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The Entire Amber Series by Roger Zelazny.
I stopped reading it when I realized I couldn't remember what happened in the previous chapter, much less in the previous book.
Pity it took me 8 books to realize that.
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I enjoyed the first five, and had no particular problem recalling what occured. The second I found less satisfying: they read like Roger going through the motions because the readers wanted more amber books and the publisher offered him lots of money
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Pierce Anthony's books. Tried them all...xanth, etc. Bio of a space tyrant was tolerable.
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I liked Anthony's earliest works, like Prostho Plus, Macroscope, and the Omnivore/Orn/0X trilogy. I liked the first Xanth novel, but they palled rapidly afterward. I found Bio of a Space Tyrant simply unreadable.
The problem with Anthony is that he's one of the best in the SF field at taking an idea and running with it, but one of the worst at knowing when to
stop. He tends to run series into and
under the ground.
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Rama. Maybe I'm too stupid.
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I loved it, but it's not everyone's taste.
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Anything with Tom Clancy worked WITH someone....total crap.
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Some later Clancy written alone.
Clancy is trying to make himself a franchise, with his name as the selling point. It's a safe bet that Tom Clancy and whoever means whoever actually wrote the book, and Clancy provided the idea and perhaps an outline.
But Clancy got popular enough to be editor proof. The last JAck Ryan novel badly needed an edit - there was at least one plot thread that went nowhere and could have been removed without notice. But he's popular enough to demand no editing and get away with it.
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Dennis