Seriously, Thoreau. I was forced to read him a few times and felt my soul leave my body.

😂👍🏼

I tend to think that all writers are … admirable. BUT, will go with Jackie Collins and anyone who pens drivel

I agree. And yeah - some are really bad.

🤢

JK Rowling 😖

Oh so agree

John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath was a nightmare to read

Hi, Aunty - I can see that

Krasnov's speech writer

I’ve never managed a single Rushdie and have tried multiple times. I second James Joyce too.

🙏🏼👍🏼

Are we limited to one entry per participant? Sig Larson's trilogy leaps to mind as I search for the closest window to leap out of. Way, way too violent for my taste.

🤭 No way! As many as you want, friend. I get that!

I can't stand Albert Camus, no matter how hard I try.

I really feel this.

Interesting choice. Which one pushed you over the edge?

Finnegan. Babbling! Not to say I don't like some of his work, though.

Understood. Fair enough. Likes and dislikes are very nuanced.

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Ayn Rand

When in college, out of curiosity, I read both her major works. I was underwhelmed. 👎

Hol up, people rate Ayn Rand? Like, not use her as an excuse for their darkest classist desires, but rare her?

omg YES!

Can't forget the undercurrent of our present moment!

So true. My MAGAt cousin believes there's eternal truth in Rand. sheesh

Sheesh is right. There's eternal truth in a lot of things..... but disagree about that

And so smug!

Elitist!

oh! Perfect - yes!

Dan Brown

Well, I liked the movies. 🤷‍♂️

hey, Kathy! DiVinci code guy? yeah - for sure.

Yes

No thanks.

Yet he is a top seller!

He’s horrid.

Malcom Gladwell

Omg, nailed it!! Of serious authors, he was the worst! At first I thought it was me-so famous(!), but no, he was just a self indulgent jerk. Soo boring.😑

You know it! Its enough!

The author of "Covfefe".

Roald Dahl!

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I have said for decades that Roald Dahl must have been abused as a child because all of the adults in his books are bad parents and bad people!

That could be. I'm only familiar with Charlie And the C.F. But that would make sense.

Emily Brontë - I’m probably gonna get some pushback for adding her to this list but I thought Wuthering Heights was a slog.

Adolf Hitler

Lol - 🏆

He was an underrated painter though. ( Risky joke )

c r i n g e! Lol!

JK Rowling

I’ve got a small group for you… Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The ghost-writer of Art of the Deal.

JK No joke, except her poorly formed writings

She's the fav overrated so far.

Well deserved. The only place she's not going to be overrated is on the list of being overrated

"That's not writing. It's typing." Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac

Agreed! Lol!

Totes agree.

babblebabblebabble Good Sunday Morn, dear!💐

G’day, chief!! 💛💛💛

🥰 How are you today?

Ernest Hemingway. It's a literal struggle to get through any one of his books.

He's my 2nd pick for that. ugh.

Definitely! I've tried to read "Ulysses" about half a dozen times and can't make it through three chapters. It's absolute garbage!

Henry Miller Anais Nin

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Hemingway Longest sentences in the world And...yawn

my second pick for overrated - so true.

Ayn Rand for sure...horrible books and a horrible person.

So true. ugh

I don't know if Mary Shelley would be considered overrated. I do know that being forced to read Frankenstein was torture, absolute torture.

Oh I bet. ugh!

Do a what was your favorite book. I'll start: Slaughterhouse-Five

Lonesome Dove

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 42. IYKYK.

...it WAS Good Omens. Don't know what's going to take its place.

The Great Gatsby

Great pick

I loved that book.

Blood Meridian or Moby-Dick

"The Eight", by Katherine Neville

Still Vonnegut but Cat's Cradle for me

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

I read M.A.S.H. about a dozen times back in the day. The Grapes of Wrath was a favorite in high school.

Grapes of Wrath is an excellent book.

Every one of his books that I’ve read is great.

Writing is an art form, just because I hate someone doesn't mean they're overrated. Tom Robbins is overrated, though.

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I did appreciate the bomb recipes

I can't say I remember any. I'm only familiar with Even Cowgirls and I didn't finish it.

Also, some kind of pipe bomb, if I recall.

sheesh. Not good.

I had to look it up... Delete it of course, if you're worried about the feds or whatever. www.angelfire.com/tx5/jcgcardm...

🤭 Thanks for this.

I think it was in the woodpecker one. Like if you cut the red pips out of those uncoated playing cards, you can make a bomb with them, some chemical in the dye. Can't remember, it's got to be close to 30 years

Thats creative, at least.

Yes, and much less misogynistic 😬

yikes! Yeah

Thomas Hardy. Two of his novels were forced upon me in high school. Try as I might, I never finished either of them. Even the Cliff's Notes (only those of a certain age know that reference) were interminably boring.

Yay Cliff Notes! They helped me understand ‘The Sound And The Fury’ in college lit class.

Yikes! Sounds really bad! Even the C Notes... wow.

Must respectfully disagree. Jude the Obscure is a masterpiece.

To each his own.

Shakespeare. ( Gonna go into hiding now! ) :)

What! 🤨

Gutsy pick!

I'm sure this post is gonna haunt me if I ever make it big.

Controversy sells, man!

All publicity is good publicity ( until it comes back to bite you in the arse ). :)

Indeed. Hence then need for "influencers"

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JK Rowling

I would say this even if she wasn’t a terf. She came up with a great concept that captures imagination well, but the writing itself is a bit mediocre at best.

Cliches, stereotypes all over them.

Haha same answer

Big time.

Come on! That was low hanging fruit! 😄

Melania!!!! Soulless, illiterate, plagiarizer!

Jake Tapper

Hahah! Perfect!

James Patterson

Dirty Boy

😂 well done

James Fucker Comey

Wait. Did he publish something?

Oh yeah!

Anne RIce - her subsequent work may have faltered substantially already, but I was never able to finish her breakthrough book, Interview with a Vampire. Just too angsty, became a chore to slog through.

Yes Anne Rice - those were like picking cranberries

I didn't finish it either. or the movie. A slog for sure.

Similarly, I found some of the woods scenes with the 3 main characters of Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to be too self-involved and whiny, interrupting the otherwise breathless narrative push of the books.

I don't know that one but, thanks for saying.

Hemmingway

My #2. For sure.

J K Rowling

Haha same answer! I'm not the only one then

For sure.

John Irving

Boom! I see it

Carl Hiassen

No idea. I'll take your word!

I don't know him. google...

Enjoy....Lucky You and Skinny Dip

Thanks!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dean koonz

yes!

Nicholas Sparks 🤮

yup!