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Then they're not written properly :D there's no such thing as boring character types, just writers who don't know how to manage them.

 

Fair point. ;)

 

Do you know of any books where werewolves or vampires have been written well? I'm finding it difficult to find anything good - the market seems to be overrun by Twilight (ew) and other books that are just as rubbish. :D

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Laurell K Hamilton, her Anita Blake books started off ok but as the series progressed the sex scenes got longer and more frequent until the books seemed to be soft porn novels with some action scenes.

 

I couldn't agree with you more, my daughters who also loved these books in the beginning have also given up on them.

 

Others I've got very bored of are;

Patricia Cornwall - I got really fed up of reading about autopsies

Katie fforde - her first books were brilliant and then they got very samey with a tendancy to have heroines who were pathetic and let people walk over them.

Fiona Walker - forgot to use the editing pen so her books got longer and longer.

The Agatha Raisin series

Minette Walters - don't know why, her books are birilliant but I have no desire to read them any longer.

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I'd have to agree on the Stephen King front.

You know when you're a youngster and you drink or eat too much of something and it makes you barf, maybe it's the same with authors. :D

 

Yep i'd agree with Stephen King i read a lot of his stuff when i was younger & really liked it but i think the last one i read was the Black House i stuck it out to the end but a lot of the dialogue made me cringe it was so overly sentimental.

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hmn... I think I've lost my Tolkien craze. I used to be a big fan of Agatha Christie but I just stopped reading detective fiction. Same goes for Alistair MacLean, Hammond Innes and some others I can't remember.

As for hating a writer completely, it's Samit Basu. I LOVED his first two books of the Gameworld trilogy and loathed his last one.

Sad...

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I've sort of gone off Barbara Erskine. I didn't finish the last two I read of hers. I know her genre is historical regression and I loved Hiding from the Light and of course her earlier ones like Lady of Hay but I found lately that they don't do it for me any more. I don't knock her historical knowledge - just got a bit tired of that style of book.

 

Regards what the OP said about American books showing English people being twee (like Tony Blair saying "old boy"), with respect to our friends across the pond, I find a lot of American books are like that. Chris Kusnetzki (awful books:irked:) put a lot of "jolly good show" type sentences in - he even couldn't be bothered to research a university outside Oxbridge and came up with University of Dover in one of his books - but that's another topic I think.......

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I'd have to agree on the Stephen King front.

You know when you're a youngster and you drink or eat too much of something and it makes you barf, maybe it's the same with authors. :blush:

:tong:

How appropriate, especially when it comes to my feelings about Stephen King and his writing.

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:blush:

How appropriate, especially when it comes to my feelings about Stephen King and his writing.

 

Ouch! I'm hugging my Stephen King books and trying to soothe their hurt feelings :tong:

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Ouch! I'm hugging my Stephen King books and trying to soothe their hurt feelings :blush:

Oh, I doubt their feelings are hurt. I used to eat, sleep, and breath Stephen King books. Probably why I developed an allergy to them. :tong:

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Another writer that I have lost interest in is Charles De Lint.

 

I used to love his style and his characters, but lately I have been noticing that there is too much of a similarity to all of his characters. I will be reading one book and feel like I have read this somewhere before, that the character is familiar to me. Then I realize that he or she has the exact same problems, personality, attire, attitudes, etc. as the main character in the last book I read by De Lint.

 

The plots seem very similar as well. He is not a bad writer. I just think he is too prolific with not enough ideas and I have lost interest.

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Well, The Blue Girl wasn't one of my favorites, but I think that is because I had read so much of his prior work. I loved Dreams Underfoot and have never read Spirits In The Wires.

 

I think his best work is his earlier books.

 

My favorites were Greenmantle, The Little Country, and Some Place to be Flying.

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Another writer that I have lost interest in is Charles De Lint.

 

Wow, that's rare! I've been reading de Lint for 20 years now and I still adore his writing, I belong to a writing group where we're all huge fans of CdL and have been for a long time.

 

*is scared* I am currently reading de Lint's The Blue Girl and loving it, I hope I don't lose interest too as I have Dreams Underfoot and Spirits in the Wires on Mount TBR!

 

See above, don't worry :D

 

I've lost interest in plenty of authors over the years. I think it's more a case of my tastes have evolved rather than the authors themselves changing their writing style/genre etc. The only thing definite thing I have noticed is that most of the authors I've stopped reading are horror writers!

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Lee Child...Just reading 61 hours & basically I'm struggling through it..seems too much attention to detail now rather than concentrating on creating a good continuous storyline as was the case in the earlier Jack Reacher series books..

Jim

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Tom Clancy, when Executive Orders came out I was really looking forward to it. I've tried reading it several times, but it looks like he was paid by the word, it's just full of unnecessary page filler.

 

John Grisham, early on with the Pelican Brief, just not believable.

 

Clive Cussler, when he retired Dirk Pitt. All his subsequent books, whatever name he gives the central hero sounds exactly like Dirk Pitt. Not helped by Dirk Pitt's son and daughter who he knew nothing about turning up, and taking over his and Al Giordino's roles.

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I haven't really experienced this as such. I mean I guess I enjoy Patricia Cornwell's books less than I used to and the storylines have become more predictable and far-fetched but I still read them and at the time I enjoy reading them but at the end I kind of think that's because I just enjoy the act of reading.

 

Ooh actually, much to my shame, when I first read the Twilight books I liked them. So pretty much as soon as I was finished I went back for another read (which is what I usually do after finishing a series and it usually makes me like them more) and then hated them. On the second read all the characters seemed so shallow and one dimensional and the story was just ridiculous. My only excuse is that I must have been suffering from some kind of hormonal problem the first time I read them. :doh:

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