The Most Whack Writers

[CattiGuen]

Mary Higgins Clark
Janet Evanovich
Terry Pratchett
Danielle Steele
John Grisham
Stephen King
Tom Clancy
Dan Brown
....yup.

 

[Heteronym]

Pop writers are getting a lot of heat around here.

 

[ions]

Pop writers are getting a lot of heat around here.

True, but once you dismiss all authors listed without a reason the list gets much shorter.

 

[mel07]

hmm, i'd have to say Malcolm Lowry, particularly Under the Volcano (which i was unable to finish). i find his writing turgid, contrived, obtuse ... get to the point already ...

 

[Heteronym]

Now, you see, if I had to choose I'd say James Joyce or William Burroughs. They're laudaded as great writers and put on the same pedastal as writers I worship, like Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luís Borges, and that irritates me because I consider them literary frauds without the ability to create characters or create a coherent narrative.

Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark may be overhyped whenever their new books comes out, they may be even overrated by the masses. But what do I care? They're not being compared to really great greaters. King is compared to Straub, Koontz and Gaiman (sorry ); Clark to Patricia Cornwell; Robin Cook to Konsalik. And? What are these people to me?