How many books?

callalily61 said:

Yeah. Read it. Um...

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lmao.

go on......

If it is a new author for me, I give it one book. If I can't get through the book, I won't pick up another one. If it is a much-loved author, I will give a few more books a try. Like Stephen King. Some of his books, I love. Some I can't get a few pages in before I give up. Some authors just seem to be like that for me, because they are inconsistent. If they are too inconsistent (especially within a series), maybe after 2 books I give up.

It depends.

Less than one, if I've never read the author before and I don't like the writing and/or story.

If it's an author I've previously read and liked, but the books are starting to go downhill, I'll give it a couple before quitting entirely.

veinglory said:

It depends, if it is an author I used to like (*cough*mercedeslackey*cough*) I might reader 4-5 duds (from me-POV) before giving up.

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This. Oh, lord, this.

I found ML's first book when I *was* 12 and awkward, so I fell in love with the trilogy. I didn't have the context to judge it.

I have context now. I won't read the co-written ones, I won't read anything with her husband's name on it, and I flat refuse to read the latest attempt at squeezing the last drop of blood from the Valdemar world. The rewritten history of a world I really loved for its consistency and planning is almost... not quite, but almost... as bad as Orson Scott Card's Shadow series. But I'll still try anything else with just her name on it because the first twelve books of hers rocked my developing world

quicklime said:

I hereby challenge you and Seun to both find The Taking and start it on the same day, last man (or woman) standing wins.

what a fuckaree; I think that was the angriest I've ever been at a single author. and if you thought Dragon tears was bad about subtlety, lets say if Dragon Tears was the equivalent of some guy saying "nice pants--let's fuck"....the Taking would be the same guy whipping it out jumping up on the couch in front of you, slapping you until you could feel the sweat, and screaming "in the mouth, baby!!!"

God, i hated that book

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If it's a fuckaree (instead of a fuckarow), challenge declined.

seun said:

If it's a fuckaree (instead of a fuckarow), challenge declined.

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Um, I've heard this before. Dreamcatcher?

quicklime said:

I hereby challenge you and Seun to both find The Taking and start it on the same day, last man (or woman) standing wins.

what a fuckaree; I think that was the angriest I've ever been at a single author. and if you thought Dragon tears was bad about subtlety, lets say if Dragon Tears was the equivalent of some guy saying "nice pants--let's fuck"....the Taking would be the same guy whipping it out jumping up on the couch in front of you, slapping you until you could feel the sweat, and screaming "in the mouth, baby!!!"

God, i hated that book

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I've read The Taking more than once, and didn't think it was that bad. It was one of his better 'recent' books, during the period where he erred away from horror and tried to get into suspense.

There are quite a few of his other novels where he overeggs the beautiful-woman-ordinary-man-supernatural-dog pudding far, far more than in this book.

Dr.Gonzo said:

Um, I've heard this before. Dreamcatcher?

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Fuck me Freddy, the Dr gets it in one.

Dr.Gonzo said:

Um, I've heard this before. Dreamcatcher?

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hahaha--the movie was beautiful. Had me howling. Sometimes you just have to get your lol-goggles on first.

I keep giving Dean Koontz a try...even after the last five novels....

I voted 2, but it really depends; 2 is best-case scenario. If I don't like an author's style, I won't go past 30-50 pages of the first book, unless someone I know really loved it. And if I don't like an author's style I don't bother with them anymore. If the book just bores me, but the style is okay, I might try another of the author's books. If that one bores me too, then they're out. If I actually read a whole book and don't like it, I generally feel too annoyed I wasted time on the book to read the author again, haha (*cough, Atonement!*).

Depends

If the author manages to piss me off, less than one.

If the writing is okay/good but the book just wasn't my cuppa, I may give them another try.

If I liked previous stuff, just not this one, I'll definitely give them another go