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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I totally agree with you with regards to the Anita Blakes series. I stopped buying them around that time as well, though I might have given her a couple more books for before giving up.
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I was really bummed about it. In fact, I may have discovered Harry around that time, searching for a replacement for that particular line of reading (supernatural mysteries). Say what you will, she kind of created that cross-genre in a larger way. I'm not saying that she was the absolute first, but she sure pushed it out there. Nonetheless, from my perspective, she lost her mind. OTOH, she only started getting hardcovers AFTER she went the porno route, so what do I know? I guess that dreck is more popular than I know. Sad, though.
(I'd also started reading Kim Harrison then; oddly enough--this was before self-publishing took off in a big way--I'd been working on a plotline exceedingly similar to hers, and of course, dropped it like a hot potato when I read Dead Witch Walking. I was even using a desanctified church as a base of ops, for a team of investigators, so...it kind of sucked the air out of my manuscript. I liked that for a while, but then, at some point, she too seemed to be headed in the same direction as Hamilton and I stopped reading them. Why invest more time and energy if that's going to be the result? And of course, I gave up writing around 2009, which saved a lot of people a lot of disappointment, ha!)
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I don't think that Butcher has lost his mojo. The Dresden File kind of did a reboot after Ghost Stories. I've really enjoyed the entire set of books, though Ghost Stories was certainly the weakest of the books.
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Not sure he's lost his mojo, but I do think that enough's enough. Don't want to write it? Fine, wrap it up and finish it off. Simon Green that sucker. But 4 years is too long unless it's gonna be 1,000 pages. (And even then.)
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