Nytemuse <nytemuse at auros.org> writes: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, David Rodemaker wrote: > > BTW: Does anyone have numbers to back up the 'she's lost a lot of readers > > over this' or are we waiting for the next book to actually see? I've heard > > it, but I've heard darn near as many people say that they really like her > > books still and it also seems that alot of people are picking them up now > > when they hadn't before. > > Well, my figures wouldn't exactly be universal or sound like all that > much, but just in the friends that I have, 40% have said they're not going > to read her next book and another 20 or 30% have said they're hesitant or > will use the next book to decide whether it's worth continuing with. This > is probably out of a friend pool of 50 or 60. So like I said, not that > much, but I do have some numbers. I stopped after three or four. It was the same thing over and over, and it was a "funny once" (except the issue wasn't "funny" this time). And what I heard about later books made them sound less interesting, not more. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info