Authors You Hate

[RebelRising]

John Bunyan, for the self-indulgent, self-superior, redundant ego-fest of a Christian literary classic that is Pilgrim's Progress.

And this is coming from some who loved Inferno and enjoyed The Book of the Dun Cow.

 

[aezakmi42]

agree with Stroud and himself, Rowling is ok at times, and Paolini because of his characters
also Meyers, Dan Brown, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain

Dickens? Twain? Really? I think you're just throwing out much-beloved writers to annoy people. It reminds me of all the high-school kids who moan about how much they hate Shakespeare, just because they don't understand the language. Writing from centuries ago might not work so well to a modern reader, but the very fact that they are still popular and well-known after centuries should say something about the quality of their work. And Mark Twain's letters can still make me laugh.

More to the point: I once tried to read a Dean Koontz book, on recommendation from my friends, but I couldn't get past the first chapter. He got so bogged down in pointless description after pointless description, I couldn't go on and just gave up on it. Matthew Reilly is another author I can only manage the first few chapters of, before I throw the book down in disgust.
Harry Potter fans scare the hell out of me, but then again, they probably scare the hell out of J.K. Rowling, too, so it's hard to hold that against her. The books aren't that bad if you can avoid thinking about their obsessive, maniacal fanbase. And, of course, S. Meyer I hate in particular, because her awful books are turning my younger sister and her generation into brainless idiots.

 

[DasAShinyGolash]

hmm... lets just see how many people rite stephanie myers...

as for me, i'll say everyone who writes teen romance novels, the person who wrote Flipped, and.... Karl Marx, for the outcome of his writings. (notice how i use the word writings, and notice how fancy it makes me)

 

[aezakmi42]

hmm... lets just see how many people rite stephanie myers...

as for me, i'll say everyone who writes teen romance novels, the person who wrote Flipped, and.... Karl Marx, for the outcome of his writings. (notice how i use the word writings, and notice how fancy it makes me)

I did not know that a primary school-level education made you 'fancy'. I'll have to dumb down my words a bit, then.
Karl Marx were not bad, the ppl who took up his ideals as a means to incite rebellion and establish totalitarian government r the 1s to blame.

 

[Knonsense]

Dan Brown. See the link below. Also, the fact that he ripped off another work of fiction then hyped it by implying it was real irked me.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DanBrowned

 

[Citrus]

I agree with William Shakespeare being the most overrated writer of all time. His work is treated like it is the epitome of English literature, and hey, maybe it was back in his time, but it is fairly irrelevant nowadays.

And yes, Stephanie Meyer. Although I wouldn't hate her as much if not for all the success she's had.

 

[DaMan1500]

Stephanie Meyer. Not because I hate the Twilight books, which I've never read because I have a penis, but because one of my friends hates those books so much that he read the entire series so he could find things to ***** about to me, which he does all the time.

 

[trebach]

Edith Wharton - She must be sponsored by the drug companies because I was so horribly depressed and bored after trying to read Ethan Frome.

 

[Left4Meds]

Twilight Author,
'Blessed' Earth (WRONG) with tons of fangirls who won't shut up about it.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/
Leo of VG Cats explains why.

 

[leviathanmisha]

Stephenie Mayer
L Ron Hubbard ... (echoing the_oracle's sentiments)

George Orwell, for 1984 and Animal Farm;

Jeez, I like Orwell. You've obviously got some strong feelings on his writing, do you mind if I ask what it is that you find rubs you the wrong way? If his political views don't sit well with you, I'd understand, but in terms of narrative structure and compelling communication of his ideas, I feel like those are both master pieces.

But, hey, tastes are subjective. All the same, I'm curious what your contention with Orwell is, if you don't mind sharing. I won't jump down your throat or anything. Just left me *headscratching*

Fair enough, Animal Farm was alright. Come to think of it, 1984 was competent, if somewhat drawn-out and bland. Honestly, the only reason I really didn't like it was because it just sort of...let me down. I was expecting some sort of golden-skinned diamond-s**tting wonder, according to the hype I'd heard; in the end, it was grey, depressing, and more than just a little bit redundant (to me, at any rate). Winston was also the single most unlikeable fellow I've ever read about.

...Now that I think about it, I found the borderline softcore a wee bit objectionable; that might've killed it.

In closing, thanks for not flaming me in regards to my views-- that's more than what I usually get.

Everytime I imagine Winston, I imagine my friend Chet, but that's because he was Winston in our school's play.

