On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 09:16 AM, Iain E. Davis wrote: >> 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. > > You too? I really liked some of his books initially, and then it all > got so > old. I think mostly I was really taken with the basic ideas of the > Well > World books, but tired of the actual stories pretty quickly. :). > > And he had a thing for transformation, in general, it seemed like. > This > that or the other being transformed in to this other that or the > other. :) Yes, he did. I never really thought about it before now. The only series I read of his I enjoyed was the Spirits Of Flux and Anchor, in my opinion, his best series and one where he actually quit while he ahead. --- "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes)."--Walt Whitman