[Azurehero]

Let's face it. Not every book in the genre is for you. There have to be some books out there that have rubbed you the wrong way or just frustrated you to the point of throwing the book agaisnt the wall before you rushed out to your local used book store and traded 'er in. Now's your chance to sound off.

I have a few, but I'll start out with this one and then add to the list later.

The book is called "The Blind Archer." The tittle should tip you off. Its about a boy who gets his face stolen. And uh . . . well he goes blind (no face no eyes, right?) and somehow not having a face makes him an archer. A great archer. I didn't make it to the end.

[FitzChivalry]

Terry Goodkind... Temple of the Winds was perhaps the worst fantasy book i ever read and there i left the series...
Also Janny Wurts, she did a good job on The Empire Trilogy with Raymond E. Feist but i read only one book of her Wars of Light and Shadow series and it bored the hell out of me so i didn't go on.
Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn was bad too as i mentioned here already.

[Cellandros]

An author I can stand is David Eddings. Cardboard characters, cardboard plot; cliche, cliche, cliche.

[Lani]

Author I can't stand is Fritz Leiber. His style and strange sence of humor just drive me nuts. And his characters are even worse. One of not many authors I just couldn't go farther page 50.

[Liselle]

An author I can't stand is definitely Marion Zimmer-Bradley. I read one of her books, and I muss confess I quite liked it, but the next one was an exact copy of the first (well, the names were exchanged).

[Azurehero]

Isn't this fun?

Okay, another writer I didn't like is Sharon Green. You think Edding's is bad? He's got nothing on her. She has 5 characters that are good, 5 that are bad. Now, each of the good guys have a ghost of sorts that come back to haunt them. An old boss, a controlling dad, something like that. But the thing is when ghost come back, they come back in numeric succesion. One after the other.

It's irratating. Oh, and the characters have sex with each other as favors.

"Hey, will you do me a favor?"

"Sure, what?"

"Have sex with me tonight?"

"Hey, you got it buddy!"

Stay away from Sharon Green everyone.

[drakon]

in the risk of getting tons of hate mail, i will state that eventhough i liked the first books in te WOT series i totally think Robert Jordan is a mediocre, to say the least, writer and though i'll try and finish the series it will sort of a self inflicted torture for me.

[Alex]

Goodkind really sucks..... Need I say more..
Also David Drake's "Lord of the isles-series" made me sick.... How shallow can characters be and the book still be allowed to be classified as fantasy?????

[FitzChivalry]

Heh, check the "What is fantasy?" thread.

[shadowfire]

Stephen King only seems to write well for the first two thirds of a book and then he just wraps it all up (must need the money quickly)
I agree that Sharon Green sucks
However Janny Wurts Keeper of the keys series is outstanding