Has your favourite author ever dissapointed you?
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Re: Has your favourite author ever dissapointed you?
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Having a favorite author is like choosing a favorite child. You can hardly choose one. If it came down to all of my favorite authors releasing new books on the same day and I only have enough money for two, I would reach for Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb or Stephen King.bookworm200+ wrote:Has your favourite author ever dissapointed you? Has your favourite author ever written something bad or not worth reading? Has your favourite author ever skipped a book signing that you've been looking foward to for weeks? Has your favourite author ever said something to dissapoint you? If so, tell us about it.
In answer to your question, no and yes. Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb has written hundreds of books. Looking at her booklist, I have a hard time finding one I haven't read. Harder still to find one I didn't enjoy. Nora keeps the tempo upbeat and the twists and turns twisting and turning in ways you never would've thought to go. The writing style makes you feel a part of the story. As if Nora experienced these stories and gave a detailed and thrilling account.
Stehpen King, however, has written a few books that are so vastly detailed that you lose the story and get trapped in the descriptions around the characters and their journey. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Stephen King. His stories are brilliant and colorful. Not always in the same genre but so closely matched that you never know which genre the story is gearing toward (i.e. Syfy, Horror, Thriller, Murder Mystery).
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I was dissapointed [sic]
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I wrote to advice columnist Carolyn Hax, whose advice I had always enjoyed, and I said, "I wrote a book about middle-school advice givers, and I would love to send you a copy." Well, she never emailed back. That was disappointing, and crushing, and I haven't read her advice since, needless to say. I told her how she was a big inspiration (totally true, a la the advice angle), and how she'd helped me to develop a good outlook (OK, a better outlook), and I felt really hurt to be ignored by her. So yeah. I was pretty darned disappointed!
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And now she feels that she did the wrong thing by putting Ron and Hermione together!!!khushifairy wrote:well, ummm. I was a bit disappointed when J.K rowling choosed Ron for Hermione and not Harry..
but laters I felt good with her dicision..
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