Has your favourite author ever dissapointed you?

casper · Post by **casper** » 16 Oct 2013, 03:54

Yes. One of my favourite authors is Louis de Bernieres but I was really disappointed by the ending of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. It was like he was in a rush to finish it, either because he ran out of ideas for the story or because of some deadline. It's one instance where I prefer the film ending.

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 18 Oct 2013, 06:26

Stephen King's endings (at times) seem as dodgy as going to a Bob Dylan concert. You just never know what you are going to get. Sometimes they are amazing...other times they are....a leatherhead or a spider.

feyindie60 · Post by **feyindie60** » 20 Oct 2013, 11:12

I think I am more disappointed in the publishers than the authors. They control the editorial process. If a novel or a story is bad, the reader takes a chance when reading or buying that story. Writers are human. Sometimes they have flights of fancy. If I trust that writer, I take a ride with that writer.

XxBelarusxX · Post by **XxBelarusxX** » 21 Oct 2013, 23:00

I have many favorite authors but there is one that disappointed me but it was only once R.D. Henham was supposed to release the blue dragon codex and the white the next books in the series but instead she ended up ending the series with the gold dragon codex instead and began a different series. I was sad about that because I had been looking forward to the release of both books for months.

Dream Catcher · Post by **Dream Catcher** » 27 Jan 2014, 13:35

They rushed the ending of the book but built up to it so well

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 27 Jan 2014, 15:28

Donna Tartt has certainly disappointed me with The Goldfinch but I might just forgive her if in her next book she gets back to the brilliance of her earlier books

ALRyder · Post by **ALRyder** » 28 Jan 2014, 13:16

Carla Hurst-Chandler wrote:Stephen King's endings (at times) seem as dodgy as going to a Bob Dylan concert. You just never know what you are going to get. Sometimes they are amazing...other times they are....a leatherhead or a spider.

I know how you feel! "Rose Madder" got to me the most. I loved that book, and then he had to go and ruin it with the end.

Another disappointment for me was my favorite author back in high school; K.A. Applegate, specifically her Everworld series. It had nothing to do with her writing (I loved this series through and through). The disappointment came with finding out she used ghost writers. Looking at the publishing dates (each three months apart) this should have been obvious, but I was young and naive *sigh*

thegiltyone · Post by **thegiltyone** » 02 Feb 2014, 07:58

I adore Sara Shepard, but she just won't end her Pretty Little Liars series. Everything needs an ending. I mean, the series is 15 books long. 15. It's crazy. The plots get more and more ridiculous.

britt1125 · Post by **britt1125** » 02 Feb 2014, 15:13

I would have to say Steven King. I love his books but I did read "The girl Who Loved Tom Gordon". I have to say it was a let down. I just keep expecting something exciting to happen but it never did. It was just about a little girl who loved base ball and got lost in the the woods. I was very disappointed.

saouad · Post by **saouad** » 09 Feb 2014, 14:13

As a teenager, I read Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist and was awestruck at the depth and complexity of the novel.

I went on to read some of his other novels, and hit a road block reading his novel 11 minutes, which idealizes prostitution as one woman's spiritual experience. It was likely meant to be an avant-garde treatment of the topic, however I found it to be a completely implausible portrait of prostitution and wildly disrespectful of women struggling to get out of prostitution.

I've not been able to read any of his novels since.

anicole27 · Post by **anicole27** » 11 Feb 2014, 19:22

When I was in high school. During my free periods I would go to the library and read, or browse to see what book I would be reading next. I was addicted to Jodi Picoult, the first book I ever read from her was an assigned summer reading. My sister's keeper, oh I was about fourteen at the time and I thought the book was magical, the story telling, the plot, the subject, the depth of the characters. It was amazing, and then she came out with Lone Wolf, after that it was The Storyteller. One disappointing book (Lone Wolf) I could handle, you cant have everything. However, I was hopeful about her new release the story teller, I was giddy with excitement I pre-ordered it and everything. I couldn't believe it. It was another dud, it was so boring. I could not connect with the story line, not because it dealt with Jewish history, because I am very familiar with it. But I didn't find the Jodi Picoult magic in the pages, it was like she didn't write it, like an imposter wrote it. Maybe it was her daughter with whom she co-wrote at young adult novel with. I bought that one also. ( I just don't want to speak about it) If I were to count that atrocity with her other failed novels, that would be three strikes. Right now she's out for me I will not be reading her next book. I a Picoult strike

InconstantMoon · Post by **InconstantMoon** » 14 Feb 2014, 09:28

Oh, man. Let me just say, only twice in my life has my favorite author (Meg Cabot) really made me angry. Once, when she wrote Pants on Fire, which I believe is the worst book she ever wrote because a girl who was cheating on her boyfriend and then cheating on the guy that she was cheating on her boyfriend with, and yet at the end of the day, she got a happy ending, and I was pissed. And second, in the Queen of Babble series because it didn't end the way I was totally expecting, and I might have thrown the book across the room just a little bit.....just a little bit.

BetzyCrypt · Post by **BetzyCrypt** » 15 Feb 2014, 15:52

My favorite author has never failed me. The only book that has angered me, and to this day I shun it is Carrie by Stephan King. The story was told horribly ad the plot was broken with the flawed dialogue. Stephan King's work was always a "C' to me.

Adonis Maratos · Post by **Adonis Maratos** » 16 Feb 2014, 07:20

Terry Pratchett to me is a perfect example. He has written so many books that some kind of failure is inevitable. I believe the first ever book i read of his was also the first book he published (the colour of magic) and I loved it, I was amazed, so i rushed to get another one which happened to be the "thief of time" (in my opinion his best book) and I loved it too. I kept on reading his books and sometimes I really liked them and others not so much, but they were still good. Then not so long ago, a friend bought me "maskerade".... Boy wasn't I disappointed. It had so much potential, so much he could have done but to me it just... didn't live up to the challenge. I finished it, I forced myself to do it and went on to read "snuff" which, thank god, I enjoyed very much.

Chelsea_noel · Post by **Chelsea_noel** » 22 Feb 2014, 20:52

I was just getting into young adult novels when I came across Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars series and picked up the first of many. I began reading with enthusiasm until about the sixth book in the series. I have finished reading the series of books which exceeds well beyond the sixth. Everything began to drag out and honestly it became a bit repetitive. Each book came with a bombshell ending but everything in between felt like fluff. I am disappointed to have to say Sara Shepard's writing began to bore me.