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Originally Posted by shadow9d9  I felt her books became formulaic with the same story over and over again... |
This is the part of your post that I agree with. I often feel that authors' ingenue efforts are much better than later ones, and there are many authors I dump after a while.
Ursula Le Guin is one of the greatest thematic SF writers ever. "The Lathe of Heaven," "The Dispossessed," "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Wizard of Earthsea" are all must-read classics. But I stopped reading after "The Word for World is Forest." Great title, beautiful world, but ultimately uninteresting.
But I have to say --- all those reviews by number? I'm very afraid. Time to take up another hobby like say, belly dancing or knife collecting.