Comments on: After the Honeymoon – Booking Through Thursday

By: jeane

jeane — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:09:34 +0000

Everybody’s taste changes as they get older and go through different life stage. I think very few authors will hold my attention forever, and I don’t really expect them to. After all, they are people and grow and change too, so when their writing starts to reflect that it only seems natural we might drift apart.

By: Literary Feline

Literary Feline — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:52:41 +0000

I am not quite ready to give up on LKH. I’m still interested in what happens to her characters and so I’ll hang on for a little while longer. It hasn’t worked out though between Patricia Cornwell and I. As soon as I stopped caring about her characters, I had to say goodbye.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:14:06 +0000

I really enjoyed the first few LKH’s too! I hear the last one is really good though. Not so trashy. I guess I’ll just have to finish the series and see.

By: bkclubcare

bkclubcare — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:36:26 +0000

I haven’t followed too many authors… I think I read all of Janet Evanovich’s and then got distracted so I have yet to pick up her latest 2 or 3. I’ve always thought I’d get back to them eventually. So, I can’t say this BTT applies to my reading ‘style’ – if that is what you’d call it.

Excellent post and I agree that mood and interests change with time.

By: Lezlie

Lezlie — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:55:32 +0000

Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake books were on my post, too! I am so disappointed at the direction they went.

Happy Valentine’s Day anyway!

Lezlie

By: Heather (errantdreams)

Heather (errantdreams) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:09 +0000

I tried to think of an answer for this one but really couldn’t. My own fault, though—I’m always flitting from author to author, so I’m not convinced I stay with one long enough to notice if they fall from grace!

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:44:18 +0000

I said the same thing on my blog. It all depends on our mood and time. With age our tastes change. My BTT post!

By: Chris@bookarama

Chris@bookarama — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:25:33 +0000

I agree that as we get older our tastes change.

By: ravenousreader

ravenousreader — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:44:55 +0000

Very good point, Trish, that sometimes we, as readers, simply outgrow some of our once favorite authors, especially those who tend to rely on a similar ‘formula’ in their work.

I can think of several for whom that applies in my case…

By: mervih

mervih — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:43:37 +0000

Most of the time the latter happens to me, as well: I no longer love the authors I used to because I’m the one who has changed.