Authors You Hate

[IamQ]

Does it have to be someone alive?

If not, then Jonathan Swift. I read Gulliver's travels, and that book is so damn boring, and the worst of it is that there is no dialoge at all.
When a talking sequence begins, It's always "He told Gullier" or "He shouted at Gulliver", it gets so frustrating.

 

[Dalisclock]

Winston was also the single most unlikeable fellow I've ever read about.

More unlikeable then Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye? That's hard to believe.

 

[Dalisclock]

Also, J.D. Salinger is also another author I dislike greatly. After reading Catcher in the Rye, I was ready to slit my wrists and go emo. Friggin' Holden...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has a hard time with that, though my problem is that Holden is the only character that immediately made me want to reach into the book and throttle him.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Terry Pratchett: Hah! Gotcha.

I'm sorry but you dont really seem to have underlined anything wrong with terry pratchett, as far as I'm concerned he's a briliant author.

Then you have fallen for my astounding mental trickery.

 

[Dalisclock]

Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson.

For Fucking up the Dune Series.

 

[Cheesebob]

Stephen King.

I tried, God all mighty I tried, but I could not summon the energy needed to like the books he wrote

 

[crooked_ferret]

piers anthony - because I think he actually uses a random word generator to come up with story ideas.
and Stephen King.

The reason I hate stephen king is because more of his books are flashback than forward progressing story. IT was a big example of this.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Some minor alterations have been made to this thread, namely the title and a note on the opening post.

 

[jad4400]

J.D. Salinger for writing Catcher in the Rye. Just some asshole complaining and feeling sorry for himself because his kid brother dies. Couldn't finish it but I can understand why so many mass killers loved it so much, only a psycho would read that blank [http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/106478/PaulMcCarthy_ComplexShit.jpg]!

The Chick who wrote Twilight!!!!!!!

And Shapkephese.........................Please don't kill me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who's Shapkephese? Do you mean Shakespeare?
I personally like Shakespeare and think the fact that they force people to read him is why he gets so much hate from kids.
Shakespeare's works were meant for the stage and loses a lot if you read it like a regular book.
They best way to read Shakespeare is to imagine your favorite actor or just people you know reading the lines to each other while you sit back like a director at a theater or film set, telling them what to do.

Hmmm, never thought of reading Shakespeare that way, however I'm an avid reader and the semi-made up english word he uses bugs me to no end.

 

[Kaijj]

Actually I rather like Salvatore's drawn out combat scenes. And it was definitely better than Paolini's method of some wizard waving his hands and someone falling over dead.

But anyways my worst read ever was Dicken's Great Expectations. It was a few hundred pages of nothing happening.

 

[Jedoro]

Ray Bradbury

I fucking hated Fahrenheit 451 because of how it ended. To me, the whole book seemed to be chapter one in Guy's quest to preserve literature, because I was honestly intrigued by the end, and I wanted the story to go on. But no, he had to stop when the book finally got good, and I hate him for that.

Side note, did anyone else notice how the main character, Guy Montag, has almost the exact same name as the Firebat hero Gui Montag, who was present in the editor? I can't remember seeing him in the game, but I thought about him when I first read the book, and wondered if it was a coincidence or not that they both used flame-based tools.

 

[Julianking93]

whoever wrote twilight

Stephany Meyer. That Mormon *****. (no offense to anyone who is Mormon)

I just can't stand her books. They're absolutely horrible!

Oh, wow, the reason you don't get burned or harmed in the sun is because "You Sparkle" and amazingly you're not gay! And you don't have to feed on people's blood just because "you don't want to"

And the supposed "plain/ugly" new girl gets treated like a fucking princess the second she walks in to school and who's name is Bella Swan (which means "Beautiful Swan" by the way)

Then all of the boring as fuck "fights" in the book are just done horribly. Even in the last one, when the big confrontation happens, all they do is sit down and discuss shit then bitchslap each other for a couple pages.

[spoiler/]And dont even get me started on the bullshit sex and pregnancy scene[/spoiler]

You want to hear about that just ask.

 

[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)

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.

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

 

[The AI]

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.

 

[NoTroll]

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*

I agree, out of all the works I had to read for school this past year Animal Farm stuck with me more than any. I actually went out and bought a copy after borrowing it from the library. The last few lines especially caught me. I love it when the authors last words in a story hold metaphorical meaning and directly deal with the title and theme.

I'd also like to know what the first poster has against Orwell. If you wouldn't mind, do you have any recommendations for other books? I know there was one other Orwell wrote that was supposed to be good.

If you're interested in Orwell I'd suggest reading Down and Out in Paris and London as well as pretty much all of his essays. I'm not normally the kind of guy who reads essays, but Orwell's are brilliant while still being easy to read.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Kinley Mcgregor or however you spell her name.

Eesk, every damned book is a badly written, fan fictionesque sexscapade chock full of Mary Sue characters with a traumatic past and the guys are always 'sculpted'. Seriously, every description of the 'hot lead guy' is sculpted this and sculpted that and for once would it kill her to write something that is happily ever after?

Seriously, there's no tension in a book when you know she doesn't have the guts to kill anyone, not a single one. She's like an Anti J.K.Rowling.

 

[ninja steve]

jk just because she didnt take the movie into her own hands and it was a dissapointment

 

[Shycte]

If I don't like em'. I don't read it. Simple as that.

 

[Ninja Tank]

any author schools use as part of the program

 

[Zukonub]

Dickens books are good for the story. The characters are generally one-dimensional, the writing is annoyingly verbose, and the social commentary almost always boils down to some anviliciously anti-capitalist message. A Tale of Two Cities, for example, has what I consider to be one of the finest climaxes in all of literature, having a plot that was meticulously detailed from the beginning.
I think Jennifer M P-T qualifies, what with her ripoff of characters from Final Fantasy 7. Stephenie Meyer is also pretty shit, and I've actually read Twilight and the Host.