I agree. I might have authors whose writing I don't care for but I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate them. I'm sure their writing is appealing to someone even if it isn't me.Bergamot wrote:Strange topic? I couldn't 'hate' an author, I'm sure each and every book has some pearls of wisdom in it.
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Of course, I've read many things that I consider ignorant, stupid, weak, badly written, unbelievable, etc. But it's the most famous ones I think, that we're discussing.
I think the most vehemently I've ever felt about an author was the one who wrote Fifty Shades of Grey, the oh-so-popular BDSM story, now being made a movie. I have read Anais Nin, and I guess that was my standard for erotic genres. The Fifty Shades writing was so absolutely crappy that I don't remember the author's name, couldn't get past page 2, and it inspired me to finally kick off my long-postponed publishing career, with f/f erotica. 'Low hanging fruit', as they taught me in the corporate career I held for 25 years, while I put off the possibility at failing in my life's work, writing. So that author made me say to myself, 'I can do better than this, at least. For sure. And for women, especially.' And I did publish, two stories, and even gave my story to a famous lesbian movie star, an actress on the Showtime series 'The L Word', at the infamous Dinah party for women in Palm Springs. Though the jury is still out in Hollywood, I'm getting good reviews on the internet so far, so we shall see if that vehemence resulted in success. In which case, I'm most grateful to my least favorite author!
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I actually dislike a lot of the "classics" that were mentioned. Peter Pan, Alice and Wonderland, Narnia. I disliked all of those. Of course the idea that BDSM was anyway involved in 50 Shades is actually annoying lol. I dunno. I don't hate any author. I do dislike a lot of books though. Even by authors I love.
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If you haven't read up on the Cassandra Clare plagiarism debacle, it's kept me off of supporting her merchandise with my money like a charm. The things she has supposedly said and done to other people who have criticized her work and the flippant way she's treated her fans as if they were simple underlings to her is absolutely repellent. According to one account, she once attempted to get a girl kicked out of college for engaging her about her pretty blatant plagiarism of other works; in another, she had her fans blackmail/prankcall/stalk/send black faxes to one of her critic's house; in yet another, she sent threatening private messages to an individual and even ended one with a disheartening abortion wish... I can't stomach reading any of her work after reading all of those accounts, and I deeply resent her silence and/or denial when it comes to addressing these accusations.
In a similar vein, Steven Moffat has behaved abominably towards his fans, the people working with him, and people who have dared to outwardly criticize his work. When he had a twitter, it was filled with dismissive comments towards tweets asking questions about plot holes in both the Doctor Who and Sherlock series. His attitudes towards women and other minorities have shown up subtly in his work, but unfortunately he fails to respectfully address the concerns of fans, no matter how many times people have tried to talk reasonably with him, going even so far as to claim people who had problems or didn't like his works were "fairly stupid." His old "women-are-needy" comments were disgusting enough, but his quite recent "Queen-played-by-a-man" comments were what really swore me off of him for good.
I'm not one of those people who can buy a book and separate that from the idea that I'm technically giving the author money for the fruit of their bad behaviour. If I'm really curious, I rent it from the library. But whenever I pick something up by either of these storywriters, I can never bring myself to finish it.
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I dislike a lot of other authors, but I can only truly hate Stephen King.
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