Sidney Sheldon

I’d heard on the news last night that Sid­ney Shel­don had passed. He was a pro­lific writer and I was one happy reader when I dis­cov­ered him. I think I even blogged about him when I first started blog­ging about books. I’d only had the plea­sure of enjoy­ing two of his books: If Tomor­row Comes and The Rage of Angels. I still have some of his older books still lying around here. I’d tried read­ing more but couldn’t quite get into them like I did the other two books. If Tom­r­row Comes I would clas­sify as more “roman­tic sus­pense” but heavy on the sus­pense. It had, at the time, one of the best pro­logues. The story fea­tured a cou­ple of theives try­ing to out­wit each other and win scores. Kind of akin to Nora Robert’s “Hon­est Illu­sions”, but it’s it light on the romance.

Rage of Angels deal more with the mob and doesn’t end all that hap­pily. It was a page-turner regard­less. Yep, Sid­ney Shel­don wrote his share of page-turners. He left behind an exten­sive back­list and had a hand in sev­eral TV projects as well. Later in his career, it was rumored that Shel­don had a ghost writer. Like V.C. Andrews, their names on a book guar­enteed a good read. I think I bought his last best­seller and like the rest it sits unread on my book­shelf. I’m sure a lot of his fans are griev­ing the loss of a won­der­ful author. Thank you Mr. Shel­don for a cou­ple of great reads. My con­do­lences to his fam­ily and friends. If you’ve never read this author, those two books I men­tioned ear­lier would be a great place to start.

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