[Utah Girl]

I think it is a rule that the more books an author has, the worse each one gets. Tom Clancy is following that rule, as is Patricia Cornwell. Herman Wouk: I loved his early works, cannot stand his later stuff. And Leon Uris is a huge disappointment. I loved Exodus, Mila 18, Armageddon, down to about the Haj. His last book (I didn't remember the title on purpose) was putrid. I won't ever read another new Uris book ever again.

[habs4ever]

Ayn Rand deserves special contempt.She can't write, and I think her prose is as numbing as a Nuremberg rally ;-)Milton's Paradise Lost is a chore, and if you ever want to get a whiff of high brow pretensious writing that makes critics swoon, pick up Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day....grrrrrrr.