# Well known authors you can't get into (for whatever reason) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-known-authors-you-cant-get-into-for-whatever-reason/405336 "2007-05-24T11:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-known-authors-you-cant-get-into-for-whatever-reason/405336/81 "2007-05-29T02:56:29Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] I think that’s Wallace Stegner’s _Crossing to Safety_. My mother loved this book. I found it unendurably tedious. [/QUOTE] Oh, thank you–it’s been bugging me all day (Amazon is useless when you don’t have author or title…) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-known-authors-you-cant-get-into-for-whatever-reason/405336/82 "2007-05-29T02:58:48Z")
[QUOTE=CairoCarol] That was Robert Cormier – I loved the Chocolate War. And since I’m here, let me add Susan Sontag for writing “In America.” Inexcusably pretentious and smug. I wanted to shred the pages and use them for kitty litter. [/QUOTE] Re Courmier–I had to read an interview of him for the same class. IMO, he came across as smug and righteous. He kept saying that since bad things happen to good people, he should follow that premise in his books. I don’t have a problem with that. I disliked his characterization of anyone disliking his characters or plot as being all rainbows and kittens etc. There is SOME middle ground, when last I checked… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-known-authors-you-cant-get-into-for-whatever-reason/405336.md?page=4)