I voted you up because I don't fully disagree, but the "if you're in it [only] for the story" part is an important conditional. Once you get beyond the story ou

I voted you up because I don't fully disagree, but the "if you're in it [only] for the story" part is an important conditional. Once you get beyond the story outline similarities, the books feel different in fundamental ways. For eg., Going Postal and Making Money have the same basic setup, and a one-line story description would sound very similar. But Going Postal is about themes of past and future, regret and risk, connecting to the past while bringing in the future; while Making Money feels like a constant tug-of-war between order and chaos, and hence ultimately about balance.