Writers We'll Never Read Again (Sorry, Faulkner)

Marlon and Jake tackle the writers they have no interest in revisiting, asking when it's worth giving a beloved (or notorious) author another chance and when it's perfectly fine to walk away for good. Tune in as they debate literary canon, books that simply aren't for them, the difference between a difficult author and a difficult book, and why sometimes the most honest review is, "Nobody needs to go back to that"

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• The Executioner series by Don Pendleton
• Hotel by Arthur Hailey
• Airport by Arthur Hailey
• Wheels by Arthur Hailey
• The Moneychangers by Arthur Hailey
• Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
• Shōgun by James Clavell
• Tai-Pan by James Clavell
• King Rat by James Clavell
• Whirlwind by James Clavell
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Pylon by William Faulkner
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
• Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
• “Where Is the Voice Coming from?” by Eudora Welty
• The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
• The Return of a Native by Thomas Hardy
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing
• Children of Violence series by Doris Lessing
• Pentimento by Lillian Hellman
• Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman
• An Unfinished Woman by Lillian Hellman
• The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
• Butterfield 8 by John O’Hara
• A Rage to Live by John O’Hara
• Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
• Grendel by John Gardner
• October Light by John Gardner
• The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
• On Moral Fiction by John Gardner
• The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Giant by Edna Ferber
• Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
• A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
• Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann
• Burr by Gore Vidal
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
• Delina Delaney by Amanda McKittrick Ros
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Stuart Little by E. B. White
• The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
• Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
• Jaws by Peter Benchley