No.
To be honest, I don't even know who those "mainstream popular novelists" of the moment are, except for the local ones that I don't read but can't escape from their media exposure. And Dan Brown, as I think even blind, deaf and living in the middle of the woods someone would probably still manage to be invaded by the marketing machine behind Dan Brown.
I used to read quite a few as a kid/YA (I loved Colleen McCullough's Roman novels for e.g., and Ludlum if it counts as "mainstream" rather than genre), but after spending a decade or so barely reading fiction, what I read now (aside from non fiction that remains my dominant choice) is mostly literature, with about 20% of genre fiction for entertainment.
To be honest, I don't even know who those "mainstream popular novelists" of the moment are, except for the local ones that I don't read but can't escape from their media exposure. And Dan Brown, as I think even blind, deaf and living in the middle of the woods someone would probably still manage to be invaded by the marketing machine behind Dan Brown.
I used to read quite a few as a kid/YA (I loved Colleen McCullough's Roman novels for e.g., and Ludlum if it counts as "mainstream" rather than genre), but after spending a decade or so barely reading fiction, what I read now (aside from non fiction that remains my dominant choice) is mostly literature, with about 20% of genre fiction for entertainment.
This message last edited by DomA on 14/04/2012 at 09:44:39 PM
Due to a recent discovery, I have a question to ask.
14/04/2012 03:15:57 PM
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Not really, but I used to be quite keen on Wilbur Smith's Egyptian novels.
14/04/2012 04:43:22 PM
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Unless you count John Irving as such...
14/04/2012 09:39:39 PM
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From the impression I gather from amazon...
15/04/2012 12:04:47 AM
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Re: From the impression I gather from amazon...
16/04/2012 09:20:19 PM
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It looked like a pretty accurate list of books that make it big and into convenience stores, to me.
16/04/2012 10:04:09 PM
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not really. my parents used to and i would read their books but that was a long time ago. *NM*
16/04/2012 05:44:15 AM
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You mean those things hoi polloi read?
16/04/2012 06:49:31 PM
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I don't think you did your redneck slang right.
16/04/2012 09:12:31 PM
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You may have to get more specific about the authors you're thinking of, then. *NM*
16/04/2012 10:05:05 PM
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I used to read Tom Clancy, John Grisham, David Baldacci and the like.
17/04/2012 12:31:03 PM
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