Authors You Hate

[o_O]

hmm... you do have a pretty good point there, but thats why i said the *outcome* of his workings, not the ideas, also, i dont hate him because of american "propaganda", (im canadian, though that might still count) but because of Animal Farm, which made hate the idea of communism

Gaaaah. I really don't want to post here just because I want to comment on this post, yet I am compelled to.

The entire point of Animal Farm was to satirize how communism went over is Russia. Needless to say, it flew over like a lead balloon. Perhaps you remember the old pig at the beginning of the book explaining Animalism's tenants? Yeah, that represented Marx. The other two pigs took the idea and corrupted it to hell and back, as seen in how they slightly changed the 7 tenants over time. None shall sleep on a bed... with sheets. All are equal... except some are moreso. You were supposed to hate how it ended up at the end of the book.

However, If you actually had issue with the idea presented at the beginning of the book, I have been uselessly dribbling along and feel stupid.

Now, to satisfy the bit of me screaming to add at least something to main topic, I'll say that I haven't read an author that I haven't liked. Sure, I haven't liked bits of books (I echo the sentiment about Ptolemy's Gate), but not everything an author does. Maybe I'm just lucky in who I read or don't read enough.

 

[Ohten]

I dislike Paolini, for reasons the original post touched on rather thoroughly. The only other author I can say I don't like is Richard A. Knaak. I have yet to read anything written by him where I could bring myself to care about obvious self-inserts, Mary Sues, and villain-of-the-week plots.

I've successfully purged all memory of his work on Dragonlance from my mind, so let's look at the work he's done with Warcraft lore, using it as toilet paper to wipe his Rhonin fantasies on. First and foremost, Knaak turned the War of the Ancients, a major turning point in night elven culture and history and arguably the beginning of high elven culture and history, into a time-travel adventure just to continue showing off how awesome his pet Mary Sue/self-insert Rhonin was. He even went so far to have Rhonin teaching Illidan Stormrage magic, backtalk to night elves in high positions of authority (something that, back then, would have gotten anyone else executed). Oh, did I mention that Deathwing compared him to the Guardian Medivh, he marries a high elf girl (a Windrunner at that), has several half-elf children against the odds (high elves have a very low birth rate to prevent overpopulation, thanks to long life spans), and out of nowhere replaces the leader of the Kirin Tor (who was in Alterac/Dalaran overseeing reconstruction)with nary a line explaining how?

 

[frankenpimp]

Christie Golden

 

[frankenpimp]

I dislike Paolini, for reasons the original post touched on rather thoroughly. The only other author I can say I don't like is Richard A. Knaak. I have yet to read anything written by him where I could bring myself to care about obvious self-inserts, Mary Sues, and villain-of-the-week plots.

I've successfully purged all memory of his work on Dragonlance from my mind, so let's look at the work he's done with Warcraft lore, using it as toilet paper to wipe his Rhonin fantasies on. First and foremost, Knaak turned the War of the Ancients, a major turning point in night elven culture and history and arguably the beginning of high elven culture and history, into a time-travel adventure just to continue showing off how awesome his pet Mary Sue/self-insert Rhonin was. He even went so far to have Rhonin teaching Illidan Stormrage magic, backtalk to night elves in high positions of authority (something that, back then, would have gotten anyone else executed). Oh, did I mention that Deathwing compared him to the Guardian Medivh, he marries a high elf girl (a Windrunner at that), has several half-elf children against the odds (high elves have a very low birth rate to prevent overpopulation, thanks to long life spans), and out of nowhere replaces the leader of the Kirin Tor (who was in Alterac/Dalaran overseeing reconstruction)with nary a line explaining how?

I didn't really care about the whole Rhonin/Knaak thing. It made a for a good story. And I doubt any author hasn't portrayed themselves as one of their characters.

 

[Uncle Colin]

JK Rowling and whoever the hell wrote Twilight.

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

any author schools use as part of the program

Here here! I now hate to Kill a Mockingbird due to over analysing ever damn word.

 

[Baconator96]

The ***** who wrote Twilight

second

 

[TheScarecrow]

Charles Dickens.

Literary appreciation fail.

I'm going to be slightly generic and say Stephenie Meyer. I can't stand her books, which proves that it's not a Mormon thing (I was raised Mormon, but even though I still attend church with my parents and think the BOM is true, I just don't care. I want to live for right now, because it's gonna be gone soon if I don't.)

Anyways, I also think that some of Shakespeare's works are heavily overrated. I consider Romeo and Juliet to be one of his weakest works, while slightly lesser known ones, such as The Merchant of Venice and Taming of the Shrew, are quite awesome.

I personally want to read Twilight so I can know for myself how bad it is. I was prepared to shoot your post down until you praised The Merchant.
Also what's with the Mormom thing you touched on there, what does it have to do with anything?

