Chris Turkel wrote: > On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 08:33 PM, Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > > 5) Author keeps writing the same book over and over (Xanth, > > Valdemar). > Black Company, Shannara While I'll give you Sha-na-na, I don't think the Black Company books quite qualify. The characters came and went and even the viewpoint changed. I actually had a bit of a hard time when Croaker was no longer the viewpoint character, sinced I enjoyed the first trilogy so much. I found the whole series very enjoyable and the ending was, to me at least, moving. This is actually a bit of a coincidence, since while I'm without a job I'm rereading the series. I finished _The Silver Spike_ (number four) today and will start on _Shadow Games_ shortly. One author who _did_ write the same book over and over (and over and over and over ...) was Jack Chalker. I stopped reading him in the mid-80's when I could no longer ignore the fact that every book was the same, down to the characters and details of the plot. The man seemed to have a thing for male- female transformations, too. -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/