what crap authors do you really like?

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I read all of jeffrey archers fosrt prson diary yesterday
crap but great
hoxty like Jilly cooper
what else?

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oi, early Jilly Cooper, the novels with the girls' names, are sensational comfort reads. esp harriet & imogen. full of great 70s details and lots of sparky characterisation. much better than the doorsteps that came after.
georgette heyer isn't crap!

i'm sorry MI. i do read proper books really.... ;)

Noooo, not upmarket - discovered her when we lived in US. Very crap (sample plot ) but not bad...

I used to rather like Harold Robbins

I read all the Flowers in the Attic books too after my Mum not letting me read them as a teenager, it was one of the first things I read when I left home. They were rubbish though!

LOL Demented - me too. And sad as I am every Virgina Andrews series after that....

Read loads of Jackie Collins, Judith Krantz and Danielle Steele when much younger, have now progressed onto The Joy of Sex which is pretty much the same thing

LOL! I called it a day after Flowers in the Attic, to give them their due the first book was good, the story just got more and more unbelieveable and by the last book it was just plain daft!

Just seen the title says "really like" so would like to retract Harold Robbins! Will admit to Jilly Cooper and Georgette Heyer though.

I loved the early JCs too Bakedpotato, Imogen was my particular favourite too. Emily was pretty silly as well, though. And the spoilt young miss on the canal boat weekend whose name escapes me...fab.

Can't beat Georgette Heyer imo. (classic rather than crap I would say).

MariNativity, aha, i think you're thinking of octavia? she gets spanked by 'welsh gorilla' gareth llewellyn, which makes her realise she is really very much in love with him. IMO you simply can't beat that sort of period detail.
(the novel kicks off with champagne at annabel's, and i think her boyfriend is probably wearing a tight pink suit).

I must admit a soft spot for Catherine Cookson.

Yes, safe and predictable, but (like Agatha Christie) I do think she is good at what she does, and the books are well strucutured without any bits that jar. Great escapism!

Oh, I hate saying this - she's not a crap author, but is a childrens author........... yes, ypu've guessed, it's J K Rowling.

I LOVE those Potter books, I've read all of them, and I wishwishwish they had been around when I was a child.

I read one CC book, and thought that the style of writing was awful. The stories make quite easy watching though. I loved watching 'The Gambling Man', with Robson Green.

What's Georgette Heyer like? Like plunging into a swimming pool full of swansdown head first with chocolates in both hands. My favourites in order are A Civil Contract, Venetia, Cotillion, Friday's Child and I could go on but I won't. They are historical romances either 18th C which I don't like or Regency which i do.

Other crap authors I like:
Elinor M Whatsername for The Chalet School but after having a 'revival' on them 3 years ago I have suddenly become unable to read them again.
Clive James' Tv criticism from the 70s which I can quote chunks from if you ask which funnily enough nobody does.
Dick Francis - the almighty Dick - but generally the later ones are unreadably crap rather than just grippingly crap. Favourites are Blood Sport, Nerve, Dead Cert, Banker and The Danger.
Dorothy L Sayers. But the racism kills.

o yes and Nevil Shute although I get a bit tired of his 'all women are stupid as hens of course' attitude and his racism. again. Can't decide if he was in fact relatively advanced for his age and was just writing for a market, or if he was actually a bigot.
But am reading A Town Like Alice tonight and will probably go on to No Highway and then Trustee from the Toolroom because it goes like that.

I loved Rona Jaffe!!

Thanks Bakedpotato, that has been bothering me all day. OCTAVIA - and the Don Carlos broadcast. JC was a shrewd and funny chronicler of life in those days. Do you remember Ace Mulholland's awful American girlfriend from Prudence and her wholefood...Berenice, was it? I was always more of a Maggie .
I've just remembered the crap novelist to top them all, surely...did anyone else spend their teens ploughing through the lurid prose of Mazo de la Roche's Jalna Chronicles? Overheated or what! That woman was VERY odd.

John Grisham