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Originally Posted by wayspooled
The one that bugs me is when they get some writer to write something for someone popular. I remember when those first books came out marked "Alistair MacLean's <whatever>" and I hadn't read any of his since I was a kid and thought, cool, he's got a new novel and I'd read it and think hmmm.. he sure isn't as good a writer as I remember... Yeah, and then one time I pick it up and notice down at the bottom in tiny print it says " by Alastair MacNeill" .. He's probably an okay writer in his own right but he's not Alistair MacLean.  Now I'm wary of anything that says xxxxx's <bookname>. |
Yep, I was caught out in exactly that way when the first of "Tom Clancy's Op-Center" series came out. I bought in, mistakenly assuming it was written
by Tom Clancy. I was sadly mistaken in that belief
.