The Most Overrated Author
 

Which author do you find the most overated.

Will Self and Martin Amis for me.

I thought Grey Area and Great Apes were really good books. Enjoyed Dorian as well. Was not so keen on How the Dead Live and never got round to finishing My Idea of Fun or Cock and Bull.
Never read any Martin Amis.
Personally, always thought Kerouac was a tad overrated.

J.D Salinger.

J. K. Fucking Rowling
Dan Fucking Brown

Will Self for sure. Woody Allen and Bukowski follow suit.

I think Kathy Reichs is overhyped, but maybe she's just not my style. Micheal Azzerad is pretty bad too

Kerouac and Bukowski.

Kerouac.

Kerouac!

*snaps fingers*

dig baby, diiiig.

My thoughts exactly.

chuck palahniuk

on this board-- william s. burroughs

not saying that he's bad, but here, you'd think he's some sort of literary god. sorry, but he's not that either.

Lydia "I'm happiest when I'm miserable" Lunch.

Surely you have to be rated before you can be overrated?

"Naked Mr. America burning frantic with self bone love screams "My asshole counfounds the Louvre, I fart ambrosia, and shit pure gold turds. My cock spurts soft white diamonds in the morning sunlight" He plummets from the eyeless lighthouse kissing and jerking off in the face of the black mirror...:

If that's not literay god I don't know what is...

i guess i'm not so enthralled by cocks and spurts and turds.

Well, nobody has said anything incredibly ignorant in this thread. So I'm happy.

I have to say that I wanted to hang myself reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

As far as late 19th century female writers go, the Brontes and Mary Shelley both kick that dumb bitch's ass.

dan brown is massively overated. all his books seem to be the same.

burroughs is a literary god.

I wouldn't consider Dan Brown to be overrated, because I don't think many people claim that he produces works of literary genius. He just writes good thrillers, same as Lee Child, James Patterson etc.

Go to the "Cult Literature" section in your local bookshop. Pick a book at random. There's a 95% chance the author is overrated.

well there was something of a furor about him, with many (idiots) claiming him to be amazing and treatinmg him as a literary genius. i guess that was just the hype surrounding the subject matter more than anything.

Hemingway bugs me.
Sentences are too short.
Clipped style is annoying.
Yes it is.
Like the newspaper.
He bugs me a lot.
Santiago can fuck the lions.

Indeed. Writes quite good books. That's it.

I guess he's not really that highly rated but Jeff Noon is still overrated. Again, writes OK, if slightly annoyingly 'cult' books.

Also, William Gibson. I'd lump him with the above two. All are good. None of them great or anything. Although Gibson and Palahniuk I would rate higher than Jeff Noon.

ha ha ha this was very funny.

i love hemingway but that was a good parody.

damn fucking straight!

i'm reading our band could be your life for the third or fourth time and i just realized he says nirvana were from OLYMPIA!

I was about to say Philip K. Dick, but then I realised his stuff was actually as good as everyone made it out to be, if not better.

Philip K. Dick and uh, John Irving. Oh, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Shakespeare.

^^^^
blasphemy!

i dont see how shakespeare can be overrated, the little bastard wrote some 40 masterpieces, sure some are weaker than others but if people bothered to read him more i think we would throw around the word "genius" greater care.

of course every time someone wins a lot more want revenge but what can you do.

Am I going to have to use this thing---->:D everyone seems to get lost in my sarcasms.

Yeeaahh, fuck that guy. Oh look at me, I'm Shakespeare, "Doth thou hither sonnets sonnets sonnets."

Repped^^

i do need smilies too from time to time.

ah!

well the misunderstood sarcasm i guess is the fault of feminists & poststructuralist & postcolonial wankers everywhere who once upon a time decided to tag shakespeare as a "dead white male" & proceeded to pile a ton of undeserved criticism on the guy in order to get even for being miserable; this whole project was carried out with the most atrocious sort of prose imaginable. i'll fish around the internet for an example.

ha ha luxy i hope you dont get tired of me saying this but you're so frikkin awesome and i can only do so many reps.

Dan Brown - that guy couldn't write a shopping list, let alone a bleedin' book. And let's face it, when it comes to setting a scene, he ain't no Sven Hassel.

I agree that Chuck P is over-rated, his book's are good initially and then his stlye becomes agrivating.