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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy
I'll be completely OCD about a series that I enjoy, but I'll drop the author after two or three weak books. I used to love Clive Cussler wayyyy back in the beginning, when I read "Raise the Titanic" when I was about five or so. After twenty odd years, anything he wrote past "Atlantis Rising", is MEH. I haven't read a Dirk Pitt novel in years now.
Jim Butcher, on the other hand has me hooked, lined and sunk. Hopefully "The Dresden Files" never get too Cusslified.
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OMG I used to be a big Clive Cussler fan, but perhaps my tastes changed or the books became a little to repetitive (always gets the girl, finds some cool rare car that gets shot up when trying to escape)....who knows.
I don't tend to read too many series, I am though still going through Wheel of Time but I am enjoying it and will finished it (reading book 11 as we speak). Its hard because my mood and taste changes. Years ago I got right into the Mars trillogy (well Red Mars) but Green Mars just didn't do it for me. Go forward 10 years or so and I got right back and re-read Red and finished Green in record time (I have Blue Mars in hardcover, I'm dreading holding that bone breaking, flower pressing monstrous sized book, but am looking forward to actually reading the story).
Then again I started On Basilisk Station some time ago, and got all the series thus far ready to read. Got half way through Honor of the Queen, not sure if I will finish it but I did feel compelled to get them all. Part of me also doesn't want to start a series and down the track have trouble getting hold of the books, or the series becomes unfinished (think GRRM....how long???). It is tough but I guess end of the day I would have to say that I would get them all. Life is too short to read bad books, but life is also too short to get right into a series only to give up on the last few books and fail to see how it ends.