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What authors have you loved then hated?
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Funny, Stephen King is the opposite for me. When I first heard of him I thought, overblown hype. But when I started reading his books I thought, hey, this is pretty good. It's just entertaining. The Dark Tower series is one of my favorites.Anyway, I don't ever love/hate. Either I like or I don't. But to answer the quesstion, I would say, Lovecraft.
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I don't want this to turn into Lovecraft bashing, but I agree to a point. I love his Mythos and some of his plots, but his writing itself is just ugh. I actually like stories written by other writers using Lovecraft's Mythos much better than I like Lovecraft's writing itself.
Lovecraft was also quite racist.
Well, yes, he was a raging racist, so there is that.I think he came up with some very interesting ideas. It's the dialogue that made me turn away. Oh god, the dialogue.
Where everyone... talks... like... this... all... the... time...
I have the Lovecraft, Complete Fiction collection, but haven't read it yet. For me it'd have to be Anne Rice. I loved her work when I was in school, it was different and didn't treat me like I was stupid. but somewhere along the line she lost me. It was like she created too grand an idea and just couldn't keep things straight anymore.
Agreed on Anne Rice. Wonerful fiction. Then after a while...
yeah kind of a shame too cuz she brought back Lestat and i'm curious, but I don't feel like reading all the books in the series to catch up with something that may not be all that great
Michael wrote: "yeah kind of a shame too cuz she brought back Lestat and i'm curious, but I don't feel like reading all the books in the series to catch up with something that may not be all that great"Not worth it. Trust me.
yeah wasn't planning on it lol I saw how many i'd have to read to catch up and doesn't really strike me as something worth the entire series
Shari-amor wrote: "Danielle Steel"Did you ever love Danielle Sreel...?
*confused face at Lily* Yeah I did love her. I'm not sure if you were asking to tease me or being serious
Shari-amor wrote: "*confused face at Lily* Yeah I did love her. I'm not sure if you were asking to tease me or being serious"We come from different worlds, and I come in peace.
and thus I have had my second laugh of the day thanks to Shari. and Lily too, of course. seriously though, Danielle Steel books are one of the most often found books here. be it at yard sales or goodwill, but NEVER in book stores. I shit you not, I've actually tried looking out of pure curiosity and couldn't find any lol
Ah I guess. *shrugs* I love romance and horror with equal love. Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts and Judy Bloom were my intro into the romance genre. I tried getting into Steel's books again after years of having read one but all the books just seemed to be recycled copies of her older work. There are are still books that I enjoy by Steel though. I just no longer care for her work
cant judge a person based off their taste. :)
>.> Yeah cause this person will cut you
Sherilyn Kenyon. I absolutely loved all her Dark Hunter Books until I read Styxx. After that I couldn't pick up another book by her and haven't since.
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Yeah a lot of readers were turned off by Styxx.
I think with Rice, you want to keep your love pure for her, you gotta stop reading her books at a certain point. I can tell you when exactly I should have stopped reading her books so I didn't read her books and go blah. I still love her but I know I won't be picking up any more of her books.
There was a Half price book store that had lots of Danielle Steel books in the liquidation bin (the bin for books that don't sell).I never read any Danielle Steel book so I bought a hard cover one for a buck just to see what it was like. Don't ask me the title, I don't remember. I never read the book either. A neighbor borrowed it and moved a thousand miles away. No need to say I never saw the book again.
I guess I didn't miss anything then?
No you ain't missing anything G.G. lol
Laurell K. Hamilton. Once she introduced the sex harem in her books it was all over from there for me.
In my case the most glaring example is Stephen King. The more I know about him the less I like, to the point I refuse to read any of his work (which I think has gone way down hill).
Have you ever read his 'year's best lists'? Most of his picks are pure dreck. And yes I really can't get past his politics...