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

[grumpypants]

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...

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

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.

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!

Zadie Smith. Bores me rigid.

Stephen King - utter drivel

J K Rowling

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

JRR Tolkien. I can't be arsed.

Stephen Fry. Smugtastic.

J K Rowling

Paulo Coehlo -shite

Barbara Cartland.

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

Bloody faulkes and that other one who wrote Atonement.

And these are our current pedestal dwellers?

Worracrockashoite

J K Rowling

< it's getting a bit crowded down here >

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.

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

Paulo Coelho. Can't write women at all - but that doesn't seem to bother him when it comes to stereotyping.

Brooklyn is the one I was thinking of. One of those books that you see being critically acclaimed but when you read it think "Are you kidding me?"

I haven't bothered to read any of below.

But I have read Annie E Proulx and had to stop.

Books not post that is

Phillip Pulman - The first book was ok but lost the will to live half way through the second one.

Stieg Larsson - totally overrated

Sophie Hannah, so badly written. Shame because the premise of some her books are great. Have tried two of her books and not got past the first couple of chapters.

Isabelle Allende - magical realism tripe.

Although her books translate well to TV, Lynda la Plante's books are awful to read.

Ian banks
The only good one was the wasp factory, the rest are drivel