ITT: The Worst Authors Ever

[Anonymous No.12769733]

For me, it's Nabokov.
>Terrible prose
>Shit characters
>Boring stories
>Pretentious opinions
>Horrible taste, if you can call it that
>Didn't like Jazz
There's no author comparable to this author's shit-tier presence. Anybody who likes him is a tasteless hack who enjoys thinking they are better by liking such a lowbrow writer. Pallball.

[Anonymous No.12769739]

>>12769733
I like Nabokov. He is one of my favorite authors. The way he writes about identity is intriguing.

[Anonymous No.12769741]

>>12769733
>I read for the plot. Hurr durr.
>Beautiful prose? What is prose? Is that a plot point?

[Anonymous No.12769744]

>>12769733
>Terrible prose
Opinion discarded

[Anonymous No.12769751]

>>12769733
I don't think he's the worst ever, but I just don't like his works: Hemingway. It's simply a mixture of his boring prose and equally boring stories, admittedly this is only a complaint of his short stories, all of which I've read. I've yet to read his novels and have no real plans to do so. The one story I did enjoy was Macomber and that's it.

[Anonymous No.12769754]

>>12769733
For me, it's you

[Anonymous No.12769791]

>>12769741
>he thinks Nabokov has any merit as a prose writer
>>12769739
ok
>>12769744
you probably have the driest and most ornate prose, or even worse, you're a critic
>>12769751
Fair enough. He is pretty boring. I enjoyed his most famous short, and that one where a father tends to his sick son. He is best in the shortest form, so as he is not to bore.
>>12769754
lmao, no u, kek retard

[Anonymous No.12769811]

>>12769791
Nabokov doesn't have dry prose at all. He isn't McCarthy. Are you confusing him with someone else? Just read the first paragraph of Lolita, or the day before the execution in invitation to a beheading, and you will be immediately btfo'd.

[Anonymous No.12769839]

>>12769811
His prose is dry, just because he works hard on an opener doesn't excuse the rest of the book being the driest thing in the world. He tries to recapture the skill he displayed but it just comes off as hogwash, and hearing of his writing method, it doesn't surprise me of how inconsistent and terrible his books are. For lolita, all you need to read is that first paragraph/chapter and that's the best you'll get out of it. And even then, he's not that great.

[Anonymous No.12769851]

>>12769839
Actually the haircut in the barbershop is the best and most important scene. Nabokov loosely admits it in the afterward when he says he spent months laboring on that one scene.

[Anonymous No.12769873]

>>12769851
>taking the author's word as to what is important in a work
Just because he wasted months doesn't make it better. You can sacrifice everything and then some and still craft shit.

[Anonymous No.12769946]

>>12769839
I don't think you know what dry means. Even if you think Nabokov's writing is bad, it is not dry.

[Anonymous No.12769979]

>>12769733
lmao get nabbed on loser