s/o of Quitting Books - Have You Ever Quit an Author?

Oh I quit on her a long time ago! The book endings just pissed me off to no end.

Not the same caliber, but I gave up on Janet Evanovitch and especially the Stephanie Plum series. I just can't do it anymore. Stop getting yourself covered with garbage and pick a guy already. I think like a previous poster said - I outgrew her. Hard to give up a series after 20 something books, but I just can't do it anymore.

I broke up with Jodi Picoult for a while, but gave "Leaving Time" a shot after I read her short story "Where There's Smoke" and I thought the ending was appropriate. I liked it more than "The Storyteller" for which I ended my hiatus on Jodi Picoult.

Same author... same reason... but years ago.. just to much

I quit on Laurell K. Hamilton when the books became tedious to read and the storylines became blurred by the crazy sex scenes (and the extremely slow moving plotlines). Not that I have any problem with that kind of thing, but the books really became unreadable, IMO. 

I'm thinking of giving up on Janet Evanovich, to tell the truth. 

I've also given up on Anne Rice because I can't keep up, and because her books take more effort to read than I'm able to put forth at this time. 

I used to read every Danielle Steel book but gave her up many moons ago....every book was the same and it got tiresome.

"It" did me in for Stephen King. Just couldn't do it anymore.

I've quit practically every author mentioned so far.  Once the books feel formulaic or, in the case of Picoult, too depressing, I move on.

BUT I agree with maryannscraps, 11/22/63 was terrific and a reminder of how much I used to love King's books back in the day.

I've dropped a few of the above mentioned - Cornwell, Evanovich, Kellerman -- but I'll add Lee Child and Reacher. (Of course, the choice of Tom Cruise to pay the character, approved by the author, might be a part of that. If the author doesn't even care enough to protect the visual of his only character, then why should I care enough to read the next one?)

My mom reads all of her books. Her early ones never grabbed me. They seemed to be all the same. The current ones are more interesting to me. I do dislike her style of writing though. But I think her subject matter is varying. 

Jodi Picoult was the one who came to mind for me, too. I really enjoy the first 7/8ths of her books. I'm still mad about the end of My Sister's Keeper.


I was thinking I'd read more Kristin Hannah after The Nightingale - even though I did cry through the last few chapters.

There are a couple of YA authors that I've given up on. One is really popular but he just rubs me the wrong way.

Me too, and for the same reasons. Her early stuff was so good but her recent stuff is just utter crap. I guess people are really upset about this and she's been jumped on a few times at fan meet and greets. That they've invested a decade in this series and are now ticked about how it's gone downhill. I get the argument, but it's her work and her choice. Just like it's mine to walk away.

I love Diane Mott Davidson, and have re-read the Goldy mysteries several times. But the last 4-5 books she was just phoning it in. She has indicated that the most recent book is the last in the series, and I picked up her cookbook. Her stories about each of the recipes were so fun, and fresh. Really back to the early days of the Goldy books.

I also stopped with the Stephanie Plum series, and as much as I hate to say it in his later years Robert B Parker too. You could really tell his health was declining and he was just phoning it in.

I agree with mlana I gave up on Patricia Cornwell and Iris Johansen. I am sick of Eve!

Joyce Carol Oates
Bret Easton Ellis
The books I read were too dark for me. I don't want to risk more soul-sucking darkness.

Pat Conroy
The rape scene from Prince of Tides was so upsetting that I don't dare pick up another one of his books. I am still haunted by it - it makes me feel physically sick to think about it.

I sure do sound like a Pollyanna! I can and do enjoy books with difficult characters and painful situations (The Bone People, anyone?), but something about those I listed make me not want to try again.