How could they be written by the same author?

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<p>There are a lot of "favorite book" threads around so this is going to be a bit different. Ever read a book by an author you've just discovered and it was fantastic, and then you pick up another one of the author's books, read it, and find it's HORRIBLE?
Here are some that happened to me:</p>

<p>Good: Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Bad: Speaker for the Dead</p>

<p>Good: The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)
Bad: Hannibal</p>

<p>Good: East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Bad: The Grapes of Wrath</p>

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<p>Ender’s Shadow was actually a good book, but I agree, Speaker for the Dead certainly wasn’t…</p>

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<p>um…Some Agatha Christie books are great while others drag on…</p>

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<p>Speaker for the dead was a good book, not as good as Ender’s Game. but still a good book</p>

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<p>I don’t know what’s worse: an author writing simultaneously wonderful and horrid books, or only writing one incredible book and leaving you begging for more. (RIP Sylvia Plath)</p>

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<p>I hope you don’t mind if I share…</p>

<p>Tamora Pierce</p>

<p>Good: Song of the Lioness quartet, Protector of the Small series</p>

<p>Bad: Trickster’s Choice. I hated that book. Alianne was a terrible character and the plot was lackluster. I felt like Alanna’s character was abandoned at the expense of her progeny, which really disappointed me, for Alanna was my favorite Pierce character.</p>

<p>Lemony Snicket</p>

<p>Good: Books 1-12 of A Series of Unfortunate Events</p>

<p>Bad: The End. It felt like a no-ending ending after waiting so long…</p>

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<p>That’s what this thread is for :P</p>

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<p>Philippa Gregory
Good: All her Tudor books
Bad: all her “modern” books set in current times</p>

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<p>"Tamora Pierce</p>

<p>Good: Song of the Lioness quartet, Protector of the Small series</p>

<p>Bad: Trickster’s Choice. I hated that book. Alianne was a terrible character and the plot was lackluster. I felt like Alanna’s character was abandoned at the expense of her progeny, which really disappointed me, for Alanna was my favorite Pierce character."</p>

<p>i read those a long time ago… I thought the whole struggle of the characters was too flat… everything went good for the good guys and bad for the bad guys…i mean really, it had very little dimension. i gues those books were okay though.</p>

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<p>Good=Atlas Shrugged</p>

<p>Bad- The Fountainhead</p>

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<p>Hemingway</p>

<p>Good: The Old Man and the Sea
Bad: The Sun Also Rises (I think. It was one of his war ones. Couldn’t stand reading his romantic dialouge.)</p>

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<p>^GASP! The Sun Also Rises is AMAZING! … Disappointed, Wombat <em>shakes head disappointedly</em></p>

<p>And I have to say:
Lemony Snicket:
Good - Series of Unfortunate Events 1-3
Bad - The rest of the series</p>

<p>…It got REALLY old after the third book.</p>

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<p>Warning*</p>

<p>Harry Potter (LOL) :</p>

<p>Book 1 was slightly bearable.</p>

<p>Book 2 = epic fail. Took me 4 months to barely finish.</p>

<p>Book 3 = 100 pages. I’ve had enough. No more of those Potter books.</p>

<p>*semi-joke response indicated, but nevertheless true of content (what’d you expect from someone that doesn’t read books).</p>

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<p>^ SO true. I read all of the praying she’d kill him off, but alas, she didn’t…</p>

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<p>lol I can see that if someone read Atlas Shrugged before The Fountainhead . . . it’s much better the other way around.</p>

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<p>You thought “The Grapes of Wrath” was bad??? My God, what is wrong with you? Do you know how to read?</p>

<p>I guess my example would be Gregory Maguire. “Wicked” was incredible, “Son of a Witch” was mediocre, and everything else was pretty bad.</p>

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<p>How can people insult harry potter? It cant be so :O</p>

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I wasn’t the one who said this but epic lolz at this.</p>

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Even a bigger epic lulz at this. ;)</p>

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<p>Why the epic lolz, Invoyable?</p>

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<p>HP is my Homeboy.</p>

<p>i just saw that on a shirt today. sorry for the post sabotage. i have nothing to contribute.</p>