Writers That You Started Out liking and you End Up Hating.

[Danny McG]

I would say Joseph Wambaugh - he wrote some really good cop stories in the 1970s, he even had a film made from one of them, The Choirboys.
But then he got very 'cut and paste' with the plots and his books all sounded the same.
After a few years in the wilderness he tried a comeback with his Hollywood station series - that's unfortunately even worse!

 

[JunkMonkey]

Most people on this thread seem to have taken the original question to mean, 'which authors did you like when you first came across them but, as you read more of their stuff, you came to dislike'. and then following through with the thought that earlier works were more interesting and authors got samey and repetitive as they went on. "Their earlier stuff was good but their later/recent stuff is crap."

Another way to interpret the question would be to think of authors you used to like but whose work now (ALL of it*) is unbearable.

Concidered that way I would have to answer "Heinlein". Used to love his stuff as a kid; 50 years later I wouldn't use some of them for toilet paper even if you paid me.





*okay, 90%.

 

[KiraAnn]

I used to enjoy the Dirk Pitt books of Clive Cussler.
Such as "Vixen 03", "Night Probe" & "Cyclops".
These were fairly solid not too deep thrillers.
They even made a film out of "Sahara".
But towards the end they got a wee bit too silly.

I thought Sahara the movie was more than a bit silly.

Also, I first thought it was a remake of Bogies' Sahara, which I enjoyed as well as the Jim Belushi remake.