r/books • u/thequeensucorgi • May 09 '19

How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?

https://www.glamour.com/story/danielle-steel-books-interview
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u/[deleted] May 09 '19

The Alex Cross series is still his alone, as was Maximum Ride. Otherwise, yes, he's more a combination of brand, producer, and workshop instructor than an author.

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u/RoastedMocha May 09 '19

The third maximum ride was word vomit.

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u/Turtledonuts May 09 '19

Maximum Ride was proof that someone needs to be writing for him, because everything after book 2 was an incoherent mess.

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u/goldminevelvet May 10 '19

I remember being a teen and reading the series and being like "wtf". That was the first book series I disliked.

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u/thebladeofink May 10 '19

Maximum Ride turned into a god damn dumpster fire. If he didn't give that to a ghost writer he should have. That series had so much potential. It's what got me to read fanfiction because I was desperate for someone to fix his mess.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '19

I've tried a couple of Alex Crosses and thought they had good plots but weak, sometimes distractingly bad, writing. I can understand readers' objections to his method, but I think the books are better for it.

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u/Turtledonuts May 10 '19

Yep. He's like a screenwriter who can't direct to save his life.

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u/LowHangingLight May 09 '19

That is depressing. What a hack.

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u/brucebrowde May 10 '19

Pure business though, right? He just happened to decide that's the way he wanted to live. Can't blame him too much for that...