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Recently, [info]enderfem was talking about a conversation where her friend asked "Name the worst author you've read and kept reading."

To which he replied Laurell K Hamilton.

Mine is Jack Higgins, specifically his Sean Dillon novels. Although I have to point out that I haven’t actually read one since Bad Company, which was so bad it soured me. I actually have the two books that come after that, and I should probably read them with the understanding that Bad Company was just a fluke. It was such a bad book though. It takes place (more or less) in 2003… and it’s about an old Nazi… with ties to Saddam Hussein… and I was reading if AFTER Hussein was caught which kind of killed the suspense. It had everything that made a Higgins novel bad with nothing that made it good.

So I'm wondering, who is your worst author that you just keep reading? And if you're feeling expansive, tell me why.
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From:[info]chili_das_schaf
Date: May 6th, 2008 10:24 pm (UTC)
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Stephen King. His novels are with maybe one or two exceptions all crappy, the end of his epic cycle ripped the reader's heart open, stomped on it and raped the corpse, he is so full of himself that he can barely walk and his new short story collections are a disappointment. And yet. And yet.
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From:[info]greyweirdo
Date: May 6th, 2008 10:40 pm (UTC)
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I liked his older stuff, like Misery and The Dark Half, when I was younger. That may be part of it though, I didn't notice that the ends fell flat until I'd stopped reading him for a while and came back again. Bag of Bones just left me wanting to punch a wall.

Also: I stopped half way through Wizard and Glass announcing that I just couldn't take any more damn meandering so I've been spared the end of that particular cycle.

Edited at 2008-05-06 10:41 pm (UTC)
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From:[info]droewyn
Date: May 7th, 2008 09:40 pm (UTC)
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I actually... "liked" is not the right word for the ending to the Dark Tower books, but I don't believe it could have been ended any other way. And it did end with hope for change, just not the blew-up-the-Death-Star-and-knighted-by-the-Princess ending that everyone wanted.
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From:[info]chili_das_schaf
Date: May 8th, 2008 06:26 am (UTC)
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I liked the ending he chose for Roland, too! But I didn't like the way it was introduced, I didn't like the end for the rest of the ka-tet and the end for the villains. It was so disappointing.
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From:[info]farmishtphoenix
Date: May 7th, 2008 03:28 am (UTC)
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I read every damn thing Sidney Sheldon wrote.

Every. Damn. Thing. And now I'm onto Stuart Woods, who is no better.
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