Re: Why pick on Piers Anthony?

Kurt Busiek <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On the other hand, even in mysteries, you get the "the early books were
better" syndrome, if not "the first book was."

I suspect mostly because the later books of most series (in my
experience) contain ever larger infodumps to bring the new reader up
to speed and ever more set pieces to keep the older readers happy that
all is the same as it was the last book.

Which pleases nobody.

D.
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