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TheDude

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Normally I like to stay away from these writers... those that put out a book a year for 25 years. With that said, I love reading Michael Connelly. Both the Micky Haller and Harry Bosch series are great, IMO.

You have any favorites?
 
Enoch 1,2,&3, allegedly. They're Ethiopic, found in the 18th century and translated into English in the 20th. Although lost along with plenty other texts, it's the book most quoted in The Bible, more than Moses. Fragments found amongst the Qumran Scrolls. Should be plenty interesting for LDS folks, which I assume you are.

**Edit** It was 5 books. The Watchers is kind of entertaining.
 
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franklin said:
Enoch 1,2,&3, allegedly. They're Ethiopic, found in the 18th century and translated into English in the 20th. Although lost along with plenty other texts, it's the book most quoted in The Bible, more than Moses. Fragments found amongst the Qumran Scrolls. Should be plenty interesting for LDS folks, which I assume you are.
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Should be plenty interesting for all folks I suppose.
Maybe I'll look it up one day when I have time.
 
He wrote some weird stuff but a lot of his sci-fi was very well done: L Ron Hubbard.

Koontz also fits this description and I like his work too.

King just about fits that as well.
 
I like R.A. Salvatore's stuff.
He seems to pop out books pretty regularly.
I don't like all of his stuff, but for the most part it's decent.
 
I, too, love Michael Connelly. I also like Clive Cussler, although I'm not sure how much he's actually writing anymore. It seems most of his latest books have a "co-author" (someone else using his name and fame to write and make money). I've enjoyed some Koontz as well. And David Baldacci.
 
Patterson lost me a while back. I can accept multiple books with repeated themes, hell every voluminous author will do that, but he got almost to the level of carbon copy on some stuff. Also his shameless attempt to indoctrinate teens in global warming hysteria with his Maximum Ride books was over the line IMO.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Patterson lost me a while back. I can accept multiple books with repeated themes, hell every voluminous author will do that, but he got almost to the level of carbon copy on some stuff. Also his shameless attempt to indoctrinate teens in global warming hysteria with his Maximum Ride books was over the line IMO.
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I hope you're not talking about his books where his name's simply on it but some other hack wannabe (like me) wrote it.
 
Three years ago James Patterson, the creator of the blockbuster best-selling Alex Cross and “Women’s Murder Club” series, began “Maximum Ride,” a series for young adults about a group of genetically mutated kids who are part human, part bird. The idea, he said, was to get children to love reading — or at least to love reading his kind of books.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/books/20patt.html

He wrote the first 2 in the series (co-authored the second I believe actually). The others have had various ghost-writers with Patterson co-authoring a few of them, although his name is still all over them. He endorses them so he is responsible for content. Works the same.
 
Does Dickens qualify? I try to read him at a book a year pace and he is the only guy I'll do that for. Every other fiction book I read is a random grab.
 
LogGrad98 said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/books/20patt.html

He wrote the first 2 in the series (co-authored the second I believe actually). The others have had various ghost-writers with Patterson co-authoring a few of them, although his name is still all over them. He endorses them so he is responsible for content. Works the same.
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I'm not only talking about this garbage. I'm talking about other **** that's out there too with his name pimped out all over it. It seems like there's been about ten such books over the last three or four years like that.
 
Yeah he is going down that road too I think. I lost touch with him a while back so I haven't stayed up on it much. I know I read the first 2 Maximum Ride books with my kids then he lost us there when he went on a 15 page tirade over global warming.
 
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