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Anonymous Wed May 11 23:01:45 2011 No.1765826 [Reply] [Original]

Shit

ITT: Your most hated author

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:02:45 2011 No.1765835 File: 36 KB, 450x337, DanBrown.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:02:45 2011 No.1765832 whoever wrote vanishing point got it for $4 and still felt ripped off

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:04:45 2011 No.1765843 Nicholas Sparks.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:04:45 2011 No.1765840 File: 147 KB, 444x600, Obama.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:06:45 2011 No.1765846 inb4 obvious and wealthy authors

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:09:45 2011 No.1765858 Dostoevsky! So PRETENTIOUS!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:15:45 2011 No.1765870 That bitch Maya Angelou.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:16:45 2011 No.1765872 OP is my most hated author.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:19:45 2011 No.1765879 Dean Koontz

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:21:45 2011 No.1765884 tolstoy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:21:45 2011 No.1765886 >>1765872 HOW DO YOU KNOW OF MY WORK!?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:21:45 2011 No.1765887 Tom Robbins.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:22:45 2011 No.1765890 File: 28 KB, 266x264, no.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1765870 Hey, she came to my college a few weeks ago for a reading. >mfw someone wanted me to attend

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:24:45 2011 No.1765892 George R. R. Martin Hate is a strong word though OP

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:24:45 2011 No.1765894 Jonathan Safran Foer

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:30:45 2011 No.1765902 Ayn Rand.

>>	Ziggy Stardust !LrtpfUHOC. Wed May 11 23:31:45 2011 No.1765906 that bitch that wrote like 100 romance books that were later adapted into shitty movies, series, telenovellas and crap like that.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:32:45 2011 No.1765909 File: 966 KB, 304x171, rlJ5A.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1765892 Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:34:45 2011 No.1765913 >>1765906 I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:35:45 2011 No.1765916 >>1765906 Weren't there quite a few bitches like that?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:36:45 2011 No.1765919 >>1765909 Get out /tv/

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:37:45 2011 No.1765921 Nathaniel Hawthorne. I've never read anyone else as proficient at barfing out a story.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:38:45 2011 No.1765923 >>1765906 Danielle Steele? Or Jackie Collins? Both are extremely bad.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:39:45 2011 No.1765925 Bukowski

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:41:45 2011 No.1765926 Marg-rat atwood is a feminist cow

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:43:45 2011 No.1765931 >>1765926 She might not be my most hated writer, but The Handmaid's Tale was one of the dumbest books I ever read.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:44:45 2011 No.1765934 Tom Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:44:45 2011 No.1765937 >>1765826 >>1765892 lol, my 2 fav authors. You suck, guys!

>>	Ziggy Stardust !LrtpfUHOC. Wed May 11 23:45:45 2011 No.1765940 >>1765923 >>1765916 >>1765913 No, Corin Tellado, she's worse than any other writer, just look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor%C3%ADn_Tellado

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:47:45 2011 No.1765947 Gregory Maguire. Some of his stuff is alright, but for some reason I always get an angry twitch in my eyebrow whenever I read his women characters.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:47:45 2011 No.1765948 File: 148 KB, 486x280, 1305001281769.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:50:45 2011 No.1765964 Jane Austen

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:51:45 2011 No.1765969 klosterman, or augusten burroughs

Anonymous Wed May 11 23:51:45 2011 No.1765966

I've only ever hated one author, Dan Brown. I avoid shit that I know I won't like, stuff like Twilight and Song of Fire and Ice or whatever the fuck it's called. Life's too short to read stuff I'm iffy about. Why take a chance, when I'll never be able to read everything? So I'm extremely picky and deliberate about what I read. Except for Dan Brown. I read Angels and Demons and I almost puked. There were two syntax errors in the first two pages. Also, nobody could jump from a helicopter, while it's exploding, and survive without being showered in shrapnel.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 23:52:45 2011 No.1765973 Toni Morrison

Anonymous Wed May 11 23:59:45 2011 No.1765997

Shit that's tough. Dan Brown or Stephanie Meyer. The former for being a trite faggot that does virtually no research when making his works; the latter writes masturbation fanfics of a setting she designed solely for masturbation fanfics.

Oh wait, Stephanie Meyer doesn't do shit for research either.

So, I guess the answer is Stephanie Meyer.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:07:45 2011 No.1766018 Ayn Rand.

