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Poster: snori Date: Nov 27, 2009 8:42am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Favourite authors ?

I'm off to the Land of Miss D for the weekend which means packing a couple of books as well as some CDs. Which made me wonder - what do my fellow Forumites read ? This is most definitely not a poll, but who are your favourite authors, and for the sake of brevity just pick three. (Fiction please)

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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Tom Robbins.

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Poster: robthewordsmith Date: Nov 27, 2009 11:13am
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PG Wodehouse
"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
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Speaking of Mr. King, I just finished Under The Dome. I was not holding out too much hope for it.... However!!! It is by far the best thing he has written in the past 20 years! Granted it is "popular literature," but the best pop-lit novel I have read in many moons. No wasted, drawn-out passages; constant flow of story and action; gruesome violence; his best character portrayals since The Shining and The Stand. I honestly could not put the book down! 1100 pages flew by! Even the fact that the ending is typically anti-climatic (per usual with many of his books) - it didnt even phase me. The ending was basically superfluous to the bulk of the novel.

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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Just remembered Kinky Friedman. Why don't they vote him in as Governor of Texas?

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Poster: bluedevil Date: Nov 29, 2009 5:46pm
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Carl's Corner, TX - Willie's Place
Submitted by admin on November 24, 2009 - 16:55. Appearances
Start: Dec 3 2009 - 8:00pm

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The party starts at 8:00 pm on Thursday, December 3 at Willie's Place in Carl's Corner, less than an hour from Dallas. Gary P. Nunn and Ray Wylie Hubbard will kick off the show with special guests Kinky Friedman and Little Jewford.

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
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And here I'lI spend the bulk of my time feeling more like a lackadaisial crumpet... Hold the eggs please... OK, I really will shut up now...
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Poster: grendelschoice Date: Nov 27, 2009 11:46am
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3 of my favorite 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
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also try Ken Kesey William S. Burroughs Gladys Swan and Richard Brautigan
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Poster: waynecs Date: Nov 29, 2009 5:05am
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Kurt Vonnegut
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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Strangely enough a few days ago I was going to start a thread about books, having picked up a copy of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' in a charity shop. I read 'The Border Trilogy' last year. However I was wondering if I feel like fillin my head with post-apocalyptic visions and my thoughts turned to Richard Brautigan. Perhaps a little hippy-dippy for some but I've read most of his work with 'Revenge Of The Lawn' being a particular favourite. Interesting to hear what you are all reading. At the moment I'm reading Philip Roth's 'The Ghost Writer', having dug 'The Plot Against America' and 'I Married A Communist'. My list could be long ,admiring Herman Hesse, Ken Kesey, Tom Robbins, Issac Bashevis Singer...... My favourit Kerouac is the latter part of 'Visions of Cody' and I'm pleased to see Gary Snyder is still around. I once made a pilgrimage to the Villa Seurat in Paris where Henry Miller wrote 'Tropic Of Cancer'. Also recall Vonnegutt reminiscing about smoking a spliff with Jerry and the Jones boys. Peace
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Poster: Cliff Hucker Date: Nov 27, 2009 10:44am
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Cormac Mcarthy (of course)
Pat Conroy
James Dickey

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Poster: snori Date: Nov 27, 2009 11:40am
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There seems to be a Cormac McCarthy theme going on here, where would be a good place for the ininitiated to start ?

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
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I enjoyed The Road most. Its an extraordinary book!

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
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CofGod--I really like his writing...he has to be one of our best "visuals/scene/place" style of authors...you can read that book in one night.

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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most recently read (before the semester started) {started but not finished - Norman Mailer - the Naked and the Dead}; Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible; Caleb Carr - the Alienist; Tony Hillerman - The Ghostway. Tony is/was (died this year) a great Southwestern writer. Hillerman's works are very quick reading mystery novels set in Navajo country - great airplane reads. While not a favorites list, this represents the last reads. Caleb Carr's novels (the two that I've read) are great historical fiction. Kingsolver's book is a wonderful, deep read about a Peace Corp family in Congo in early 60s. Started the Naked and the Dead, but that book is *dense* - hope to finish it during winter break.
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Poster: Stealz Date: Nov 27, 2009 6:15pm
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Vonnegut
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
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If you like Tom , you will love Christopher Moore, try "Lamb" first it will twist your body laffing.

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
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Too many classic literature titles to pick from, although what fenario80 said- Lolita by Nabakov and deadpolitics- Gogol(everything).
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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Kurt Vonnegut PK Dick Neal Stephenson Vladimir Nabokov - seriously, if you've never read Lolita, you won't believe how hilarious it is.
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Poster: deadpolitics Date: Nov 27, 2009 2:15pm
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Everyone keeps telling me to read Lolita! I feel very blessed that Russian is my first language in that I can dive into so many Russian classics in their original format.

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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Actually, Lolita was Nabokov's first work in English, which raises the whole thing to a whole different level. Most native English speakers don't have the command of the language that he shows. It's still worth your time, though. It's a wonderful book.

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Poster: bluedevil Date: Nov 30, 2009 10:41am
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Conrad is another one that blows me away for going into a non-native language and producing works that show a complete mastery of the language.

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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Oh, yes, Lolita was first published in English, but wikipedia also tells me that Nabokov himself wrote the Russian translation, published in 1968, so you can have it both ways!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita

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Poster: skies Date: Nov 28, 2009 2:38pm
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Favorite fictions writers for those you prefer historical flavored novels : ( Top-deck )Jean Raspail, Jean Diwo, Lucien Bodard .

