Favorite fiction you've read this year?

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35. i thought michael chricton died?

on principle i don't read novels by dead people, i would like to see the person who actually wrote the novel put their name on it and get the credit

i mean james patterson is pretty out there about the fact that he just sells his name to people and that's why so many of his books are crap and he's still alive but if you're dead and your publisher can just sell your name to the highest bidder that's really icky as far as i'm concerned

if i have crichton mixed up w. some other guy, let me know, because right now i'm utterly convinced he's been dead as a doornail for some time now


hell considering the un-evenness of his work i guess it's unlikely he EVER wrote all his own stuff, put jurassic park next to lost world for example, there's no way the same dude wrote both books but he had a franchise and his name went on both...i just hate that, seems so dishonest even tho i realize there had to be contract and the ghostwriter himself was willing to accept it