 Boy this comment section will be something. Hello everybody. E here. Welcome back to top five Friday This has been requested Today's episode has been requested by a lot of you. I put it off for a long time Simply because anytime I do anything like this, especially if you go and look at my top five unpopular opinions You get a lot of comments from people who are personally offended when I don't like the same things they do Even though the arguments that I post are You know just just opinions my own opinion You do get the other side of things where people get you know, they get their feelings hurt Another thing is if you're an author there might be a chance that you're on this list So maybe don't watch this You know if you get upset is nothing I can do for your own self-esteem. I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings then I'm not gonna apologize because these are my personal opinions I'm sure there's a lot of people out there that don't like me I'm sure you're gonna see a lot of dislikes that'll make you feel better Down there below this video because anytime I do one of these videos they get disliked But the like ratio always ends up being more than the dislike. So until that reverses itself I'm gonna keep on doing these videos for solidarity for people who may feel the same way that I do about certain Popular things. So this is my top five Unpopular opinions about popular authors. I will ask that you hang around to the end for possibly a surprise Number five. I'm just gonna go ahead and get him out of the way James Patterson I've heard several things from several people. He used to be a good author He's just recently. He's no longer an author. He's just a marketer. He just throws his names on books Which is true. I mean even in the book that he wrote with Bill Clinton The president is missing was actually written by neither of them. It was written by a guy named David Ellis So while there's something to be said about yes, he does not write his books He's also not a good author if you go back to even his first novel. I think along came a spider I think it is and might be kiss the girls that can't remember I went back and tried to read his stuff at the beginning to see if he ever was a good author And of course he wasn't and I say of course because when you look at the quality of writer that he chooses to work with nowadays like David Ellis Maxine Pietro Pietro whatever the heck that name is. They're just really bad authors period They're word mills and he hires these people not because they're good writers because but because they write a lot Same thing with Brandon Sanderson, which I don't hate on he's not on this list But because I did like his superhero series But these are authors that just crank out words with no thought or care for you know Literary merit or anything like that. Now if you like those that type of stuff, that's fine I don't but if you do then go make your own list Talking about the people that I like it won't hurt my feelings a bit Next on this list is Josh Mailerman. I have no idea. I let I have no idea why this guy is popular None whatsoever The only thing that I can pick out is that he writes short chapters and short chapters are really really popular nowadays It gives a false sense of Progression so it's like oh no, I can't stop instead of the story being so good. You can't stop It's like oh, why not just do another chapter just do another chapter I'm there's actually been studies that show you know what what chapter lengths what length your chapter should be And that's another reason going back to James Patterson why James Patterson is so popular because of the short chapters now I also thought that bird box. Maybe I felt like it was hot garbage because of the hype Also, I paid full price for the hardcover at my local books a million and that's I think 25 $26 because of the hype I was I just happened to be out. I saw it on the shelves people were raving about it So I picked it up. I have never gotten rid of a book so quickly Before ever there's so many problems and I discussed that in my review of the the movie and the book that's up on the channel There's so many problems. I also have a review up on book likes for that I had reviews up on good reasons till I started getting threats of doxing and death threats Coming now why I say it might be the hype train and it might be because I Bought the book and didn't like it. I bought the book for $27. I went ahead and Requested his one. What was it? The one about bear I'm Barry Carroll. I requested that from net galley got it for free I barely made it. I don't know probably five six chapters before I rage quit it I there's something about the guy's writing that I don't like it. It irks me He's as vague as Peter Straub without the literary merit. There's a reason why Peter Straub? writes the way he does and that's because by the end you're supposed to figure out this puzzle piece and The vagueness for no reason other than to be spooky. It doesn't work for me if it works for you That's great. Number three on this list is Paul Tremblay Although what I call the remaster the reboot king. He takes other authors Better works like the Exorcist and then he remixes it and he puts out a head full of ghosts He's done this three times so far Every single one of his books has just been a reimagining of a more or of a book that worked better by someone else And the the the level of thievery really upsets me Because that's it was almost the same if you take the Exorcist by William Peter Blatty and you take head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay and you go chapter by chapter Other than the blog post the books fit almost perfectly. It's like he went down like okay This I need to write my my version of this chapter and you know But it you could you could take both of those structures and it'd be the same is what I'm getting at and the next on this list is Going to be It's really gonna upset a certain type of person. I'm gonna go ahead and get it out of the way We're gonna run through it HP lovecraft. I can't stand the way this dude writes Let's completely ignore that the horror community has some kind of some kind of sickening Affection for this person other not just his mythos because they put his bust on everything They have awards with his likeness on it This man was a terrible shit human being and if he was around nowadays, he'd be protested I mean, that's that's that's that's the truth of the matter but for some reason there's this there's this love affair with horror and this this old Racist that people love and yet even if you you read if you in love with his stuff his work was super racist like the The horror at Red Hook and there are people say yeah, we can look beyond that and appreciate the mythos sure you can you can and you can build on that like a Victor Laval did with the ballad of black Tom, but to actually celebrate the man himself I can tell you to go fuck yourself because that That man does not need the hero worship that he gets to this day and anytime I see someone Hero worshiping him. I just completely ignore them that I lose all respect for that person and I just move on but it's funny to watch like the HWA and Other other authors. I won't mention Have this hero worship for this guy and then turn around and play SJW that's that tickles me That literally makes me laugh to watch these guys go. Oh The Trump is terrible and all and all and then to turn around and go HPS. Lovecraft is my god The hypocrisy is stunning and last but not least. Let's get get bring it in bring it in bring it in Stephen King I Don't think Stephen King is a very good horror author. I don't think Stephen King is good at scaring people I've read some really good horror in my time, and I don't think Stephen King is a good horror author Is he a great storyteller? Sure. I you know, you know, I'm a fanboy, but Stephen King I don't think that he should go back to writing horror. I think he's perfectly fine the way he is Writing the literary the dark literary fiction that he's writing I don't want him to go back to the days of pet cemetery and it and the shining and say them's lie I don't want that king back because the king nowadays is better than king back then. It's just the truth But until next time I have any you've been you. It's been another top five Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye Y'all stood here All honest opinions. I was I wasn't fucking with you at all. I can't wait to see the comment section of this video But yeah, I think the biggest one the one that I will never change my mind about is HP Lovecraft I mean Josh Malerman could write the next it Paul Tremblay could finally, you know bust out of his box and Run over and you'll write the next What whatever the next Lovecraft mythos or whatever you want to call it. I mean these guys have They have Potential I mean they're not terrible authors Josh Malerman. I kind of think he is I really don't think that he's a good writer He might be a good story teller because people seem to really hone in on that even on Goodreads If you actually deep dive into some of the reviews, they're not talking about the good writing They're talking about the content of the book and there are some people who get that confused That that content equals, you know the talent and there's it's a bit I mean the Saints can aim could be argued with me I'm not a very good writer, but I can I'm a good story teller And it's that's been proven just by people quoting quoting stupid lines in my books I write like I talk and I'm very loose with how I talk and that's how I write too is a very loose You know like we're sitting down and we're talking But and none of this I'm not saying I'm better than any of these guys In fact, I'm not obviously they're doing something right But to say that they are good at what they do because they're popular and then you know at the same time Laugh about James Patterson over here on this side. Obviously. He's doing something right. He's making that money, you know He's pleasing people and that's all that really matters You know at the end of the day is whether or not people are happy with your content And as long as people are there's no reason to listen to some fact book on the internet But anyways, I'll talk to you guys there. Bye. Bye