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Old 11-03-2024, 07:57 PM   #3166
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Don't you hate when an ongoing series is taken over by another author, and it is nothing like the original authors writing.

Lee Childs and the Jack Reacher series is my disappointment. The last book I read was The Secret and Reacher comes across as a secondary character. Not written in usual first person. There is no internal dialogue. Reacher does not make any meaningful appearance until 70 pages in. It was all pretty dry.
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Old 11-04-2024, 02:01 AM   #3167
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Don't you hate it when you finish the newest book in a series, only to have it end on a cliff hanger and the next book isn't due until 2025!

This was reading Louise Penny's newest book in the Inspector Gamache series, The Grey Wolf.

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Heck yeah! I detest that particular ploy!

Actually, today, I was cataloging a few Amazon freebies into Calibre, and I went to fetch a description for one, which had the note that every book in the series ended on a cliffhanger. Um, NOPE! I hit delete, and went and removed it from my Amazon library.

You want my money, you write a good story that has an actual ending, then let me decide if I want to read further of your stories. But try to force it with the cliffhanger ploy, I'm outta there.

I do like the Inspector Gamache series, but I usually get them from my library, and she doesn't do it often, so I'll give Louise Penny a pass if it's a once off. Now that I realize she's got a new one out, I need to go visit Libby, pronto!
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Old 11-04-2024, 11:29 AM   #3168
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Yeah. I was lucky in that I'd requested to be notified when my library got copies, then place a hold as soon as I could and got a skip-the-wait 7 day loan!

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Old 11-04-2024, 11:36 AM   #3169
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Actually, today, I was cataloging a few Amazon freebies into Calibre, and I went to fetch a description for one, which had the note that every book in the series ended on a cliffhanger. Um, NOPE! I hit delete, and went and removed it from my Amazon library.

You want my money, you write a good story that has an actual ending, then let me decide if I want to read further of your stories. But try to force it with the cliffhanger ploy, I'm outta there.
Even worse is paying money for what turns out to be a cliffhanger. I've blacklisted a few authors after that happened.
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Old 11-04-2024, 12:22 PM   #3170
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Titles of British books that are dumbed down or ramped up for the American market.

I just finished one, the excellent Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson. Except that the original title was The Mighty Dead, so much more evocative and taken from a Keats' sonnet when Keats is a hook for Nicolson's exegesis. Obviously the brains thought that Keats would be lost on the dumb Yanks.

And I've just started one, Mary Beard's The Fires of Vesuvius. About the destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 when Vesuvius erupted, amirite? Except that it's about Pompeii before Vesuvius erupted, as the original title, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town indicates. But clearly they felt they had to make it more exciting for the yokels over here even if by doing so they misrepresented what the book was about.
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Old 11-04-2024, 12:32 PM   #3171
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Vent and rant: The completely unreasonable aversion to abandoning a book I paid money for.
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Not being able to get your money back when the book you've paid for is rubbish and you DNF.

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Old 11-04-2024, 12:46 PM   #3172
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Don't you hate when an ongoing series is taken over by another author, and it is nothing like the original authors writing.

Lee Childs and the Jack Reacher series is my disappointment. The last book I read was The Secret and Reacher comes across as a secondary character. Not written in usual first person. There is no internal dialogue. Reacher does not make any meaningful appearance until 70 pages in. It was all pretty dry.
That book was written by both Lee Child and Andrew Child. Eventually, Andrew is going to take over the series,
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Old 11-04-2024, 12:52 PM   #3173
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Titles of British books that are dumbed down or ramped up for the American market.

I just finished one, the excellent Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson. Except that the original title was The Mighty Dead, so much more evocative and taken from a Keats' sonnet when Keats is a hook for Nicolson's exegesis. Obviously the brains thought that Keats would be lost on the dumb Yanks.

And I've just started one, Mary Beard's The Fires of Vesuvius. About the destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 when Vesuvius erupted, amirite? Except that it's about Pompeii before Vesuvius erupted, as the original title, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town indicates. But clearly they felt they had to make it more exciting for the yokels over here even if by doing so they misrepresented what the book was about.
I think in the UK they are more into history then we are in the US. They have a lot more historians who do TV programs then we have.

One UK historian I like watching on TV when I can is Dan Jones. The last documentary of his I watched was about The Terracotta Warriors.
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Old 11-04-2024, 09:21 PM   #3174
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How about this one...

Not being able to get your money back when the book you've paid for is rubbish and you DNF.
I prefer not to refund books just because I didn't like them. I mostly refund for technical issues such as extremely poor formatting.
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I prefer not to refund books just because I didn't like them. I mostly refund for technical issues such as extremely poor formatting.
I had one Star Trek book bought direct from Simon & Schuster. The eBook did not work properly. I was unable to find where to return it for a refund. Fortunately I was able to dive into the code and fix the problem. The problem was the CSS was a right mess. I was able to fix it and get the eBook to then be readable.
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Don't you hate when an ongoing series is taken over by another author, and it is nothing like the original authors writing.

Lee Childs and the Jack Reacher series is my disappointment. The last book I read was The Secret and Reacher comes across as a secondary character. Not written in usual first person. There is no internal dialogue. Reacher does not make any meaningful appearance until 70 pages in. It was all pretty dry.
usually book series get dull and boring anyways. i rarely seen a series go beyond 3 books and still be good
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usually book series get dull and boring anyways. i rarely seen a series go beyond 3 books and still be good
I have. Plenty of series.
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I had one Star Trek book bought direct from Simon & Schuster. The eBook did not work properly. I was unable to find where to return it for a refund. Fortunately I was able to dive into the code and fix the problem. The problem was the CSS was a right mess. I was able to fix it and get the eBook to then be readable.
A lot of the Pocket Books transcriptions are a mess. In one of them, an entire chapter went missing and I had to resort to tracking down a scan of the physical copy. Lots of missing em-dashes and scene dividers through them too.
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A lot of the Pocket Books transcriptions are a mess. In one of them, an entire chapter went missing and I had to resort to tracking down a scan of the physical copy. Lots of missing em-dashes and scene dividers through them too.
But why is this mess on their site and not from the shops or library?
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