Is there any author whose style you just don't like?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

You know...

Someone whose approach to writing just doesn't click with you.

I love the idea behind many of her books, but I have yet to get through a single Rainbow Rowell book — something I can't even name keeps me from enjoying them, despite sounding so promising on the shelf and back cover.

It's as if there was some invisible entity sitting on top of perfectly great stories and dragging then through mud until I don't wanna continue reading them.

You?

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

I'll say that some of the Halo novels, if you aren't aware of the lore behind the weapons, ships and the many types of aliens, you'll be searching a lot in the Halo wiki. They should at least have an index or dictionary in the back for most of these designation models for the weapons and ships. You'll be so alienated and taken out of the immersion from it.
I don't know if this is a style, but this happens in almost all Halo novels so far i read.

 

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I just don't read or drop the readings when it doesn't click, so I've no specific author in my head rn... I guess I could say Paulo Coelho, since I've gone through one of his books (Às Margens do Rio Pietra, Sentei e Chorei) just to get to understand the polemic around his name, as in the artistry or the value of his works.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I'll say that some of the Halo novels, if you aren't aware of the lore behind the weapons, ships and the many types of aliens, you'll be searching a lot in the Halo wiki. They should at least have an index or dictionary in the back for most of these designation models for the weapons and ships. You'll be so alienated and taken out of the immersion from it.
I don't know if this is a style, but this happens in almost all Halo novels so far i read.

Yeah, I tend to hate books that assume you know everything about them before opening them.

Glossaries seem to be a bit of a lost art these days.

 

[Majora Fi]

I will refrain from commenting on this matter for the sake of my mental health.

 

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There are other 2 radically different authors I enjoy that could make some readers distant cus of their style as well. One is José Saramago (slow paced, long paragraphs and absolutely NO use of commas lmao) and the other is Charles Bukowski (there are some flaws regarded his technique and creativity, tbh, but I enjoy all sorts of raw or misanthropic writings and mindset...)

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Charles Bukowski

I find the guy himself just as fascinating as his work.

 

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I find the guy himself just as fascinating as his work.

ikr, I would :')

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

I have some trouble connecting with William Burroughs, and i don't really know why. I don't consider him a bad writer, is very good, but...

Most of the time i tend to really like what i pick to read by intuition, so i have many Sempai on writing

 

[Lady Aldia Lady Aldia]

Garth Ennis.

 

[_Lorenzo_]

Generally, if I didn't like an author's style, it was practically impossible for me to venture into their other works. Which, looking back, was completely stupid!
For instance, I disliked Buzzati’s narrative style in The Tartar Steppe/Il deserto dei Tartari, which had been recommended to me. But a few years later, I decided to dive into his other books, and they actually completely gripped me, especially his short story collections, some of which are totally absurd and deeply unsettling.
When it comes to foreign literature where you don't speak the language, everything rides on the translator. They have to somehow possess the skill to re-interpret the author's actual train of thought, the idiomatic nuances, and so on.
Long story short, over the years I’ve learned not to write off any specific author for those reasons, but maybe I'm wrong!

 

[NeonKnights]

Respect to the man for making Arkham House publishing, but August Derleth, with L. Sprague Decamp as a close second.

 

[Pearly]

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Garth Ennis.

Some of his stuff is bordering on misery porn and is generally all round reaching bad/poor taste in many ways.

I haven't read many different works in recent years, but I have given many an author a try since I was about 12 or so. I despised JRR Tolkiens works, and found it Ironic that he disliked dune with "quite some intensity" and I adored Frank Herberts Dune books. Brian can go f**k himself, "here's new books!! That undermine my fathers 6 novels at every turn". I get that many love middle earth but I tried reading them around the time that I was avid book reader and I really wasn't gone on so many conversations and food descritptions. It really wasn't for me. They're chill books, maybe too chill.

 

[Need4Power]

Laird Barron. I've tried some of his books recently and just couldn't get myself to like them.

Honestly I don't even understand what I'm reading when reading his books because he loves using so many absurdly long descriptions, being overly cryptic and do strange dialogues/chain of events.