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Poster: | snori | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 8:42am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Favourite authors ? |
Me 1. Garcia Marquez
2. Kurt Vonnegut
3. Will Self
At the moment.
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Poster: | Chiklod | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 10:09pm |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 11:13am |
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"The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg."
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
Stephen King
"In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy - what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you needed to take a shit or something? An existence where there weren't even any chapters?"
Misery
Neal Stephenson
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
Cryptonomicon
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 4:50pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
Maybe I am overstating things, but I was just shocked at well it was written and composed. (he aint Faulkner or McCarthy, but i wasnt expecting that anyways)
Anyone who might even have an inkling of reading it... put it on your list for Santa, you wont be sorry!!
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Poster: | deyzof49 | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 5:20pm |
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 5:46pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
Submitted by admin on November 24, 2009 - 16:55. Appearances
Start: Dec 3 2009 - 8:00pm
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Willie's Place is located at 101 Cornelius Rd. N in Carl's Corner, TX 76645
For tickets and more information, visit http://www.williesplacetheater.com/schedule.html or call 254-759-7610.
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Poster: | cush212 | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 11:42am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
This post was modified by cush212 on 2009-11-27 19:42:44
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Poster: | grendelschoice | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 11:46am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
Paul Auster:
(Try 'Brooklyn Follies'; Music of Chance and Leviathan are excellent--anything by him is.)
Philip Roth: (Read 'The Human Stain' if nothing else)
TC Boyle: ('Tortilla Curtain'; World's End; Budding Prospects; Drop City....he's a can't miss writer.
Recent books I loved:
"How I Became a Famous Novelist" by Steve Hely...one of the funniest books I ever read.
"Bad Monkeys", if you love paranoid conspiracy thrillers.
"Gone Away World", by Nick Harkaway, for one of the greatest blends of thriller/Sci-Fi/Spy/Action/Philosohpical mind-F*** novels EVER.
"Monsters of Templeton", by Lauren Groff, for a great character-driven family-history, small-town novel full of ideas and (slight) mysticism.
"Last Last Chance" by Fiona Maazel...hilarious, drug-addled protagonist narrator blends dark humor with thoughts on life, love, and a plague that could wipe out mankind.
I also read "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" by Le Carre, having always meant to...its reputation as one of the great spy novels ever is well-deserved.
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Poster: | qbividp | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 12:14pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
This post was modified by mmjCZar on 2009-11-27 20:14:04
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Poster: | waynecs | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 5:05am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
John Steinbeck
Ray Bradbury
William Gibson
John LeCarre
William Faulkner
Tom Robbins
John Irving
Elmore Leonard
Mark Twain
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Poster: | deyzof49 | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 11:10am |
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This post was modified by deyzof49 on 2009-11-29 19:10:57
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 10:44am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
Pat Conroy
James Dickey
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Poster: | snori | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 11:40am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
I'm taking other suggestions on board as Xmas approaches and I can always request books.
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 2:06pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
I also really liked The Crossing very much, its probably a perfect one to start with.
Suttree is fabulous, but I found it quite challanging.
I have liked every McCarthy book that I have read, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, Cities of the Plain.
Have not read Blood Meridian or Child of God yet, but I will eventually get around to them...
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Nov 28, 2009 10:55am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
This is probably NOT the place to bring it up, but I sometimes cringe at the almost sophomoric sado-sexual overtones of his, which preoccupy this book...unlike Faulkner or others attempting to depict a sad/decrepid social setting, sometimes I feel he's a bit too over the top with it--for effect alone if that makes sense...
Probably just me--if I were really a misogynist, however you spell it, you'd have to admit, I'd never say this.
Love his books, but this aspect comes up now and again for me...
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Poster: | daliguana | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 9:05am |
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This post was modified by daliguana on 2009-11-27 17:05:18
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Poster: | Stealz | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 6:15pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
David Sedaris and
TOM ROBBINS
http://www.gearcrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/bookcrave-tom-robbins_03262008_msp.jpg
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Poster: | buscameby | Date: | Nov 28, 2009 5:52am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
I also enjoy John Irving for incredible prose and wit.
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea will take you places your mind will warp around.
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Poster: | jemajn2323 | Date: | Nov 28, 2009 5:03am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
I would suggest trying some Clive Barker. Cold Heart Canyon, Weaveworld, and Mister B. Gone are pretty cool reads.
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Poster: | fenario80 | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 12:13pm |
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This post was modified by fenario80 on 2009-11-27 20:13:27
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Poster: | deadpolitics | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 2:15pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
Hopefully one of these days I'll have time to read non-fiction again :)
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Poster: | fenario80 | Date: | Nov 30, 2009 10:35am |
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Nov 30, 2009 10:41am |
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Not reading French, I can't say whether Kundera did the same when he switched from Czech, but to even attempt to move outside your mother tongue blows my mind since I can barely function in English.
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Poster: | fenario80 | Date: | Nov 30, 2009 11:00am |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Nov 28, 2009 2:38pm |
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Poster: | deyzof49 | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 11:14am |
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Ah ces vieux babacools.
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 12:17pm |
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Poster: | deyzof49 | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 1:36pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
I've always loved La Belle France and admire immenseley the French love and enthusiasm for good literature, good cinema etc. Henry Miller was astounded to find street names in Paris celebrating great artists. How different from the 'Air-Conditioned Nightmare'.
You're too hard on French music tho'. When I lived there I could dig anything, particularly Gainsbarre, Catherine Riberoux (always reminded me of a Gallic Patti Smith before I'd even heard of Patti), Jacques Higelin. That's without Charles Trenet!!!
Still I haven't been to France since '92 so I ain't heard anything contemporary. And I'm still intending to delve back into Chateaubriand when I find another copy.
La Paix et L'amour.
