Which authors consistenly deliver boring books?

I was so disappointed by The Secret Life of Bees that it put me off any other books by Sue Monk Kidd.

You're lucky. I didn't like The Secret Life of Bees all that much, but went on to read The Mermaid Chair. No more of her books for me, thanks.

Hehe! I just went back to my private notes to see how I rated those books. I gave The Secret Life of Bees a 3 (out of 10). The Mermaid Chair only got a 2. :-(

Also, Jodi Picoult writes some amazingly boring books. Just one was all I needed. Why is she so popular?

I also loathe Jodi Picoult books. They just seem so Lifetime Movie to me. Maybe that is a reason why they are so popular?

Well, he might not qualify exactly under this category, but I'd add Dan Brown. Not so much because he's boring, but because he really only has one story to tell, and keeps writing it over and over with different details. I read the Da Vinci Code and enjoyed it, but then started reading Angels & Demons, and ended up putting it down after the first two chapters at the most, because I could identify almost identical plot points that it shared with the Da Vinci Code.

I've heard that Angels & Demons is a better book..not that I've read anything by Dan Brown.

I vote for Nicholas Sparks, if The Notebook is anything to judge by.

Yes, Child of Light, I so don't understand the Dan Brown phenomenon. I remember when readers were waiting with itchy fingers to get their hands on Foucault's Pendulum, which is at least a challenging read. The DaVinci Code is that in comic book form. I read it because the middle schoolers in my Sunday School class were reading it (gasp!) I developed a whole new, and unfavorable, opinion of their parents.