Reply to: Authors who haven't written a single bad book

[Spacecadet]

on the other side of the spectrum is Jilly Cooper, someone who has never written a 'good
' book.

So you've read them then

[sbakoola]

charles bukowski


on the other side of the spectrum is Jilly Cooper, someone who has never written a 'good
' book.

[ZARDOZ]

I was quite a fan of Paul Raymond's publications. Never read a bad one.

[doodab]

How can a book be bad if it has pictures in it?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Cats-Pai.../dp/1841880744

[doodab]

Iain Banks +1

Iain Banks + 2

and Iain M Banks as well

And Richard Feynman

[Cliphead]

+1
Enid Blyton
Sinead de Valera
Iain Banks
Roald Dahl ( my fave The Wonderful story of Henry Sugar)

Iain Banks +1

[pjclarke]

Is there a reason you picked on Flytopia?

I just felt that the narrative was not strong enough to carry the weight of the central conceit, essentially that there was a good story to be hung onto this premise, but this wasn't it. Same goes for Great Apes, which had some brilliant 'set pieces' but not enough meat to hang them together, and a weakish ending.

But I am glad that people are reading Self, even on a bad day he can write most modern authors off the page ...

[darrenb]

Roger Hargreaves! I am just making my way through the collection now, opus by magnificent opus.

And Scott Adams. How can a book be bad if it has pictures in it?

[norrahe]

JRR Tolkien

+1
Enid Blyton
Sinead de Valera
Iain Banks
Roald Dahl ( my fave The Wonderful story of Henry Sugar)

[SimonMac]

Dan Brown

JK Rowling

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Jules Verne and the Adventures of TinTin.

Hergé did a lot of stuff other than TinTin, not much of it held up to his most famous works though

[Cliphead]

JRR Tolkien

[realityhack]

John Wyndham

+1

Also: Aldous Huxley.

[MrMark]

Dan Brown

JK Rowling

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Jules Verne and the Adventures of TinTin.

[Old Greg]

Nah, The Wishing Chair. Cute chair with wings constructed in the rustic style that means there is none of this huffing and puffing to get to the top of some tree.

Ah but you use the basket going up answer the Slippery Slope going down.

[alluvial]

You bad man



Great story but I think The Faraway Tree was better for true escapism, showing that despite all life struggles all you need is a magic tree

Nah, The Wishing Chair. Cute chair with wings constructed in the rustic style that means there is none of this huffing and puffing to get to the top of some tree.