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. I liked 'behind the scenes at the museum' but EVERYTHING else I've tried has been awful. Derivative and often unpleasant.

I agree with everybody

Totally agree, NorthernLurker. 'Human Croquet' was ridiculous and whilst I like Jackson Brodie as a character, the books with him in are stupidly reliant on coincidence and the plots are more and more preposterous - I won't read any more of hers. I think she is a lazy and highly irritating writer tbh. Most people on here seem to worship her though.

Agree about Sophie Kinsella. My mum thinks that they're 'hilarious'. Why shopping and lusting after shoes is funny I just don't get. And look, she's getting married and lusting after shoes. Oh and would you believe it, she got a baby and is lusting after shoes.

Oh how my sides ached .

See, I am really enjoying Fingersmith. And I liked The Lovely Bones.

But YY to Steig 'badly translated' Larsson and JK '..then everything went black and Harry woke up in the hospital wing' Rowling.

Martin Amiss. Can't write a female character.

Terry Pratchett. Read one, read em all.

V.S. Naipul. Simply don't see what the fuss is about.

Zadie Smith. She seems to have a problem with endings.

I'm not particularly fond of Salmon 'I'm such a genius' Rushdie either.

agree re Dan Brown and Steig Larsson

never got Geoffrey archer either

Patricia Cornwell: dreadful, over-explanatory style, rubbish plotting and unbelievable characters.

J K Rowling: the bastard offspring of Enid Blyton and C S Lewis.

Anne Rice. I should love her books. I love the plot, the characters...but her style of writing just puts up a mental block for me.

DH Lawrence.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Terry Pratchett. I read half of the Colour of Magic and can't remember any of it. Instantly forgetable, to the point that I just couldn't follow the story.

Jean Auel - dear god, how many books can the woman write about the trudging around and having rough sex in neolithic times?? Drivel!!

Dickens - except 'Tale of Two Cities' and even then Lucie Manette needs a good slap!

Monica whatshername - Brick Lane - awful book!!!

Dan Brown - yawn!!

Jodi Picoult - boring and samey

Dean Koontz - Stephen King wannabe

Patrica Cornwell - just lost the plot a few books back

yy to D H Lawrence

Harlan Coben

Stieg Larson, Dan Brown and Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall was like pulling teeth, though I believe some of her others are better.

I must add to the anti-Ian McEwan chorus. Jesus H, he's boring. Solar is a load of ill-digested research boringly presented. Atonement is pompous and in love with itself (a mood that was seamlessly translated to the film version).

Also Cormac McCarthy. And, I don't think she's dreadful, but I keep reading Rose Tremain books expecting them to wow me, but so far ... meh. Not awful, just underwhelming.