Just recalling that I used to read a ton of pulp adventure thriller writers as a teenager but never do anymore. Alistair Maclean, Desmond Bagley, Dick Francis, Clive Cussler, Robert Ludlum, Wilbur Smith (all incidentally available widely in India often in cheap pirated editions)
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I think Clive Cussler was my favorite. NOAA explorer-investigator Dirk Pitt.
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Dick Francis (horse racing world adventures) was second favorite. Among the generics I think I liked Bagley best, though Nackean was more famous.
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This genre kinda appears to have died.
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Cold War genre really, even if not spy-vs-spy, which I never enjoyed as much, though some John Le Carre and Len Deighton were kinda good.
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TV basically replaced pulp fiction for me
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I read a ton of westerns too (Louis L’Amour and J. T. Edson) simply because they were easily available. But never enjoyed them as much. Less universal appeal than Cold War thrillers.
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Wonder why this stuff is so heavily gendered. All the writers and most readers are male. Though I think women read this stuff far more than guys read romances.
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Replying to
The men/therapy meme but “men will read the dumbest possible plot to avoid thinking about character”
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