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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Do you know what is worse than the awful writing, the cardboard characters, the ridiculous and ill-researched factoids, what's worse than all of that? He's boring. His fiction is dull, it's not thrilling at all. Sure, I'm turning the pages fast enough, but I'd been turning them just as fast if I was reading a Dick and Jane book for pre-schoolers.
Here's some recommendations off the top of my head: Len Deighton, Alistair MacLean, Dean Koontz (pre hair-implants, when he still had a moustache), Jim Butcher, Dan Abnett, Christopher Golden, Robert Ludlum, Robert Harris.
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Yeah, Rushdie also wrote it was, "a novel so bad it gives bad novels a bad name"
BTW, I thought you might also have a low opinion of Robert Ludlum or Ian Fleming, etc, since they seem all fashioned in the same way.
Anyway, thanks for your recommendations!