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Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:32:00 2010 No.564383 [Reply] [Original]

Authors whose books you dislike (or assume you'd dislike) even though you haven't read any of them.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:33:00 2010 No.564385 File: 12 KB, 340x340, stephen_king1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pic related

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:35:00 2010 No.564388 File: 15 KB, 300x388, 071101_StephenKing_vm-vertical.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pic related.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:37:00 2010 No.564389 >>564383 Fuck you, I love King :( After-all, he is the undisputed King of /lit/. He's the enemy of our greatest enemy, Stephanie Heifer Meyer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:38:00 2010 No.564392 File: 90 KB, 459x600, stephen-king-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] picrelated

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:39:00 2010 No.564396 >>564389 Saying King is better than Meyer is like saying Burger King is better than McDonald's.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:40:00 2010 No.564399 >>564396 Don't be a faggot. It's like saying A&W is better than Arbys. Because it is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:42:00 2010 No.564402 File: 80 KB, 270x321, grinch.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Stephen King pic related

>>	Derp De Doo !7Q1qJNYWx. Sat Apr 17 01:44:00 2010 No.564404 why the king hate?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:47:00 2010 No.564409 Dan Brown Admit it, you never read The Da Vinci Code but you hate him anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:49:00 2010 No.564411 >>564409 I actually read the Da Vinci code and thought it was about average for an airport novel

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:49:00 2010 No.564412 King is the greatest author of the last 50 years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:50:00 2010 No.564414 >>564399 Both are fast food for your brain, and their not even that good. Stephen King =/= King of /lit/ Stephen King probably could be nice and chummy with Nicholas Sparks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:51:00 2010 No.564415 >>564414 Are you insulting A&W? Well, fuck your shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:51:00 2010 No.564416 John Grisham.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:52:00 2010 No.564418 >>564411 Yeah, I read both the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. They're not great books, but they made the long-ass flights go by a little quicker. It's obnoxious that Dan Brown makes so much money, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:52:00 2010 No.564419 >>564415 Stephen King wishes he could be A&W. King is more like Country Buffet. Shitty, shitty, shitty.

Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:59:00 2010 No.564431

Anyone who has read more than 2 or 3 Stephen King books is a fucking idiot.

That said, I read "Lisi's Story" or something like that once, just to prove to myself how shitty of a writer King is.

Yes, the plot sucked. Yes, the book was ten times longer than it needed to be.

BUT, I was surprised to find a handful of sentences and paragraphs that were actually written quite masterfully.

But he still fucking sucks. Seriously, the guy who called him the greatest writer of the last 50 years--you are a fucking Retard. Go read some Pynchon and shit yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 01:59:00 2010 No.564433 Haters gonna hate

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:00:00 2010 No.564434 File: 16 KB, 298x448, nyet16109272057.widec.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>564431 >ANYONE WHO HAS DIFFERENT TASTES THAN ME IS STUPID U mad?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:01:00 2010 No.564435 ITT: People who haven't read the Dark Tower series

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:04:00 2010 No.564441 The Stand was amazing. That is all.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:05:00 2010 No.564446 >>564435 I read it. The ending is the worst fucking thing I've ever read. I hate Stephen King's writing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:07:00 2010 No.564451 >>564431 yeah, i usually enjoy king, and even I thought lisey's story was a pile of shit wrapped in shit. i couldn't even finish it.

Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:10:00 2010 No.564458

>>564434

Literature is not about taste. King has never and will never win the National Book Award or fucking Nobel Prize for a reason.

It's because he's a low-brow retard with diarrhea of the pen.

Seriously, does he even READ his shit before he sends it to the publisher? Do THEY even read it?

They know idiots like you people will buy it regardless...

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:11:00 2010 No.564459 Also, what a stupid genre. No limits--hey I think I'll have my character turn into a zombie now k thx.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:12:00 2010 No.564463 >>564458 http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech_sking.html

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:14:00 2010 No.564470 Stephen King got the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. lulz

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:14:00 2010 No.564471 Danielle Steel. My mother reads them and she looks like an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:14:00 2010 No.564473 >>564463 Okay, sure--you got me. But maybe they were trying to tell him that 6,000 books was enough. But which book did they call a masterpiece? Not one... Good job hoarding a genre, King. Now go diaf.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:15:00 2010 No.564476 btw, MY CHARACTER IS NOW A GHOST BOOGA BOOGA

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:15:00 2010 No.564477 File: 13 KB, 352x298, lol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>564463 I'm not even a Stephen King fan, but >>564458 sure got TOLD.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:16:00 2010 No.564480 My character leads a double-life as an AXE MURDER CAUSE HE HAS DADDY ISSUES BOOGA FUCKING BOOGA I'M STEPHEN KING

