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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
My point? People become so enthralled with an author that they continue buying a series because they are invested in it or buy everything written by a particular author. Clancy and Patterson have taken it to a new level by putting their names on books written by other authors to encourage his fans to read the books. And some folks buy into it.
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We were talking about the quality vs. speed-of-writing. If the books aren't written by the same person you can't compare them.
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Butcher knows how to wrap upa series. Codex Alera was great and only 6 books. For some reason he has not done the same with Dresden.
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I think the issue here is character development. When you start with a kid, there is puberty, which makes things happen at a fast pace, and the series ends when the child becomes an adult.
If you start with an adult, you usually get phases. You have the first few books describing the character's personality and mental state. Then something happens that starts affecting the mental state (in another few books) which leads to changes in personality (in another few books). This new personality is usually unbalanced, and it takes another few books to get the character back to something normal.
The child to adult transition is a natural one. Growing up is difficult but it is inevitable. In the case of the adult, if you like the character at the beginning you might not like the change (the process or the result).
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Originally Posted by tompe
Yes, it is science fiction. But so what? Why is that relevant? I do not expect my science fiction to be sub-standard. Or what do you mean?
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I mean for me this is science fiction, the quintessence of it, and I don't think that you like the genre. The SF books that you might like I probably wouldn't consider SF.
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Originally Posted by orlok
How much Patterson have you read? I'll give you a couple of examples. London Bridges, one of the Alex Cross series which he purportedly still writes himself, is so bad that I gave up reading the series there and then. And his The Murder of King Tut, which was admittedly a collaboration but according to Patterson was a labour of love and obsession, was risible. Patterson is a clear example of overproduction damaging the quality of the output.
And maybe the one you refer to (Title???) is one he took longer over. Can't comment without a reference.
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I haven't read anything of his. I googled "best Patterson book" and except on Amazon, the preference was not going towards the first titles. His fans seem to easily find their favorite book among those written during mass production.