How much are books representative of their authors personalities?

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Brent
OSC's fiction has little to do with the beliefs of his religion.

Such as the Alvin Maker series ?

[molly bloom]

Jeffrey Archer's books are shiite.


Quod erat demonstrandum.

[Brent]

OSC's books are precisely the sort of thing his religion instructs people to stay away from.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Jeffrey Archer's books are shiite.


Quod erat demonstrandum.

Though I must admit his Kane and Abel made for some good reading when I was in the 8th grade. I remember reading it back-to-back with Sidney Sheldon's The Master of the Game, the Greatest Schlock Novel Ever.

[Zkribbler]

I've noticed one irony in Walter Mosley's novels is that his Afican-American main characters tend to be suspecious of Whites if not outright hostile to them, but a great many White characters in the books are really decent human beings.

Mosley's doing a small campaign here in L.A. to promote his books, and I notice that his stops are all in White areas. Kind of a strange thing to do for an African-American author.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I've noticed one irony in Walter Mosley's novels is that his Afican-American main characters tend to be suspecious of Whites if not outright hostile to them, but a great many White characters in the books are really decent human beings.

Mosley's doing a small campaign here in L.A. to promote his books, and I notice that his stops are all in White areas. Kind of a strange thing to do for an African-American author.

Well, good for him! I read his Blue Light a year or two ago and enjoyed it, even though I thought it was kind of a mess.

[Zkribbler]

Blue Light was one of the few things by him I didn't like.

His lastest Easy Rawlins novel (Little Scarlet) and his latest Fearless Jones novel (Fear Itself) are terrific.

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Brent
OSC's books are precisely the sort of thing his religion instructs people to stay away from.

Wha?!