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Corso · 03-06-2003, 10:43 PM

Andrew Vachss
Dean Koontz
F. Paul Wilson

ShabbyChick · 03-07-2003, 01:28 PM

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Originally posted by Me and Me
btw ladies Romance books or romance book authors don't count, if that counts than playboy and hustler have to count.

Wow. Thank you so much for deciding for everyone else what "rules" they should follow when choosing their favorite author. Do I also have to ask your criteria for choosing my favorite food? Can I not choose a dessert because you don't define it as nourishment, hm? How about my favorite film? Do I have to run the genre by you first, too?

ShabbyChick · 03-07-2003, 01:36 PM

Absolute favorite would be:

Diana Gabaldon

Others are:

George Elliot
JRR Tolkien

Evangelion · 03-07-2003, 01:41 PM

Forgot to add Bierce, Trollope, Milne, Austen and Wodehouse to my list.

Can't go back and edit it now, so... :boohoo:

lisarea · 03-07-2003, 04:33 PM

All-time top three:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John Milton
Knut Hamsun

Patrick McCabe has potential, but Butcher Boy set the bar too high. Everything else has fallen flat from my insanely high expectations. I'm thinking if I'd read his other books first, he might be a top contender. But I guess I'll never know for sure.

I'm also developing a deep and abiding affection for Salman Rushdie. I just don't think I've read enough to say for sure, but I'll be surprised if I don't end up a screaming fangirl in fairly short order.

Also, I'm going to say Barbara Cartland, just to piss off Me and Me. I have never read one of her books, but I will do so as soon as the opportunity arises.

Edited to add: Thomas Love Peacock! His stories aren't all that compelling or anything, but that guy had a way of cramming, like, fifty bizarre rhetorical devices onto a single page. What a freak.

Farren · 03-08-2003, 06:46 PM

I couldn't possibly pick a single favourite, so here goes:

Marian Zimmer Brady (only the Mists of Avalon stuff)
Charles Bukowski
Henry Miller
Hunter S Thompson
Umberto Eco
Salman Rushdie
Gore Vidal
Norman Mailer
Neal Stephenson
Alfred Bester
JG Ballard
China Mieville
Clive Barker
Frank Herbert
James Michener
Douglas Adams
AAARRGH MY MEMORY! Who wrote Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates? And who wrote Bonfire of the Vanities?

lisarea · 03-08-2003, 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by Farren
AAARRGH MY MEMORY! Who wrote Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates? And who wrote Bonfire of the Vanities?

Guys named 'Tom.' Robbins and Wolfe.

Farren · 03-08-2003, 07:06 PM

Thx

southernhybrid · 03-09-2003, 06:47 AM

Fiction: Aleksandr Solzhensitsyn

Feminist fiction: Marilyn French

Freethought: Robert Ingersoll

Pop science: Carl Sagan

Those are the only areas that I have favorites.

hezekiah jones · 03-09-2003, 08:16 AM

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03-06-2003, 10:43 PM	#51
Corso Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Chicagoland Posts: 50	Andrew Vachss Dean Koontz F. Paul Wilson

03-07-2003, 01:36 PM	#53
ShabbyChick Regular Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 412	Absolute favorite would be: Diana Gabaldon Others are: George Elliot JRR Tolkien

03-07-2003, 01:41 PM	#54
Evangelion Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Walsall, UK Posts: 1,490	Forgot to add Bierce, Trollope, Milne, Austen and Wodehouse to my list. Can't go back and edit it now, so... :boohoo:

03-07-2003, 04:33 PM	#55
lisarea Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Broomfield, Colorado, USA Posts: 5,550	All-time top three: Gabriel Garcia Marquez John Milton Knut Hamsun Patrick McCabe has potential, but Butcher Boy set the bar too high. Everything else has fallen flat from my insanely high expectations. I'm thinking if I'd read his other books first, he might be a top contender. But I guess I'll never know for sure. I'm also developing a deep and abiding affection for Salman Rushdie. I just don't think I've read enough to say for sure, but I'll be surprised if I don't end up a screaming fangirl in fairly short order. Also, I'm going to say Barbara Cartland, just to piss off Me and Me. I have never read one of her books, but I will do so as soon as the opportunity arises. Edited to add: Thomas Love Peacock! His stories aren't all that compelling or anything, but that guy had a way of cramming, like, fifty bizarre rhetorical devices onto a single page. What a freak.

03-08-2003, 06:46 PM	#56
Farren Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: South Africa Posts: 2,194	I couldn't possibly pick a single favourite, so here goes: Marian Zimmer Brady (only the Mists of Avalon stuff) Charles Bukowski Henry Miller Hunter S Thompson Umberto Eco Salman Rushdie Gore Vidal Norman Mailer Neal Stephenson Alfred Bester JG Ballard China Mieville Clive Barker Frank Herbert James Michener Douglas Adams AAARRGH MY MEMORY! Who wrote Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates? And who wrote Bonfire of the Vanities?

03-08-2003, 07:06 PM	#58
Farren Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: South Africa Posts: 2,194	Thx

03-09-2003, 06:47 AM	#59
southernhybrid Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: heavenly Georgia Posts: 3,862	Fiction: Aleksandr Solzhensitsyn Feminist fiction: Marilyn French Freethought: Robert Ingersoll Pop science: Carl Sagan Those are the only areas that I have favorites.

03-09-2003, 08:16 AM	#60
hezekiah jones Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: WI Posts: 4,357	Learned Hand

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