Anonymous Thu May 12 00:07:45 2011 No.1766020
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Neal Stephenson.
And not hate, so much as 'resent, for making me feel like a crazy person'. Cryptonomicon is so obviously complete shit, but people won't shut up about how good it is.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:07:45 2011 No.1766023 Angela Carter

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:09:45 2011 No.1766029 >>1766020 that's cause it is that good. say what you will about his other stuff, but cryptonomicon and the baroque cycle are fucking amazing

Anonymous Thu May 12 00:11:45 2011 No.1766034

>>1765997
I can live with him not doing the research or not including it. It's much easier to write something with just a cursory glance over the real-life equivalent. What I can't stand is him not going back to check later. If you're going to write a historical fiction piece, at least try to make it superficially accurate. Hell, I'll settle for "it's an alternate universe," just give me something that shows you actually give a damn.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:13:45 2011 No.1766038 >>1766020 I also hated Cryptonomicon, thank god someone else did too. (I was also annoyed because it struck me as being sexist as hell but it was mostly just tedious.)

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:15:45 2011 No.1766043 Halo

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:15:45 2011 No.1766045 >>1765879 second

Anonymous Thu May 12 00:16:45 2011 No.1766048

>>1766029

Not OP, but you're way off there son. His books are interesting in an I'ma-pretend-to-be-a-techhead kind of way. But they're simple, and the plots are all driven the same way, and the tech stuff, when you look into it, isn't. (sic)

I mean, "there are no on ramps to the information superhighway." C'mon, dude.

He's ok, and he does present a certain facade, but just because Assange liked it doesn't make it everything.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:18:45 2011 No.1766052 Dave Eggers Sarah Ruhl Rabbi Jonathan Safran Foer Sapphire (author of "Push: A Novel soon to be a major motion picture entitled Precious Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire").

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:19:45 2011 No.1766057 >>1766052 Holy shit, I agree with all of these. I didn't think anyone else hated Ruhl as much as I did. Everyone else sucks her dick (you know she has one.)

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:21:45 2011 No.1766062 Mark Twain. I hate that fucker

Anonymous Thu May 12 00:21:45 2011 No.1766064

Gaiman. I picked up Stardust not knowing who he was and stopped reading because GENERIC FANTASY TROPES ERRYWHERE then later tried to read The Graveyard Book and was disgusted that all of it was stolen from other authors and there was absolutely no character development. Inb4 IT WAS FOR KIDS because there is plenty of excellent writing for the same level it was targeting.

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>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:22:45 2011 No.1766067 >>1765997 >Dan Brown He's an absolute hack. The literary equivalent of Jack-in-the-Box.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:24:45 2011 No.1766070 Tom Clancy. Made it the part in Rainbow Six with the Environmentalist hardliners with AK-47's and decided, naw. I will go read Desperation by Stephen King instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:25:45 2011 No.1766073 >>1765832 You goddamn troll.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:25:45 2011 No.1766074 >>1766062 racis fuk

>>	married oldfag !VqaXcWQC4Q Thu May 12 00:25:45 2011 No.1766076 >>1765931 seconded R. A. Salvatore. When your books aren't as well-plotted as an average D&D game....

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:30:45 2011 No.1766105 That feel when you sit on a toilet taking a massive shit knowing there could very well be a spider under the seat.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:58:45 2011 No.1766239 Bukowski

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 00:59:45 2011 No.1766245 Thomas Hardy. He's good, he just bores me.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 01:07:45 2011 No.1766273 I understand not liking King, but what drives you to vehement dislike? I read The Stand in High School and remember liking it.

Anonymous Thu May 12 01:19:45 2011 No.1766304

>>1766273
OP here, I was half-joking as I dislike half his work.

Mostly I put his face up because he ruined an incredible series. It's not the first time I've hated an author for running a series into a ground, but I was really attached to the first four book of the Dark Tower...
I'm still going to pick up The Wind Through The Keyhole despite my frustration.

There are actually quite a few authors posted here I would put beneath King. He's got talent but also some very obvious flaws.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 11:54:45 2011 No.1766977 >>1766304 Stephen King has never been good at making sequels. The Dark Tower series was getting progressively worse as the books came out… though admittedly I didn't think he was going to have such a severe drop in quality with the final book.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 12:02:45 2011 No.1766988 chuck palahniuk

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 12:16:45 2011 No.1767003 Stephen King, Dan Brown, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Neil Gaiman.

Anonymous Thu May 12 12:19:45 2011 No.1767008

>>1765879
A friend of my mom's gave me 10 or so of his paperbacks. I started and stopped 4 of em before deciding I shouldn't be hating the author and myself for reading this shit and just threw the rest away.
I see why she gave em away.
Here is one of a thousand examples of Kootie's horrible horrible metaphors:

"If you reported having seen a ghost, you were a regular guy who'd had an uncanny experience. If you reported seeing another ghost at another place and time, you were at best an eccentric whose every statement would thereafter be taken with enough salt to crust the rims of a million margarita glasses."

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 12:27:45 2011 No.1767016 File: 31 KB, 301x475, TIH[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jackoff London So obnoxious he makes you want to punch him in the face. Textbook case of "the guy who makes us look bad", whoever "us" might be.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 12 12:34:45 2011 No.1767025 Haruki Murakami

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