Dragaera

Literary Disappointments (was: The LKH thing)

Mon Feb 17 18:37:57 PST 2003

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.