I don't hate J.K. Rowling, I just don't really like her earlier books and she killed off most of my favourite characters in her later ones, so i'm not too fond of her right now.

And of course there's Christopher Paolini (whatch out people, I feel a rant coming on). It's not so much that Eragon is a total rip-off of a ton of other books that's truly maddening to me, but that so much of the world accepts it and acts like it means nothing that the book comes dangerously close to plagairism. My eleven year-old brother and I were arguing the other day about exactly how the book rips off LOTR, Star Wars, Dragonriders of Pern, etc. He is a fan of the book and refuses to believe that Christopher Paolini copied Tolkien's elves. He says that's just how elves are and that Tolkien wasn't the first to use them that way, which isn't true. He won't even let me tell him that while the concept of elves is much older than LOTR, Tolkien made them different than they were and was the first to use them as we know them today. The same goes for Dwarves, which Paolini also stole. So anyway, for some reason he won't even hear me out about that or how Eragon's plot parallels Star Wars four (it is the fourth one, right?), and makes up stupid excuses like: "You can't believe everything you hear on the internet." as if he's trying to cover up for Paolini or something. I just don't get it.

I can't really say I dislike many other authors, so there ya go.

Eragon. Inheritance. Eldest.

It's not just the plot of the fourth Star Wars film he copied, apparently (I say apparently as I haven't read it) he copied the fifth one as well, for Eldest. It seems quite likely, then, that the Return of the Jedi will also get a fresh, or not so fresh, interpretation.

Eragon had DWARVES?!

Oh wow.

I tried to read Eragon, but had a lot of trouble getting through it, for the above-mentioned reasons. Plus it sort of seemed that the action/description ratio was way off. But I did not get far enough to read about the dwarves... that is almost too much!

I can understand how the books got published.... his family owned the publishing company. What a wonderful world we live in.

Yes, the only reason he got published initially was because his family owned a publishing company. The only reason he became mass-published was because during his marketing tour he met someone who knew an executive type person of whatever publisher Inheritance is published by. It's an unfair world. Some great works will probably have been produced that have never seen the public eye, and yet Paolini turns up, meets a few people, who then make his excuses for books into the next "big thing". it makes me ill.

Oh, and on the dwarves thing, guess what: they have an agelong rivalry with the elves! You'd never have guessed it!

Gee! Who'da thought?

I think I am going to be sick.

I orginally liked The Inheritance books but after re-reading LOTR i was shocked. just terrible. I may of found it slighlt more entertaining if he had thought up a new kindof Elven structure or perhaps changed teh dwarfs to make them different but NO.

I hope one day he gets arrested for Plagarism. it would my day.

I found it a bit like Star Wars with a LOTR theme heh...how an ordinary boy becomes the savior of the world, so cliche!

The only author i dislike is Stephen King, i found his style dull. I don't like horror anyway...figures huh.

Though there aren't many i hate...hate's a strong word for someone i don't know personally. If they can make some money out of writing, then good for them. it's more than i've achieved

Yes, but alas, that depends on how they've made their money. Writing a medicore, cliched novel and getting it published only beause your parents own a publishing company, then no writing skill is really needed. That makes me so mad...

Yes, Eragon is the one fantasy book I hate. I...*projectile vomits*

You know, in uni, in the writing course I'm doing, someone actually mentioned it as one of their favourite books. I nearly threw a brick at his head. Uggggh.

Woohoo, a HP-hater forum! Actually, the first 4 books were pretty good, but I'm surprised I haven't burnt the Half-Blood Prince by now.
I strongly dislike Ella Enchanted (the movie was better) and I've never read anything I like from the 19th century, especially not Dickens. Yes, everybody hates Dickens. Poor guy. His soul will probably haunt us forever.
As for Animal Farm, I loved it. It was supposed to be creepy.

:thinks: the books by whatshername...Tamara Pierce or something like that. Reeaaaaaaaally boring.

*le gasp*

Blasphemy! Ella Enchanted is still my favorite book! And the movie sucked They got it all wrong, they did.

And Dickens isn't all bad! I mean, I hated Oliver Twist with a passion (ok, so being in pit for the musical version didn't help the case any), but Tale of Two Cities I rather liked.

And we're not a HP hater forum! Maybe hate her writing, but love the story (ok, so that's me).

(I still read Tamora Pierce, too. For the record. Not great writing, but good for a light read)

Wanna know what I hate?

Romance novels. Not the romance section here on YWS, but the ones you find in libraries and at book stores that are all the same plot over and over again. And people still buy it. I just don't understand.

/rant

The story is good....I think she's a great storyteller...but not the best writer. There's a chasm of difference between the two (Best writer?Scalzi's pretty good, if vulgar...but that's another thread )
Edit: for clearing it up, referring to Rowling here