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...

Kate Atkinson (sorry). Jackson Brodie is just a poor man's Rebus.

John Irving
Zadie Smith

Agree 100% about Dan Brown. I struggled through the first of his books because I kept hoping it would get better - it didn't. His style is so pompous, like "look at me, I can write THIS MUCH about a completely irrelevant detail just to try and fool you into thinking it's a clue!" which boils down to "I'm better than you, reader, ner ner ner."

That's about it actually, I've never touched a Meyer book (though had bits of it read to me for comedy effect, and it made me cringe)

Oh, Terry Goodkind! DP luuuurves those books about the Seeker and they're massively popular, but I don't get it. Too much focus on rape/sex, lots of trudging along and descriptions of scenery, and not a lot of actual plot or dialogue.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John etc..

Ian Mckewan (sp?). Would rather eat my own fingers than read any more of his self-congratulatory wank-fests.

Charles Dickens

Whatshisname who wrote The Road - yawn.

Oh and Notes On A Scandal - can't remember her name. Pants.

Zadie Smith, Proust, Penny Vicenzi (sp?).

Now that's an odd trio.

the wasp factory and The Crow Road are both fab books...

Tom Sharpe. My friend lent me Porterhouse Blue saying it was one of the funniest books he'd ever read; I think I laughed once.

I've enjoyed a lot of Ian McKewan's books but I'm now getting pissed off with the general wankiness of them. I'm 3/4 way through Solar and am determined to finish it but boy am I struggling!

I had the misfortune to read one of DH's Morse books by Colin Dexter, DREADFUL!

Dan Brown, his writing is awful but the sod has always drawn me in with his stories, grrrrrr.

Any predictable "chic lit"

Thomas hardy

That author wrote the shopaholic series, Kinsella is it?

Twilight author, read the first one and wanted to eat my foot in frustration at having wasted those hours on it.

Stieg Larson, I wanted to love The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but didn't. It made me want to drink (even more) coffee.

Not about the author but so many, many people raved about The Time Traveler's Wife and I tried to read it, I really did. Hated it.

Alice Sebold. I bloody hated The Lovely Bones - it remains one of the only books I've refused to finish.

Philip Roth. blah blah blah blah blah. For 900 pages. Monumentally egotistical tree-killer.

Dickens. Yawn.

JK Rowling. Repetitive.

Cecilia Aherne. Drivel.

yes,couldn't get through The Lovely Bones either

I hated The Lovely Bones too - she managed the impossible - twee and whimsical story about the brutal rape and murder of child, and following ghost. Ian Banks - yes! Glad to see I'm not the only one to wonder how some of these got so rated.

(whispers) May start another thread about how did Jonathan Ross get so well thought of and sought after by TV people...

And Claudia Winkleman. Rubbish and drivelly on that King of show.

Kind of people you just don't get why they are so well thought of, as opposed to just irritating types.

Steig whatshisname - I read about twenty pages of the first one and decided I'd be better off reading a trainspotter's notebook. It was beyond dire.

See I lOved the steig Larson books but you need to keep going for a few chapters
Try Patricia cornwell, she is fab

Good God no. I tried one in desperation on holiday once and it was unreadable - appallingly badly written. Sorry - we will have to agree to disagree!

Sarah Waters.

I simply cannot understand how she is rated as a writer of any quality whatsoever. And made into a tv programme as well. Awful, teenage bollocks.

Agree re Sarah Waters - I've read Fingersmith (rubbish) and The Little Stranger (boring).

John le Carre.

J K Rowling

Dan Brown and Ian McEwan.

I quite liked the Lovely Bones but Alice Sebold's other book, The Almost Moon, was bloody awful. It is without a doubt the worst book I have ever read.