Fanboi/girliegirl Authors!

[Zoombie]

Hokay. So!

Everyone has one. The author you love to death, despite being able to point out at least one or two deadly flaws in their works.

I wanna hear them, their flaws, and why you still love them to death!

Mine is Harry Turtledove. He is an amazing writer...with one huge huge huge flaw: Repetition. He writes really long books, and really long series of long books...with at least 30-40 characters each. So, to keep it all straight, he has every character have one thing they do over and over and over again. Whether its a line, conversation, or action, they just keep on doing it!

It means that you often feel like you've read the same battle/conversation/concentration camp scene at least a dozen times over by the time the book ends.

However!

I still love him to death because his characters (Despite some of them being a bit flat) are very realistic, and feel human...except for when they're not. But even they feel like people. Just people that are not humans. I also love his ideas and his worldbuilding and his sense of irony, and when his characters DO stand out as interesting, they're tendering and hold me by the short hairs in terms of attention grabbing.

SO!

Tell me your author to whome you are a fanboi...or girliegirl!

[maxmordon]

Jorge Luis Borges! Yes, he can be a bit arrogant and haughty at times, but can say more in a short story of a page long than someone else would say in an entire novel.

[callalily61]

Lovecraft. His flaws are many, personal and in his writing, yet he created characters that live on decades after his death, that still have power to frighten and inspire and spawn trubites and pastiches.

I can only dream.

[HelloKiddo]

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is one of my all-time favorite books. The problem? It's extremely difficult to follow on a cold reading.

She has a huge cast of characters introduced right away, with nothing memorable noted to follow them. It's easy to get confused reading it the first time if you don't know what you're in for. A lot of readers read it and think, I can't keep this all straight! I'll just keep going and see if the book gets better.

Well it won't, because if you don't read it closely and follow all the characters carefully you won't "get" it. As a result a lot of people get halfway through and can't take anymore, so they toss it aside. That's a shame because if you stick with it you'll be treated to one of the best books ever written.