[pwalker8]

Over the years, it's been pretty rare for me to really like every book an author has written. I can really only think of a handful. Some it's simply because they only wrote a few books (Tolkien for example) and some because I haven't read all their books (Rowlings for example), but there are a couple whom I read all their books and they wrote a fair number of books.

For the vast majority of authors, they seem to come out with a couple of books, then they lose steam. Either they have run out of ideas, or they become stale and predictable. The books stop holding my interest.

So my question is two fold. Firstg, how picky are you? i.e. are there a lot of authors whom you love everything they wrote. or just a few? If it's just a few, what authors qualifies as your "love everything they wrote?" and how many of their books did you read?

The only author who wrote a significant number of books whom I liked all his books was Jerry Pournelle, though I exclude the books he edited from that. I mentioned a couple of the less prolific authors above. Patrick Rothfuss would fall in the same category as Rowlings, i.e. I loved all the books that I've read, but I haven't read everything they wrote.