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I almost want to say Tolkien, but I feel like as a sweeping generalization that's unfair. I heavily dislike the LOTR but didn't mind the Silmarillion or the Hobbit because they didn't have as many unresolved tangents as LOTR, if that makes sense?

Also, I first read LOTR at like, 12/13 so maybe I just need to give it a second chance? I dunno.

I almost feel the opposite - I love LOTR to death, don't really care about the Hobbit, and sort of dislike all the legendarium stuff

I'm the other way round... liked LOTR, but meh on The Hobbit and The Silmarillion is interesting on some level, but dull. I honestly don't know how people get invested in the characters since it reads like a dry history book.

TBH I like history books. The history book feel is one reason I love it. My dad is a history teacher. I love history and grew up surrounded by history books. I love fictional history and learning about it. The more fleshed-out a fictional world is, the more interested I probably am.

Edited 2019-06-27 02:24 (UTC)

John Irving, and a lot of other dude litfic authors who were on the must-read lists in the late 80s.

John Updike?

From what little I have read of her works, it would have to be Anne Rice. Especially when she went through her "I don't need an editor" phase.

Puh-lease.

David Leviathan. Speaking of overdoing the cleverness. His attempts to be clever are sometimes so lengthy I can't understand what's actually trying to be said.

*Levithan. Dammit autocorrect.

Oh man, I know I read some of his books when I was in high school, but I can’t remember a damn thing about any of them.

Proust. He's boring.
Somebody must like Edith Wharton a lot considering how often Ethan Frome is called a classic, It's the only book she wrote that I ever read and I really hated it (had to read it for school). This very dull old guy and this total shallow airhead woman fall in love and don't do anything about it but piss and moan about having to hide it from his wife and the closest we get to a sexy scene is where they're washing dishes. Then near the end of the book they decide to do the stupidest thing possible which is commit suicide and they decide to do it in the dumbest way possible which is run their sled into a tree. They wind up paralyzed and the little airhead does more complaining and the wife (who's the character I felt sorry for although I don't think that's who I was supposed to feel sorry for) is forced to take care of both of them for some reason.
oh, and David Sedaris. He's not anywhere near as funny as he thinks he is.

Edited 2019-06-27 02:13 (UTC)

I usually enjoy David Sedaris when he writes stuff based on his actual life. Not that I'm saying I believe it all happened, but the realistic stuff. But when he writes fiction it just seems stupid to me.

I've never even read his fiction. If it's worse than his writing about his actual life I really don't want to read it now.

I haven't read Ethan Frome, but that sounds like the stupidest "forbidden love" stories I've ever heard.

haha it was.

Either Bronte sister, and also Jane Austin. Dull as dishwasher to me. I just don't find romance interesting, and nothing about their writing drew me in. Although at least Austin's characters were a bit interesting. But the plots were too dull to let the slightly intriguing characters make up for that.

Margaret Atwood. I think her writing has important points to make. I just don't like her writing story. Plus, she can't write a good ending. I hate books that just sort of trail off.

Diana Gabaldon. Ugh. I just can't with Outlander.

Robert Jordan. Which is weird because Tolkien takes just as long to get to a point. But Tolkien works for me and Jordan really doesn't.

"I hate books that just sort of trail off."
oh god, I hate that too.

I'd say Robert Jordan was worse about it than Tolkien. I don't remember what book it was, maybe six, but it just broke me and I quit for good.

Nothing important happened at all in the book, it was all set up and a war that maybe Rand will get around to fighting? Or was kind of almost fighting?

I don’t like reading Jane Austen’s books, but I do enjoy the movie adaptions. For the Bronte sisters, I like Anne’s and Charlotte’s books, but I can’t stand Emily’s book and I’m not big on her poetry.

Piers Anthony. I don't even know if he's still popular but he used to be and he's actually a lousy writer and a sexist. I think he had interesting basic ideas but he couldn't write them with any depth at all and I couldn't connect with his one-dimensional characters.

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