can't find no good reason

[tsubame]

Regarding this article in TIME Magazine about James Patterson, and James Patterson's complaint about not being highly respected: how is it possible to respect an author who says of his next book, "I don't think it's terribly worth reading, honestly"?

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[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

The journalist writes for a popular magazine with a very large circulation, a significant part of which may well contribute to the best seller status of James Patterson's books. His readership is unlikely to take kindly to a particularly critical article.

Not that I disagree with you at all. There's no substance to the kind of books that Patterson writes, or to most thrillers when it comes to that.