[vexed2002]

Am I the only person that finds it REMARKABLY hard to adapt to another authors style of writing once you've finished a lengthy series?

It gets to the point where I just have to leave books alone for about a month before I can get into someone elses writing.

Does anyone else suffer from this affliction? :) I find it incredibly awkward because I then have FAR too much free time on my hands which is then spent on playing Morrowind or some other such game which just wastes my life away ;)

vexed2002 / paulk

[Mithfânion]

I don't have trouble adapting to a new style if I wait a little while and don't start reading one immediately afterwards. I'll try to throw in a Hist. fiction or true history book in between.

[Nevyn]

It doesn't happen very often anymore, but when it does,I usually read outside of fantasy .Dean Koontz seems to do the trick for me.

[DarthV]

I usually read a couple of the TSR/WOTC 300page novels with give me a break between series.

[CrazyReader]

I hardly ever get to read a whole series in a row anyways, so nope!! :D

[vexed2002]

Originally posted by DarthV
I usually read a couple of the TSR/WOTC 300page novels with give me a break between series.

Hahah, I'd do that if any of the TSR/WOTC were even half-way reasonable any more. I've simply lost interest in Wulfgar and Drizzt (how many more times can Enteri come back from the dead etc! Sheesh!)

I'm waiting for a new R.A Salvatore Cadderly / Cleric Quintet based book.. vastly under-rated series (in comparison to other TSR stuff, doesn't really compare to serious fantasy)

Guess I should try reading some fiction now.. time I went back to some Ben Elton-esque stuff. *sigh*

[Ladijen]

Maybe I'm strange, but I don't have any trouble at all adapting to a different writing style. Usually after a few pages I can get into the new story. If the new author is talented even though he/she has a different style, it can be like taking off silk and putting on velvet. (Granted there are those times when it is like going from silk to sackcloth! :) )

[Lifino]

My problem is when I'm reading a few books with similar story lines or civilizations, etc. Especialy with Melanie Rawn where I started with the Exiles series, but it wasn't until half way through the first book that I caught on to the fact that I was reading an incomplete series, so I went and started the first book of the Dragon Prince series and was reading both side-by-side... that was dumb...

For the most part, though, I don't have any difficulty bouncing from author to author. It's easier if the writing style fits the story...

[Crysania]

YES! I tend to have the problem only if the series is good, though. Had trouble transitioning after William's Memory, Sorrow, Thorn. Read a bunch of what I thought was crap afterwards. Then had trouble after CS Friendman's Coldfire Trilogy -- nothing was jiving. Months later, I've started Otherland and it's good to read an author who can actually WRITE. That's the thing with me too, certainly the type of world/adventure is part of it, but the other half is just the caliber of the writing and whether the next author I pick up can actually write or not.

:D

Anyway, yes, I have that problem all the time...

[Bond]

Do any of the younger readers here read classic stuff like The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes or the stories of Edgar Allen Poe? Just because they're classics doesn't mean they all plod along like Moby Dick or Madame Bovary. I hardly ever see anyone saying they read the classics I found immensely entertaining, always a lot of the socially focused or highly figurative or allegorical stuff...bleh.