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Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, Pride & Predator ... where will it end?
I actually like Pride & Prejudice quite a lot, every so often I have to re-read it in order to be reminded of how satisfying it is. At least it's worth it. Not that I am very much like a Jane Austen heroine irl, if I were anyone I'd be Marianne but I wouldn't do the safe thing (which means I'm not Marianne, lol).
Maybe I'll re-read it next, since I made the mistake of reading 4 Jonathan Carroll novels in a row, only to discover that basically, they all have the same plot.
Usually when a genre writer re-does the same thing over & over again, there is one book that is the perfect expression of his obsession, but I don't think that any of these is it.
(Land of Laughs, Sleeping in Flame, The Marriage of Sticks, The Wooden Sea, any one of them is fine but I wouldn't recommend them in succession). OTOH I will probably keep reading them just to figure out which one is the perfect one. THE PERFECT JONATHAN CARROLL NOVEL. So far the amazon reviewers have not said.
OK, in terms of authors who write the same book over and over, here is what I think is the perfect one:
Iain M Banks (Culture novels): The Player of Games
Tim Powers (California novels): Last Call
Tim Powers (Euro novels): The Anubis Gates
China Miéville: The Scar
William Gibson: Pattern Recognition
there's probably more ... I don't mean series writers, but writers who engage the same themes over and over.
I actually like Pride & Prejudice quite a lot, every so often I have to re-read it in order to be reminded of how satisfying it is. At least it's worth it. Not that I am very much like a Jane Austen heroine irl, if I were anyone I'd be Marianne but I wouldn't do the safe thing (which means I'm not Marianne, lol).
Maybe I'll re-read it next, since I made the mistake of reading 4 Jonathan Carroll novels in a row, only to discover that basically, they all have the same plot.
Usually when a genre writer re-does the same thing over & over again, there is one book that is the perfect expression of his obsession, but I don't think that any of these is it.
(Land of Laughs, Sleeping in Flame, The Marriage of Sticks, The Wooden Sea, any one of them is fine but I wouldn't recommend them in succession). OTOH I will probably keep reading them just to figure out which one is the perfect one. THE PERFECT JONATHAN CARROLL NOVEL. So far the amazon reviewers have not said.
OK, in terms of authors who write the same book over and over, here is what I think is the perfect one:
Iain M Banks (Culture novels): The Player of Games
Tim Powers (California novels): Last Call
Tim Powers (Euro novels): The Anubis Gates
China Miéville: The Scar
William Gibson: Pattern Recognition
there's probably more ... I don't mean series writers, but writers who engage the same themes over and over.