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Originally Posted by darryl
I don't think I have any "A List" authors in the sense that their latest book goes right to the top of my reading list. I have authors I follow and if their latest book looks okay it will certainly go on my to read list. Occasionally I will read it next. More often it just goes on to the list. My "list" doesn't have any order for reading. Quite often I'll read one book and have no idea of what I am going to read next. It depends on a multitude of subjective factors including my mood at the time. Sometimes nothing on the list is what I want to read at the moment so I'll look elsewhere for something that is, and read it immediately. Normally this will not relate to author but to plots or subjects which attract my interest.
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Yea, my reading list is basically a group of books that I've tagged as books that I know I want to read and normally isn't in any particular order. What I read next tends to be very mood driven. Of course, an anticipated book from a favored author tends to change my mood.
I get the impression that I'm a lot more oriented towards specific author voice than some here. I use the phrase author voice because some authors can have very different styles or flavor of writing depending on what they are writing. For example, I think that the Jim Butcher's author voice in the Dresden Files is very different from his author voice in the Codex Alera series. I really like the Dresden Files books, but had trouble getting into the Codex Alera series. It was almost like they were written by different authors. For me, author voice trumps plot or sub-genre. David Weber, on the other hand, tends to have a fairly consistent author voice even when he is writing in very different genres.