Which authors/books do you hate?

Eragon. I first I loved it then realized its been done thousands of times before. So...


~Pol~

Tolkein! :dives away from rabid Tolkein-fans:

Baroness Ink wrote:Tolkein! :dives away from rabid Tolkein-fans:

I could just see this image of a person diving out from behind a bush, screaming "TOLKEIN!" at innocent by-standers sitting on a park bench reading copies of LOTR, and then dashing off down a cobbled street.

KazSmurf wrote:

Baroness Ink wrote:Tolkein! :dives away from rabid Tolkein-fans:

I could just see this image of a person diving out from behind a bush, screaming "TOLKEIN!" at innocent by-standers sitting on a park bench reading copies of LOTR, and then dashing off down a cobbled street.

Heheheheheheeeheheee....that's something I'd totally do. XD

William C. Dietz and Matthew Ferrer. They are so robitic in their writings, I feel forcefully ejected from the story.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE! Please, do not ever read any of his books. Knit sweaters or something productive, but please I beg of you, do not read his works.

Writersdomain wrote: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.

i really like Dickens too. and i think Eragon is ok, far from great, but ok. i never joined the throngs of Eragon fans. Eragon is the most irriating hero ever.

Marianne Curley is the only author i can think of. i'm really not picky about books, so i do read and enjoy to an extent her writing, but honestly, i've seen thirteen year olds on this site with better grammar. (no offense to thirteen year olds!) she also has a problem with leaving out detail. battle scenes are freaking one or two pages long. jeez.

One book which has really ticked me off recently is "Ivy" by Julie Hearn. I loved her first novel, "The Merrybegot," and picked up her new book very eagerly. However, the entire thing is about Ivy, a young girl who grew up in the slums and became a model for a Pre-Raphaelite artist. After a few adventures which lead nowhere...

[spoiler]Ivy takes off down a stream on a raft while she's supposed to be pretending to be Ophelia, makes a brief reference to a "grand plan" and vanishes off the pages. The epilogue then jumps 100yrs into the future with the class of 2004 looking at pre-Raphaelite paintings and musing on how you can never really know what happened to the people in them.[/spoiler]

ARGH! It was such a COP-OUT! It was like she just didnt know how to finish it or had a time-limit so just shoved any old thing together at the end. And it smacked of "lookit, this is how I got the idea for this story!" Not to mention psuedo-philosophy is irritating >.<

LOL so yeah. I dont recommend it. But you should read Merrybegot. It's a brilliant example of historical fantasy if ever I saw one. Plus it's a darn good story XD

~bubbles

I really don't like Eragon. I think it's boring,and the characters are pretty much all the same.

Sophie's Choice.

Everyone said it's excellent, but I got so frustrated by the 200th page (out of 600) that I just stopped, It had nothing, nothing at all.

I loved "Ivy", that was the last book I read, finished it last week, but, ya, I agree about the ending. I was kind of left going, "Ok, that's all well and good, but you're just kind of telling me things for the sake of it now, not telling me what I actually want to know." I felt a little let down by the end, to be honest...

Cassandra wrote: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?

OMG!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cather in the Rye? You can't be serious, I mean I loved the book! Holden is whiny he's not brainy [ if thats a word or even makes sense] but he's a real teenager in the 1950's....Okay? Our gee golly , "Leave it to Beaver" times...And we may be used to Holden like people now but back then he was so real and orginal. To be honest to me the book is still relatable cause how often do you find a book for a fifteen year girl can read that has a person like Holden? I mean I've read, seen televison about people who are badasses and rebels...But once I read Cather In the Rye those all felt imation to the prose of J.D. Salinger...
God I don't know what esle to say except I read this book last year [ my freshman year] and it's sitting in my backpack as i type....

I don't like Catcher in the Rye either. (sorry!)
I mean, I have many friends who liked it, but I didn't at all. It got dull after a while...

I guess its like Star Wars you either hate it or love it. !

I can't decided if I like Dickens or not. I read Tale of Two Cities in 9th grade, and I hated it. But, for my AP class, I'm reading Great Expectations. I like the story so much more, but there's still parts where I sigh and wish Dickens would get on with it! I'm not sure.

Eragon. Ugh. The first was okay, but Eldest was pathetic. Please, Eragon's crazy crush on the elf, the deus ex machina with Oromis, Murtagh...no. Unfortunately, I will read the third book. I've come this far, so I have to know the ending.