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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 1:23:53 GMT
And no matter how disappointing it is, you keep reading the books for some reason.
Fletch by Gregory McDonald. The first novel wasn't great prose, but had a great plot. I've read four others, all pretty bad, and I've got this stupid desire to complete the series, even though the rewards are so thin. Right now, the books are pretty expensive on Kindle too.
87th Precinct by Ed McBain. Great series for three quarters or so of the run. But the more recent ones have been very bad. I've got about eight or ten to go and I'm seriously considering throwing in the towel.
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Post by dougb on Mar 6, 2018 14:38:08 GMT
And no matter how disappointing it is, you keep reading the books for some reason. Fletch by Gregory McDonald. The first novel wasn't great prose, but had a great plot. I've read four others, all pretty bad, and I've got this stupid desire to complete the series, even though the rewards are so thin. Right now, the books are pretty expensive on Kindle too. 87th Precinct by Ed McBain. Great series for three quarters or so of the run. But the more recent ones have been very bad. I've got about eight or ten to go and I'm seriously considering throwing in the towel. My dad got me reading Ed McBain in the early 1970's and I loved them, but the 50's setting and the piecework nature of the majority of the early books have dated them badly IMHO. They did badly peter out at the end it's true. Pity they never got it right on screen, Steve Carella was a great charactor and the Deaf Man was a fine baddie. Just read Sue Grafton's last book "Y Is For Yesterday" and have no idea how I've read them all as they are pretty much rubbish. Read the early Patterson "Alex Cross" books until I realised what an utter hack he was. A couple I'd recommend just on the odd chance you are unaware of them are Lawrence Block's "Matt Scudder" novels (the earlier ones where he's a boozer are the best) and Donald E Westlake's "Dortmunder" series of comic crime capers.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 23:37:32 GMT
And no matter how disappointing it is, you keep reading the books for some reason. Fletch by Gregory McDonald. The first novel wasn't great prose, but had a great plot. I've read four others, all pretty bad, and I've got this stupid desire to complete the series, even though the rewards are so thin. Right now, the books are pretty expensive on Kindle too. 87th Precinct by Ed McBain. Great series for three quarters or so of the run. But the more recent ones have been very bad. I've got about eight or ten to go and I'm seriously considering throwing in the towel. My dad got me reading Ed McBain in the early 1970's and I loved them, but the 50's setting and the piecework nature of the majority of the early books have dated them badly IMHO. They did badly peter out at the end it's true. Pity they never got it right on screen, Steve Carella was a great charactor and the Deaf Man was a fine baddie. Just read Sue Grafton's last book "Y Is For Yesterday" and have no idea how I've read them all as they are pretty much rubbish. Read the early Patterson "Alex Cross" books until I realised what an utter hack he was. A couple I'd recommend just on the odd chance you are unaware of them are Lawrence Block's "Matt Scudder" novels (the earlier ones where he's a boozer are the best) and Donald E Westlake's "Dortmunder" series of comic crime capers. Thanks, I'm about 4 books into the Scudder series. I'm not finding it particularly enjoyable but will persevere for the time being.
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Post by dougb on Mar 7, 2018 9:18:30 GMT
My dad got me reading Ed McBain in the early 1970's and I loved them, but the 50's setting and the piecework nature of the majority of the early books have dated them badly IMHO. They did badly peter out at the end it's true. Pity they never got it right on screen, Steve Carella was a great charactor and the Deaf Man was a fine baddie. Just read Sue Grafton's last book "Y Is For Yesterday" and have no idea how I've read them all as they are pretty much rubbish. Read the early Patterson "Alex Cross" books until I realised what an utter hack he was. A couple I'd recommend just on the odd chance you are unaware of them are Lawrence Block's "Matt Scudder" novels (the earlier ones where he's a boozer are the best) and Donald E Westlake's "Dortmunder" series of comic crime capers. Thanks, I'm about 4 books into the Scudder series. I'm not finding it particularly enjoyable but will persevere for the time being. It's also worth giving Block's "Burgler" series a go, you'll either love them or hate them.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 7, 2018 19:42:42 GMT
Where was this thread 3 months ago when I was reading R.L. Stine's Fear Street Senior series? It actually started pretty decent, better than most of his works, but after about 7, they really go downhill, but I kept reading through to the last book. Maybe the real question is why I keep reading the same author even though he keeps disappointing.
