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geekfreak 
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What are your top five novelists. Mine are.
5. Stephen King 4. Jack Kerouac 3. H. G. Wells 2. Lewis Carroll 1. Charles Bukowski |
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
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moshkito
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Posted: October 21 2022 at 06:46 |
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Hi,
Too many to name, and I can't even get started on it. Going back some 300 plus years, there are too many excellent ones to just list some rather "well known" folks from the 20th Century, when in my book, only 2 of them are original and creative, and the others ... no comment. Kinda difficult to discuss, for example, if one takes the story of the vampire, going back to 1750 and Horace Walpole, all of a sudden, the vampire stories that Anne Rice did in her Erotic series (away from the pop stuff that is not half as good), makes a lot of sense and in some ways is a nice forward step in the stories of vampires, without copying a lot at all. But folks will only read one or two things of hers and have no idea what the whole thing is about. I tend to think of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Aldous Huxley, Doris Lessing, and many others from around the world, as very nice and valuable reading when it comes to novels.
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Posted: October 21 2022 at 08:12 |
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1. Stephen King
2. John Grisham 3. Dean Koontz 4. Robert Ludlum 5. Tom Clancy I tend to be mostly into pop horror stories, legal dramas, sci-fi (read Star Wars) and spy novels. Sadly, aside from required reading way back in my school days I've not really delved into the "classics", so all of my favorite authors tend to be modern pop writers. |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: October 21 2022 at 08:44 |
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In no particular order...
Umberto Eco JRR Tolkien Victor Hugo James Joyce Charles Dickens
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
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Posted: October 21 2022 at 09:18 |
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In random order:
Thomas Hardy Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Dickens Clive Barker Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Posted: October 23 2022 at 13:49 |
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Off the top of my head but could be lots and lots
Doris Lessing
Hermann Hesse Mervyn Peake Ursula la Guin Kurt Vonnegut Jr |
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Guy Guden
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a tip of the hat to The Dark Elf & Cosmiclawnmower for their choices... (Eco, Hugo, Hesse, Peake, Vonnegut Jr.) I would ramble with, also in no order:
Aldous Huxley Goethe Voltaire Casanova Simone de Beauvoir Vladimir Nabokov Salman Rushdie Milan Kundera Ray Bradbury John Wyndham A.E. Van Vogt Edgar Allan Poe E.R. Eddison Horace Walpole Nathaniel Hawthorne Ann Radcliffe Mary Shelley Sheridan Le Fanu Roald Dahl Jules Verne my apologies for giving four times the amount... blissful reading everyone. thank you. |
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Terry Pratchett
JRR Tolkien Richard K Morgan Ben Aaronovitch Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie |
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Hunter S. Thompson
Edgar Allen Poe Mark Twain George Orwell Anne Frank Special mention... Dr. Seuss |
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1. Clive Barker
2. Dean Koontz 3. Stephen King 4. Stephen R. Donaldson 5. Tess Gerritsen
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This year, my 5 are:
Robin Hobb Jo Walton Alastair Reynolds Colleen McCullough K J Parker But over my life, my favs have probably been Guy Gavriel Kay Sharon Kay Penman James Clavell Neal Stephenson not sure on number 5 ... maybe Stephen King
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No special order-
Ian Banks Don DeLillo Thomas Pynchon Lawrence Durrell John Fowles and many others like Dickens, and a host of great sci fi writers like Asimov, Zelazny, PK Dick, Clarke, etc. |
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Outstanding list truly outstanding. |
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
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thank you kindly, geekfreak... I love to read biographies as well. currently reading JACQUES TATI by David Bellos. also political observation, philosophy & learned discussion. 2 books in this category I am reading as well, include MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON by Adam Schiff & THE TAROT PRIMER by Deborah Carter Mastelotto, who happens to be married to Pat Mastelotto, drummer of KING CRIMSON & STICK MEN. thank you again.
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I just got that book, despite never seeing his movies. I tried to finish "Playtime", but maybe in the future. But 99% of what I read are biographies, and I especially love autobiographies.
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so true MortSahlFan, so true... well written biographies are literally mesmerizing. time travelling. and my choice of subjects is extremely varied. biography of writers is always fascinating, along with most artists in some manner. infinite curiosity is the motivator. recent biographies that come to mind include the director Josephy Losey, Nazimova, the letters of Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren & the letters of Lotte Lenya to Kurt Weill & Burgess Meredith, thank you again, all dear readers.
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You are most welcome and I appreciate your efforts in the topic matter here. |
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
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James Herbert
Andrew Martin (Railway Detective series) Magnus Mills Peter Ackroyd Joseph O'Connor Bubbling under: Caleb Carr Special mention: S.E. Hinton, whose "That Was Then, This Is Now" was the first novel I read, when I was 13 and it was given to us at school. A fantastic book. Top classic writer: H.G.Wells
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Herman Hesse Dan Simmons Anita Diamant Robert Heinlein I also love the writing styles of J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Somerset Maugham, and James Clavell. I learned a lot from them. |
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In order to avoid this thread showing the posters about how cultivated they are, I won't speak of historic writers and I am only going to list authors that are still alive (no order) Claude Courchay (ftr) Amélie Nothomb (Bel) William Deverell (Can)>> though his latest prods are not interesting anymore Jonathan Coe (UK) I'm not sure I want (or could in all honesty) to list a fifth .
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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