My current favorite mindless thriller writers: 1. James Rollins.
2. Scott Mariani 3. Mathew Reilly (his earlier books like Temple and Contest are masterpieces. Later work has tapered off. -Lahar Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -----Original Message----- From: Anil Kumar <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:45:47 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] JT Edsons On 1/31/12, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 30-Jan-12 8:18 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote: >> >>> Have almost every L'Amour book. Never got around to JT Edson. >>> How does their writing quality/style compare? >> >> Louis L'Amour is a far better writer than Edson - but for some reason, >> Edson's earlier works are a guilty pleasure for several people, myself >> included. > > Kind of how I'll happily read a Clive Cussler novel and immediately > wonder why the heck I enjoyed it so much. > > Does anybody else have any other guilty pleasures (of the literary > kind) they'd ... um... recommend (if that's the word). > > My list would include Clive Cussler, David Eddings and Edgar Rice Burroughs. > > -- b Yes, exact same feeling from reading Clive Cussler novel; Robin Cook and John Grisham did that to me ten years ago, not anymore. - Anil Kumar
