I’m feeling a bit salty: what’s an author you DO NOT like.
Someone controversial, if you dare.
I’ve got a couple, but really interested in what you might have to say first.
@Coffee_and_Salt I can't get into Stephen King. I want to, but I just find his stuff so slow.
@Bahsyla I completely get that! I love to read and it’s not that his writing is bad but after a dedicated read time I hope for some more development. Sped up to a films pace and it’s solid.
I have felt somewhat betrayed at the end of a couple of Stephen King’s books (Cujo and The Stand). I think he’s a great writer, but not really for me.
@Coffee_and_Salt mike flynn
@DJNoneYa may I ask which one? Wasn’t sure so double checked and there are a surprising number of mikes and Flynn’s that write.
the one that served TFG
@DJNoneYa oh yeah shit can that garbage.
I got bogged down in the third or fourth GoT book. I don’t have the patience for George R.R. Martin. I wouldn’t say he’s overrated, but he’s not my kind of story-teller.
@pstone I agree. I’m in no position to determine something as over rated but I too did not board the R.R. Martin train.
@pstone @Coffee_and_Salt GoT is the only series I've ever rage quit.
@Coffee_and_Salt maybe not the author because I love the short story The Dead but James Joyce Ulysses was unreadable
@Coffee_and_Salt love/hate relationship with Dan Brown. Contrived plots, one dimensional female characters, dumb, anticlimactic endings....also once I start the book I cannot put it down. 🤦🏼♀️
I used to feel that way about James Patterson until I finally got free.
@Coffee_and_Salt Colleen Hoover.
@Coffee_and_Salt Elin Hilderbrand. Execrable. Also, I read Stacey Abrams's While Justice Sleeps. Great premise, but the lady needs an editor.
@cunningpike not familiar with Hilderbrand but execrable is quite the description! Was it just published dribble or was it something more?
@Coffee_and_Salt Just drivel. Characters I couldn't stand, purple prose.... I like chick lit as much as the next guy, but this was terrible, IMHO.
@Coffee_and_Salt Not to be confused with Erin Morgenstern. The Night Circus and The Starless Sea were *amazing*
@Coffee_and_Salt how is that I was just thinking stoicism when you tooted !
But mine was not doing the chores as I can do them tomorrow
And realizing that is not very stoic
Damn
@Coffee_and_Salt 😆 no tomatoes from me. He's also on my list of really wanted to like but just... didn't. I still want to try Anthropocene Reviewed though.
Bret Easton Ellis. Read both American Psycho & Rules of Attraction because I liked the films & found the books utterly unreadable. Also heard Less Than Zero is the same, so...eh
@Coffee_and_Salt - Dickens, Conrad, Kingsley Amis, Henry James, Charlotte Bronte. I am a reader and love their contemporaries and other writers in their genres, but these folks leave me cold.
@emma_peel oh man Conrad. While I appreciated Heart of Darkness, and that English was not his native language, I too struggled with feeling anything I would call enjoyment from that read. It’s depiction has value, but I will never pick up a Conrad book again.
@Coffee_and_Salt Agreed! Chinua Achebe has a wonderful article on it- "An Image of Africa."
And I’m ready to be put in the stocks and get hit with the matos:
John Green
*activates stoicism*