which author do you hate the most?

[mark123]

enough said and done about the favourite authors,I want to know which is that one author you hate the most?

[PhotonicGuy]

I completely dislike Jerome K. Jerome. I started reading Three man in a boat and couldn't finish it, is so BORING. Is the only book I didn't finish.

[andr70]

I hate or edislike the authors who create horoscopes in magazines or papers, because lots of people or even teenagers read and they believe all that stuff.

[C0ldf1re]

Will I be lynched if I venture Charles Dickens? His books are so awful. (Well, I know they can't really be awful, because lots of them sell still, but I don't like them.) The characters are unbelievable. The plots are daft. I mean spontaneous combustion as a way of deleting a character in Bleak House... what less can one say?

[~Elle~]

I wouldn't like to say that I have authors that I specifically hate, yet I find certain overrated authors annoying - they write bestsellers that are all hype and no substance, end up disappointing a whole lot of readers yet make the most money and don't give the real writers the spotlight!
And now that I'm at it - authors nowadays that create a series that is totally unnecessary to generate more books and sales. I finish a book - and then I'm told there's a sequel coming up and I have to read that in order to finish the story!! A good, thorough standalone book can beat a dragged-out book series for me anytime.

[C0ldf1re]

Well, I don't know his name, and perhaps "hate" is too strong a word, but let me nominate the author of the script for Bambi! Early in the story, they killed Bambi's mother. Killed his mother! Who in their right mind would think that that was a story fit for children?

[~Elle~]

Well, I don't know his name, and perhaps "hate" is too strong a word, but let me nominate the author of the script for Bambi! Early in the story, they killed Bambi's mother. Killed his mother! Who in their right mind would think that that was a story fit for children?

Lol, I cried as a kid when I watched Bambi because of that.

[laci_baby]

Well, I don't know his name, and perhaps "hate" is too strong a word, but let me nominate the author of the script for Bambi! Early in the story, they killed Bambi's mother. Killed his mother! Who in their right mind would think that that was a story fit for children?

.....just like Fox and the Hound.

[atrixa]

Will I be lynched if I venture Charles Dickens? His books are so awful. (Well, I know they can't really be awful, because lots of them sell still, but I don't like them.) The characters are unbelievable. The plots are daft. I mean spontaneous combustion as a way of deleting a character in Bleak House... what less can one say?

I wouldn't lynch you. I think he's terrible. Such a meandering, slow writing style.

For me it'd be a toss up between Stephanie Meyer and J.K. Rowling. They're both unskilled writers but they've had a ridiculous amount of success.

[Hal3]

Richare Wagner, the German operatic composer. His tracts were literally picked up by Hitler as the basis for his anti semitism--which was not unique to Wagner, still--and for his ideas of Aryan purity. Wagner was Hitler's inspiration.

[mjmooney]

I completely dislike Jerome K. Jerome. I started reading Three man in a boat and couldn't finish it, is so BORING. Is the only book I didn't finish.

I am staggered. Quite possibly my favourite book of all time!

Mike

[smellymonkey]

So far im going to have to say Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice just sticks in my mind as being the worst book i have ever read.

[Mairin]

Edward Rutherfurd. His book "The Forest" was absolutely atrocious! His writing style seems forced and lacks any sense of flow. It was choppy and boring.

[Lost_InPlace]

Well, I don't know his name, and perhaps "hate" is too strong a word, but let me nominate the author of the script for Bambi! Early in the story, they killed Bambi's mother. Killed his mother! Who in their right mind would think that that was a story fit for children?

Completely agree, Bambi was the most horrible kids story ever!

And second JK Rowling, Harry Potter is completely overrated, so many books out there which deserve as much (if not more) attention.
Was it the forth book where every other word was "snogging"? ok, it's for kids but they also understand the words kiss, embrace, peck, smooch, make out, hold hands, all of them ways of showing affection which arent overtly sexual. C'mon JK all that money and you can't afford a thesaurus?

[pontalba]

I have to agree with many of the above posts, although I did enjoy Pride and Prejudice.

But my pet peeve has to be Thomas Pynchon. I've tried to start a couple of his books. Can't get past the first 30 pages. Juvenile, bathroom humor and yet many readers on some forums think the sun rises and sets in the man.
I have the idea that he is laughing at those people, writing tripe and watching readers moon over it. Well, he is laughing all the way to the bank, but not on my dollar.

Don't see a thing to J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, Stephanie Myers...but they're certainly raking in the bucks. Ordinary, sub-standard writing, all of them.