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:17:00 2010 No.564484 >>564476 >>564480 you could've just left the thread. now you just look butthurt as hell bro.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:17:00 2010 No.564486 My character is a loving husband OH FUCK NO HE'S GONNA KILL EVERYONE CAUSE HE ALSO HAS DADDY ISSUES OR SOME SHIT AND THIS IS ALL ALL METAPHOR FOR CHRISTIANITY BOOGA BOOGA I'M STEPHEN KING BOOGA

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:18:00 2010 No.564490 >>564484 No way, I am having way too much fun with these Stephen King satire novels I'm writing in one sentence... I can haz genius grant now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:18:00 2010 No.564491 Sure is butthurt in here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:19:00 2010 No.564492 >>564473 I definitely didn't agree with the NBF choice. They definitely got their shit fucked up for doing it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:19:00 2010 No.564494 File: 44 KB, 450x354, tin_man_axe_murderer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] <---- AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:20:00 2010 No.564496 My name is Stephen King and I managed to raise two children who are both better writers than I am. I am the best father ever.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:20:00 2010 No.564497 File: 54 KB, 504x377, 1265668809194.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] <---- SCARY! ALSO, GENIUS! AAAAAHHHHHHH!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:21:00 2010 No.564500 File: 133 KB, 633x513, Casper-Friendly-Ghost-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] <-------- AHHHHHH FUUUUUUCK!!!! lol i trol u k done now

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:22:00 2010 No.564506 File: 140 KB, 281x384, 1267504531209.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>564490

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:22:00 2010 No.564507 ps. he sucks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:42:00 2010 No.564559 I've only read Carrie. I liked it. I tried to read another one but couldn't get into it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 13:59:00 2010 No.565582 OP here, LOL at the shitfest this thread turned into

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 14:03:00 2010 No.565590 >>564414 The only King I read was his non-fiction, and from that I gather he probably thinks that Sparks is a pretentious douche. I'm going with Dan Brown, since I have (technically) read King.

>>	Sat Apr 17 19:55:00 2010 No.566372 Guys, guys I just read Angels and Demons. Dan Brown is... MODERATELY OKAY. I mean, Jesus. Why do you guys act like he's the mystery version of Meyer?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 19:56:00 2010 No.566375 Bret Easton Ellis

Anonymous Sat Apr 17 19:59:00 2010 No.566385

>>566372
Because /lit/ is filled with pretentious wannabe intellectuals and since Dan Brown writes books that anyone can read he's no good to them. That simple.

The only problem I have with him is his habit of describing bullshit conspiracy theories as facts - that doesn't really have anything to do with the actual books though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:04:00 2010 No.566398 admittedly he's churned out some shite in the past while, but that, in no way detracts from the brilliance of his earlier novels/stories-Different Seasons, especially. guy who i think refered to The Shining as an metaphor for christianity. No, just no.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:12:00 2010 No.566419 >>566385 > Because /lit/ is filled with pretentious wannabe intellectuals This. /lit/ may be even worse than /mu/ in their hatred of anything popular.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:16:00 2010 No.566430 >>564431 >insult King >read lisi's story >ignore the dark tower series like a nigger >call him shit no faggot, you are the shitty one

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:17:00 2010 No.566433 Yeah stephen King has good works...Pet Semetary, The Gunslinger, Cell....Books like Under the Dome and Carrie basically suck but otherwise...

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:20:00 2010 No.566444 >>564480 Daddy issues and Axe murderers is more Dean Koontz shit. Stephen King may have Christianity metaphors but ignore it and they're good books

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:28:00 2010 No.566460 woohoo stephen king! He's from Maine and so am I so I'm like required to like him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:33:00 2010 No.566472 I find King a hit and miss author. Some of his books are terrible, and some are entertaining. Obviously it's not great literature, but not everything has to be.

Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:34:00 2010 No.566474

Jim Butcher's books (They're called "The Dresden Files" right?).

Lame fantasy covers, huge block lettering for the title/author's name on the cover like a Dean Koontz/James Patterson book, sounds like noir Harry Potter shit, and I cringed when /lit/ posted his author bio and he mentions every stupid little thing he does, like mastered five different types of martial arts and what not-- it was like reading a virgin's Okay Cupid profile.

Oh, and David Wong's "John Dies at he End." I hate that fag's cracked articles, the ironic title his book has, the fact that he's only an author because he's e-famous, and I'm 99% certain he comes to /lit/ hoping we'll discuss his book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 20:43:00 2010 No.566497 Any author whose book covers typically feature the title's name in a smaller font than the author's.

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