I've been inspired (oh, I need a synonym to inspired with negative connotations...) by http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthre...he-Weird-Stuff and http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthre...ou-not-reading to start a thread about authors we are not reading.

A couple of guidelines (I hope they'll be at least vaguely honored) are:
1) Main
  • "Real" authors only, i.e., ones who has been published and made significant sales.
  • Fiction authors only, which, in my opinion, includes poets and playwrights.
  • No "corporate" authors, like the Appleton who wrote the Tom Swift books.
  • No writers known primarily for conspiracy theories, economic or political writings, or travel books. For example, no Erich von Daniken or Milton Friedman.
  • No authors of business proposals, prospecti (prospectuses?), or similar advertising.
  • Let's leave authors of erotica out of this.
  • ...and philosophers.
  • ...and cultists


I'll start with two:
Ernest Hemingway
John Ringo