favourite author

[icy manipulator]

for me, it's Mikhail Bulgakov. i've read the Master and Margarita so many times it's not funny. sometimes i get home from work and spend all night reading that book

honourable mentions go to

Raymond E Feist
Phillip Pullman
Bret Easton Ellis
Mario Puzo

[TAL]

Douglas Coupland

[Otis Driftwood]

Douglas Coupland

Honorable mentions:
Douglas Adams
Robert Anton Wilson
Hermann Hesse
David Sedaris
Joe R. Lansdale
Barry Hughart
Manly Wade Wellman

[Pres Zount]

Leon Trotsky
Terry Pratchett

[abcdefz]

My favorite authors -- the stuff I can read and re-read with serious pleasure, are probably

Willa Cather
J.D. Salinger
Leo Tolstoy


There are individual works by other authors that just kill me (Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Basho, Saki, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler), but those first three are the main ones I return to for their whole body of work, apart from the Bible and the dictionary.

[icy manipulator]

what did douglas coupland write?

[abcdefz]

Didn't he write Generation X? Among other stuff.

[TAL]

what did douglas coupland write?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Coupland

Persistent themes include the conflict between secular and religious values, difficulty in aging and taking on adult roles, ironic attitudes as a response to intense media saturation, and an aesthetic fascination with pop culture and mass culture.

[icy manipulator]

War and Peace and The Cossacks are sitting in my pile of unread books. War and Peace is doing a useful job of holding up a Jamiroquai clock tho (y)

[trailerprincess]

John Steinbeck

[Randetica]

joel sanderson!



joel pushed me to write that

[na§tee]

vladimir nabokov, bitchez.

[abcdefz]

War and Peace and The Cossacks are sitting in my pile of unread books. War and Peace is doing a useful job of holding up a Jamiroquai clock tho (y)


You should check the story "The Death of Ivan Ilych." It's fantastic.

Tolstoy is kind of like Hugo, in that his work is filled with authorial observations about human nature and such. Some folks (like Wilde, for instance) don't do that very well, and it's incredibly intrusive and sort of pasted on. But Tolstoy was the master of it.

Another good one that doesn't completely work is "The Forged Coupon." It basically follows one sin and tracks its reprecussions throughout a community. Kind of a streamlike work like Linklater's Slackers. It was made into a pretty good movie by Robert Bresson called... called... crap. L'Argent, I think.

[icy manipulator]

vladimir nabokov, bitchez.
Lolita is another one sitting in my unread pile. i would've read it by now if you hadnt gotten me onto Phillip Pullman! :mad: :)

[Pres Zount]

Evgeny Petrov
Vladimir Korolenko
Mikhail Artsybashev
Vissarion Belinsky
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Dmitry Grigorovich

[abcdefz]

Shit. I forgot Par Lagerkvist.


The Dwarf is one of the most amazing, compact books I've ever read. This guy writes so elegantly with such spare language it's amazing. The Sybil, Barabbas, and some of the stories in The Eternal Smile and The Marriage Feast are high quality stuff. (y)

[beastiegirrl101]

John Steinbeck

currently reading East of Eden. ;)

Bret Easton Ellis
Chuck Palahniuk
JD Salinger
Wally Lamb
Dave Eggers

[QueenAdrock]

currently reading East of Eden. ;)

No way, me too. Brett's mom got it for me for Christmas. :cool:

I'm about 140 pages into it, I should have a good chunk of time to read it on the plane ride tomorrow. I like it a lot so far.

[beastiegirrl101]

No way, me too. Brett's mom got it for me for Christmas. :cool:

I'm about 140 pages into it, I should have a good chunk of time to read it on the plane ride tomorrow. I like it a lot so far.

I heart Adam Trask!

[abcdefz]

John Steinbeck


I got to read The Grapes of Wrath finally a couple of years ago on vacation, and it blew me away. There was this rant about commerce-as-machine that just killed me. (y)

We've got a big Steinbeck collection of his papers and his writing desk and stuff at our downtown library. I need to check it out, and check out more of his stuff. I've only read GoW and Of Mice and Men.

[QueenAdrock]

I heart Adam Trask!

I haven't gotten far enough to really love him. I really like Cathy. She's deliciously evil.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

C.S. Lews. For the amazing Space Trilogy alone....but making classics like The Chronicles Of Narnia, and The Screwtape letters? That puts him up there with the best...

[abcdefz]

I love Screwtape Letters. Did you know they're in pre-production on a film version? I think there's a movie there, but they'd better find a damned clever way to adapt that book.

The space trilogy was interesting, but I don't really think it worked. There was some interesting imagery on Venus, though.

[Nivvie]

I like cold, depressed Swedes and Yorkshire lasses....


