Thread: Can a popular novel be badly written?
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Old 12-28-2010, 03:43 AM   #114
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
We're up to post #113, and nobody has mentioned Mickey Spillane!
Now you're all just making me mad! Mickey Spillane, Edgar Rice Burroughs,... bad! At least they made an effort to keep their writing spare. You guys have clearly not done much slumming in the literary world. Go into the supermarkets and pick up some of the fat books with embossed covers you see there. Slog your way through them. I guarantee you that "I the Jury" and "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar" will feel like a breath of fresh air after that. You guys don't know bad!

I read "Minnow Trap" by Brian Horeck recently, so I feel I'm better calibrated than some of you. And some Leo Kessler "Panzer Battalion" books, and "The Sword of Shannara", and... I'm saving the Mike Hammer books for when I need a special treat.
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