>>>You're easier to please than me. I don't read John Grisham any more, for example. I read his first several books, then decided he was mailing it in. Wealth and fame are not always good for a writer.
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>>Not even mailing it in. He doesn't write them anymore. Nor does Ludlum. It's a franchise.
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>Tongue in cheek? I had not heard that about Grisham.
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>Ludlum has the best possible excuse for not writing them any more.
What? There are lots of dead writers ;-) Grisham uses the "studio" method popularized by painters in the Renaissance - does the outline - lets the drones color it in.
Frankly, unless a writer is actually a writer and not just a narrator of plot I don't much care (nor do I normally read them) As Capote said of Kerouac "That's not writing - that's typing."
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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