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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:08 PM Original message |
Name a poor/mediocre author/writer too many people have read |
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Magrittes Pipe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. William Rivers Pitt. |
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sus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. Danielle Steel |
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LDS Jock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
46. in her defense |
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sus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:27 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. in her defense??? GET THEE TO A NUNNERY! |
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2bfree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 09:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
81. I hate Danielle Steel.............. |
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mstrsplinter326 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. Clancy |
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R3dD0g (625 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. His novels could be churned out by |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. James Redfield |
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Cats Against Frist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
5. Billy Collins |
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BigMcLargehuge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. Clive Barker |
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Sandpiper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. John Grisham |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. Saint Paul n/t |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. Stephen King |
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BigMcLargehuge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:13 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I am not a huge fan of the man |
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Sandpiper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Stephen King himself has said |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
56. BINGO! |
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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
11. LeHaye and Jenkins |
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Gasolinedream (474 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. THey are horrible!!!! |
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eyesroll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
12. Stephen King. |
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ChompySnack (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. Number 1 on the list is Hemmingway! |
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jdsmith (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
30. So name a good writer |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
41. I think maybe you should |
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jmags (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
45. Thank you. You said what needed to be said. |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
54. Thank you -boring, unimagineative, like he was writing with crayons |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:10 PM Response to Reply #54 |
71. The old man and the sea made me want to tear my eyeballs out |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:35 PM Response to Reply #71 |
79. I know I was reading page after page of nothing |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 09:15 PM Response to Reply #54 |
80. Sigh |
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LSdemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. Rush Limbaugh |
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cheezus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Ann Coulter, Hannity, etc, etc |
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geniph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
63. No, no, one of the criteria was that people have READ their stuff! |
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NoodleBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. Tom Clancy |
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R3dD0g (625 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:21 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. I second that a second time. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
37. sometimes people ask me if I named my cat after Tom Clancy |
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LynzM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
17. Dan Brown |
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demnan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
19. Patricia Cornwall |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:23 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Sloppy... well put. |
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comsymp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:25 PM Response to Reply #25 |
73. Funny y'all should mention her- |
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geniph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
64. Her supposedly "humorous" books are awful |
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Tweed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
23. Tom Clancy n/t |
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tigerbeat (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
24. J.K. Rowling |
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MsUnderstood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
26. VC Andrews |
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LDS Jock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:20 PM Response to Reply #26 |
44. I second V.C. Andrews |
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Connie_Corleone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
27. Stephen King |
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hrhdeb (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
28. J.K. Rowling |
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asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
29. Anne Rice |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:31 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. I liked some of her earlier stuff.... |
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tandot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
32. Ann Coulter n/t |
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Screaming Lord Byron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
33. 'Lord' Jeffrey Archer. |
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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:03 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Who? |
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Screaming Lord Byron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:09 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Who else? |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:49 PM Response to Reply #33 |
55. His book of short stories isn't bad |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
34. Sean Hannity: You have to be a dingbat to read his stuff |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
35. Dean Koontz |
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chicaloca (704 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:56 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. I second that! |
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geniph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:54 PM Response to Reply #35 |
65. Koontz' stuff is the equivalent of cotton candy |
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ZenLefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
36. Robert Jordan |
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CrownPrinceBandar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:32 PM Response to Reply #36 |
49. I'm reading "The Eye of the World" right now..... |
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JackDragna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:33 PM Response to Reply #36 |
50. Be glad you cut it off there. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
42. Terry Goodkind |
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Hong Kong Cavalier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:31 PM Response to Reply #42 |
48. Hot Damn! I second that. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:44 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. Check out Amazon's reader reviews of Naked Empire |
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Hong Kong Cavalier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:07 PM Response to Reply #52 |
58. Don't you mean he's sinking like a "Pillar of Creation"? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:31 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. You can tell |
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Hong Kong Cavalier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:42 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. "Moral clarity" |
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southpaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
43. Jackie Collins |
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CrownPrinceBandar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
51. Steven R. Donaldson................... |
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Hong Kong Cavalier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:57 PM Response to Reply #51 |
68. While I actually like Donaldson... |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
53. Robert Ludlum |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
57. Don Delillo |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:45 PM Response to Reply #57 |
62. Well, I'm among the half-wits |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
59. Harold Robbins? |
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geniph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
66. Ayn Rand, L. Ron Hubbard, Joseph Smith |
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comsymp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:29 PM Response to Reply #66 |
75. DEFINITELY Ayn Rand!!! |
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Gildor Inglorion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
67. Barbara Cartland, Saul Bellow, Ira Levin, John D. McDonald, |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
69. John Irving. |
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sleipnir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
70. Rilke... |
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patcox2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
72. The cliche-meister general and tireless dead-horse flogger, |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
74. L. Ron Hubbard |
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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
76. Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz, Stephen King (to an extent). |
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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
77. Oop, forgot Tim LaHaye. |
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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
78. William Pierce, aka Andrew McDonald, who wrote "The Turner Diaries" |
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Zomby Woof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-04 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
82. Stephen King |
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