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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.
Let’s discuss the best and worst among the Terrible and Untalented
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I tried reading Cujo because Stephen King was so coked out he doesn't remember writing it. My conclusion was it's basically like one of those boring John Updike Rabbit novels about marriage and infidelity, except at least you know a dog is gonna kill these people at some point, which keeps you going.
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Cujo was way too tame for a coke book. King has also written a lot of books with the same premise of "someone is trapped in a confined space for way too long" and Cujo is far inferior to Misery, Gerald's Game, and whatever other ones I haven't read or have forgotten
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