Who do you think are the most overrated authors out there?
For me, they are:
Nicholas Sparks: Ugh, his books are sappy, cheesy, and so cliche! Not to mention they all have some variation of the same plotline!
Sarah Dessen: Same as Mr. Sparks: All cliche, all cheesy, all have the same variation of the same plotline.
Stephanie Meyer: These books are so...ugh. Bella Swan has to be the worst main character I've ever read.
Lisi Harrison (The Clique): Who likes these books? They are SO badly written it's disgusting.
There. My rant is over :)
2007-09-02 18:38:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Jo Rowling
"Harry Potter and Hole of Plots"
2007-09-02 18:45:50 · answer #1 · answered by Faesson 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I'm going to have to go with James Patterson. Ugh. There is a total lack of any form of descriptive writing in his books. Not to mention they read like they were written for ten year olds.
In today's world to make money as a writer all you need to do it churn out the same tired story eight or nine times with a different cover on the front. Why spend years writing a book that could win the Pulitzer prize when in that time you could write ten lousy ones and make a ton of money? I think it's a sad state of affairs.
2007-09-03 03:23:09 · answer #2 · answered by Sarah J 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Henry James (or Ennui James, as I call him--a perfect 100 on the BoreMeter)
Marcel Proust (hey Marcel! find an EDITOR somewhere!)
Joyce Carol Oates
J G Ballard (two more soldiers in the Bore Wars)
Norman Mailer (egomaniac blowhard--and Naked and the Dead was almost supernaturally dull)
Franz Kafka (if it wasn't for midterms and essay questions, who'd've even heard of him?)
William Burroughs/Jack Kerouac/Allen Ginsberg...okay, all those Beat guys
2007-09-02 21:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Omar Cayenne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honestly - I think Stephen King is overrated as a writer. He is an excellent storyteller, and possesses a fantastic imagination, but he is really, in the grand literary scheme of things, not a particularly good writer.
Also I absolutely cannot get through a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. I cannot stand the way she writes. The harder she tries to make her characters interesting and real, the more two-dimensional they become.
I also agree on JK Rowling. They are great stories, but only within that particular genre. Again, an excellent storyteller, but there is nothing exceptional in the writing itself.
2007-09-02 18:47:57 · answer #4 · answered by nene 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I've never read the Clique and nothing on this earth would ever make me do so....
Sarah Dessen i tried reading one but...never reached the end....
Dan Brown cuz i just see the appeal in his books....they seem boring....
And yeah, the author of the Uglies series....i tried reading those too......
Oh and the sisterhood of the traveling pants....people made such a fuss about it two years ago but when i read it i was kinda let down
2007-09-02 18:50:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I totally agree on Nick Sparks he is just TOO sweet blaak!!!!!!!!!
Judith Krantz
Janet Dailey
I would say Stephen King but he is a great writer I just don't like his genre
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens} both boring
HB Stowe and her little cabin book
just to name a few
2007-09-02 23:35:38 · answer #6 · answered by Bashful Reader 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dan Brown. His stories are interesting, but he' just not a very good writer. Also Herman Melville. I could not get myself to read Moby Dick, no matter how hard I tried. That book is just impenetrable.
2007-09-03 23:05:46 · answer #7 · answered by DngrsAngl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.Has a few memorable lines but I think the book is terrible. I had tried on 4 different occassions to read it and only by force did I manage to do so.
2007-09-02 22:14:53 · answer #8 · answered by Babymojito25 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms...all boring.
2007-09-02 19:44:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Stephanie Meyer, Lisi Harrison and J.K. Rowling are all so overated in my opinion.
2007-09-02 19:51:08 · answer #10 · answered by мσℓℓу 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ya, lisi harriosn's books are pretty bad, theres nothing behind her books, it's just words you know?
and nora /j.d. roberts, her books are bascially all the same.
2007-09-02 18:48:52 · answer #11 · answered by Big Bad Wolf 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