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I gave up reading James Herbert about twenty years ago when I realised that his endings always disappointed. I read The Dark or Lair or whatever, thoroughly enjoyed the build up, and wondered how the hell he was going to bring it all to an appropriate conclusion and every time it seemed (to me) to be dealt with by some kind of silly afterthought (play a high pitched sound and lure all the rat sto their death; turn a light on to get rid of the dark, etc).
Dan Brown's book was, IMHO, awful. Just like many of James Patterson's. And Jeffrey Deaver's. And the thing with all of them is that you just can't put them down! There's a lesson there that I really wish I could learn. I read all these "awful" books in about a tenth of the time it takes me to read the good ones. Maybe it's time to recalibrate my judgement monitor.Jealous DEl
I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code. I hate to think what that says about me, but I thought it was great fun, and highly readable.
I've just received the Best American Short Stories, edited by Stephen King. I haven't read any of them yet, but will get back to you. I'm hoping that with King at the helm, they're going to be cracking stories.
On the plus side, I am almost done editing them all and by Saturday (ideally) they will have all been sent out. Then I can start collecting rejection slips.