For my lovely little list...
-Stephenie Meyer
-JK Rowling
-L Ron Hubbard
-Christopher Paolini (He ruined my spring break when I forced to run around for a sick friend trying to find the 3rd book...bastard)

 

[pigeon_of_doom]

I'm not one easily given over to hatred, but the Dan Brown novels tend to get on my nerves. Inexplicably popular, inconsequential crap with no merit beyond the initial mystery.

 

[Xbowhyena]

I like the inheritance cycle a lot; I think it's good, but resembles a lot of Star Wars cliche.

 

[Dancingman]

Christopher Paolini

I read Eragon. I though that it was impressive for having been written for a 17-year old. It was a decidedly amateur effort, but I thought that Christopher Paolini seemed like he had enough talent to eventually write something good.

Yeah, it's a good effort for a 15 year-old, but the fact of the matter is that his parents have a publisher and he stumbled into it.

Whoever wrote Tale of Two Cities. I had that read that book for school, and it was hell.

The fact of the matter is, even if the book were written by the god of literature to be the greatest book in the history of the universe and hand delivered to me by a shining valkyrie, I would still hate it if I had to read it for school, I've always held that you need to get a book and read it of your own will to truly appreciate it.

But yeah, Dickens isn't my favorite either, some authors from the Victorian era are really good, but I get so tired of Dickens' freakish verbosity.

 

[enzilewulf]

tom clancy, his games are okay but i hate how it seemes if i even mentioned terrorist around him he would get up, shoot me 1,000 times then say take that terrorist! and his patriotism is sicking, and i read one of his books, wanted to kill me self. (yes i am american)

 

[Fire Daemon]

Paul Collins is an Australian author and only author (I suppose) who I don't like. I don't hate him but his novel, Dragon Links, pissed me off so much that it almost threw me away from all Fantasy novels. As a kid I was a big fan of fantasy and science fiction (I still am) and I remember after finishing the Deltora Quest, which is a kids fantasy series really, it isn't very deep or engaging and the concepts are rather simple but as far as books for people around ten years old go, they are pretty good. Anyway I just finished the first Deltora Quest series and I wanted to read something else, so I picked up Dragon Links. It looked interesting but man did it suck. The most annoying thing I found is how removed the characters were from the story. The characters know things you don't so when it's revealed that one of the other characters is actually evil (or something similar) it turns out the main character knew that from the get go. Dragon Links had a fairly interesting premise but all the bullshit that gets thrown around in the story stopped me from being able to enjoy it. He gives his main character a fucking laser gun just so he can write the characters out of a corner. A Laser Gun!

If it wasn't for Tolkien I might have stopped reading, that's how bad Paul Collins is. It's been awhile since I read that book though, so I may be mistaken about some things. There was a laser gun though. And a truck that everyone thought was a dragon. My God it was stupid.

 

[AboveUp]

Stephanie Meyer, J.K. Rowling and Philip K. Dick.

 

[Flushfacker]

whoever wrote twilight

Stephanie Meyer. And same.

you have good taste in who to despise.

Same and agreed.

Just to play devils advocate here but have any of you actually read twilight, seems a bit unfair on the author if you havent, unless of course the hatred comes from the sheer number of fan girls/boys(?) it has spawned in which case I will agree and move along sheepishly.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Stephanie Meyer.
Paris Hilton.
Dan Brown.

Also:

whoever wrote twilight

Stephanie Meyer. And same.

you have good taste in who to despise.

Same and agreed.

Just to play devils advocate here but have any of you actually read twilight, seems a bit unfair on the author if you havent, unless of course the hatred comes from the sheer number of fan girls/boys(?) it has spawned in which case I will agree and move along sheepishly.

I read it back when it first came out because a friend told me that it was a vampire romance novel.

Needless to say I didn't like it.

 

[Dancingman]

hmm... lets just see how many people rite stephanie myers...

as for me, i'll say everyone who writes teen romance novels, the person who wrote Flipped, and.... Karl Marx, for the outcome of his writings. (notice how i use the word writings, and notice how fancy it makes me)

Wow, just wow, the Marx comment demonstrates classic American propaganda skewing the meaning of something from what it originally was. Pure Marxist communism is VASTLY different from what occured in Cambodia, the Soviet Union, or China under Mao. Very, very few ideas are inherently evil, and Marx's communism is most certainly not evil, especially considering he came from a time where management really did screw over the labor, and way more than some guy who works at McDonald's for minimum wage, he's just complaining, in those days, management could get away with anything short of cannibalism. Just because Lenin and the Bolsheviks were inspired by those ideas does not make the ideas evil, it's the offshoot of Marxism, that is to say: Leninism, Maoism, and Stalinism.

 

[Halfbreed13]

whoever wrote twilight

Stephanie meyers.
Why any posts were needed after this, I will never know...