Flaws of Great Writers

[billy]

read earth by emile zola jack. it's on par with joyce's Dubliners. spillane is pulp as is sven hassle wilbur smith wrote a lot of fiction about africa. shout at the devil (which was turned into a film) a sparrow falls, the dark of the sun and when the lions feed. he uses stereotypical characters but the plots are excellent. he's a prolific writer. terry pratchett is my almost favourite writer. yet i do hate his non fiction stuff where he talks about his fictional stuff .

i could never get into the silmarillion from tolkien yet i loved TLOTR and the hobbit. the silmarillion seemed to arty farty for my taste but suspose it's expected from a language expert