Crypto and Mr. Indie, you guys need to start some threads about books you like! So far most of the commentary you give us is what you think is total shit.

Heya Elyse... I had no problems with your post to us at all. Frankly I would love to discuss books that I loved, however as Crypto has mentioned, none of the threads I have started have gone anywhere. *Laugh* It's the same when I go into music stores, and ask if they have any CD's by bands I enjoy. (No one knows who or what I am talking about...) Also I do not claim in any way to have discovered some hidden stash of eminently amazing writers. I love off beat writers, music and movies. If it gets played on the radio, put on an endcap at Borders, or played in the theater, than the odds that I will like it are very slim. Everything has become so very cookie cutter in the entertainment world.

As for this thread... well let's all admit that it is much easier to point out things you dislike, than the things you love. *Laugh* Lately I seem to have little energy for either. What I really dislike, is when something gets over exposed, and called the greatest "Fill in the blank", when in reality there are thousands of better authors, bands, or movies...

Lastly, and I am being totally open and honest to the extreme here... I have a memory like a steel sieve... I forget about 95% of what I read in a given year. I used to keep a list but I stopped years ago. So maybe one book out of the hundred plus I read a year will stick in my mind, and that book is rarely the best, just the most interesting or funny.

I used to like both King and Rice, but now think they have become diluted, formulaic, greedy, arrogant, novel-cranking sell-outs. Before I got to this post I was thinking of starting a sub-thread called "Formerly Good Authors Who Have Gone to $h!T," but the two you've mentioned and my ensuing rant pretty much got that out of my system. Thanks!