Which fiction author do you find hard going?

I get bored with many long-time writers; Janet Evanovich is one that sticks to a formula and turns out garbage.

I prefer to write my own stuff.

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Most of the recent (2000 onward) 'literary' novels I have read, which are written in first person with forced, self-consciously poetic descriptions of sunsets, landscapes and day-to-day actions.

hemingwa I find incredibly boring

Same as Tolkein with "lord of the rings"- you have to read a LOT of pages to make any progress in the story - I gave up reading it long before the end

Jacqueline Susann, it is like drawn stick figures in black-&-white.

If i find an author hard going i do not read them, reading should be a pleasure, not hard going!

James Joyce. Try reading his Ulysses some time.

Hemingway, Salman Rushdie.

Hemmingway. Anything he wrote is a slog.

Thomas Pynchon is difficult going for me.

Harold Robbins. Never could see the appeal.