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We all know about hack writers. Their work is of poor quality and some are quite prolific. But hack writer =/= writer I don’t like. What are some hacks you enjoy and which one’s you can’t stand?
My favorite hack is Dan Brown, his Robert Langdon series are a guilty pleasure of mine (though Origins was too terrible with the recycled plot). Langdon is a Mary Sue and his plots are so over the top I can’t take seriously while also being a page turner.
One I can’t stand is Paulo Coelho, who is unfortunately Brazil’s most famous writer abroad. So pretentious, and some people take it way too seriously, the alchemist reads like an YA novel. Another one is Reddit’s darling Neil Gaiman.
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Robert Zelazny. Every one of his stories I read had some nugget of a good idea but the writing and especially the characterization was terrible. Darnation Alley was exceptionally bad.
Speaking of Gaiman, I read Bad Omens and idk what happened in that book. Starts off incredibly strong but the last 1/3rd is rushed and lazy and completely anticlimactic
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