Which is worse?
Finding a book you love and then hating everything else you try by that author, or
Reading a completely disappointing book by an author that you love?
Definitely finding a book you love and then hating everything else you try by that author. I feel like I would keep trying and trying and trying to recreate that magic and I would hate being disappointed over and over again. Yet I would keep trying! Whereas if there was one dud in an author's body of work I could just try another or go back to another I liked!
What about you?
I agree ... it's so frustrating to think you have a great new author to read and then to pick up other books that you chose only based on this author and then didn't like.
ReplyDeleteI have one author in mind who wrote a sort of mystery/thriller that I really liked but then the next two of his books I tried were these bizarre existential things ... I barely was able to follow along.
I agree. One dud in a line of awesome books is okay. One good book in a line of duds sucks.
ReplyDeleteI say the second one because when your expectations are dashed, it sucks.
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ReplyDeleteI'm the opposite. I can't stand it when one of my favorite authors falls short (although I'll always give them another chance). Once I fall in love with an author, I can't wait to read anything they put out. So it's disappointing if it isn't what I expect from them.
I'd have to pick:
ReplyDeleteFinding a book you love and then hating everything else you try by that author.
This has happened to me various times and I always thing that the other books would be as good so I keep reading. What's the saying "One bad apple doesn't ruin the whole bunch"??? So, I choose the 1st one for being worse.
I am more disappointed with reading a dud by a favored author because I'm emotionally attached to the writer. Discovering a good read and then finding out it was the one book wonder for a new author doesn't sting because I hadn't become attached to the writer.
ReplyDeleteI guess most authors have a dud (probably anyway), but if everything is a dud except one I find it a bit sad!
ReplyDeleteConfession: I dont like teen idol by Meg Cabot.
However I liked interview w/ a vampire by Anne Rice, I hate everything else that she's wrote.
And Meg Cabot wins spot of honor on my shelf.
I'd go with the first one too. Anyone can have a bad day/year/however long it takes to write a book, and if it's an old favourite you're more likely to forgive them anyway. And they'll be back, probably. But hating everything else by someone you had thought would be a new favourite, that's devastating.
ReplyDeleteI agree- I hate when I really love an author and then they put out something so bad that I can only imagine they had to fulfill some kind of contract.
ReplyDeleteReading a book by an author you love, for sure.
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