 

[Megacherv]

R.A. Salvatore. There is just something I bloody hate about him. I do not like his "Drizzt" character, I do not like how he writes, and I hate the fans his books spawned. Shit, they're worse then Harry Potter fans.

But without either of those two, we wouldn't have Unforgotten Realms and the current fantastic storyline...think about this stuff carefully...

 

[Zukonub]

Charles Dickens.

Literary appreciation fail.

I'm going to be slightly generic and say Stephenie Meyer. I can't stand her books, which proves that it's not a Mormon thing (I was raised Mormon, but even though I still attend church with my parents and think the BOM is true, I just don't care. I want to live for right now, because it's gonna be gone soon if I don't.)

Anyways, I also think that some of Shakespeare's works are heavily overrated. I consider Romeo and Juliet to be one of his weakest works, while slightly lesser known ones, such as The Merchant of Venice and Taming of the Shrew, are quite awesome.

I personally want to read Twilight so I can know for myself how bad it is. I was prepared to shoot your post down until you praised The Merchant.
Also what's with the Mormom thing you touched on there, what does it have to do with anything?

Twilight is regarded as a Mormon parable of sorts. The main characters (generally regarded as perfect in the book), are abstinent, Meyer is a devout Mormon, and the most common motif is that everybody has one person truly meant for them. Not to mention the almost cold apathy given to the dark-skinned characters, first popularized by Mormonism.

 

[Megacherv]

any author schools use as part of the program

Here here! I now hate to Kill a Mockingbird due to over analysing ever damn word.

Hey, I had to do I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for my English GCSE. By Super Mecha Death Christ the BOREDOM.

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

Laurell K Hamilton. She totally raped the Anita Blake series. Literally. Had a decent character if a little generic, semi decent story lines. It was nothing amazing but it was readable. Then all of a sudden BAM. She goes from virgin mary to ubar whore. I am not exaggerating. She suddenly needs sex to live so goes from having one man in her entire life to banging over a dozen guys soo far. Vampires, were (even in beast form) anything she can get her vagoo on. Early in the series she fought bloody hard to not get raped by a few guys. Now she would be the one doing the raping.
I have heard that the early books were co written by her husband but then he got sick of it and left and then instantly it went to crap. There is not even a story anymore. It is soo flimsy even a porn director would shake his head in disgust. The only good thing the author has ever done was get Jim Butcher printed so for that reason alone I will let her live.

I agree with a good chunk of that. I thought a couple of the earlier Anita Blake books were really cool, but once she hit double figures they just dived straight downhill and ended up as a load of badly written furry-porn without any of the horror/mystery that they were supposed to be providing. The farie books she wrote were even worse.....

I would hate Meyer, Brown and the kid who wrote Eragon if I could actually be bothered to read them.

I may get some hate for this, but I've got a bit of a problem with Phillip K Dick. I think the guy has some wonderful ideas, but he just can't tell a story that hold my attension.

 

[TheScarecrow]

Twilight is regarded as a Mormon parable of sorts. The main characters (generally regarded as perfect in the book), are abstinent, Meyer is a devout Mormon, and the most common motif is that everybody has one person truly meant for them. Not to mention the almost cold apathy given to the dark-skinned characters, first popularized by Mormonism.

Really? I did not know that. However it is a little bit hilarious.

 

[EscapeArtist]

George Lucas
'nuff said

 

[Sendo1920]

Stephanie Meyer, Charles Dickens and Chinua Achebe, for their books "Twilight", "Great Expectations" and "Things Fall Apart", respectively.

I like Dickens' characters, but his plots are horrible, and the other two just cannot write anything entertaining.

 

[molester jester]

Terry Goodkind
Terry Pratchett

cant stand either of them

 

[The_Echo]

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.

Considering his age, it's a brilliant piece of work, and it gets better as it goes on.

 

[XSA37]

whoever wrote twilight

Stephanie Meyer. And same.

I think that almost everybody who had sanity and a liking for classic, Dracula-esque vampires agrees with this statement.

 

[Suikun]

Charles Dickens.

Literary appreciation fail.

Literary genius my arse. I don't appreciate wasting time reading useless details when valuable plot can be developed and cultured! Classic Literature can bite me, thank you very much. ('cept Shakespeare... he's just awesometastic.)

 

[leviandhisshenmue]

So funny thing, I was reading the Blurb for the Host (another crapshoot written by Meyers) and all the authors who praised the book,were also mormon, and I mean like the illuminati of mormon authors, orson scott card and the like. Thing is all of them have written aweful or mediocer (that's spelled wrong). Hell Card's only good book was Enders Game. (I only point this out cause I myself am a mormon, who also is a writer, at least an aspring one.)