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Post by Bargle on Mar 11, 2018 13:52:01 GMT
And no matter how disappointing it is, you keep reading the books for some reason. 87th Precinct by Ed McBain. Great series for three quarters or so of the run. But the more recent ones have been very bad. I've got about eight or ten to go and I'm seriously considering throwing in the towel. I made it up to book 43 in the 87th Precinct series before I gave up on it. Fletch I stopped after 2. While I don't currently have any series that's disappointing that I'm still reading, I have given up on Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series and the Patterson Alex Cross books. Didn't take long to get enough of Cross, maybe 5 or 6. I haven't given up on Matt Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr or Dortmunder, but it's been a good while since I've read any of them. ETA: I also gave up on Clive Cussler. Got tired of the author turning up as a minor character in the books and Dirk Pitt edging towards superman.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 12, 2018 18:07:24 GMT
I'm a big Clive Cussler fan but he's been running on autopilot for years now.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 26, 2019 1:22:13 GMT
fletch had a couple good books, lost some of the humor...
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Post by Zos on Sept 26, 2019 13:03:02 GMT
I still read Lee Child, though god knows why. They are pretty much all the same. Like listening to Simple Minds.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Sept 27, 2019 7:47:52 GMT
"Song of Ice and Fire" started out good but I quit halfway through the 4th book.
(was originally billed as a trilogy when the first book came out)
If I would have known he was going to drag it out so much I wouldn't have bothered. Really loved the first book too, so promising.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 27, 2019 16:37:01 GMT
I still read the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich but its time to end the series, Lulu and Stephanie are too predictable and I no longer laugh. She also had another series, the Wicked series she wrote with Phoef Sutton but she stopped halfway through. I was so disappointed but one of the characters does appear in her latest Stephanie Plum novels.
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Post by llanwydd on Oct 13, 2019 1:50:20 GMT
I wasted my time reading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King all the way up to the seventh volume. I only enjoyed the third. The seventh really put me off for good. I have probably read most of Stephen King but that was where I quit.
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Post by amyghost on Oct 13, 2019 12:53:09 GMT
I wasted my time reading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King all the way up to the seventh volume. I only enjoyed the third. The seventh really put me off for good. I have probably read most of Stephen King but that was where I quit. I never could get into that series; it became almost unreadable, and increasingly took on the quality of King just diddling himself in book form.
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Post by marco26 on Oct 14, 2019 22:08:09 GMT
Re: The Dark Tower series
Are you nuts? "I wasted my time reading the Dark Tower series"....I have never read anything so bizarre in my life. That series was absolutely astounding. Yeah, a book here or there in the series was not up to par with the others, but come on, the majority of that series was fantastic. And all the books were very different. Hell, we even got a MAGNIFICENT SEVEN story for one of the books. Fantastic series. Highly recommended. And if you do start it, remember, the first book is the weakest of the lot. It's short so it really doesn't hurt to read it. Ahh, but book two....WOW!
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Post by jackspicer on Oct 16, 2019 19:04:21 GMT
It was Lord of the Rings, for me.
There were page-turning sequences in every book (Mines of Moria, etc), but large chunks of the books were dedicated to singing songs or characters being very polite to each other.
If someone Peter Jackson-ized the books (that is, cut out the dead weight), I would very much appreciate it.
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Post by amyghost on Oct 16, 2019 19:23:37 GMT
It was Lord of the Rings, for me. There were page-turning sequences in every book (Mines of Moria, etc), but large chunks of the books were dedicated to singing songs or characters being very polite to each other. If someone Peter Jackson-ized the books (that is, cut out the dead weight), I would very much appreciate it. The 'dead weight' was what made LotR eminently readable literature, and prevented its becoming just a string of action sequences, as the P. Jackson films made them.
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