I'd say Charles Bukowski.
This guy has some sort of cult status, very underground, very "the real deal". I've read several of his novels and just find there boring references to his alcohol binges and sexual exploits, and lots of pointless ramblings, like the guy was just thinking "what the hell can I say now to keep this charade working".
What about you, who are your overrated authors?
Doesn't any Author need a 'higher than mighty' status to get any where in publishing.
I don't intend to be disrepectful to any Author - they made something of themselves and I haven't yet!
Borges.
Too abstract and metaphysical, and just plain boring.
Without disrespecting any living authors, I'll add my two cents here, although it will probably get me excommunicated or something: Ernest Hemingway.
~ Rascal
Danielle Steele. The bulk of her stories are all recycled material.
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JK Rowling ... gimme a fcking break
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
Bukowski was a brilliant poet but his novels are shit.
I'll second Rascal! Hemingway! So over-rated...
Well many of the authors being mentioned are simply "popular" in the sense that they sold a lot of books. I don't think many serious critics have ever suggested that Dan Brown or Stephanie Meyer are being "rated" as quality authors? In that sense they have never been "overrated" they are simply popular in the way a McDonald's hamburger is popular. Easy to consume, not challenging to the mind, a mass market product. Dan Brown is crap I do agree and one must wonder how he sells so many books?
I absolutely cannot agree with putting Hemingway in this category!! Sorry! This is a man who is largely responsible for the term "the lost generation" and went on drinking binges with James Joyce? Really? My god he hung out with Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, etc. etc. While not everyone may appreciate his sparse style, when you have read his works in full you realize the significance of coming to grips personally, as an individual, with the two greatest wars in man kinds history and the struggle to create internal order out of external chaos. As a short story writer Hemingway crafted some of the finest ever written in that era and influenced writers like J.D. Salinger who went on to create his own highly crafted short stories in a similar style.
I really tried with DH Lawrence, but I HATED his writing style - just could not read it...
Someone already said it, but Stephanie Meyer. It's like reading what a child wrote.
Ironically, I'm a fan of the Twilight Saga movies (although they have a lot of dreadful moments, too).
Twilight was over rated and written for a young kid. And then there is james mischner who's book Texas rewrote Texas history and a copy of his Chesapeake is I think floating in Chesapeake Bay still when I threw it out a hanger deck door. james patterson seems to be hot but come on people a new bookl a week and basically a same plot line. james grisham's last was a time to kill that was readable and then seems he got a case of ego as did james sandford. So sticking with William Gibson and Neil Gaiman for now.
Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is the most overrated novel. How this book filled with filler and characters I am never given a reason to give a damn about ever got held in such high regard much less kept in high regard is beyond my ability to comprehend.
