Quote Originally Posted by spike
Plus, here are some bad examples who aren’t necessarily bad writers, just not to be copied: Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemingway, Olaf Stapledon, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Martin Amis.

Spike
The only one of those I've actually read is Robert Heinlein, and I think i agree. Heinlein I would say is far from a bad writer, though he has written bad books, but his style is just uniquely Heinlein, and anyone trying to copy him doesn't come across as anything except someone trying to copy Heinlein

(I read too much Heinlein at a formative age...dumping all of Heinleins ideas about sex on a 12 year old brain has consequences...I blame him atleast partially for my belief that there isn't really anythign wrong with casual sex.)