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Lair!
I'm in full-blown whine mode. My back is killing me, and I still have two hours on this shift. Blah.![]()
How did you guys discover your favorite authors? I know my daughter and I have gotten each other into a lot of authors. I got her started on Jim Butcher, and she got me on J. K. Rowling.
Richard Preston
Ann Rule
Jean Plaidy/Phillipa Carr (Victoria Holt used a variety of names and wrote some of the best first person novels about historical women...)
Right now I'm kind of liking Jude Devereaux, of all things. But some of the stuff she writes is funny.
Loved the Hunger Games and the Harry Potter books.
Maria Tatar.
Oh, go for it.![]()
I was just in B&N looking for Jim Butcher's latest Dresden book in paperback (not out till August) and the clerk recommended an author while I wait. Robert Rankin. Any fans?
I bought The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse but wont start it till I've caught up on all the Dresden Files books again. (will finish Dead Beat tonight) Love to hear from any Rankin fans.
G, is this the kind of reading you've done your whole life, or do you read anything more current?
Can you narrow it down to five? Or do you have trouble coming up with five.
Who are your favorite authors, and what genre do they write.
G, is this the kind of reading you've done your whole life, or do you read anything more current?
Yes, that is the kind of reading I have done my whole life.
I have read thousands of books, those I listed are just my favorite authors. Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Stephenson, Vonnegut, and de Tocqueville.
Yes, I do read current stuff. I make the occasional link to some of them in my posts. Most of the current stuff I am reading is financially related. Things other people would probably rather die than read.
I posted a review of Stephen King's 11/22/63 on here not too long ago, though. I snuck that one into my list to break up the monotony.
But nobody has yet been born who tops Shakespeare. Sorry.
Neal Stephenson is relatively current, compared to the others. I challenge you to read Snow Crash and not find it to be simply amazing.
Yes, it was written about 20 years ago, but you'd swear it was written last week.
Robert Harris - Stories of ancient Roman civilization and politics
(Pompeii, Imperium, Lustrum; I'm waiting for another)