A twist on the "books you'd bring to a desert island" question

[firecat]

A family member was visiting this week and he, the OH, and I were arguing a lot about various books, TV shows, and movies we liked. Even though we're all SFF fans, we couldn't all three find anything that we'd (a) all read/watched and (b) all liked. (We did agree on Star Trek: TNG and the first two Star Wars movies.) So we flipped it around and tried to find something we all agreed that we hated. That was also hard. It led to this game:

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You are a person addicted to reading. You are stranded on a desert island.

On this desert island is also a book, or a series, or the entire ouvre of one author.

What book/series/author, if any, would you REFUSE to read, even if it were the only reading material on the island?

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Rules:

1. You have to have some familiarity with the work, set of works, or author you nominate. So, for example, no fair saying "Rush Limbaugh" if you've never at least started to read any of his books.

2. It's OK to diss works, but not other commenters.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Orson Scott Card. I have read Ender's Game and didn't particularly like it, but after that the rampant and disturbing fictional AND real world homophobia was too much for me.

[firecat]

I liked Ender's Game and one other book of his, but yes he's one of the writers I can't read any more.

[senmut]

This makes unending sense to me.

[azurelunatic]

I liked Ender's Game when I read it, but it wasn't life-changing for me; I had quite a collection of books by him until I learned about his political views, which then shone through in a way that I could not fucking cope with in the slightest.

They all went in the burning trash when I was back at my folks' place cleaning up my old room.

[firecat]

his political views, which then shone through in a way that I could not fucking cope with in the slightest.

Yes, that sums it up exactly.