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authors who wrote books that required passwords: William Blake.
Blake was more of a poet than a writer
Hush and hark
To the sound of the Moon in the dark
To the sound that bids you to die...
Splendid verses, the jewel of 19th Century Scottish Poetry!
I don't know if anyone would consider these bad authors but there are two books that were on the best seller list that I started reading like 3 or 4 times and I just could not get into. One was 'One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the other one was "The Emperor's Children" by Claire Messud.
Just recently I picked up The Mask of Nostradamus(along with some others) at the library. It was by someone I had never heard of. Thought the topic(Nostradamus) would make it interesting. I was wrong. What a piece of junk! I didn't get very far. And, I can't recall offhand, of any other time I didn't finish a book. I had barely started this one. Mentioned the book to my Dad, he said the guy who wrote it is a magician. Goes by the name, "Randi the Great." I googled him. James Randi, or as he calls himself, "The Amazing Randi." Says he is a magician and skeptic. Aha! He's been referred to as a "debunker," typically though, he would beg to differ, calls himself an investigator. What ever he is, I will never attempt to read anything by him again. Sorry, if anyone else likes that kind of stuff.
(ouups sorry) just read a paperback I found in a lodge while vacationing, I couldn't finish it but it seemed quite readable, it's the story of a British woman who, walking near a circle of ancient stones, is catapulted in 1950 two centuries back in the Highlands in Georgian Scotland, I lost the book unfortunately, the main character in the story is an evil Captain Randall of the Redcoats, and the heroin is dubbed Sassenach by the Scottish tribesmen ,does someone has a clue as to the author and title of this novel? (just forgot it...)
Just recently I picked up The Mask of Nostradamus(along with some others) at the library. It was by someone I had never heard of. Thought the topic(Nostradamus) would make it interesting. I was wrong. What a piece of junk! I didn't get very far. And, I can't recall offhand, of any other time I didn't finish a book. I had barely started this one. Mentioned the book to my Dad, he said the guy who wrote it is a magician. Goes by the name, "Randi the Great." I googled him. James Randi, or as he calls himself, "The Amazing Randi." Says he is a magician and skeptic. Aha! He's been referred to as a "debunker," typically though, he would beg to differ, calls himself an investigator. What ever he is, I will never attempt to read anything by him again. Sorry, if anyone else likes that kind of stuff.
The Amazing Randi used to be on Johnny Carson a lot, and I loved to watch him debunk. I've never read his books tho, in fact I didn't know he wrote books.
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