On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 09:33 PM, Kevin Raybould wrote: > >> So... this suggests a new topic. What books/series have >> you been especially disappointed by and why? > > De lurking to rag on writers ;) > > Orson Card. The first couple fo novels were brilliant, I thought, but > everything since has been a steady slide down. Ya, if I see one more Ender book, I'll scream. I just want him to finish the Alvin books. > > Issac Asmov. Stuff written in the later part of his life most definetly > needed an editor, The guy wrote hundreds of books in his life. He deserved to slack off at the end. > > Sheri Tepper. She is not so much gone downhill as she is uneven. Some > stuff is great, some is awful. There doesn't seem to be a middle > ground. Tell me about it. I have given up on her. I don't whether the good Sheri S. Tepper will show up or the bad one.