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[mllelaurel]

Honorary mentions for that last prompt:

Authors who need to shut the fuck up, though they have produced good books in the past. The need to shut them up stems from them being assholes in a public forum rather than the quality of their writing. For that reason, they don't technically belong on the original list. Orson Scott Card and Harlan Ellison are quintescential examples of this type.

Authors of juvenalia I've never read, or read so long ago it might as well count as not read. And by juvenalia I mean both the writing and age of the authors. Think Christopher Paulini or Amelia Atwater Rhodes.

Kage Baker gets an honorary mention all of her own because she wrote the only book I read last year that I would have actually thrown at the wall had it not been a library copy. On the other hand, some of her other books are great, so I don't know. Does that even out the authorial karma?

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[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Getting to this a bit late: which Kage Baker book?

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Technically, The Machine's Child, though when I actually read it, I held out hope that the squickiness of Mendoza's treatment was intentionally portrayed as creepy on the author's part and that Mendoza would get her memories back and kick the asshole into next Wednesday for deceiving and using her. Sons of Heaven got the brunt of my rage when Mendoza did get her memories back and decided she was ok with the mistreatment (a lot of which consisted, effectively, of sexual abuse). Baker then proceeded to write the relationship into a happily ever after. Argh!