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      <![CDATA[@8: Did you really just name drop Chihuly and Warhol in one sentence?
        
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      <![CDATA[@3 <br />
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 I can't?  I just did.
        
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      <![CDATA[if an authors feels they can "direct" the writer in such as way that what the reader wants is still present in the book, i don't see what the problem is.  chihuly.  warhol.  etc...
        
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      <![CDATA[At my publisher, we openly refer to our best-selling authors as "brands". We're thrilled when they cowrite with people, if it helps us get at least a book a year out of them. <br />
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That being said, I don't understand people who hate on bad books. Who cares? No one is making you read them. Someone likes them, obviously, and someone else is making money off of them. No one with real taste takes them seriously. It's like bashing on McDonalds for having bad food. You know, duh and all that.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ack! hadn't read enough of the linked article. It seems that both names are (somewhere) on the book, and this ghost writer has gotten published as himself.<br />
It's just an odd concept-to write fiction that someone else will get to take credit for.
        
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      <![CDATA[How bizarre-it never occurred to me that Patterson was so bad and so prolific because he wasn't doing the writing. I thought he was so bad because he was churning out so much crap. At least with the series books for kids and YA readers it's well known that the the "author" is a bunch of people.I've learned that some of my favorite books weren't written by the guy named on the cover ( not Patterson, I've never managed to finish more than a chapter of "his" books). It's horribly sad- those writers should be able to get the money for doing their own work, not churning out another slab of this junk. And the publishers are lying, by pretending that one person has produced this much product.
        
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      <![CDATA[Don't even get me started on this quack job of a writer; he doesn't even deserve to be called one.  I fucking hate him.  He ruins the very idea of books and literature.
        
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You can't use a fancy semiotic term like 'text' when referring to James Patterson.  The correct way to describe his work is to call it a 'bunch of shit on a page.'
        
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      <![CDATA[“Facing the projects and their captive populace of thousands are a nasty little Chinese restaurant, a Western Union that cashes child-support payments and a liquor store named Liquor Store, with more bulletproof glass than the Popemobile.”<br />
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...If that's the highlighted piece of this book, I really hate to imagine the rest of the prose.
        
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