Top Five Novelist
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Topic: Top Five Novelist
Posted By: geekfreak
Subject: Top Five Novelist
Date Posted: October 21 2022 at 01:01
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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 ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
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Posted By: moshkito
Date 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. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date 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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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date 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 ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date 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 |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date 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 ------------- |
Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: October 23 2022 at 17:01
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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. ------------- https://twitch.tv/guygudenspacepirateradio |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 23 2022 at 17:19
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Terry Pratchett JRR Tolkien Richard K Morgan Ben Aaronovitch Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: October 23 2022 at 17:24
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Hunter S. Thompson Edgar Allen Poe Mark Twain George Orwell Anne Frank Special mention... Dr. Seuss |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 04:56
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1. Clive Barker 2. Dean Koontz 3. Stephen King 4. Stephen R. Donaldson 5. Tess Gerritsen ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 07:50
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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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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 14:24
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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. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 14:43
Outstanding list truly outstanding. ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Guy Guden wrote:Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 15:22
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. ------------- https://twitch.tv/guygudenspacepirateradio |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 16:03
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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 21:53
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. ------------- https://twitch.tv/guygudenspacepirateradio |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 23:58
You are most welcome and I appreciate your efforts in the topic matter here. ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: October 29 2022 at 14:08
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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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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: October 29 2022 at 18:35
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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. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 30 2022 at 02:32
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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 . ------------- 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 |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: November 13 2022 at 08:57
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Stephen King, by a VERY long way Sebastian Faulks Thomas Hardy Bill Bryson Dean Koontz/James Herbert I would add John Wyndham but I’ve only read The Day Of The Triffids, it was outstanding but I need to read more! As a kid: Enid Blyton CS Lewis Arthur Ransome ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: November 14 2022 at 04:21
I have to add John Fowles and Stephen King also, perhaps. Anyways, I don't have fixed lists in virtually anything. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 14 2022 at 07:37
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Salman Rushdie Amos Oz Robert Musil Sten Nadolny My probably favourite writer is Jorge Luis Borges. I don't know whether he can count as novelist.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 14 2022 at 09:55
Hi, (horror/gothic stories) Try some of these ... as some of the stories are actually short stories. Mostly old stuff, but gives you an idea where it all started. Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto) and Ann Radcliffe (Mysteries of Udolpho) are the ones usually associated with the start of the stories in horror. My thoughts are that the Catholic Church in Europe destroyed most of it, and made sure that the writers (before then) were all burned alive. For being witches and warlocks, of course! Mary Shelley's book is the best known, and no one ever read the book, which is far better than any film, and gives you very different ideas about the actual story. The Marquis de Sade is here, mostly because of the horrors in France at that time, which are believed to have influenced a lot of the "horror story" ideas, and added a lot more blood to it. Victor Hugo, ends up being a clean up of the whole thing, but it really is about the horrors of an upper class and all that. Sheridan Le Fanu, was probably more ripped off and copied than all the others. He had the first vampire story with 2 women. Matthew Gregory Lewis wrote, by very far. one of the most incredibly sick and horrendous story ever ... and to even read what the maggots do is ... something that is hard to contemplate. Bram Stoker you know more than the others, although the novel is better ... it is written in DIARY format all the way to the end, and is much more suspenseful than any film. Lord Polidori, was one of the folks with Mary, Percy and Byron, and they all created "horror stories" to entertain each other until one day Mary wrote one that ... got them all running. He was a doctor, and his stuff is gory. Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Marquis de Sade - Justine Victor Hugo - Hunchback of Notre Dame John Keats - La Belle Sans Merci ... and maybe Isabella Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas, Carmilla Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Monk Edgar Allan Poe - Various Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Bram Stoker - Dracula, The Lair of the White Worm Lord Polidori - Vampyr ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 14 2022 at 10:31
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline Aksel Sandemose Halldór Laxness Flann O'Brien Timo K. Mukka |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 14 2022 at 13:43
Wow ... now I have to look up some more reading!  ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 18 2022 at 21:21
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Some one mentioned Peter Ackroyd......fantastic writer.....fine novelist as well as non fiction about London and England ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: November 19 2022 at 07:37
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Kurt Vonnegut Joseph Heller James Joyce Sigrid Undset Cormac McCarthy Next five David Foster Wallace Fyodor Dostoevsky Leo Tolstoy Henry Fielding Charles Dickenson |