Quality rather than quantity maybe? Peters isn't so much to my taste after the first couple books, but King is a great example of what I'm talking about.

Yeah, agreed on both the TV show (like I said, I'm watching it because he has a couple of local chefs on) and on predictability in general. Saddest cases to me aren't the ones that are predictable by book 14 (like you, I've probably given up long since and after all, enough people like that predictability to let the author reach book 14), it's the ones that are predictable by book 3.

I dunno, sounds like the sort of soulmate I DO want to sit next to on the train. Thanks for the guffaws

Do you read the highly amusing Tom Holt (whose best I adore but who has a lot of meh IMO)? The original version comes up as a conscious thread on both sides of the relationship in one of my favorites of his books - Flying Dutch. Where it does get resolved rather more than usually in the end ; )

Nice to read something that gives me a big goofy grin. Congrads to both of you for marrying great people.

Nah, take heart - I didn't say it doesn't happen. It certainly does. I just resent the assumption that it's always the case ; )

Wow, thanks for the kind words. As to critics and not liking the same things, I know what you mean but I also find a lot of times I read someone else's opinion not because I'll likely share it but to see what stood out to them, because their dislikes may bring up things that I'll be apt to like.

Target demographics also enter into it. While you CAN Twitter via the web, it's largely limited to those who do a lot of phone texting. That excludes a lot of people, largely on a generational basis - I know a lot of middle aged and older people who access facebook whether or not they have a page themselves, I don't know that many who Tweet or follow Twitter feeds, much less with any regularity.

Big thanks to Robin for introducing me a while back to both Det Kubu and Insp Gamache (along with the realization that I am going to have to give William Kent Kreuger a try one of these days too) - series I might not have reached for on my own and would have been much poorer without.

Yeah I do. You probably need to turn off the setting that tracks your browsing for recommendations, although it'll still probably give you some generic ones on the stopped clock / twice a day theory. I browse a lot more than buy because of the historical mystery site I run and a review site I help with, while I also buy there for a friend without a computer. So I was getting a ton of recommendations even less relevant until I turned off the browsing setting and set the friends' purchases as gifts, not for recommendations.

Oh dear....

Gotta love readers who get it!!

YESSSSS!!!!!!!! That's one of the ones I couldn't think of because I hadn't seen it lately, but it's exactly what I'm talking about.

Aside from adding syllables but not much else, does make one wonder why they think that needs to be specified... as if the assumption would otherwise be that the doctor was a health care inhibitor?