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and has written more than one novel where the main character has been retired for a while, and then all of a sudden he's only been retired a month, it sort of messes with one's suspension of disbelief.
My complaint was that the author doesn't seem to remember the history of the character that he himself set up, or is rewriting it. A lack of copy-editing on the part of the publisher, I suppose.
I suppose if one of your lead characters is old, and you think that he wouldn't be alive anymore (Hillerman has been writing since the 70's after all) then I suppose in order to continue writing about that elderly character, you might fudge and hope people don't mind.
Just an annoyance really, no biggie. But do you see how that might be annoying if you've been reading an author for a while? You want the books to be consistent within their own personal reality, and for the author to remember what he's written before. It's just a bit sloppy.
I'm thinking that the author is getting a tad sick of writing these particular novels. He's tried once or twice to get away from his most famous book series, but they're never as popular, and he always ends up coming back.
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