Authors You Hate

[Ohten]

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.

See, I don't think one character being given everything on a silver platter by falling ass-backwards into a save-all-existence plot and a loyal band of sockpuppets that only exist to accentuate how awesome the main character is constitutes a good story.

Keep in mind, given Warcraft's storyline I'm willing to give quite a bit of leeway on Sueish traits, but anything Knaak grunted out in the stall has gone so ridiculously above and beyond, with maybe the sole exception of the work he's put into the dragon Aspects and their respective flights, that it just screams "I cannot write personalities, so I just gather up cliches and make them incredibly awesome and hope nobody will notice." Need I also note that Broxigar, an orc warrior (and only an orc warrior) and another of Knaak's pet Sues, managed to injure the most powerful demon around, something that Aegwynn at the height of her power was exhausted by doing?

And you're right. Most authors will self-insert, but a good author will either hide it well, or make themselves a little cameo that plays a semi-imporant role like Clive Cussler likes to do in his Dirk Pitt novels. They won't make their main character a blatant wish-fulfillment self-insertion.

 

[kamario]

whoever wrote twilight

Stephanie Meyer. And same.

you have good taste in who to despise.

Same and agreed.

Agreed.

 

[Pezzer]

whoever wrote twilight

Stephanie Meyer. And same.

you have good taste in who to despise.

Same and agreed.

I also agree.
mostly I hate the fangirls *shudder*

 

[Spinozaad]

Harry Mulisch.

 

[Horizontalvertigo]

Stephanie Meyer sh*ts me up the wall so badly. Horrible tripe.
Eragon kid. liked his first book, half read the second, and the third one was lying around in class one day, and i couldn't be bothered with school work. (I have a great work ethic donchyaknow?) unfortunately I had developed literary taste and found it to be a laughable, confused and cliched heap of scat.
Tho I have to stand up for Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-four was a bloody brilliant novel.

 

[Horizontalvertigo]

(Reading back through the pages and putting in my own thoughts as I go, I'll forget otherwise)
Terry Pratchett is awesome, but hes a "if you like the books, you adore them; if you don't, you despise them" its fairly black and white I've found.

I understand the wording of Shakespeare and it just makes me hate his work all the more. Then man doesn't seem to know how to end a tragedy. Everyone killing each other, while dramatic isn't exactly a great feat of creative writing.

And i did start reading Twilight, cause I thought it couldn't possibly be as bad as it was made out to be on the net, I was proven wrong haha, so yea, I gave it a chance and it was still horrible.

 

[WiccaVamp]

Dean Koontz

Margaret Atwood

J K Rowling

 

[EeveeElectro]

To be honest, I have so much respect for any author because that's what I want to be in the future.
Sure, Stephanie Meyer completely fucked up the image of vampires, but she had the imagination to create a -sigh- incredibly well known series.
So respect to all authors, I don't hate any one who can pursue my dream.

 

[ShankHA32]

Whoever wrote the Sword of Truth series because i do remember the beginning being pure gold, but then it degenerated into the main character being "Like a Boss" and destroying everything.

Thats when i switched to GRRM and have had a very enjoyable time reading A Song of Ice and Fire.

 

[Clashero]

Kate Cary, wrote an unofficial sequel to Dracula that played out like a bad fan fiction with the diary entry style writing, witch I despise .

You are aware that the original book Dracula by Bram Stoker was an epistolary novel, right? It would have been pretty stupid to write the sequel any other way (although I've never read Cary's sequel and would agree that there's almost certainly no need for it).

I'll agree with the Dan Brown thing - the Da Vinci code was pretty worthless. It made no important points, and was the most ham-fisted and awkwardly composed thriller I've ever read. It used all of the most obvious methods of manipulating the reader and didn't give you any payoff for enduring it.

I also refuse to read any more Tom Clancy. I've read a few of his books, and it's really little more than ridiculous right-wing rhetoric buried in a sea of boring, dense, and excruciatingly detailed prose. I do not need an entire chapter dedicated to explaining, in detail, the process of detonation of a nuclear warhead. All I need to know is that the bomb worked.

Same here about Clancy. I used to love his books (there are some I still do. The Cardinal of the Kremlin reads like the perfect spy novel, and The Hunt for Red October is still fantastic), but, yes, I did hate The Sum of All Fears too. One sentence review: 900 pages of very little plot.

