Least favorite book by your favorite author?

I can never pick an absolute favorite but here are some who consistently rank high on my list. Also, some of my favorites really don't have any books that I dislike, believe it or not.

John Steinbeck ~ I really don't like The Pearl. I think it's good. I just don't like it.

Thomas Wolfe ~ Of Time and the River is almost unreadable, in my opinion.

Bret Easton Ellis ~ The Informers was a disappointment to me.

Jane Smiley ~ The Greenlanders, ambitious, just not my thing.

Anne Tyler ~ Ladder of Years. Still eccentric, just not very lovably so.

Richard Russo ~ Straight Man, though I liked it much better the second time than the first.

Ken Kesey ~ Well, really, you have to love him immoderately to read anything but the first two.

Oh man, I'm running on on another of your questions, aren't I? Sorry.

***But I just remembered! The Late Child by Larry McMurtry. I finished it in my car on lunchbreak and I threw it out the window, into a ravine. I had to go get it, so as not to litter. That made me even madder!

My favorite author right now would be Annette Curtis Klause. Everyone seemed to enjoy the book Blood and Chocolate and since I'm a lover of werewolves I decided to check it out after seeing the commercial for the movie--a dumb reason to check out a book, sue me. Anyways, I read it and it was all one big hormone, constantly throbbing and hungry for attention. The writing was horrendous and the characters even more distasteful. There was no plot until the ending and even then I had no idea what the hell I was reading. All the main character cared about was sex and while I get wolves are animals and mating and all sorts of that, sex is not part of their diet all of the time. It was completely annoying because she was stuck-up, condescending and absolutely irksome. I still til this day don't know what everyone likes about the book or how they could even get through it. I took a few hours to read it and just twenty pages from the ending I put it down. Everyone seems to complain about Stephenie Meyer, but honestly I would rather read her books a million times then finish reading Blood and Chocolate.

Good question! I love H G Wells but didn't like Ann Veronica (go for Kipps instead, or History of Mr Polly, or the War in the Air: they're ace! The Sleeper Awakes is pretty good too.)

Also I really struggled through A Song of Stone by Iain Banks, though I really like all his others. (Actually that's a bit of a lie as i can't be doing with his sci-fi ones either when he puts an M in his name...)

John Irving - The Fourth Hand

It just didn't have the depth of his other books. There was nothing about the main character to connect to or care about. It seemed like he was just in hurry to get something published which is odd because his fans wait patiently between books.

My all-time favorite author is Roald Dahl. He makes the most absurd story enchanting. My least favorite of his books, however, was probably The Witches. It just wasn't his best. :)

Keep the aspidistra flying- by George Orwell.

I really like to reread it now I've finished it but was a bit of a drab and frustrating read first time round.

Jodi Picoult isn't my very favorite, but I do like her books.

Then I read "The Tenth Circle" and lost a lot of respect for her writing. She had no reason to dip into the supernatural, and it came across as ridiculous. I was so disappointed.

I love James Patterson, but I didn't enjoy Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports.

Nicholas Sparks- The Wedding was my least favorite of his.

J R R Tolkien. 'The Silmarillion'. It was important in so far as giving the background to his fantasy world but it lacked any sense of adventure.