Unfortunately, I am being straight forward here. I have heard all of the above, as well as many others of note, dismissed as "crap".

Recently, I was having dinner with friends. We were close to the final resting place of one of my favorite writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, which I mentioned--one of the friends launched into a long, loud, diatribe to the effect that his books were nothing but crap, that he was an overrated hack, and that he was much surpassed by writers like Stephen King and Danielle Steele--

By LTS reckoning, she would be right--