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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
So does going to the bookstore and browsing. But I don't like reading the samples either. I don't know why. I think it hasn't worked particularly well for me, partly because sometimes the sample is great and the book isn't. Partly because sometimes there isn't enough there. Partly because of the time. My way around that has been Lendleme, but that doesn't work for trad books. I still try to sample those or if it's a new author get them from the library. I've been burned on the last two trads that I sampled and bought. One was a backlist that came back and it got totally lame midway through the book (lady didn't shoot through the window because a ghost told her not to, yet her sister was about to die. OKay there were some other issues before that.) But anyway, no method is perfect. Sometimes even word of mouth doesn't work. Tastes and moods simply do not align perfectly.
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If I get 4/5 books I want to finish I consider myself lucky. And usually I am better than lucky as I know of at least 500 authors I will like 90% or more of their books. Probably several hundred I will like 75% of their books.
Sometimes I go off an author because I read too many of their books to close together. Simon R, Green comes to mind or Tim Dorsey. Not that authors fault in any way, I just like them too much and get a little burnt out. I cannot imagine not enjoying a book by Rex Stout or Robert B. Parker though, even if I read 20 in a row
I do read books by unfamiliar (to me) authors, but they are almost all traditionally published because I get them from the library generally.
I don't think I am close minded to Indie authors, but it is too easy for me to go on as I have been going, because there are just so many to chose from as it is.
I wish all authors success and fulfillment, especially yourself as you seem a swell person, because while I am not able to read all of great the books in the world, I sure would like to.
Helen