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Dec 30, 2010 10:42PM
Can you think of an author you've encountered who's books are pretty much ALL THE SAME? Maybe we can save each other a little heartache here!
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John Grisham. I liked most of his older books (haven't ready any new ones, so don't know about those), but they're all really, really similar.Jussi Adler-Olsen. But he's so good that I'll forgive him for it.
Nora Roberts apparently only was granted one plot, and not a good one, either. She has reused it into a bucketload of money.
Personally, the Clique Series by Lisa Harrison is a bit repetitive to me.Clique gets new #1 enemy, clique outdose them. It is the same story with just a new enemy, and the same boyfriend troubles for each girl.
It's horrid
StormHawk, Nora Roberts was the reason I wrote this post! I loved one of the first books of hers that I read...then, by the third one, I was like, "Heeeeey..." and I just wrote the rest for her, LOL. How about VC Andrews' series? After she died and someone else took over her pen name, it was the same theme over and over and over...and not nearly as well written. Granted, VC was repeating herself before she died anyway, but she started off well.
Oh I have a bunch of VC Andrews books! I have yet to read them, they are sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read.
The author that comes to my mind is Diane Mott Davidson's series of catering/crime novels. Even though they are all exactly alike I still like them a lot. I find the ritual of reading them comforting - like watching Law & Order: SVU...
Can we offer up picture books? The Olivia series is getting tedious, ditto for the How Do Dinosaurs series. Over and Over and Over again...bleah. I blame greedy publishers.
haha. Your comment made me laugh.I do agree though!
Another author that comes to mind is Dave Eggers. He's obsessed with parentless boys going on journeys. His first book, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was entertaining along this theme, but then his second book, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, was basically the same journey, two parentless boys taking care of each other.And how does Eggers respond to this criticism that he's writing the same story over and over?
He goes and writes a story about parentless boys on journeys...but this time, in Sudan...
Not to make light of the tragedies faced by the Sudanese Lost Boys, but it felt like Eggers said to himself "oohh, lookee, if I just write about parentless boys IN SUDAN, I can get away with it again!"
Like many of my posts. James. Freaking. Patterson.And most Bodice Ripper categories.
Richelle Mead. ALL of the books have a stupid love triangle, a boring ass Gary Stu love interest, and some form of cheating.
