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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 10 months ago

   Yep, that’s why I quit reading Tom Clancy. After a dozen or so books, they started being predictable.
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   orinoco womble said, 10 months ago

   So did Grisham. And Dan Brown. Same basic story, different window-dressing.
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   Sandy Shore said, 10 months ago

   The only flop Snoopy ever had was that book that began “It was a stormy and dark night”… what a flop! They couldn’t even shift it from the bargain basket.
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   Cooncat said, 10 months ago

   Most of J.K. Rowling’s books started off in a similar fashion (Harry being back at ‘home’ with his loathesome aunt/uncle) but that didn’t stop her from selling about a half Billion books in about 50 languages … (and I have all the books too ;-) )
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   trimguy said, 10 months ago

   Is it true Peanuts is coming back? Sparky must be rolling in his grave.
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   kimpope said, 10 months ago

   add Danielle Steel….every book the same format, read one of them you’ve read them all!
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   The Life I Draw Upon said, 10 months ago

   The genius author uses a formula, and the rest copy him.
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   As we stepped upon thet plutonian shore with Zeus’s spears upon our backs.

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   TrapperJohn said, 10 months ago

   Wow, after all these years I finally realize that Snoopy is writing a BUNCH of stories. All this time I thought he was stuck trying to write just the one story.
   ~
   BTW, You all realize the significance to “It was a dark and stormy night…”, right?
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   francisrossi said, 10 months ago

   @TrapperJohn

   The 1st Baron Lytton.
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    blather046047 said, 10 months ago

    Try “A Painted House” a very different Grisham story-line.
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    tiny dancer said, 10 months ago

    Mary Higgins Clark. At first I thought her books were remarkable, but now I know who the killer is before I even hit the halfway point.
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    nighthawks said, 10 months ago

    ok, name this author.
    an intern or young doctor in a Boston hospital stumbles upon a conspiracy to do harm to unwitting patients by huge, diabolical pharmaceutical or Insurance corporations whose only goal is to harvest money at the cost of human lives
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    route66paul said, 10 months ago

    @kimpope

    Just like porno movies – the plot is the same, done with different actors.
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    Allan said, 10 months ago

    All the Star Trek series of books (all 3000+ of them) are popular because they have a large story arc, and usually 1 or 2 smaller arcs. They all have the Crew we are reading (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, Excalibur, Endeavour, Titan, etc.) being the good guys. Only the “temporary ensigns” die, and the bad guys are beaten at the end. Of course, they do have a few longer ‘series’ – “A time to ______” was a 9 book series which was awesome.
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    MysteryCat said, 10 months ago

    @nighthawks

    Would that be Peter Benchley?
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