[Shaun]

Just saw the old Family Guy episode where Brian accidentally runs someone over, finds out it's Dean Koontz and runs him over again I can't stand Koontz's books that I've read, he has this really longwinded and boring way of padding out pages with feelingz~

oh and Stephenie Meyer of course. Just awful drivel.

[GypsyGoth]

I don't think I have any I really dislike, I'm not fond of some prolific fantasy authors (like David Gemmell, I just found out he died in 2006), but that is because they write books that don't appeal to me.

Maybe Louise Lawrence, her writing style really annoyed me, but I think it was maybe that she had a bad editor.

[Doogle]

Some bitch who wrote like 100 books about animals. I can't remember her name.

[Benjamin]

Not so much one author, but all those sob stories based on 'real life' about how these writers had so called distressing upbringings bore me to death and I really don't care for them.

[Locke.]

Whoever wrote the Twilight books

[Doogle]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

Not so much one author, but all those sob stories based on 'real life' about how these writers had so called distressing upbringings bore me to death and I really don't care for them.

Heartless.

[Chuck]

Stephen King and Paulo Coelho

[GypsyGoth]

Originally Posted by chuck.pass

Paulo Coelho

I read one of his, it was about a boy who was a shepherd and goes off to find riches. It was ok, but a bit silly, don't think I'll read another of his.

[Livia]

Jane Austen leaves me cold. I've always found her books really hard work. Thomas Hardy the same. As for modern literature, I hate anyone who writes chick-lit... Marian Keyes for instance... "she flicked her layered bob and sipped her low-fat latte..." Gimme a break.

[Ammi]

I don't usually like any American detective novels, I don't like the style which they're written or the characters

[Stu]

J.G. Ballard.

'Hi I'm the main character I'm psychotic and have delusions about air travel. Hope you enjoy carefully stepping through this cesspit of a plot.'

I understand he is good mine you I just can't stand him. A typical line will go :

'Miranda walked outside and woosh and bang a million little debris falling from the sun kissed sky. AEROPLANES.'

Crash is good but The Atrocity Exhibition is just that. It's not genius. It's just contrived and annoying. Something you read for the sheer smug satisfaction rather than pleasure. I don't know how you could enjoy the experience.

I also think Phillip Pullman actually puts effort into being dull.

[Ammi]

Oh and Jodi Picoult I'm not keen on, I liked the first one I read 'My Sister's Keeper', but after reading a couple more I realised they were all to samey

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Livia

Jane Austen leaves me cold. I've always found her books really hard work. Thomas Hardy the same. As for modern literature, I hate anyone who writes chick-lit... Marian Keyes for instance... "she flicked her layered bob and sipped her low-fat latte..." Gimme a break.

Oh god! I despise books that harp on about handbags, shopping, periods, pervy bosses, manicures, small dogs,boyfriend troubles and the 'big life decision' of which pair of shoes to wear to a date. I get enough of that crap in my real life, the thought of actually having to spend my time (and money) to read about that sh*t makes me want to punch anyone that attempts to read or write about it.

[Harry!]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

Oh god! I despise books that harp on about handbags, shopping, periods, pervy bosses, manicures, small dogs,boyfriend troubles and the 'big life decision' of which pair of shoes to wear to a date. I get enough of that crap in my real life, the thought of actually having to spend my time (and money) to read about that sh*t makes me want to punch anyone that attempts to read or write about it.

...You actually do all of those things in real life

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Harry!

...You actually do all of those things in real life

I mean that I have to listen to half my female friends harp on about that crap. I can deal with it in real life, but the thought of spending hours reading about it makes me want to run in front of the nearest bus.

[Livia]

Terry Pratchett. I know he's really successful and I've tried a couple of times... but his stuff leaves me cold.

[Shaun]

I've only read one so far, and it was probably not his highlight, but Chuck Palahnuik. I bought 'Choke' and I couldn't go past 3 chapters. The most repetitive, boring, self-righteous obvious crap I have ever read.

[Lee.]

Irvine Welsh.. I find his books overrated crap.

[Roy Mars III]

Originally Posted by Shaun

I've only read one so far, and it was probably not his highlight, but Chuck Palahnuik. I bought 'Choke' and I couldn't go past 3 chapters. The most repetitive, boring, self-righteous obvious crap I have ever read.

I liked him when I was 14 and thought I was being a rebel by reading his books. But looking back on him now, he's very overrated and obviously writing stuff trying to be 'edgy'.

[Stu]

Tsk. Chuck Palahniuk is terrific. The whole anarchist, nihlist tone of his books is just the way he writes. I doubt he sits down with pen and paper and thinks 'right ... how can I be edgy'?

I find him consistently entertaining. Fight Club is a landmark book and the likes of Survivor and Snuff are downright hillarious. He's an easy target for people to go all intellectual and point out flaws and raping of themes in his writting and oh I'm so fabulous for realizing these things in my literary analysis but in terms of actually just pure undiluted enjoyment? I don't think of read a bad one. The includes Choke [although it is far from his best work].

I am of course a fanboy, also. That helps.

[Shasown]

McNab and Ryan, bastards got in with the publishers before the Government Clamp down, Their publishers deal with the legal stuff for them