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Old 08-07-2013, 05:53 PM   #43
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One author I don't like is Elizabeth George. Her books are too depressing, and I find her depiction of Britain to be unconvincing (she's an American author writing "British" books). I think in general it's a bad idea for an author to write books set in a country which is not their own, although I have heard it said that Lee Child is reasonably convincing as a British author writing "American" books.
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I bought nine of them and got tired of them after five books. I felt that after a couple of books it became more kind of relationship books and detective stories anymore. The focus seemed mostly to be on the protagonists personal problems.
I found the same - which would be ok, if the plots were interesting too, but they seem to be a distant second. Did you keep reading past the 5th?
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