I haven't read any Goodkind or Card, but I voted anyway. Rowling's first book was good, the second through fourth were passable, and the others were just awful. I didn't vote for her. I enjoyed Tolkien when I was a kid, though I don't especially like reading him anymore. I can respect the amount of worldbuilding he did, and I appreciate what he did for the genre, so I didn't vote for him either. Jordan is one of my favorite authors.
Brooks? Each of his books read like LotR with less of everything. Less fighting, less detail, etc. The only thing he outstrips the other authors on the list that I've read in is complete suckitude. If I want the characterization detail of a shoestring-budget puppet show, I'll go to a shoestring budget puppet show. I'll enjoy the story more, I'll spend less time, and I won't have to admit that I dropped money on a novel by such an awful author. (Note that I have never purchased a Brooks novel, while the others on this list (that I've read) have earned at least one purchase from me.)
As far as Meyer is concerned, I don't mind people messing with legend. After all, that's what every fantasy author does. She writes dime novels, but she's marketed as the new Hemingway (That's hyperbole, for those of you who didn't catch it. Which gives me an idea; we should call understatement hypobole.). That's what bugs me. That and her perception of science and research.
I was looking for a statement that somebody linked to (link was dead, and I think it was somebody on here that linked me, but that doesn't matter) in which she allegedly said that she thought that stalking was hot when I ran across another part of the same interview (the page I was looking for was missing, and it was the only one) in which she said that the skin of her vampires is "...a diamond-like substance (only harder)." Yes, the skin of her vampires is very brittle, hard, and is actually more transparent than reflective. They're not only as hard as stone, they're rigid enough to make a "loud bang" when they collide.
A little bit of knowledge is dangerous.