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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Well, so much for the point of this is not a review.
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Well...I didn't THINK I was off course. OSC is a great story teller IMHO. It's not just the genre he writes in that I like. He actually has a few outside SF and I've read and enjoyed them just as much (not including is specifically religious mormon books that I have zero interest in reading).
So he collaborates to some degree with another person doing the writing. It's the same OSC typical story plot but the telling of the story is nowhere near as good IMHO.
My limited experience with the Indie books from Amazon is that they are, to a large degree, genre formula books. I am such a sucker for them because Amazon has figured out my genre preferences and sends me constant marketing for these Indie books. Reading the cover, the artwork, the title, the book description....they all are very attractive to me.
But in reading these books....even though I've enjoyed most of the....there is a definite lack of the "story teller" excellence. They don't develop the characters nearly as well. They don't "put you in the scene" nearely as well. They don't build up the tension and then deliver. It's "jump right to the orgasm without much foreplay". Some have even been single timeline. A->B->C->End of book