My editor, Daphne, did this meme that originated from The Artsy Reader Girl. Most people talk about positive things online and on social media, but what the hey–this is a list of the ten authors I don’t want to read again.
- Jose Saramago, because Blindness was confusing and it was like wading through a sea of incomprehensibility with the run-on sentences.
- Thomas Hardy (basically any preachy Victorian writer)
- Ernest Hemingway (blablabla, I am so manly, look at how I suffer because of war and women don’t understand me. Eyeroll.)
- Any vampire romance or fanfic based on said vampire romance or contrived romances in general. (I think it’s hard to write romance, actually. But I don’t like things that have essentially become cliches. I also veto any romance that depicts an abusive relationship as ‘normal’.)
- Ann Leckie (I am going to get so much hate for this because I didn’t enjoy Ancillary Justice. I saw where she was going and it’s definitely a refreshing take, but the writing style clearly wasn’t for me.)
- Liu Cixin. (Same reasons as above. Don’t kill me! Aaaaaaa!)
- Yukio Mishima. (He’s far too traditional for my liking.)
- Hard science fiction. Technically not an author, but the writer usually gets bogged up on details about how this or that engine works before they all go into a black hole or something.
- Charles Bukowski. He is overrated and self-indulgent.
- Jack Kerouac. I really did not enjoy “On The Road”.
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Yes so much hate for Ann Leckie being on your list. This does not compute!