Spike ,'Selfless'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I wonder how old (young) the author is that he had never heard of Cartland or Robbins.
Me, too. They were probably the authors most cited as examples of the poor taste of the masses from the '60s into the '80s. Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers was the first book I read with sex in it. Simenon and Cartland were both amazingly prolific.
Oh, I didn't mean they were good. Just that she was writing in sort of the same tradition, for a new audience.
Oh! I've heard of The Carpetbaggers, but not Harold Robbins. Or Simenon. I have read Cartland though.
Does it help that I recognized and have read all the "far more common are writers like Mary Gaitskill, Harlen Coben, Paolo Bacigalupi and Debbie Macomber, all best-selling, well-established writers whose name-recognition extends only as far as readers of single category" except Mary Gaitskill (I'm guessing a mystery writer?). Though admittedly, only Bacigalupi due to a free Baen book--is he really popular?
Mary Gaitskill is literary fiction. I've never heard of Paolo Bacigalupi.
I think he wrote "The Wind-up Girl" which won a...Nebula this year? I haven't read it, though. I think it's kinda steampunky.
I only haven't heard of Coben, but then I am a big ol' bibliophile.
Heh. I've read The Windup Girl (by Bacigalupi) but I don't actually recognize his name (I googled).
Oh! I've heard really good things about The Wind-up Girl, but I guess I hadn't heard his name.
Mary Gaitskill (I'm guessing a mystery writer?)
Mary Gaitskill writes very kinky short stories.
Though admittedly, only Bacigalupi due to a free Baen book--is he really popular?
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
Harlan Coben whoops got him confused with Lee Child. Who I think of as very similar: Books I read on airplanes. :) Myron Bolitar, ex-sports star, now agent who ends up all up in mysteries and gets shot and stuff.
I hadn't heard of him until I was in a used bookstore in Vietnam and there were tons of his books. But when I came back to the states he seemed to be everywhere.
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
Well, sure, but Harlan Coben and Debbie Macomber have tons of books each--I'm confused by whether his point is "award winning authors in their genre" (...I don't actually think HC or DM are very GOOD) or just "popular authors in their genre"?