Welcome the weekly installment of My Favorite Authors/Books! For those who are not familiar with us, this is a new series where one of us Kossacks takes the opportunity to tell us why they love a certain author or book. Is there an author whose books you never miss? A particular book that you love so much you want to tell random people on the street about? This is the place for you.
This series celebrates authors and books that have a special place in our hearts. But what do you do when an author you love gradually stops producing works that you absolutely love, when it even becomes a chore to read some of his novels? I have been reading Dean Koontz when he had both a mustache and the middle initial of R in his name, and while I am going to celebrate what I first loved about reading his books I would not be fair if I did not mention what I see as the fading of his works.
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