your three crappest authors

[Orang Utan]

To his credit, he does have a librarian pongoid in his books. That's the only thing to his credit mind

 

[DotCommunist]

Pratchett is an over-rated unfunny hack who should have his arms cut off lest he writes another 700 volumes of his wacky shite

Your hatred of the beardy one is well known Dub. We'll have to agree to differ on this one. He's over-rated yes, but I still think his take on social satire is worth a read. Granted he's no Swift but the two I already mentioned are worth the time and the costt of the book

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I loved pratchett when I was in my early to mid teens and have never gone near any of his books since.

Am finding it hard to find 3 most hated authors though. Perhaps I don't read enough...

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

personally i'm with DC here... while pratchett won't appear on any lists of top 100 literary masters he shouldn't be classed as the crappest

i mean just read through any or those bloody biographies or pick up a few jeffrey archer novels to get some perspective here

 

[SpookyFrank]

Dostoevsky, Camus and Kafka.

Why don't you just write in english you pretentious cunts, nobody's impressed

 

[Bazza]

Of all Welsh's novels, I'd have said that Filth is the worst.

I can't think of top three worst, if I don't like them, I don't read.

I can think of one though, Tony Parsons. He only seems to write about single parent families.

Also, I am going to mention Nick Hornby simply for writing a book about Arsenal! (I know he's a good writer really)

 

[Relahni]

Of all Welsh's novels, I'd have said that Filth is the worst.

I can't think of top three worst, if I don't like them, I don't read.

I can think of one though, Tony Parsons. He only seems to write about single parent families.

Also, I am going to mention Nick Hornby simply for writing a book about Arsenal! (I know he's a good writer really)

and what a fucking pile of shite that book was.

from memory...

"I was excited when my dad took me to my first football match"
"I was embarrassed to be English when I watched Heysel"
"It's good to talk about football with people who like football as much as you"

ffs.

 

[pyrovitae]

Dostoevsky, Camus and Kafka.

Why don't you just write in english you pretentious cunts, nobody's impressed

maybe because english is not their first language and their novels are 'lost in translation'? i guess i'm a pretentious cunt because i've enjoyed works by all of them.

my three:

dan brown
virgina woolf (so glad she offed herself)
aaannndd...
robert heinlein (i'm sorry, but the few things i've read of his were like reading the masturbatory sci fi fantasies of a prepubescent boy. could his female characters be any more stereotypical?)

 

[Bazza]

I've only caught parts of the film. Woeful.

 

[Wookey]

Dostoevsky, Camus and Kafka.

Why don't you just write in english you pretentious cunts, nobody's impressed

Hehehe.

 

[vogonity]

Mike Gayle.
Nick Hornby.
Jane Green.

All shite.

 

[SpookyFrank]

maybe because english is not their first language and their novels are 'lost in translation'? i guess i'm a pretentious cunt because i've enjoyed works by all of them.

Or maybe you're a pretentious cunt because you put your incredibly weak puns in inverted commas so us poor plebs have half a chance of comprehending your staggeringly complex wit? Who can tell?

 

[pyrovitae]

i generally put titles in inverted commas and i also generally keep my browser extremely small and post quite quickly at work. apologies that i haven't met your staggering wit and literary requirements.

thanks too for the completely unprovoked attack and personal assumptions on the basis of a solitary post. i'm not nearly the pretentious cunt i thought i was compared to you.

 

[SpookyFrank]

thanks too for the completely unprovoked attack and personal assumptions on the basis of a solitary post.

You're welcome

[/mimicing your lack of appreciation for irony]

 

[Final]

1) Terry Brooks
2) David Eddings
3) Whoever wrote 'The book of paradox' <=== the worst book I've ever struggled to the end of. This it the 'Tardis' of literature. Looking at it from the outside it looks relatively slim, and the font size isn't that small. Yet, once you actually attempt to read the damned thing, it seems to go on forever.

 

[jbob]

Some good/bad ones already taken - the loathesome Pratchett, Archer and Hornby, would have competed for me. But, as it's all subjective:

Meera Syal - why I read Anita & Me anyway, I don't know.
Bill Bryson - just piss off, beardy.
J.R.R Tolkein - take your orks, whelks, and whathaveyou elsewhere, hobbitbotherer.

 

[DrRingDing]

Frankenstein is fucking ace.

It's a pile of steaming wank.

The class snobbery in it is fucking sickening.

 

[Final]

S
J.R.R Tolkein - take your orks, whelks, and whathaveyou elsewhere, hobbitbotherer.

blasphemy!

(LOTR well over-hyped though).

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a pile of steaming wank.

The class snobbery in it is fucking sickening.

You've missed the point then - of course Mary Shelley's books are full of frightful snobbery, so are Jane Austen's and much 19th/18th century literature - that doesn't invalidate its validity as literature.

 

[pyrovitae]

^^^
i didn't attack you or make any assumptions about you as an individual. i merely stated that i had a differing opinion. as jbob said this is all purely subjective.

 

[DrRingDing]

You've missed the point then - of course Mary Shelley's books are full of frightful snobbery, so are Jane Austen's and much 19th/18th century literature - that doesn't invalidate its validity as literature.

Frankenstein is still cock. I read the book out loud and I just spent half my time wanting to slap Ms Shelley for being a pretentious nitwit.

 

[Orang Utan]

What do you think of other classic literature?
She's certainly not pretentious - do you actually know what it means?

 

[goldenecitrone]

1. Jackie Collins.
2. Jeffrey Archer
3. Terry Crapchett

 

[Dubversion]

You've missed the point then - of course Mary Shelley's books are full of frightful snobbery, so are Jane Austen's and much 19th/18th century literature - that doesn't invalidate its validity as literature.

it's like accusing some 8th century Italian playwright of not being sufficiently anti-imperalist or something

 

[Belushi]

it's like accusing some 8th century Italian playwright of not being sufficiently anti-imperalist or something

Innit, if I only read books by people who shared my views I'd have had to stop reading donkeys years ago.

 

[Dubversion]

I've never read donkeys

 

[Orang Utan]

I've never read donkeys

It's a dying art - belushi can tell if there's going to be a drought or a deluge

 

[Dubversion]

Seven years of donkey

 

[goldenecitrone]

That Spanish one is brilliant. Donkey Hote.

 

[Belushi]

You may laugh but Donkeys are fine proletarian creatures with strong sociaist principles.