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 2:16pm |
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Poster: | deyzof49 | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 3:20pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
And that just reminded me of Claude Nougarot. French. Ca gaz, ca boum.
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Nov 29, 2009 5:27pm |
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Poster: | staggerleib | Date: | Nov 30, 2009 11:00am |
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I was a literature major at the University of Iowa. There, I had the opportunity to take master classes from John Irving and from Kurt Vonnegut, to name a couple. Went drinking once with Vonnegut... What a trip.
Given that, I'll list out a couple of my favorite authors...
Scott Spencer (probably my all time favorite author)
TC Boyle
JD Salinger
Kerouac
Hesse
Pahlaniuk
Garcia-Marquez
Lately I've been reading a lot of mystery/thrillers... These always keep my interest, and are more like the McDonald's version of good literature. They fill you up, but aren't always so gourmet.
I love:
Daniel Silva
Lee Child
Michael Connolley
Jeffrey Deaver
Stieg Larsson
and many others.
I also do enjoy the light hearted stuff:
Tom Robbins
Christopher Moore
etc.
I read voraciously. It's probably because I read so much technical stuff on such a regular basis, that I need desperately to balance out with some good meaty fiction.
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Poster: | grendelschoice | Date: | Nov 30, 2009 1:56pm |
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and at any time during your drinking w/Kurt did you manage to get him to say "so it goes"?
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Poster: | staggerleib | Date: | Nov 30, 2009 2:05pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.
Scott Spencer writes about obsession. One of his books, you may have seen the movie, is Endless Love. Please don't judge the book by the movie. Anyway, my personal favorite is one called "The Rich Man's Table." In this, he writes about a guy who's a fanatic of this particular singer songwriter who seems suspiciously like Dylan, named Luke Fairweather. He becomes convinced that he's the illegitimate son of this Dylan type character and his mother who appear together on an album cover...
So he becomes obsessed, and life spins a little out of control. The prose is amazing.
Spencer writes so well that you can read fluidly and not realize how wonderful the imagery is, or how succinct are his analogies. In this one he writes lyrics as the Luke character, and you'd swear that they were Dylan lyrics from different periods of his career.
Other great novels he's written are "A Ship Made of Paper," and "Men in Black." In the former, he explores an interracial affair in a nice suburban area, and the latter he writes about a writer who suddenly and quite unexpectedly finds himself popular.
The man breaks all convention, and I just love him. He writes about one novel each 5 years.
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Poster: | grendelschoice | Date: | Nov 30, 2009 3:52pm |
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Poster: | deadpolitics | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 2:09pm |
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Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Damian, etc.)
Jack Kerouac (On The Road, Dharma Bums, Railroad Earth, etc.)
John Steinbeck (Cannery Row, Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, etc.)
honorable mention goes to Gary Snyder and Ken Kesey
In Russian:
Tolstoy (short stories)
Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Gulag Archipelago)
Gogol (everything!)
and of course Pushkin for all those fairy tales read to me as wee lad
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Poster: | Finster! | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 9:35am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Favourite authors ? |
1. Mario Puzo...Some very fine books other than The Godfather.
2. Clive Cussler
3. W.E.B Griffin
Not very "deep" stuff, I know. I mostly read for pleasure, and if I have to think too much about what I am reading, it ain't much fun!!
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Nov 28, 2009 6:56am |
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Poster: | qbividp | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 9:36am |
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She is one of the Top Native American Culture Authors on the Planet. The is a great Holiday Gift for 2009 and still available in 1st Edition hardback.
http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Leonard_F_Chana.html
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Poster: | drspark61 | Date: | Nov 30, 2009 10:52am |
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Don DeLillo
Jane Smiley
Mark Twain
Raymond Carver
Charles Dickens
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Charles Bukowski
Louise Erdrich
James Galvin (primarily on the basis of his book “The Meadow,” one of the best works about the West that I’ve ever read)
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Poster: | direwolf0701 | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 3:16pm |
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This post was modified by direwolf0701 on 2009-11-27 23:16:04
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Poster: | cush212 | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 10:12am |
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Belated Happiest of Holidays to all!!!!!!
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Poster: | qbividp | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 10:27am |
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This post was modified by mmjCZar on 2009-11-27 18:27:26
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Poster: | pigpen_81 | Date: | Nov 28, 2009 4:02am |
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http://books.google.com/books?q=+inauthor:%22Yves+Lavigne%22&lr=
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Poster: | Miss Divine | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 10:31am |
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I like William Gibson, Neil Stephenson, Rudy Rucker, Asimov, Heinlein and Joe Abercrombie (he's new but good)
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Poster: | snori | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 11:33am |
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(Not a fan of Heinlein, I'm afraid. I sense something Nazi about his blonde superman heroes.)
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Poster: | roughyed | Date: | Nov 28, 2009 4:01am |
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VICTOR SERGE - Unforgiving Years. This "lost" novel has only recently been translated from French. It would make a great political thriller movie.
GUNTER GRASS - Too Far Afield. It was slated by the critics because they were too thick to understand it.
GEORGE ORWELL - 1984. No doubt you've read this, but give it a re-read. Nu-Labour Britain, eh?
Graet call from blue devil on The Master and Margarita. Read it when listening to Shostakhovich.
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Poster: | qbividp | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 12:05pm |
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Poster: | qbividp | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 10:51am |
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http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view.html
or
http://www.novaspace.com
for your winter adventures.
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Poster: | Styrofoam Cueball | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 9:47am |
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Irvine Welsh
Charles Bukowski
Shirley Jackson
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Nov 27, 2009 10:26am |
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Flannery O'Connor
Ivan Klima (yes, in translation)
Recently, Cormac McCarthy (inspired in part by this forum)
Great book that if you haven't read but should get around to is The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov