Authors that are over-rated

Authors that are over-rated

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04/26/10 6:09 PM
ReznorsApostle member trying to beLIEve Joined: 04/15/08 Location: under a dead Ohio sky Posts: 1,152	Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
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05/21/10 9:09 AM
gonzo84 member Joined: 12/07/08 Posts: 1,059	I work at Barnes and Noble and I must say majority of people generally buy SHIT!!! It's disappointing, right now the crave is all about Stephanie Meyer and I would love to bump into her just so I could throw her into on coming traffic (yeah, she's that horrible!)...she's seriously THE MOST OVER-RATED AUTHOR EVER! James Patterson is another author that I CANNOT stand! He doesn't even write his books for christ's sake. He makes millions of dollars slapping his name on books other unknown authors write and they ALL SUCK too! I don't get why people fall for these stupid plots and story lines that all repeat themselves and then they have the nerve to tell me that he's their favorite author...ugh...I once dated a girl whom was an English Lit major and when I asked her who her favorite author was, she replied "James Patterson..." Needless to say, I didn't see her again because of that Tucker Max, even though he only wrote one book, he's a liar and a thief, his book was funny, but I've heard some of those stories before and when I read them I couldn't believe what I was reading, I was like, "dude, I heard that on Howard Stern..." Then come to find online all the speculations were true and that he's even been caught in his own lies, so read his book for laughs, but don't believe the hype... And finally, Dan Brown...but enough people have already commented on how retarded this guy is, I swear to god, if he writes another fucking sequel to this stupid franchise that must end, I will find that fucker and light him on fire Honorable mention: People have mentioned Chuck Palahniuk on here and I must say, I think he's talented at what he does, he's written some interesting material, but his problem is he's Repetitive and doesn't write anything new. His language, his style, his character's, they all seem to be the same and it's annoying when an author repeats himself over and over with a different story. Stephen King is another mentioned in this thread, I'm not a fan of his, I respect him to some degree, but to say he's the greatest would never happen. I think his novels are terrible lately, just a waste of paper and time. And finally, Celebrities must STOP writing memoirs about their pathetic lives...I'm sick of Celebrities coming out with biographies that end up becoming "Best-Sellers" for some reason. I mean when Marsha Fucking Brady is a best seller, that should mean the world is coming to an end...I really can't stand it when B-celebrities write books after they've fallen out of the spot light, it's the same thing as celeb-reality TV, just stay gone! There are only a few that can pull it off, but still...and especially when these fuckers write children's books, I'm sick of it, it makes it harder for real talent to get themselves launched or even heard of when commercialized bullshit gets in the way, but then again that's happening everywhere now... I could on and on about this subject...
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05/21/10 11:25 AM
DangereuX member Functioning Sociopath Joined: 12/11/08 Location: Gotham City Posts: 9,063	Nicholas Sparks
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05/21/10 4:10 PM
TheMightyRach member Joined: 03/03/10 Location: UK Posts: 249	Thomas Pynchon. He goes to the trouble of creating interesting scenarios and characters, then stops using them part-way through and concentrates on something else instead. He shouldn't write sex scenes, because they are always grim and toe-curling, and his editor needs to stand up to him more. Michel Houellebecq, for similar reasons to the above, although the books I've read of his have been better-edited. His take on sex is so vile that I wonder what his actual life is like.
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05/21/10 8:18 PM
OnslaughtSix member Oozing of Onslaughttitude Joined: 12/03/07 Location: In front of my computer Posts: 1,708	Tolkien. Yeah he set up most of the tropes and the fantasy setting, but damn it, LOTR is fucking boring. I tried to read those books. I really did. I made it halfway through The Two Towers before I realized I'd read most of it waiting for something cool to happen. The movies aren't any better.
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05/22/10 1:59 PM
Kid IRA1 member kill yr idols Joined: 09/03/08 Location: formerly some antiseptic Posts: 3,380	Tao Lin, the fucker that wrote Shoplifting from American Apparel. It reeks of pretense and "in the know." Dont believe the hype.
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05/23/10 2:11 AM
clarice member Joined: 06/30/08 Location: Colorado Posts: 222	Danielle Steel, that other guy who is always on supermarket shelves... Dean Koon and Whatever Patterson, Parkinson Whatever, I don't know. Who else? I think Michael Crichton is a bit over-rated. I read his books and have fun with them but he is not all that. So soon as I put down the book, I am no longer thinking about it at all. May even have forgotten the characters names. Haha, kd. But Steel still wins way ahead of everyone else! Between Mark and Jack and Jane, JESUS MAN! Can she even think of better, more creative names for her beaten to death, raped and spit on characters? The funny part about her stories is that one would think that a battered woman from a fictional story or a group of women would rise above and discover some untold truth to the universe, some denouncing, something NEW, something philosophical or even a momentary debate that would actually unleash some revelations. But no, same crap. Same lifetime bullshit! Same reality that doesn't exist. Oh the Twilight author, whoever she may be. Also over-rated.
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05/23/10 3:56 AM
Churchy member The Great Destroyer Joined: 11/22/08 Location: UK Norwich%2FCambridge Posts: 1,437	Tom FUCKING Clancy
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05/24/10 7:02 AM
clarice member Joined: 06/30/08 Location: Colorado Posts: 222	Churchy posted: Tom FUCKING Clancy TOTALLY! Jesus, yes!
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05/25/10 10:46 AM
samuraijenn member Joined: 12/15/09 Posts: 88	fairlightcmi posted: I used to think Neil Gaiman was the best thing since sliced bread. But my boss, my coworkers, my hairdresser and my brothers and sisters have never even heard of him. If I ever went to a signing, then I would have nothing to brag about. No one would care. In The Graveyward Book, he seems to BORROW HEAVILY from Dan Brown and Stephen King. The result is a mediocre novel thatlacks originality. He also seems to poke fun at JK Rowling, which I found rather uncool and catty. He must be jealous of her success or something. I think it's funny that all of the people arguing about this book and how it's unoriginal don't point to the fact that it is blatantly supposed to be a retelling of The Jungle Book. So umm...I don't think he's meaning for it to be an original. Also, as much as I love Chucky P, I have to agree that the last few books have been very meh...along with (sigh this pains me to say so) my very favorite writer, Irvine Welsh.
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11/01/10 5:35 PM
NJay783 member Joined: 11/27/07 Location: North Bergen%2C NJ Posts: 135	Klosterman. The most overrated piece of pop culture garbage our generation has produced.
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01/10/11 5:16 PM
Averus_32 member Joined: 09/05/08 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 305	OnslaughtSix posted: Tolkien. Yeah he set up most of the tropes and the fantasy setting, but damn it, LOTR is fucking boring. I tried to read those books. I really did. I made it halfway through The Two Towers before I realized I'd read most of it waiting for something cool to happen. The movies aren't any better. Agreed. Watched the first two films and the third almost sent me to sleep. Had a teacher that used to read The Hobbit, the guy almost sent me to sleep.
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01/12/11 12:55 PM
Suge member Turbo Cunt Joined: 11/26/07 Location: The Rezervation Posts: 41,190	OnslaughtSix posted: Tolkien. Yeah he set up most of the tropes and the fantasy setting, but damn it, LOTR is fucking boring. I tried to read those books. I really did. I made it halfway through The Two Towers before I realized I'd read most of it waiting for something cool to happen. The movies aren't any better. I actually love the movies, but I can't, for the life of me, get into the books. I've tried several times and I fail. Each time.
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02/03/11 7:09 PM
KMOS92 member Also known as Kyle Joined: 12/30/10 Location: Illinois Posts: 13,454	Dan Brown. The only reason his books sell is the shock value.
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03/10/11 11:09 PM
The_Prowler member Now I'm nothing... Joined: 05/02/08 Location: Fredericksburg Vagina Posts: 18,691	Avi Everyone had to read his books in middle school, and I hated every word he wrote. They were just so boring and juvenile. Then again, my standards for literature were always higher than most everyone else my age. For one, I actually love (and have always loved) to read. And two, I was reading (and understanding) Edgar Allen Poe, John Steinbeck, Orson Welles, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen King when I was in fifth and sixth grade. So yeah, Avi kind of pales in comparison to them. Seriously though... His books bored me to literal tears
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04/11/11 11:32 AM
Bloodflowers member Joined: 09/30/08 Location: My Heart Posts: 389	I read 2 of Kelley Armstrong's books. I just can't get into that Otherworld business. It took me almost 2 months to finish Haunted. I can't even remember the title of the other one. It was THAT memorable. I find her writing really boring. I didn't like Eve or Jaime Vegas or that dumb Nix character. In spite of the nice imitation Twilight packages they come in, her books are still so extremely dull. Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris are a lot better than Kelley. Never judge a book by its cover. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2011 11:36AM by Bloodflowers.
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04/14/11 2:04 AM
Tim_R member Joined: 09/06/08 Location: California Posts: 45	sotool posted: MOST UNDERRATED WRITER OF THE 20TH CENTURY PHILIP K DICK the 3 stigmata of palmer eldritch valis ubik the man in the high castle a scanner darkly do androids dream of electric sheep ? While your post was out of place and annoyingly large/caps locked, I have to agree completely. Philip K. Dick is my favorite author. Overrated Authors IMO: Tolken, Stine, Ludlum, Hosseini Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2011 02:08AM by Tim_R.
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04/19/11 7:16 AM
oitribe member Joined: 07/21/09 Posts: 83	i hate the word overratted its such a shit way of critisising something
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04/28/11 1:57 AM
DeadlyGardens member Joined: 04/27/11 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 72	Rand, Tolkien, Gaiman, Palahniuk, Shakespeare
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05/07/11 12:14 PM
Averus_32 member Joined: 09/05/08 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 305	Alan Moore. Sorry, but his writing is that pretenious I shut off. The Watchmen is one of the most overrated pieces of literature ever and i couldnt finish V.
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06/29/11 5:58 PM
Gabriela member Not tired of fire Joined: 04/13/08 Location: Abnormaland Posts: 1,370	Humberto Eco. He is brilliant, but pompous and boring. Every author who has traveled through Europe and seems to write for a genre called "I´ve lived in Europe and you haven´t". Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2011 07:10PM by Gabriela.
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11/18/11 10:13 AM
HurtNoMore member Anduril Joined: 09/17/08 Location: MA Posts: 1,069	DeadlyGardens posted: Rand, Tolkien, Gaiman, Palahniuk, Shakespeare Rand doesn't belong with the rest of them. She's not overrated, she just sucks, and most people know it. Tolkien, and Shakespeare overrated? I guess you take your take your role as a non-conformist pretty seriously...
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11/28/11 5:12 PM
Poptones member Joined: 11/27/11 Location: London circa 1978 Posts: 24	Palahniuk, JK Rowling
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12/21/11 3:59 AM
drvrdwn member Joined: 12/20/11 Posts: 23	ugh, Gaiman is one of my favorites, but it's mostly because he's 75% responsible for first getting me interested in short stories, which are now my absolute favorite thing to collect in the universe. Just got a special place in mah heart, I guess. Always felt bad because I found Nabokov so boring, personally. Edit: OH. Shakespeare. Probably said 100x already, but Shakespeare. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/21/2011 03:59AM by drvrdwn.
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12/21/11 4:02 AM
drvrdwn member Joined: 12/20/11 Posts: 23	DangereuX posted: Nicholas Sparks I hate him. I hate him so much. Not just as a peddler of what is literally the same book with names changed, marketed as something new each year, but as a person. He's so wildly out of touch with reality and has these weird delusions of grandeur. I'm like, "Dude. You write very cheap romance novels." He just strikes a few nerves.
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12/23/11 2:21 PM
KateGompert member Joined: 09/30/11 Location: Milwaukee%2C WI Posts: 167	Everybody knows Sparks is garbage. There's no point in saying he's overrated. the only people that read him are dumb girls.
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01/23/12 5:35 PM
lisbethsalander11 member Joined: 01/23/12 Location: canada Posts: 28	Suge posted: Stephen King... V.C. Andrews too... Her ghost writer sucks. I read all the books (I have no idea why, they are only mildly entertaining) and it seems like the same thing over and over again. I guess I'm waiting for something new to happen... And it never does. Andrews' books were awesome when she was still alive writing them but I think her ghost writer needs to be fired. V.C. Andrews is amazing. The new stuff her GW put out does look pretty bad. I still have yet to find all of Andrews' books (ghost-written or not. I so far have the Dollanganger trilogy, My Sweet Audrina, and Fallen Stars or something.. haven't finished that one.)
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01/23/12 5:38 PM
lisbethsalander11 member Joined: 01/23/12 Location: canada Posts: 28	clarice posted: Danielle Steel, that other guy who is always on supermarket shelves... Dean Koon and Whatever Patterson, Parkinson Whatever, I don't know. Who else? I think Michael Crichton is a bit over-rated. I read his books and have fun with them but he is not all that. So soon as I put down the book, I am no longer thinking about it at all. May even have forgotten the characters names. Haha, kd. But Steel still wins way ahead of everyone else! Between Mark and Jack and Jane, JESUS MAN! Can she even think of better, more creative names for her beaten to death, raped and spit on characters? The funny part about her stories is that one would think that a battered woman from a fictional story or a group of women would rise above and discover some untold truth to the universe, some denouncing, something NEW, something philosophical or even a momentary debate that would actually unleash some revelations. But no, same crap. Same lifetime bullshit! Same reality that doesn't exist. Oh the Twilight author, whoever she may be. Also over-rated. I agree with you about Danielle Steele. I have one of her books, it used to be my mom's; Heartbeat. While I did enjoy it as a book, it was sooooo cliche. I only read it once. I'm never reading any of her other work.
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03/27/12 4:08 AM
evilbindi member Joined: 03/02/09 Location: the depths of darkness Posts: 676	gonzo84 posted: I work at Barnes and Noble and I must say majority of people generally buy SHIT!!! It's disappointing, right now the crave is all about Stephanie Meyer and I would love to bump into her just so I could throw her into on coming traffic (yeah, she's that horrible!)...she's seriously THE MOST OVER-RATED AUTHOR EVER! James Patterson is another author that I CANNOT stand! He doesn't even write his books for christ's sake. He makes millions of dollars slapping his name on books other unknown authors write and they ALL SUCK too! I don't get why people fall for these stupid plots and story lines that all repeat themselves and then they have the nerve to tell me that he's their favorite author...ugh...I once dated a girl whom was an English Lit major and when I asked her who her favorite author was, she replied "James Patterson..." Needless to say, I didn't see her again because of that Tucker Max, even though he only wrote one book, he's a liar and a thief, his book was funny, but I've heard some of those stories before and when I read them I couldn't believe what I was reading, I was like, "dude, I heard that on Howard Stern..." Then come to find online all the speculations were true and that he's even been caught in his own lies, so read his book for laughs, but don't believe the hype... And finally, Dan Brown...but enough people have already commented on how retarded this guy is, I swear to god, if he writes another fucking sequel to this stupid franchise that must end, I will find that fucker and light him on fire Honorable mention: People have mentioned Chuck Palahniuk on here and I must say, I think he's talented at what he does, he's written some interesting material, but his problem is he's Repetitive and doesn't write anything new. His language, his style, his character's, they all seem to be the same and it's annoying when an author repeats himself over and over with a different story. Stephen King is another mentioned in this thread, I'm not a fan of his, I respect him to some degree, but to say he's the greatest would never happen. I think his novels are terrible lately, just a waste of paper and time. And finally, Celebrities must STOP writing memoirs about their pathetic lives...I'm sick of Celebrities coming out with biographies that end up becoming "Best-Sellers" for some reason. I mean when Marsha Fucking Brady is a best seller, that should mean the world is coming to an end...I really can't stand it when B-celebrities write books after they've fallen out of the spot light, it's the same thing as celeb-reality TV, just stay gone! There are only a few that can pull it off, but still...and especially when these fuckers write children's books, I'm sick of it, it makes it harder for real talent to get themselves launched or even heard of when commercialized bullshit gets in the way, but then again that's happening everywhere now... I could on and on about this subject... Where have you been all my life!! Nick Earles, he want's to be Australia's answer to Nick Hornby so bad but lacks the charm. Also I hate the way he writes about Brisbane, I love living here but way he describes it makes it sound like a tropical hipster paradise.
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03/27/12 4:13 AM
evilbindi member Joined: 03/02/09 Location: the depths of darkness Posts: 676	Gabriela posted: Humberto Eco. He is brilliant, but pompous and boring. He crafts wonderfully written shit.
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