Reply #37: I have read several Jackie Collins books. [View All]

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They all have the same plot, the same characters, the same over-the-top writing, and the same cliches. I don't have to read any more of them to know I'd probably be getting the same recycled stuff.

I tried to read Danielle Steele. Twice. It was painful. Whoever is editing her ought to be taken out back and shot.

I have never read either Sidney Sheldon or Harold Robbins.

Now - why would you assume I would disparage authors, thinking they "must suck" because they are popular? Why would you assume I didn't have a basis for my opinion?

There are plenty of popular authors I do like. Mary Higgins Clark and James Patterson are two.