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Stella Gibbons.
"Cold Comfort Farm" is a brilliant spoof of English rural gloom and doom novels written back in the early 1930s, and remains laugh-out-loud funny now. She wrote quite a number of other books, none of which are remembered now. I doubt they would still be available. |
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I highly disagree. The Lord of the Rings was very good. Most of the stuff his son is publishing after he died can be said to be dull.
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Thanks for that, Ben. I must admit I didn't check before I posted. I still think she's a one hit wonder in that CCF was and remains so well known, but her other books aren't.
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James Frey - A Million Little Pieces (Minus the controversy, it is now filed under fiction) Then the others were horrible I would also extend the parameters a touch and say Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett were amazingly deep character driven stories, and the rest is Pop-Fiction, spy thriller type junk. I say extending because it is two books, but the point is the same. |
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Thanks for all these!
Requiem, so would you say A Million Little Pieces stands on its own as a work of fiction? It doesn't detract that the author made it up? Actually the Bible had a sequel, according to some: the New Testament. Would you say that one is incredible and the other is mediocre? ![]() eP |
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I wouldn't support an author who faked a book this way.
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