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Originally Posted by issybird
I need to put some space in between books of a trilogy, say, or even books of an author; nothing is more calculated to kill my liking than reading one after another. At best, I get sick of it and that's if the author's tics and tricks don't become overwhelming. I'd rather be a little fuzzy on the details of what happened in an early book.
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I seem to be more this way than I was. It used to be that I'd find comfort in settling into the author's voice and would be happy to settle there for as long as it lasted ... and mostly this remains true for old favourites, but for some reason is less true for more recent reads.