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.
Definitely Patterson. And what frustrates me is that, if you look at Patterson’s early work, it’s actually quite good. This leads me to believe that, though he’s capable of being a great novelist, he just chooses not to be, going instead to be a literary machine. And that’s fine (because he surely has a devoted audience), it’s just disappointing.
That’s because in the beginning James Patterson wrote his own books. Now all his books are co-authored. He writes an outline and the first chapter and then the co-author writes the majority of the book. You’re not really reading James Patterson. You’re reading the co-author.