I like him, but for me, it’s Stephen King, a lot of his stories he goes off on a twenty page non-relevant rant.
Though, the ones where he keeps that to a minimum, are great.
Then there’s Mr. Marketer James Patterson who markets out his name to other authors making it look like he wrote the book when it was obviously someone else.
Lots of names to put on here. I’ll go with David Foster Wallace. I’m reading Infinite Jest and it’s nothing but an MFA’s wet dream. He’s gone out of his way to say, “Look how brilliant I am!” Meanwhile, 443 pages in, there is no plot, he didn’t seem to predict that in the future, media would be watched on portable devices (in his future we’re still watching movies on cartridges), the NE is a garbage dump (literally, a garbage dump), and there’s apparently a massive herd of feral hamsters. If you’re going to be remembered for being pretentious, you should at least leave us with something that an average MFA student hasn’t already done.