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Poster: deyzof49 Date: Nov 29, 2009 11:14am
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Salue Skies, I count Jean Giono (for 'Que Ma Joie Demeure' and 'Regain') and Blaise Cendrars (for 'L'Homme Foudroye) in my pantheon of French greats.
Ah ces vieux babacools.

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Poster: skies Date: Nov 29, 2009 12:17pm
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Absolument vrai , Deyzof ! But if we start with classical writers , we never stop , french authors being grate ! (Not like in music , I may add !)Balzac, Zola, are old timers favorites .But did you actually check out Lucien Bodard and his staggering relating about China ? Told as a novel but real history , not boring an instant and rather shocking language . He worked at a french consulate for years , if I recall , and relate the chinese revolution in an interesting way . Jean Raspail is my most favorite writer tho , and he relates great adventures in Canada and Patagonia . I met Jean Raspail in person , man , it felt like meeting Balzac !

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Poster: deyzof49 Date: Nov 29, 2009 1:36pm
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Merci skies, I'm unfamiliar with the work of Bodard and Raspail. But one afternoon in Paris went with my copine to the Balzac house/museum. Sadly evening was falling and the place had just closed.
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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OK Deyzof ! Maybe loving the Grateful Dead, Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd got me to snob out french music since Edith Piaf and Georges Brassens ! But frankly , even architecture, which was still great a century ago ,is totally out with me nowadays, well except Sydney opera house ! And french movies are rather boring , methinks , but humm, we shouldn't discouraged the tourists , so I will say no more ! Ha, ha ,ha !

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Poster: deyzof49 Date: Nov 29, 2009 3:20pm
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Skies, music is music to me. Dalida, Mireille Mathieu, it's French. This globalisation of everything is ruining the planet. Even Dylan digs Charles Aznavour. And well he might. As for architecture, I remember some of the 20th century but some of the old parts of some French towns, cities and villages are truly magnifique. Lyon, Bordeaux. I love Toulouse, 'La Ville En Rose', the colours there on a sunny day, wow. Tell the tourists.
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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Vos gouts sont excellents,cher Deyzof ! Also , do you know this movie "Peau d'ane" avec Catherine Deneuve et Jean Marais ? This french film is a tale about magik and love , with old castles and funky costumes , from Jacques Demy . Then on the music scene here ,I like André Rieu , this dutch violist who brings classical music to the masses, lively concerts tours shows with a most peculiar atmosphere ..However the movie that pleased me most these last years is "Devdas" from

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Poster: staggerleib Date: Nov 30, 2009 11:00am
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So... Isn't it funny how people begin sentences with So?

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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I've never heard of Scott Spencer, but since you went drinking with Vonnegut--one of my all-time heroes--and listed TC Boyle as one of your favorites (he is one mine as well) I must ask for Spencer recommendations. Where's the best place to start?

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
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Um, well, not that I can remember. It was certainly a brush with greatness, but I don't remember him saying anything specifically. I don't know, I was really drunk at the time..."
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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Thanks--will definitely check him out...I love finding new authors...when I find one I like I tend to read at least a few of his/her books.

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Poster: deadpolitics Date: Nov 27, 2009 2:09pm
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In English:

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
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First 3 that popped into my head, but not necessarily my top 3....

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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Three great authors I read several books each (fiction):Isabel Allende, Hubert Monteilhet, Christine Arnothy .

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Poster: qbividp Date: Nov 27, 2009 9:36am
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This year it has been Susan Lobo. She just (with the help of his wife) Authored a Biography of a very dear old friend >

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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T.C. Boyle
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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(certainly not an all-inclusive list) Chuck Palahniuk Cormac McCarthy Hubert Selby jr Christopher Moore Nadine Gordimer Barbara Kingsolver E Annie Proulx Thomas Pynchon Donald Barthelme
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Poster: cush212 Date: Nov 27, 2009 10:12am
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Like Marquez, took a while to get into 100 Years of Solitude but was a great read when I did. Also a big Samuel Clemens and Douglas Adams fan. Another good one is "A Winters Tale" by Mark Helprin, very cool, very surreal... Might be the best book you've never heard of... Now if I could just plug a cd in hear and?or stream some tunes Cush would be a happy camper!!!

Belated Happiest of Holidays to all!!!!!!

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Poster: qbividp Date: Nov 27, 2009 10:27am
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Here are some very interesting stories as well. http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Sonny+Barger
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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Ya like Sonny's books give these a whirl..

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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Be careful, it's going to be wet...

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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I'll be at the north end of the Principality, so it will either be sunny or snowing, but I love Snowdonia in any weather. If it gets too bad I'll slope off to Portmeirion and act out Prisoner fantasies.

(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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On a really clear day I can see Snowdonia from my window, but as you know, we don't get many clear days! So go to the nearest pub and I'll recommend:
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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Yes, "The Moon is a Hash Mistress"

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Poster: qbividp Date: Nov 27, 2009 10:51am
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If you read Robert, try some Jerry >

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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Great thread!

Irvine Welsh
Charles Bukowski
Shirley Jackson

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Poster: bluedevil Date: Nov 27, 2009 10:26am
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Kind of like music, keeps changing, but ones I ofter return to and stand up to being re-read:

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