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Authors everyone thinks are great but you just don't get

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grumpypants · 24/06/2011 13:34

Dan Brown - can't get past the style, appreciate it;s all about the plot
Lisa Jewell - will never like her stuff. Total predictable rubbish.
Robert Pattinson - dumbed down to words of one syllable.

Can't think of anymore just yet...

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Ragwort · 24/06/2011 17:46

Agree re: Colm Tobin - Brooklyn was recommended to me by an english teacher Hmm - I thought it was just chick lit and totally uninspiring.

mapleleef · 24/06/2011 17:26

I agree about Colm Tobin - i wanted to give the character, Eilis, in Brooklyn a good shake. She was so passive and went along with what everyone else wanted her to do. Also too lengthy a description about sea sickness! Don't understand why it won the 2009 Costa novel award.

Rosemallow · 24/06/2011 16:40

J K Rowling

< it's getting a bit crowded down here >

SinicalSal · 24/06/2011 16:36

Bloody faulkes and that other one who wrote Atonement.

And these are our current pedestal dwellers?

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grumpypants · 24/06/2011 16:05

oops. meant james patterson. Sorry robert pattinson whooever you are....was the same book babe

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travispickles · 24/06/2011 15:45

Barbara Cartland.

MaryAnnSingleton · 24/06/2011 15:30

Paulo Coehlo -shite

Ragwort · 24/06/2011 15:29

J K Rowling

GetOrf · 24/06/2011 15:26

That Piccoult woman. What a crock of shit she writes.

JRR Tolkien. I can't be arsed.

Stephen Fry. Smugtastic.

Quenelle · 24/06/2011 15:24

J K Rowling

monkeyslut · 24/06/2011 15:15

Stephen King - utter drivel

Greenmantle · 24/06/2011 15:08

Zadie Smith. Bores me rigid.

BabeRuthless · 24/06/2011 15:01

Stephanie Meyer - The amount of muttering that went on it the first book did it for me. Also I've read a lot of YA books that are so much better than this.

Colm Tobin - Always like the look of his storylines but the actual characters are so dull & lifeless.

James Patterson - This ones a possible. Got a few pages into the first Women's Murder Club book & thought it was so badly written. I might be proved wrong as it goes on though.

Going to have a think about some more, this will be a really interesting thread!

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grumpypants · 24/06/2011 13:54

yeh. Catherine Cookson - just boring. I get that Jane Austen is good even if it's not for me, for example. I do not get Celia Ahern at all.

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iklboo · 24/06/2011 13:38

Second Dan Brown - an entire paragraph about a highlighter pen? C'mon!
Catherine Cookson
Stephanie Meyer (sorry Twilight fans)