Worst Author Ever

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-15 06:10pm

Simple question. Who is, in your opinion, the absolute incarnation of poor writing?

My vote goes to Terry Goodkind. His crap should be used as fossil fuel, not best-selling books.

Mike_6002 · Post by **Mike_6002** » 2002-11-15 06:12pm

Posts by Anton "Elim" Pronger (Old ASVS days)

Oh for real anyone who did NJO series

It so depressing, and they kill to good many people

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-11-15 06:24pm

The worst books that I remember reading were by Piers Anthony.

Post by **Zaia** » 2002-11-15 06:30pm

Nikki Barrowclough: wrote a book called "Monsieur Frog," where one of the main characters is a French chef whose French accent is meticulously spelled out throughout the book.

Example of how annoying this is:

"'Zoe and I merst go to France,' shouter the Frog, out of the blue. 'It his himperative we leave himmediately! Termerrow! My grandmerther's letter as made me omeseek fur my cerntry, heven though I ham still herpset about the frozen cassoulet. I ave the keys to han hempty hapartment hin Paris belernging to a friend who lives in Guadeloupe. E went there hinstead erf me. I will nevaire furgive im. E as a guilty conscience, so we can stay hin is hapartment has lerng has we like. I will berk the plane tickets right haway.'"

Multiply that by 270 more pages, and THAT is how annoying this book is. Fortunately, it was sent to me as a joke (by Ando's gf), so I didn't have to suffer through it any more than I did.

It is utter shite!!!!

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2002-11-15 06:47pm

John Steinbeck He's so DAMN BOOOOORING!

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-15 06:52pm

Faram wrote:John Steinbeck He's so DAMN BOOOOORING!

There are worse, I am sure. But yeah, Steinbeck is bad. I can't remember who wrote Moby Dick, but he is way too......incoherent. Good author, bad style.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-15 06:55pm

verilon wrote:
Faram wrote:John Steinbeck He's so DAMN BOOOOORING!
There are worse, I am sure. But yeah, Steinbeck is bad. I can't remember who wrote Moby Dick, but he is way too......incoherent. Good author, bad style.

I didn't think Herman Melville was that bad. L. Ron Hubbard, or Dostoyevsky, or Camus, or Hawthorne. Steinbeck is up there too.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-15 06:56pm

The Dark wrote:I didn't think Herman Melville was that bad. L. Ron Hubbard, or Dostoyevsky, or Camus, or Hawthorne. Steinbeck is up there too.

Hawthorne couldn't have been THAT bad....I liked The Fisherman and the Sea. However, I never got to read Farewell to Arms or many of his better-known books.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-15 06:59pm

I liked 'Of Mice and Men' and 'The Old Man and The Sea'

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-11-15 07:00pm

Maxine Hong Kingston. "Multiculturalist" literature at it's worst.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-15 07:00pm

IG-88E wrote:I liked 'Of Mice and Men' and 'The Old Man and The Sea'

Yes, Of Mice and Men....and sorry for butchering the name of the Hawthorne novel....its been so long since I read it...

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-15 07:02pm

verilon wrote:
The Dark wrote:I didn't think Herman Melville was that bad. L. Ron Hubbard, or Dostoyevsky, or Camus, or Hawthorne. Steinbeck is up there too.
Hawthorne couldn't have been THAT bad....I liked The Fisherman and the Sea. However, I never got to read Farewell to Arms or many of his better-known books.

We had to do The Scarlet Letter, and my mother made me read The Red Badge of Courage. I almost went mad. Oh, and also add to the list whoever wrote that book Farewell to Manzanar. I can read a Tolkien novel in two days; that book took me five months because I fell asleep every three pages.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-15 07:04pm

The Dark wrote:
verilon wrote:
The Dark wrote:I didn't think Herman Melville was that bad. L. Ron Hubbard, or Dostoyevsky, or Camus, or Hawthorne. Steinbeck is up there too.
Hawthorne couldn't have been THAT bad....I liked The Fisherman and the Sea. However, I never got to read Farewell to Arms or many of his better-known books.
We had to do The Scarlet Letter, and my mother made me read The Red Badge of Courage. I almost went mad. Oh, and also add to the list whoever wrote that book Farewell to Manzanar. I can read a Tolkien novel in two days; that book took me five months because I fell asleep every three pages.

Loved The Scarlet Letter. I would like to BURN The Red Badge of Courage. My mom made me read it, too.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-15 07:05pm

Easily Charles Dickens's Great Expectations? Never has a title lied. Horrible, horrible tripe crap.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2002-11-15 07:07pm

Dostoyevsky is a great writer who always gets butchered by the translation.

Hawthorne's the worst ever.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-15 07:09pm

verilon wrote:Loved The Scarlet Letter. I would like to BURN The Red Badge of Courage. My mom made me read it, too.

Funny, I feel the opposite way.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-15 07:10pm

IG-88E wrote:
verilon wrote:Loved The Scarlet Letter. I would like to BURN The Red Badge of Courage. My mom made me read it, too.
Funny, I feel the opposite way.

And I hated both.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-15 07:10pm

IG-88E wrote:
verilon wrote:Loved The Scarlet Letter. I would like to BURN The Red Badge of Courage. My mom made me read it, too.
Funny, I feel the opposite way.

Heh heh. Strange, how I like some of the books I had to read in high school, but I can almost never stand the books my mom made me read.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2002-11-15 07:16pm

L. Ron Hubbard is assuredly a tough read. I remember the episode of Millenium that lampooned him and Scientology. Hubbard was "Onan Gupta", the founder of "Selfosophy". Oh, god it was funny. Frank Black asked Peter Watts haow he could face the terrors of evil and be afraid of Selfosophists, he replied "Demons don't sue you to the fullest extent of the law." God, I miss that show.........

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-11-15 09:32pm

Kevin J. Anderson.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-11-15 09:44pm

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-15 09:44pm

How about a full name, Sea Skimmer?

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-11-15 09:47pm

verilon wrote:How about a full name, Sea Skimmer?

Graham Kennedy?

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-11-15 09:48pm

Mike_6002 wrote:Posts by Anton "Elim" Pronger (Old ASVS days)

Oh for real anyone who did NJO series

It so depressing, and they kill to good many people

Oh come on, Star by Star and Rebel Dream/Stand are good. And the rest aren't worst author ever level.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2002-11-15 09:49pm

Whoever wrote "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". I can usually plow through crap, but that was just such a godawfully boring book...

I will freely admit that I simply went online and read summaries of the last half of the book. The book was not worth my time.