I'm glad someone else here has read Anne McCaffrey. Although, my favourite of hers was 'The Ship Who Sang'. And I agree with you about Todd's writing... the 'voice' was just too different, and it kept dragging me out of the story. I still re-read the ones she wrote, but I don't bother with anything he had a hand in writing.greywalker wrote:
I also know what you mean about someone else taking over a series and ruining it. I used to love Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, but then her son Todd took it over. His writing was too different, and I despised it. I don't read the series anymore.
Who is an author everybody seems to love and you can't stand
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Yeah, exactly. Her descriptions always confused me, and often made me have to read the same sentence three times to understand she was actually describing a super basic object. Also didn't like her characters tbh. Everyone is always going on about how Jace is such a 'romantic character', but honestly I hate him. He's unnecessarily mean and rude (and no, a tragic backstory doesn't excuse that sort of behaviour). I hate most of the characters from the Mortal Instruments, but especially Jace.I can make it three!
She has a really odd way of describing things that gets on my nerves... I put down one of her books when she went as far as to describe a simple fork as a "three-pronged" something or other. It's really unfortunate, because I feel like if she had someone to knock her upside the head whenever she starts getting too poetic, her books might actually be interesting instead of distracting.
I actually liked the idea though, with all the different mythologies mixed and all that, but the execution was just very poor in my opinion.
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I feel the same way. The only SK book I've liked is 11.22.63 Mr. Mercedes is on my bookshelf; bought it over a year ago but haven't read one word yet.Bad Macaw wrote:I don't like Stephen King's writing either! I find it so dull! I love horror, but I have to roll my eyes when people recommend his booksgrammy57 wrote:Stephen King
I do like some of the film adaptations though!
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To be fair, James Patterson uses a lot of ghost writers... And if you're not good enough to write books under your own name, you probably shouldn't be ghostwriting for a famous author...Miguelio wrote:James Patterson. His books make me fall asleep, and Zoo was terrible. (Have tried seven books by him thinking... well he is so popular I must be wrong)
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I second this. I've actually come to the point where my hate for her books has become almost irrational. I can't help it, I just really, really dislike her books.[/quote]Bad Macaw wrote:
Hahaha the irrational comment made me think of Sophie Hanna and the "new" "Poirot" "books".
I'm a really REALLY big fan of Agatha Christie. So when I heard somebody would be writing new Poirot books, I had mixed feelings. I ended up reading the first one, I WANTED so much to have new Poirot stories...What a disappointment. I HATED everything about the book.
After that, people have told me "but hey, her other mystery books are really good!" and I'm just like
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I completely on totally agree on this point.
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I can totally understand that. It's very complex. I can also understand why people find that appealing. I've read the first book and a half of the Game of Thrones series and I couldn't get into it. I just can't handle so many characters dying. I get too attached.greywalker wrote:I absolutely agree with George RR Martin. I've tried several times to get into the Game of Thrones series. But I just can't do it. I feel the same way about a number of other fantasy serieses. My thinking is that if the series is so complicated that I need a handbook or reading guide just to keep track of all the characters and storylines then it ceases to be leisure reading and becomes work. Not exactly the kind of reading I'm looking for.
For me, I really don't like J.D. Salinger. Or well, more specifically, I didn't like Catcher in the Rye at all. I know a lot of people like it. I just can't deal with it.
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But am I the only that thought Hunger Games was boring. Sure when they went into the arena it picked up, but the beginning of the story was so boring that it was hard to finish.
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Another one is John Grisham. Read the Pelican Brief and The Firm and hated both of them.
Ken Follet. I've only read one book of his, The Pillars of the Earth, but it angered me so much that I just have to mention him. Started out as good historical fiction, but the author became too in love with one of his characters.