Are there any authors who you will never read again?
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Re: Are there any authors who you will never read again?
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OMG yes so true! I have encountered such authors too and it really saddens me that they have the skill of a great writer but not the personality of a decent person. And I absolutely relate with you about reading a low performing book over a great book written by a person who isn't so great.M Zee wrote: ↑28 Oct 2018, 11:42 Oh yeah. I have a couple of authors that I won't read due to their behavior outside their writing. I don't like to support people who treat others badly (well documented bad behavior) anyway. Someone can be meh writer and I would support their work over someone who writes great but isn't a good person.
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Style is definitely a bigger factor in turning me off a writer completely, but it's possible for the style itself to shift and evolve with time. I'm willing to give somebody a second shot if the concept seems interesting enough, provided the sample text isn't off-putting.
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At last I found someone just like me! I really didn't like the Twilight series. I gave up in the second book. Fifty shades of grey was meh too. I felt like there was no story. I would never read Nora Roberts too.flaming_quills wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 07:31 I don't think I'll ever read E L James again or Stephanie Meyer for that reason. I enjoyed the Twilight series when I was younger but looking back not I realise I just liked it because everyone else liked it and not because the writing was impeccable or the story was good. As for 50 shades, I didn't really like it. I only read it because everyone else was reading it and I didn't want to miss out.
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The whole book was cliché and (barf) adolescent Mills and Boon romance.
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I have a similar feeling about it. If I get to know something upsetting about the author in personal life, like disrespectful behavior or believes that are unacceptable for me (let's say the writer is a raging racist in his private), then I am simply not able to read him/her anymore. Probably it is not exactly correct to mix the two levels - professional and private - but it's just stronger than me. For example I have no respect for Hemingway even though I know he was a very good writer; simply because I love animals and any kind of cruelty against them breaks my heart - and knowing he loved bull fights is just killing me and I hate the guy.M Zee wrote: ↑28 Oct 2018, 11:42 Oh yeah. I have a couple of authors that I won't read due to their behavior outside their writing. I don't like to support people who treat others badly (well documented bad behavior) anyway. Someone can be meh writer and I would support their work over someone who writes great but isn't a good person.
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