 

[Chip7]

Stephanie Meyer, again. Her books are porn for lonely, desperate girls and they're badly written as well. She chucks adverbs everywhere like confetti and her abuse of the thesaurus is nothing to be proud of.

'I USED A BIG WURD! I ARE SMRT!'

No. Also the way she keeps saying she was fucking INSPIRED by other, better books. Liar. Fucking liar.

 

[Blackadder51]

Stephanie Meyer, again. Her books are porn for lonely, desperate girls and they're badly written as well. She chucks adverbs everywhere like confetti and her abuse of the thesaurus is nothing to be proud of.

Guys read it too.

OT: Tim Winton, i hate you

 

[Chip7]

Stephanie Meyer, again. Her books are porn for lonely, desperate girls and they're badly written as well. She chucks adverbs everywhere like confetti and her abuse of the thesaurus is nothing to be proud of.

Guys read it too.

I know that- I once saw one with a Twishite hoodie on- I'm just saying they're porn FOR lonely, desperate girls.

 

[Avernus]

Stephen R. 'can not move a fucking plot forward' Donaldson.

Sorry to those fans of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series, but I seriously tried very hard to get through the first book (twice), and I simply could not achieve that goal. Apparently one of the best anti-hero's ever written, or so I'm told.

Before I'm told I lack good taste, I'll just say that George R.R. Martin rocks. Feel free to disagree.

 

[SpAc3man]

Dan Brown, no question. I enjoy the theories but the actual writing ability is atrocious

 

[Timotei]

A lot of Stephnie Mayer. And I agree full heartedly. I went back to Barnes and Noble and demanded a refund for Twilight. When they wouldn't give it to me I went home instead and threw it into a fire.

Looking back on it I probably could have used the pages for gum, towels, tilet paper, paper for joints[/s] paper airplanes, etc, but that would be admitting that the book had at least some worth.

 

[roxas1360]

Meyer. It's just got to be. I am ashamed to say I liked twilight when I first read it, and the two after it were okay but after breaking dawn came out (worst book I've ever read) and every girl in the country started becoming obsessed with it, I grew rapidly sick of it until I developed a personal vendetta against it. Ah well...

Another author I despise is Darren Shan. Poorly written books, bad plot line, too much hype. I really don't get why people like them so much.

I don't see why people don't like JK Rowling - to me, she is one of the greatest writers of our time. You cannot deny that her books shaped a generation of people; I learnt to read through her books. You can argue to me all you like, I am not budging on her.

Dan Brown is an all right author - I haven't read the Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons but the films were mint, and his other two books are really enjoyable as well.

 

[posom2]

Paolini and Rowling. At least Rowling's later books, the first were actually pretty good, but then it got worse.

 

[frankenpimp]

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.

See, I don't think one character being given everything on a silver platter by falling ass-backwards into a save-all-existence plot and a loyal band of sockpuppets that only exist to accentuate how awesome the main character is constitutes a good story.

Keep in mind, given Warcraft's storyline I'm willing to give quite a bit of leeway on Sueish traits, but anything Knaak grunted out in the stall has gone so ridiculously above and beyond, with maybe the sole exception of the work he's put into the dragon Aspects and their respective flights, that it just screams "I cannot write personalities, so I just gather up cliches and make them incredibly awesome and hope nobody will notice." Need I also note that Broxigar, an orc warrior (and only an orc warrior) and another of Knaak's pet Sues, managed to injure the most powerful demon around, something that Aegwynn at the height of her power was exhausted by doing?

And you're right. Most authors will self-insert, but a good author will either hide it well, or make themselves a little cameo that plays a semi-imporant role like Clive Cussler likes to do in his Dirk Pitt novels. They won't make their main character a blatant wish-fulfillment self-insertion.

It was brox's axe. My bullshit alarm went off when I frist read that but I had to think about it.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

I know, without even reading this thread, that Stephanie Meyer will get a bashing, and deservedly so. Normally I hate bandwagons, but I gave Twilight a fair crack of the whip and it turned out to be so awfully written I had to eat my Cormac Mcarthy collection just to make sure the crapness of it didn't overrun my system. She takes so many liberties with the vampire mythos, which I don't normally have a problem with, but in this case it's used to string up a terrible plot full of holes and ends up looking laughable.