Name your top three overrated authors?

Answer 1

Jean Auel, Danielle Steele, and R. L. Stine.

Jean Auel lets her background research get in the way of her story. She needs to be edited.

Danielle Steele and R. L. Stine both turn out formula novels. R. L. Stine never claimed he did otherwise.

Answer 2

1. Sarah Dessen
2. Ann Brashares
3. Ann M. Martin

I'm not trying to be mean and b-tchy. These 3 authors are pretty talented in their own ways and would be on my list of favorite authors if they didn't stretch their books out.

Sarah Dessen is a great writer. She tackles the plot so you're absorbed in her book until it ends. The thing is, you read one of her books and you expect her next book to be at least a little different. But she ALWAYS writes the same type of plot. Always. Something tragic happens to a teenaged girl (usually around the age of 15 or so) and she goes into this sadness type of phase where she's trying to find herself, or something. Then at the end something is made clear to her and suddenly it's like she's seeing the world anew. The sky is clear and the flowers smell great. Then the book ends and you put it down disappointed and wander off into the bookstore or the library in search of a good book for once. But what do you see? Sarah Dessen, Sarah Dessen, Sarah Dessen! It's like, please! At least J.K. Rowling's books are exciting.

Ann Brashares. Ah. I love her book. Not bookS, but 1 book: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It was great! I cried and laughed and put down the book feeling that it was one of those rare books that have a meaning inside them. But then two days later I discovered she had a second book out: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. Curious and with a lot of time on my hands, I read it. Good, but stretching it. Then out came the third book, then the fourth book. Forget it. I loved the foursome when it was just one story. Please don't drag it out.

As for Ann M. Martin, I don't know how she ever got that "Dog's Life" book out. I read it and was immediately bored by the dull description of a dog's journey. BORING! And no, I am not pro-animal cruelty and I don't enjoy hearing about a dog getting run over by a car. And also, and I know I sound like totally picky but it bugged me, she spelled "chaos" as "kayos" in one of her books. A published author shouldn't be writing like that, and if she is, then at least use spell check.

Answer 3

Danielle Steel
Tom Clancy
Ernest Hemingway

All overrated in my opinion.

Answer 4

Martin Amis - he's only a published author because his Dad was quite good. George Bernard Shaw - trite and unpleasant stuff. John Le Carre - hack thriller writer getting more radical as he gets older but he was a reactionary in the Cold War when he had a little influence.

Answer 5

1. John Grisham
2. Christopher Paolini
3. Practically Any Celebrity Writer

I finally read one of John Grisham's novels a few months ago and true it isn't supposed to be his best but it is supposed to be a good sample of what his work typically is. And it was dull and boring and had no redeeming value.

Ok, I get that Eragon is a good story, but come on, it is way over-hyped. You can totally tell it is a teenager writing it. To match the hype Paolini needs to mature a little and let his writing style mature too.

Answer 6

Nickolas Sparks
Dr Phil

Answer 7

Dean Koontz
Danielle Steel
Oprah

Answer 8

Danielle Steele is my #1, followed by Anne Rice. Mary Higgins Clark is #3, I guess.

Answer 9

Not counted talk show/t.v. people and books of genres I hate I would have to say:

Shakespeare
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jane Austen

I have not read much by any of them but I think they are just plan overrated for classics which is my favorite type of book to read.

Answer 10

Agatha Christie, Leo Tolstoy and Marion Zimmer Bradley.