It's purely a personal opinion, but...
Jane Austen
...
*runs*
It's purely a personal opinion, but...
Jane Austen
...
*runs*
"Haunt me, take any form. Only, do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you."
Anyone would be overrated with her amount of rating
This story may be apocryphal but I read somewhere that Dan Brown decided to become a writer when he was lying on a beach reading a best seller and he said to himself 'I could write a better book than that.'Originally Posted by teejay17
Whoever the author was is the person we are looking for.
Last edited by Emil Miller; 08-29-2008 at 10:26 AM.
Oh, Stephenie Meyer has imagination but her writing is terrible. She doesn't exactly have a way with words.
from a very prose-centric perspective i agree, jack kerouac is so often terribly careless in terms of style and technique in generalthis is a thread for all the writers that we've been told are great and are in the classics range and constantly appear on 100greatestnovels lists and such like but we hate.
i say jack kerouac is the most overrated
die! on the road
Stephenie Meyer is definitely the most overrated author ever in my book. I am sick to death of hearing about her and seeing her books, and people gushing over her, when she is a mediocre writer at best.
Even when I was in highschool I could not have stood to read her and was reading works of higher quality.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
J.K Rowling.
though, as a children's author, she's quite good at it.
I don't mind Rowling
Any author who can get millions of children (and adults alike) excited about reading certainly cannot be overrated.
I certainly agree with you DM! Meyer is my pick for the most overrated author ever..Sorry for all those Twilighters..
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"this is a thread for all the writers that we've been told are great and are in the classics range and constantly appear on 100greatestnovels lists and such like but we hate."I certainly agree with you DM! Meyer is my pick for the most overrated author ever..Sorry for all those Twilighters..
Hmm but that was the original objective of the thread. I don't think Meyer's books have ever been classified as "great", neither have they achieved the status of classics.
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
They have by some tiddlywinks who think they are the epitome of literature
Im going with the cliched choice, Stephen King.
I said the same but have since realised such an opinion is unfair based on the fact I have only read Mansfield Park... I am reserving my opinion now until I have read a bit more of her work (have to read Northanger Abbey for Uni this term)
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
I am sure he will be thinking about this while laughing his way to the bank!
~
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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