I like him, but for me, it’s Stephen King, a lot of his stories he goes off on a twenty page non-relevant rant.
Though, the ones where he keeps that to a minimum, are great.
Then there’s Mr. Marketer James Patterson who markets out his name to other authors making it look like he wrote the book when it was obviously someone else.
I enjoyed the couple of books of his I read, but I also think he’s as popular as he is because of the obvious controversies. Truthfully, he’s very much a college undergrad required reading kind of novelist.