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Authors Who Are Not Fond of Their Books

October 8, 2022 by Isaiah Joshua Lawrence

There are celebrated authors who hated the movie adaptations of their own books, but there are also authors who hated their own books. Sci-fi writer Octavia Butler is not too fond of her 1978 novel, Survivor. Survivor is one of Butler’s only titles to remain out of print due to it relying too heavily on … Read more

Categories Authors Tags A.A. Milne, Bret Easton Ellis, Peter Benchley, Stephen King

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