Re: Writers who jumped the shark

"Terry Pratchett" <tpratchett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <MPG.196597f7849fb4c098b12d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Eric Jarvis
> <web@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
> >
> >even the weaker ones (IMO The Fifth Elephant and The
> >Thief of time) are still well worth a read...and it's
> >tough to find a general agreement on which are the weak
> >books...so it may just be that he's "pu****ng the envelope
> >a little"...I suspect that he's not written his best book
> >as yet
>
> :-) We shall see.
>
> But authors in any genre face a problem here.  You've got to test the
> envelope or go mad.  Yet you are made well aware that there's plenty of
> fans out there who want more of the same -- they want to see the same
> characters acting like they did in the last book.
> --
> Terry Pratchett

Terry? Terry is that really you?

                             Dusty


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