I loved her first two Earthsea books, "A Wizard Of Earthsea" and "The Tombs Of Atuan" but found the others to be dull in comparison. I'm not sure what it is about the other books in the series, but they just don't seem to have the same bite that the first two do.

[PepperElf]

Do not do not do not DO NOT read anything by her son. I read the first one he wrote, or at least I started it. It reads like bad fanfiction written by a sixteen year old. Characters were horrid, plot was not worth even recalling. I get an atavistic desire to pull away when I think of anything he writes.

Roberson.... I picked up the first book in the series about a month ago. Um... wow, from my current perspective I have no idea how that book got published. I didn't make it ten pages in before setting the book back on the shelf before my inner thirteen year old fan-girl was crushed.

ah. "roberson" that explains why i had a hard time finding her stuff for reference last night.


oh and some more:
charlene harris. Yes. I'm talking about "true blood" - or rather the books. i think the tv series kinda killed it for me.

Have to agree to disagree with views on Piers Anthony's books; every single one I've read, I've loved. Tho seeing as my favourite books in the Xanth series are "A Spell For Chameleon" and "Night Mare"... guess I do prefer the earlier books to the later after all. XD

Well with Piers... I've always been of a mindset that in each series he writes the first book is usually the best.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Another one... Brian Jacques. First books in the Redwall series; fantastic. But after a while, they started getting dull and repetitive.

[Canarr]

I assume they'll be swirling around the middle of the Pacific Ocean for a while before finally washing up on shore in Vancouver a few years from now.

You might not be wrong there... though admittedly, I haven't actually read a book of hers in years. I'll just occationally wander over to Amazon and read through the reviews until the urge to "maybe it's worth giving it just one more shot..." has passed.

[Kaylyn]

You might not be wrong there... though admittedly, I haven't actually read a book of hers in years. I'll just occationally wander over to Amazon and read through the reviews until the urge to "maybe it's worth giving it just one more shot..." has passed.

I usually just check them out of the library if I get the urge. She isn't worth buying anymore, to me.

Though, recently, it seems every other book is actually pretty decent. Like she's alternating her gratuitous succubus smut with her good writing.

Last one I read was...uh...the one with the golden tigers? Where she acquired her first female in her harem? That one annoyed me, because at the end, there was this summary of events that happened after the novel-long orgy, and THAT was the book I wanted to read...the stuff she'd summarized, not every damn detail of that orgy!