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The Most Whack Writers

eyez0nme

eyez0nme

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Who do you consider the most overhyped, overwrought, overrated--the most whackest authors, who other readers love--and you just can't understand why?


J.D. Salinger
Kurt Vongenutt
Dan f**king Brown
Michael Chrichton
J.K. Rowling
James Frey


Add King and Koontz on that list. :mad:
 
William Burroughs. Insane garbage.

Jack Kerouac - apart from his looks and voice.;)

Audrey Niffenger (thanks for the reminder Optimist.)

Paulo Coelo.

Charles Dickens - apart from his films.:) :rolleyes:

William Shakes*******pere. Dated over-verbose verbage.
 
jaybe said:
Audrey Niffenger (thanks for the reminder Optimist.)
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So, you didn't enjoy The Time Traveler's Wife either? I found it tedious and long-winded. After the rave reviews I heard and read, I couldn't wait to read it. A hundred pages into it, I couldn't wait to put it down! :rolleyes:
 
Dan Brown
James Patterson
Stephen King
Anne Rice
John Grisham
Saul Bellow
J.R.R. Tolkien
Mark Haddon
J.K. Rowling
 
Ernest Hemingway
J.K. Rowling
Ken Kesey (though I only read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...)
Bret Easton Ellis
 
Anne Rice (he he even though ive never read any of her books:D )
Homer - the odyssey got on my tits (well man pecks) after a while :mad:
 
jaybe said:
William Burroughs. Insane garbage.

Jack Kerouac - apart from his looks and voice.;)
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So true

While i have not read alot from the 'beat generation' any i were unenjoyable with the exception of charles bukowski's 'diary of a dirty old man'. It was 80% trash and 20% hilarious.

I read the catcher in the rye and didn't find anything of interest in it so..... [SIZE=-1]JD Salinger[/SIZE]
 
Ms Charles Bukowski is God in my book. He's not really one of the 'beats' although his name does get linked to them.

It's a shame because this will put a lot of people off him. Try Post Office, Factotum, Tales of Ordinary Madness. They are very good.
 
MonkeyCatcher said:
I used to think the same thing, until I tried one of his later works. Which book did you try?
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It was called Truckers. A friend gave it to me, I really couldn't get into it. Maybe I will try another one, maybe a Discworld Novel.

I don't tend to enjoy fantasy, just wanted to give it a go.
 
theoptimist said:
It was called Truckers. A friend gave it to me, I really couldn't get into it. Maybe I will try another one, maybe a Discworld Novel.

I don't tend to enjoy fantasy, just wanted to give it a go.
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Ah, right - can't say I've heard of that one, but I'm not a Pratchett freak like some people around here ;) If you do end up trying a Discworld novel, I'd suggest Going Postal - this is the novel that changed my opinion of Pratchett
 
Any writer that uses the term "whack" is well, whack. Also, writers that use pen names, writers that publish works by others in their name - the ones with teams of writers working for them. R.A. Salvatore for example.
 
Isn't William Faulkner supposed to be really "whack"? My dad was telling me there's a book he wrote--As I Lay Dying, I think--where one chapter was just the boy going, "My mother is a fish!" Because she was dead or something. And then they drilled holes in her face.
 
Can't believe people are being so hard on the Beat writers. Them guys was real cool cats. So what if their literature was a bit cloudy from the dope they took by the shovelful?

Faulkner is not "whack" although he may be wacko. It took me a long time to be able to get into him, but I must say that The Sound and the Fury is pure genius.

I consider Atwood to be a bit "whack". She's great, and I enjoy her books, but having to read The Handmaid's Tale in Intro. Lit., and discuss it while holding hands and crying about the plight of women in the world, and being clever while doing so by saying things like "herstory" instead of history, is all in all enough to make a manly man heave his bloody steak. "I'm so sorry Margaret. You're sure to send me to Atwood hell now, and I'm sure I won't be able to enjoy the latest book of yours that I ordered." Actually, the stuff of hers from way back, about wilderness and all that, was ahead of its time. I wish more people would think for themselves rather than drool over her, and then I could respect them as much as I respect Atwood.
 
I totally agree that Faulkner is a freak. My theory on his wacky syntax is that he wrote while extremely intoxicated and lucked out with his publishers...but even though he's a wildman, I really love his work. The Sound and the Fury, for my money, is one of the best books written in the English language, and it made me cry last time I read it. (Not out of frustration)
Authors I think are over-praised/ read/ rated are Stevie King, Baudelaire, and that sicko John Webster...
 
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