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.
Many of today’s ‘popular’ writers hit me this way, because I feel they are only celebrated because they are different, as opposed to really good.
Malerman. Hendrix. Tremblay.
And then there are the ones who write at a childish level, but are best sellers. Patterson. Dan Brown. Those kinds of people, where sometimes the story is so outlandish, or doesn’t make sense, you wonder how people can read book after book.