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Post by hi224 on Feb 21, 2023 20:38:20 GMT
I am not fond at all of Dumas.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 23, 2023 11:51:08 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Feb 24, 2023 21:26:47 GMT
Emily Bronte.
Steve Berry.
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Post by amyghost on Feb 24, 2023 23:47:54 GMT
Cormac McCarthy. Not that he's a bad writer, but the praise is OTT; I'm still stunned that The Road was awarded a Pulitzer (though god knows, eough Pulitzer winners have ended up in the dustbin of mediocrity down the decades).
Neil Gaiman. Again, a decent writer, but when I actually hear critics comparing him to Shakespeare...not his fault, of course, what they say--but still and all, Jesus Christ, he is not all that.
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Post by hi224 on Feb 26, 2023 15:02:10 GMT
Emily Bronte. Steve Berry. Interesting why do you find Bronte overrated. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 26, 2023 15:47:53 GMT
Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 26, 2023 17:25:04 GMT
Emily Bronte. Steve Berry. Interesting why do you find Bronte overrated. Couldn't stand reading Wuthering Heights. |
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 27, 2023 0:01:38 GMT
All the romance novelists and the ones that confuse torture with romance.
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Post by novastar6 on May 26, 2023 19:15:56 GMT
Dan Brown
Stephen King
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jun 7, 2023 7:45:29 GMT
Philip K. Dick - Had some interesting ideas but couldn't write well.
Ray Bradbury - Hate his writing style.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jun 7, 2023 13:40:58 GMT
Shakespeare, although he/she had some very good plots, I often find reading Shakespeare to be very tedious. I do enjoy many of the film adaptations (love A Midsummer's Night Dream with Mickey Rooney as Puck) and I do like The Tempest and Taming of the Shrew, I guess Shakespeare is better to be seen performed than read. This is just my opinion but I sometimes wonder if people say they love Shakespeare so they would appear intellectual and sophisticated.
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Post by gw on Jun 8, 2023 0:15:07 GMT
David Brin for me. I've never managed to get more than a chapter or two into his books. But to be fair, most authors I only like some of their books and not others. As for darkreviewer2013's opinions, it so happens that I finished off a Philip K. Dick book and am starting on a Bradbury. Dick's books, aside from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, I agree are tough to get through. I haven't read any Bradbury before so I'm hoping I disagree on that front.
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Post by Morgana on Jun 28, 2023 10:04:10 GMT
Stephen King.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 3, 2023 4:12:40 GMT
I feel most are.
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Post by mmexis on Jul 10, 2023 7:26:27 GMT
Shakespeare, although he/she had some very good plots, I often find reading Shakespeare to be very tedious. I do enjoy many of the film adaptations (love A Midsummer's Night Dream with Mickey Rooney as Puck) and I do like The Tempest and Taming of the Shrew, I guess Shakespeare is better to be seen performed than read. This is just my opinion but I sometimes wonder if people say they love Shakespeare so they would appear intellectual and sophisticated. I actually do love shakespeare. But people forget that they are plays and not books. So, like you said - they are meant to be seen and heard, not read! And you love shakespeare too if you like the films! lol |
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