How about some examples?
In the fiction department I would go with Alan Dean Foster, Octavia Butler, Michael Moorcock, Douglas Coupland and James Ellroy (he would be a bumpy journey).
In the latter? There is fiction: Frank Herbert (Dune has numerous boring zones), Larry Niven (his propensity for old farts boning younger women), Terry McMillan (crap fiction isn’t a monopoly held by White men) and Diane Carey (the person responsible for creating the Piper trope which ruins all of Star Trek). Philosophy: David Hume, Plato (the patron saint of dictators) and Friedrich Nietzsche (the patron saint of Ayn Rand and other narcissists).
At least I still enjoy reading, especially after I was fired from GDW because it no longer felt as if I was working and I didn’t need to hunt down errors.