Jane Yolen.

She has won a million awards and has published something like 250 books. I have read Jane Yolen. I have met Jane Yolen. There is nothing about Jane Yolen that I really find interesting. I don't believe her work is really superior to anything any ordinary, non-published fiction writer could write. I just have a hard time seeing the addiction.

Caroline B. Cooney

Every single one of her books was about a hot chic meeting a hot guy and they'd fall in love and make out... and I'm not exaggerating. And almost every kid in our class did their book speech about Face on the Milk Carton...

Cynthia Voight

Homecoming and Dicey's song. Four kids looking for their mentally handicapped mother who abandoned them. And there's a lot about Dicey being upset that she cant not wear a shirt anymore because she's "developing" in Dicey's song. And James says "It's still true." every day.

I love Harry Potter now, but in all honesty I don't think it's something I will be able to read 10 years from now unless I'm just taking a walk down memory lane for a good smile. It's a great series, but not really timeless in my eyes.

Books I hate...

-Heart of Darkness
-Catcher in the Rye
-Ethan Frome
-The Old Man and the Sea

I'm sure there are more on my list, but it's late and I can't think of any The ones I listed are all pretty well known classics, but they just didn't catch me. I understand why they're considered classics & appreciate them..but I just don't enjoy reading them.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS!! Oh, that book is dreadful, and I have to study it for my GCSE's. All the Brontes' books are stupid. I've only read said WH, but I know the story of others, and I've seen films of some of them. Mad wifes locked up in attics who try to eat their relatives, people who go mad because of love, silly governesses just don't do anything for me.
Tamora Pierce, Raymond E Feist, Christopher Paolini and JK Rowling are on my Not-to-read List...
Edgar Allen Poe is a bit long-winded and I'm sure there's heaps more that I could say.

Other than a certain Christopher Paolini, I cannot think of an author that I hate on a deep seated, personal level. (I would like to state for the record that I cannot stand Lord of the Flies, although I never read more than the first couple of pages.)

I don't hate any authors, not really, I just sort of disdain them. If I say I hate someone it makes me feel dreadfully naughty.

Christopher Paolini, naturally. JK Rowling. And what's the name of the author of 'The Amber Spyglass' and those other books? I once read an interview of his that gave me a very bad impression.

Books themselves? Urm... I was sort of unhappy about all of the sequels to 'Peter Pan.' I dislike all of those 'children's' classics. You know, the ones that take the original books and dice them up and ruin them, all for the sake of children too young to understand the real, beautiful books? It makes me rather sad.

I definitely agree with Goldenheart. Sequals for books that are supposed to end happily ever after? They're supposed to stay that way!

The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier. We had to read this book in seventh grade, and wow, was that disturbing for some of the kids. It's all about 'disturbing the universe' and selling chocolate and uh... masturbating. Yeah, so not worth your time.

Another book that sucked: Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I don't care what anyone says. I hate, hate, hate, hate HATE this book with a fiery and burning passion. If my hatred for this book was a fire, it would be a blazing conflagration of massive destructive capacities.

I also disliked St. Augustine's Confessions, but I'm going to blame that one on immaturity and try it again in the next few years.

^^I didn't like Confessions either.

I also don't like Descartes' Meditations. He was inspired by Augustine, so I wasn't surprised when I read it and didn't like it either. I really liked the 1st and 2nd Meditations. Then I read the 3rd Meditation and realized how bad Descartes is. His logic is seriously flawed.

Oh gosh, if I ever see Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter again, something drastic will happen. I mean, five pages of one sentence? Come on!

This might sound weird, but I really did not like Lord of the Rings. Maybe I should try reading it again, but I just remember being so lost in the story and hating the endless songs (who reads those, anyway?)

There is also a book called "Phantom of Paris" written by a 17 year old. I'm not dissing young writers (why would I be here then ) but it is honestly one of the most horrible books I have ever read.

It's worth it to re-read Lord of the Rings, I think. I couldn't follow The Hobbit the first time I read it.

(& skip the songs. I don't think I've ever read them, and I just finished re-reading for the nth time.)

Yes, the songs are a tad annoying. I don't like poetry at the best of times, but elven poetry... *shudders* The thing is, I feel guilty if I haven't read the entire book, cover to cover. I'm a strange person.

William Shatner and his freakin' ghost writers. DX

Edit: And Lemony Snicket. I just really, really, really can't stand the repetitiveness.

KazSmurf wrote: The thing is, I feel guilty if I haven't read the entire book, cover to cover. I'm a strange person.

I feel that way too some times, but I do tend to skip some stuff if it gets repeptitive or something of the sort.

In truth, a good book should make you feel like you'd be cheating yourself if you didn't every single word.