I get him. And I don't like what I get. One of the originals of the obnoxious, self-absorbed Anglo/Irish intelligentsia of the first half of the 20th century. And imitations of his prose are responsible for tons of shit writing.
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Anonymous2007-09-17 20:31 ID:kpymRKCw
Oh yeah, and Dickens is bitchin' if you've read the stuff he's responding to.
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Anonymous2007-09-17 21:22 ID:V8jh9QDk
JK Rowling
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
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Anonymous2007-09-18 0:24 ID:ykF5ZlED
I never liked Harry Potter. Period.
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Anonymous2007-09-18 0:45 ID:VNvLXrmg
RedCream?
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Anonymous2007-09-18 3:14 ID:OENbISOv
J.D. Salinger. Catcher in the Rye is, in my opinion, the worst book ever written.
2. Rowling only seems overrated since her crap has been hypermarketed. If her marketing machine didn't exist and her books got normal market penetration, she wouldn't need to make the list. We'd also have to place Anne Rice into the same category.
3. Robert Jordan. He's right up there in suckage with Kevin J. Anderson.
4. Isaac Asimov. Look, I know the man was smart. I also know he wrote about 400 books. But his writing is only OK. As a technical writer he was only good, and we should leave it at that.
5. Stephen King. Again, just because some fuckhole is popular and makes all the important retail lists, does NOT make him a good (much less great) writer.
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Anonymous2007-09-18 6:00 ID:v0RoaR1J
Jane Austen. 2D characters, and what I'm pretty sure was the same book published once as "Pride and Prejudice" and then again as "Sense and Sensibility."
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Anonymous2007-09-18 7:52 ID:6yMtBqzy
Wait come the fuck on, Dickens might be overrated, but compared to people like Dan Brown and Rowling I hardly think he's the most overrated ever.
Billy shakes gets my vote, don't try to pull this try to appreciate shitty too many centuries old playbook crap, none of them are interesting at all on top of being the most annoying things to read ever. I've seen better literature come out of /B/.
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Anonymous2007-09-18 9:54 ID:7a1f6omd
God.
I mean, look how many copies his smutty little autobiography has sold, the man's a marketing genius and nothing more.
Charles Dickens, again. I read A Christmas Carol, and found the only part of it that ever did anything to me was the last paragraph, which left me vaguely happy... for a few minutes. A Tale of Two Cities was unbearable.
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Anonymous2007-09-21 22:44 ID:EfsQGFxp
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how is bukowski overrated, relatively few people even know about his books?
jk rowling is the literary equivalent of fast food.. it's shit but plenty of people keep paying money for it and it's everywhere. she might be overhyped but she'd only be overrated if people were saying her writing is good.
Dan Brown. Lazyass didn't even bother to differentiate between Christus Rex rumors and Opus Dei rumors. One is rabid, hateful Belgians who hate the rest of the world (but mostly Jews) for being relevant (Christus Rex). The other is a bunch of harmless people who, but for the self-mutilation and Jesus, would make excellent Chassidic Jews.
I didn't say Gaiman wasn't good; hes great, but American Gods didn't really live up to the hype for me. And yes I understood it, it's not like it was that complicated anyway.