People tend to love him or hate him. I personally really enjoy his style, and if you treat the books as something less than "horror" per se but just "weird fiction" (which you mentioned), then the expectations are somewhat different. There is a bit of predictability in some of his works, but I don't have a problem with that. I think that much of the credit he gets is probably due to his influence on other writers, as well as on movies, music and other arts.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Speaking of overrated authors...
- 18/04/2014 04:55:41 PM
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Hemingway, for the most part
- 18/04/2014 07:31:30 PM
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Coelho is like Deepak Chopra.
- 18/04/2014 07:36:45 PM
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Speaking of Deepak Chopra.
- 18/04/2014 09:20:22 PM
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It's even worse when he says something without preparation.
- 19/04/2014 04:35:49 PM
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I'm sure I would need a lot of alcohol to get through an event of his. *NM*
- 20/04/2014 04:14:49 AM
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H.P. Lovecraft
- 18/04/2014 09:16:24 PM
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I think Lovecraft is a divisive writer, certainly.
- 19/04/2014 04:44:32 PM
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I'd add Joyce. In French I think the most overrated novelist is Proust.
- 18/04/2014 10:29:04 PM
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That's actually really hard.
- 18/04/2014 10:42:35 PM
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You could have always said Dan Brown if you were having problems. 
*NM*
- 19/04/2014 04:40:23 PM
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*NM*
- 19/04/2014 04:40:23 PM
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Yeah, but he's not overrated.
- 19/04/2014 04:52:34 PM
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I think they bash him more because he tries to pass fiction off as fact.
- 19/04/2014 06:22:59 PM
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I did not like James Fenimore Cooper (Last of the Mohicans, specifically)
- 23/04/2014 09:23:44 PM
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Have you tried The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana?
- 23/04/2014 09:52:28 PM
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You can't seriously believe Baudolino is good, much less accessible.
- 23/04/2014 10:15:28 PM
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The ones listed already are ones I agree with.
- 23/04/2014 10:36:04 PM
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I've never understood people who read everything Shakespeare wrote.
- 26/04/2014 07:17:27 PM
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