your three crappest authors

[Firky]

Ian Banks
Ian M. Banks
PD James

 

[rekil]

Littlejohn
Jackie Collins
Jeffrey archer

I find it impossible to believe that you actually read 'works' by all of those idiots.

 

[bfg]

Read a Jackie Collins book once, read a Littlejohn newspaper column before which told me enough about what his books would be like. Scanned the back cover of a Jeffrey archer book, and decided that was enough

 

[Calva dosser]

Blimey, Copliker and Firky managed 2 1/2 of me faves there. A warm glow of self satisfaction is rising. Like a Newky brown fuelled trowser trump.

 

[Firky]

I really don't like Ian Banks

 

[Calva dosser]

Well no-one's SUPPOSED to are they?

 

[gosub]

Dostoevsky, Camus and Kafka.

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

LOL (properly)


As to others on the list see a lot that had my time again would have better things to do when I was twelve and Dan Brown, can quite happily confess to not being able to comment on FF8282 Archer


E2A: To bad this place isn't that into the cult of celebrity (I never thought I'd say that) guess current fad for autobiographys would be better represented

 

[mattie]

Tim Willocks and Tom Clancy?

Those are the chaps.

Green river rising was dreadful. I'm deeply impressed you managed to figure out who I meant.

 

[zoltan]

Hornby/Pearson/Parsons and any more of this shit encrusted gaggle of Norf London fucks who seem to revel in producing novels that are given 5 star reviews by each fuckin other in the review sections of the the broadsheets, thus perpetuating the myth that their stuff is decent

I cant think of enough abuse to describe these fuckin charlatans

cunts.

(sorry)

 

[electrogirl]

i like hornby. he does have that annoying 'going off on a quirky tangent' thing but he's a good easy read and i thought his observations in high fidelity were quite accurate.

 

[Dubversion]

i thought his observations in high fidelity were quite accurate.

In my experience, it's only women who think that Hornby's description of men in that book bears any relation to reality.

it doesn't.

 

[Neva]

In my experience, it's only women who think that Hornby's description of men in that book bears any relation to reality.

it doesn't.

Completly agree and this exact criticism applies to Fever Pitch too. Every non sports fan who reads that book thinks it's in someway insightful into the lives of football fans and that's what it's “really like” to support a team.

It isn't. It’s just bollocks.

 

[zoltan]

Completly agree and this exact criticism applies to Fever Pitch too. Every non sports fan who reads that book thinks it's in someway insightful into the lives of football fans and that's what it's “really like” to support a team.

It isn't. It’s just bollocks.

I have no interest in reading about Arsenal winning something and someone tugging himself off over it.

 

[electrogirl]

In my experience, it's only women who think that Hornby's description of men in that book bears any relation to reality.

it doesn't.

i didn't mean in it's description of men

 

[Dubversion]

i didn't mean in it's description of men

Ok, but the broader point still stands.

 

[Relahni]

Completly agree and this exact criticism applies to Fever Pitch too. Every non sports fan who reads that book thinks it's in someway insightful into the lives of football fans and that's what it's “really like” to support a team.

It isn't. It’s just bollocks.

lol

agreed. It's just bollocks.

 

[toggle]

But I'm sure others will come to mind. Actually it seems a bit unfair to target David Eddings particularly out of all the truly appalling fantasy authors but you've got to start somewhere I guess

Eddings is actually readable compared to some of the crap out there. Terry brooks, steven donaldson, and a host of authors that write mills and boon, set it in a castle and call it a fantasy novel. Eddings isn't great, but you haven't read nearly enough bad fantasy if you claim he's he worst.

and any list of crapness of writing cannot be complete without the addition of jerry pournelle.

 

[nino_savatte]

Aye, Nick Hornby is bollocks.

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

DH Lawrence - can't stand him.

 

[wishface]

i'd like to say Kevin Anderson. Ugh.

 

[undercover]

William Burroughs
Will Self
Joseph O'Connor

Haven't got a great deal of evidence to agree with Will Self till now, but bought the Book of Dave the other day, and on the few pages I read of that nonsense, I'd be tempted to agree.

 

[jbob]

Haven't got a great deal of evidence to agree with Will Self till now, but bought the Book of Dave the other day, and on the few pages I read of that nonsense, I'd be tempted to agree.

Up to and including Great Apes, he was an interesting writer.

 

[mrs quoad]

Lionel Shriver
Jeffrey Archer (I've only ever read one of his books whilst locked up in Coventry cells)
Richard Littlejohn.

Not necessarily in that order.

But quite possibly in that order.

Not sure whether that'd be ascending or descending.