Hjalmar Soderberg
Henning Mankell
The Brontes (esp Emily)

And this may not count as he's not really an author, but I've just finished Burt Reynold's autobiography. It was a library book, a couple of the pages were stuck together with egg yolk, and the man thinks he's god, but it was a very entertaining read.

[abcdefz]

...I also forgot Ring Lardner. He was great.

"Daddy, are we almost there yet?" the boy asked sweetly.

"Shut up!" he explained.

[QueenAdrock]

^My brother loves that guy.

[DandyFop]

Mine's so damn nerdy.

Ray Bradbury.

[abcdefz]

^My brother loves that guy.


He's great.

The current short story collection in print is really lame, but if you go to Amazon, you can get the great collection Round Up used for about two bucks. (y) (y) (y)

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Mine's so damn nerdy.

Ray Bradbury.

Is this the same person as in 'The Ray Bradbury Theatre'? It used to watch it in the wee hours when i was up feeding Ava. A couple of episodes really stick in my mind. One was called 'The Crowd' and the other 'The Lonely One'. (y)

My favourite authors:

Bret Easton Ellis
Agatha Christie
James Herbert
John Saul

[abcdefz]

Is this the same person as in 'The Ray Bradbury Theatre'? It used to watch it in the wee hours when i was up feeding Ava. A couple of episodes really stick in my mind. One was called 'The Crowd' and the other 'The Lonely One'. (y)




Check a story called "All of Summer in a Day." (y)

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Check a story called "All of Summer in a Day." (y)

Ahhh thanks for that (y)

[abcdefz]

Correction: "All Summer in a Day." No "of."

Do you know the story? It made me cry in second grade.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Do you know the story? It made me cry in second grade.

No. I'm not really familiar with Ray Bradbury at all apart from the TV series that I stumbled across one night. There's loads of paperbacks on ebay, i'll have to treat myself :)

[cookiepuss]

Hunter Stockton Thompson & Jerome David Salinger....

my honroable mentions go to:
Paulo Coello
Milan Kundera

[abcdefz]

Hunter Stockton Thompson



One of my friend's dad used to get beaten up by Mr. Thompson as a kid.

[abcdefz]

No. I'm not really familiar with Ray Bradbury at all apart from the TV series that I stumbled across one night. There's loads of paperbacks on ebay, i'll have to treat myself :)


I actually found the story online (http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Mokpikl0u2MJ:www.dodea.edu/instruction/curriculum/lars/ela_lab/PreK-Grade6/Guided%2520Reading/AllSummerinaDay.doc+bradbury+all+of+summer+in+a+da y&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us), if you're interested.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Thanks A-Z! (y)

edit: Read it! I can see why you cried. :o

[cookiepuss]

One of my friend's dad used to get beaten up by Mr. Thompson as a kid.

hah! well I guess your friends dad felt pretty good when hunter got stomped by the Hells Angels. what goes around comes around.;)

[abcdefz]

Thanks A-Z! (y)

edit: Read it! I can see why you cried. :o


Yeah. I just re-read it and even got a wee bit teary.

[abcdefz]

hah! well I guess your friends dad felt pretty good when hunter got stomped by the Hells Angels. what goes around comes around.;)



I never asked about that.

I guess they used to play basketball together, and Hunter wasn't always a good sport.

But since they played together with some regularity, I'm assuming no one was too begrudging about whatever went down.

[paul jones]

I just bought Rik Mayall's 'Bigger than Hitler,better than christ' book which looks good and has good pictures in it

[Gareth]

neil gaiman
j.m coetzee
kazuo ishiguro
sometimes william gibson
camus

[GetYourWarOn]

hubert selby
hunter s thompson
arthur schlessinger jr

[GetYourWarOn]

bukowski

[RoryMC]

Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[Otis Driftwood]

Shit. I forgot Par Lagerkvist.


The Dwarf is one of the most amazing, compact books I've ever read. This guy writes so elegantly with such spare language it's amazing. The Sybil, Barabbas, and some of the stories in The Eternal Smile and The Marriage Feast are high quality stuff. (y)
:) You did exactly the same thing last time a thread of literature faves was started. I got the Dwarf on my amazon wishlist, he'll be cut to size soon.

[icy manipulator]

vladimir nabokov, bitchez.
just started reading Lolita, bit weird so far

[DeeJayZap]

chuck norris

nah seriously, douglas adams. i suppose the guy who wrote fight club gets an honourable mention.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

C.S. Lews. For the amazing Space Trilogy alone....but making classics like The Chronicles Of Narnia, and The Screwtape letters? That puts him up there with the best...

Haha.

Lews.

But yeah, I did recently read about the Screwtape movie.

Eagerly anticipatin' (y)