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16703207 No.16703207 [Reply] [Original]

>Author writes one good book
>Everything afterwards is just mediocre to decent
Why is this so common and how do we avoid this?

>> No.16703268

Post 5 examples of this.
>inb4 because wikopedia says so
Talk about the books you've read.

>> No.16703291

>>16703268
Da Vinci Code was good, then Brown's next books Dark Tower?, Angels and Demons? were so boring I stopped reading after a few chapters

Stephen King never wrote anything better than Carrie

>> No.16703294

They took their time with the first book, after that publishing deadlines and complacency kick in and drain the life out of them.

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>>16703268
Alex Garland wrote this aged 26 and it was a hugely successful book.

His subsequent books were trash and now he’s a Hollywood screenwriter.

He even admits himself that he is incapable of writing anything like that ever again. It was lightening in a bottle. He said whenever he sees his book in a shop or cafe or whatever it feels like seeing an ex-girlfriend, as though he has nothing to do with it anymore.

>> No.16703313

>>16703291
Angels and Demons, the book, came before Da Vinci Code.

It was only Da Vinci Code’s popularity that sparked the movie then ofcourse the angels and demons movie.