I like him, but for me, it’s Stephen King, a lot of his stories he goes off on a twenty page non-relevant rant.
Though, the ones where he keeps that to a minimum, are great.
Then there’s Mr. Marketer James Patterson who markets out his name to other authors making it look like he wrote the book when it was obviously someone else.
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I agree with most of these answers. I don’t think she’s getting as much attention as she did, but I’m going to say Stephanie Meyer anyway.
I’ll likely get downvoted for this. Mark Twain.
colleen hoover
This thread is terrifying. Imagine Tolkien publishing The Hobbit and asking this thread their honest opinion. I’d wager there would be no LoTR. In that way, I do see the beauty in what you are doing here, it is like watching a time traveler go back in time and preventing their parents from meeting. Honestly, I am re thinking some of my favorite authors now, I’m so confused, and hurt. Touché.
Paulo Coelho.
I am Brazilian and everytime I see his name in a top anything list or must read list, my eyes roll back so hard I can see the back of my skull.
Brett Easton Ellis
that coleen hoover chick… pls
Agatha Christie.
I enjoyed the first book, after that was like reading the same thing over and over.
Lord Byron.
David Foster Wallace. His novels are written to make university faculty cream themselves, but are impenetrable otherwise.
Man, I really admire King as a craftsman and as a storyteller, but yeah, something’s off-kilter with his muse these days. In addition to the way he insists on writing today’s teens as though they’d grown up when Eisenhower was in office (though he avoided that in LATER somehow…), there’s his confounding insistence on larding common dialogue with endless digressions and “witticisms.”
A character: Gonna go take a piss. I’ll be back.
A King character: Well, pard, like my grandpap used to say — it’s better to take a leak than to spring a leak, you hear me? And he knew for sure ‘cause that man could fill an adult diaper in no time flat. I figger I got a few more years before I gotta pad my pecker and I’m gonna enjoy every piss in its right time, in the meantime. Be back quicker than it takes to unhook your best gal’s bra.Ali Hazelwood. Just no. She writes the same characters and storylines over and over. I gave The Love Hypothesis a chance because people kept raving about it, but I ended up powering through it with sheer rage and contempt.
Unpopular opinion, but Salman Rushdie. He’s controversial. That’s all.
I tried to read The Satanic Verses when it was first published. I made it about a third of the way through and gave up. Maybe it was because I Was in still in high school, but I found it to be very boring.
It’s Stephen king for me as well even though I do love some of his new stuff to death like fairy tale.
He is just a bit weird for me is all the way he can write his young characters just gives me really weird feelings/vibes.
I tore my way through just about king’s entire catalogue from ages 14-16 and loved most of them, but now that I’m an adult the way he writes about kids, and especially women or young girls, is quite off putting to me.
Definitely Patterson. And what frustrates me is that, if you look at Patterson’s early work, it’s actually quite good. This leads me to believe that, though he’s capable of being a great novelist, he just chooses not to be, going instead to be a literary machine. And that’s fine (because he surely has a devoted audience), it’s just disappointing.
That’s because in the beginning James Patterson wrote his own books. Now all his books are co-authored. He writes an outline and the first chapter and then the co-author writes the majority of the book. You’re not really reading James Patterson. You’re reading the co-author.