>>>>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.
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>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.
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>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."

Many moons ago when Harlan Ellison was on the Dick Cavett show, and Jacqueline Suzanne had recently died, Cavett mentioned her death and asked him if the death of a colleague makes him think about his own mortality. Ellison said (and I'm probably paraphrasing), "Don't call her a colleague of mine. The best thing I can say about her is 'thank God there won't be any more of that crap on the market'"