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Which authors/books do you hate?

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Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:50 pm
Firestarter says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:50 pm
I have to say I have a particular dislike of Dickens ... I just can't understand how people can like the way he approaches a scene. It's just horribly done, and it hurts my brain.

So which authors or specific books do you tend to despise?
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:57 pm
Emerson says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:57 pm
I don't like Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

I have a particular dislike for Stephen King. He is too slow. He starts slow and the scenes are slow. I just don't like him. His movies are good though.

I'm not sure who else I hate :lol: maybe I'll come up with more later?
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:59 pm
Dream Deep says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:59 pm
Firestarter wrote:I have to say I have a particular dislike of Dickens ... I just can't understand how people can like the way he approaches a scene. It's just horribly done, and it hurts my brain.

So which authors or specific books do you tend to despise?


I hate Dickens. But even more than him I hate John Steinbeck. Now I know, I know -- everyone's supposed to love The Grapes of Wrath...

Oy. Not so much.
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:11 pm
Emerson says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:11 pm
lol Everyone hates Dickens! I've started him, but decided to read other things.

It makes me feel bad though, last night Sam said my style was Dickens-like. oh well.

Oh, And I never liked Harry Potter much. But, I have grown out of YAs all together so that might be some of it.
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:26 pm
Cassandra says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:26 pm
Bah. Harry Potter isn't YA, Claudette! And some YA books are done well.

I hate the Catcher in the Rye. Holden is so whiny... *stabs* I just don't understand why people like the book. Anyone care to explain? ;)
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:01 pm
Firestarter says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:01 pm
Because! It's an account of teenage troubles. You're supposed to empathise!
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:08 pm
Cassandra says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:08 pm
Empathize? But the main character's just a big fat complainer! He goes on and on about how everything's so phony and fake. I honestly don't think I know anyone that annoying!

...Nevermind, I do. :shock:

But anyway, aren't you supposed to not write angst? Isn't angst bad...or something? Because that's definitely all Catcher in the Rye is...

*Grimaces* I think we have to read it for school this year.
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:49 pm
Writersdomain says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:49 pm
Unlike most, I really like Dickens. :D

One of the many authors that I really hate thus far is Dee Henderson, namely for her work The Protector. Her entire focus is centered on two characters in a cheesy love story while a band of intriguing, supporting characters are left unused and inconclusive.
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:27 pm
Emerson says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:27 pm
You don't like the catcher and the rye! *attacks Cassi* But its such a good book!!! I actually haven't read it in....two years so I don't remember much about it. Have you ever read The Bell Jar? That's also very good, its been called the female Catcher and The Rye, but I think I like it better. Still, how can you hate the catcher and the rye!!!

I think I like it because it's so catching. Of course, I haven't read it in two years, and I've become more literately experienced since then. (Does that even make sense?)
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:55 pm
Firestarter says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:55 pm
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is my favourite-book-that-is-like-catcher-in-the-rye.
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:07 pm
Cassandra says... · Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:07 pm
That's funny, because I just read The Bell Jar this summer, and I rather despised it. Now that I think about it, Ester was whiny too!

Oy. Classics don't like me. XD

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Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:17 am
Caligula's Launderette says... · Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:17 am
I have a particular dislike for The Grapes of Wrath, as for authors Christopher Paolini. I also detest Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter. Oi vey!

I don't particular like Dickins main-stream stuff aka A Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist. But I do like his weirder stuff The Old Curiosity Shop and Bleak House.
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Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:20 am
Poor Imp says... · Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:20 am
I'm more than merely less than fond of Christopher Paolini--put diffidently. Someone bought his first book for me--fifteenth birthday gift. #_#''

More dislikes at another time...
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Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:58 am
Elizabeth says... · Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:58 am
JK, her morals are shot and she's too rich. if Voldemort dies then she does too. for she IS voldemort. I am not a general fan of the HP series either... Peopel drive me nuts with it.

one book I totally disliked was.... Well it was by my favorite author but I think that these ones totally stank, they were the Dawn Rochelle Series (by Lurlene McDaniel) .. I don't know... something about making a series about a girl who is dying and then *something something* wasn't really that interesting... I can't remember it, I didn't read the last few.
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Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:05 am
Emerson says... · Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:05 am
JK, her morals are shot and she's too rich. if Voldemort dies then she does too. for she IS voldemort. I am not a general fan of the HP series either... Peopel drive me nuts with it.
yay for not liking hp!!!

I'm with you in that boat.

And while we're at it, I hated Animal Farm. It scared me.
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