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.

 

[NeonKnights]

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.

I wanted to read to read Occultation when it came out, back in my second Lovecraft phase but I made a point of not reading any of the modern authors one was usually recommended to read on discovering Lovecraft, and instead read the authors that Lovecraft had read. Pugmire, Campbell and Joshi were the exceptions however.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I kinda have stuff against sportswriter Tom Dakers.

Dude's not only a typo-making machine, but turns every recap into virtue-signalling.

Ugh!

 

[TheReal_TomokoKuroki]

Whoever writes Fate, fucking any of them, needs to be completely kicked out of the industry. Have you ever heard the tip that it's a good idea to cut half your finished script to make it better to read and emphasize the important parts? That writer said FUCK THAT DOUBLE IT. LET ME WRITE CONSTANTLY ABOUT USELESS BULLSHIT NOBODY GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT.
Stay/Night is one thing, but fuck me man, whoever wrote Grand Order does not deserve the same air I breathe.

 

[Bandini]

Stephen King.
I find fim him extremely boring and so unoriginal. I´ve end reading like six or seven of his books thinking maybe I picked the wrong one to start with but no it just doesn´t work for me... specially A bag of bones.

 

[goldman2786]

Brandon sanderson. I've tried to read Mistborn, his original novels, etc. and they just don't interest me. He has great ideas but his writing is just not very engaging imo. It's weird because he recommended novels on a podcast which I think are better as new "up and coming" creators.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Lynn Okamoto, maker of the infamous Elfen Lied manga, all his works can be summarized as "Random guy gets stuck in magical situation, the magic situation turns out to suck, random guy's life is ruined and everybody is miserable, END"

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Lynn Okamoto, maker of the infamous Elfen Lied manga, all his works can be summarized as "Random guy gets stuck in magical situation, the magic situation turns out to suck, random guy's life is ruined and everybody is miserable, END"

Sounds like something I'd write xD