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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
But in the long term, people read H.P Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Raymond Chandler, and the early Fantasy/Science Fiction of the late 30's and 40's. Very few people read, Hal Sinclair, Joseph Hergesheimer, Burton Rascoe, Ellen Glasglow, or even Cabell (although a few people, like me, read Cabell).
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Three of my favorite authors! They might not have been very good writers (though Chandler had a brilliant way with words) but they could tell stories that held your attention from the first word until the last, and they created worlds and characters that I will never forget. And that would be why I read them
Matter of fact, I enjoy reading their works a lot more than I enjoy reading a lot of "good" literature. Robert Howard's stories about Conan and Kull were never, ever, boring.