I'm right there with you on E L James. I couldn't even make it more than 50 pages into Fifty Shades of Grey. Kurt Vonnegut is another one I will never read again. I had to read two of his books in high school and they made no sense to me. And his humor is too crude.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.
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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Yes, I absolutely agree. Some very popular authors have turned me off by bad behavior, rude comments, and ignorant attitudes toward others.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.
One author who I really enjoyed reading for years has been cited for "behaving badly" online, so I can't bring myself to read her books anymore.
It's a shame that brilliance and anti-social behavior often go hand in hand.
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Oh, I couldn't possibly agree more! E L James' books are the equivalent of cheap fast food, and too many people seem to be into them. I don't want to judge other people's tastes, but I truly did give it a chance to see what the whole fuzz about it was, and I think it's one of the few times I just could not finish a whole book even if I tried.Letora wrote: ↑25 Apr 2019, 16:49I'm right there with you on E L James. I couldn't even make it more than 50 pages into Fifty Shades of Grey. Kurt Vonnegut is another one I will never read again. I had to read two of his books in high school and they made no sense to me. And his humor is too crude.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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I think it is hard to completely black list an author.
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- There are authors I have never read, and likely never will, because I have never heard of them.
- There are authors I have never read, despite being very famous, because they write books in a genre I don't have an interest in. (For example, I don't read Stephen King or Clive Barker because I don't read horror. I also don't read Stephanie Meyer or EL James.)
- There are authors I have never read, despite them writing in a genre I do read, because their story telling style is not one that works for me. (I don't read George R R Martin, because I don't like that pessimistic view of the world.)
- There are authors I have read, and who I am very unlikely to read again, because their story telling style is not one that works for me. (I won't pick up another Joe Abercrombie book, even though I read the entire First Law Trilogy, because I don't like that pessimistic view of the world.)
- There are authors I have tried to read, but have given up on, because there was something about their writing that bothered me. (This includes Robert Jordan because I hated his female characters.)
- There are authors whose books I have read and enjoyed, whose books I will read again, but whose books I will not purchase, because I disagree with causes the author supports. (I won't buy a book by Orson Scott Card. But I will check one out from the library, or borrow a copy from a friend.)
- There are authors whose books I was forced to read in school. For the books I did not like, I will likely never pick up a book by that author again. At the same time, most of those authors are dead and not writing anything new, so it's not a big deal. (Joseph Conrad, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Thomas Hardy all come to mind.)
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