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06 Nov 2007, 9:18 pm

Lillian Jackson Braun
Cleveland Amory
T.S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway



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06 Nov 2007, 10:03 pm

Prof & Starr

Have you read A.E. van Vogt? (Voyage of the Space Beagle, Black Destroyer and Slan).. Great books c1940-50. IMO all sci fi that follows is a copy of van Vogt's ideas.

Thomas Hardy 8O Someone actually likes Thomas Hardy? :P
I was forced to read Tess of the D'urbervilles (sp?) at school. Pure torture.

I like
Ion Idriess (Australian - hard to find)
Jim Corbett ("Man Eaters of Kumaon")
Peter Ruark
McDonald Fraser ("Flashman" series)

Kenneth Cook's "Wake in Fright" is a nice piece of Australian literature. Its about a teacher (originally from suburban Sydney) who is contracted to teach in a very small and isolated outback school. He looses all his holiday pay gambling and can't get home to Sydney, but is "taken care of" by some "good ol' boys" and ends up trying to shoot himself. My english teacher said he thought it was a harrowing tale and got nightmares and woke with cold a cold sweat after reading it. We boys (at school) thought it was a fantastic adventure and couldn't understand our pommy teacher thinking it wasn't anything but great fun. :P



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06 Nov 2007, 10:07 pm

9CatMom wrote:
Lillian Jackson Braun
Cleveland Amory
T.S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway

Hemmingway too :D



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07 Nov 2007, 3:55 am

I forgot to mention Ray Bradbury. I love his novels and short stories.'The Illustrated Man' is a brilliant read, and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' was the first book to scare the living daylights out of me, lol. So atmospheric, he a master at building suspense.

I've not read A E Van Vogt. A little Heinlein though. I liked "Stranger in a Strange Land"

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Thomas Hardy 8O Someone actually likes Thomas Hardy? :P
I was forced to read Tess of the D'urbervilles (sp?) at school. Pure torture.

Hardy is the man! Respect!! 8) Tess is a bit 'girly' for boys to read.

Try "The Mayor of Casterbridge" or better still, "Jude the Obscure". Betcha change your mind about him. :P



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07 Nov 2007, 4:36 am

Sometime when I was a child my mother was reading Hardy's Jude, I picked up the book in her absence and run through an episode about slaughtering pigs. He (who?) was obliged to do the slaughtering. I was upset and never again took in my hands a book of Hardy, though I know he is a great author. At that time (or later) I read in English The Mill on the Floss, by G. Eliot. Then I took to the plays of Oscar Wilde, which I liked much. Still later I read nearly all Plays Unpleasant by Shaw. who for some time became my author.



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07 Nov 2007, 6:18 am

Yes, Jude's story was so sad. A dreamer trapped in the life of a peasant. I won't spoil it for those who haven't read it, but be prepared to :cry: a little. Says such a lot about the British class system too. I think that's why I like Hardy so much, he was always on the side of the poor.

Sorry, :oops: turning this thread into a homage to Hardy! :)



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07 Nov 2007, 7:12 am

BazzaMcKenzie wrote:

I was forced to read Tess of the D'urbervilles (sp?) at school. Pure torture.



Literature at school is murdered.



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07 Nov 2007, 6:20 pm

In no particular order;

Franz Kafka

Edgar Allan Poe

Haruki Murakami

Robert Anton Wilson

Philip K. Dick

George Saunders

Lorrie Moore

Miranda July


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07 Nov 2007, 9:31 pm

Roger Bannister-The Four Minute Mile
Neal Bascomb-The Perfect Mile



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08 Nov 2007, 2:23 am

charlotte bronte
emily bronte
jk rowling
terry brooks
neil gaiman
hp lovecraft
jane austen
william shakespeare
edgar alan poe
anne rice
louis l'amour
stephen king
dean koontz
and if i was in my book room, it would be longer...lol


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08 Nov 2007, 5:10 pm

George Orwell
J.R.R.Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
Tom Clancy
Michael Crichton
Stephen King
William Shakespeare
G.K. Chesterton
Dante



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08 Nov 2007, 5:55 pm

Dostoyevski (and all the other main Russian authors - for me, Russian literature has no rivals)

Roger Martin du Gard (his novel Les Thibaults is the best non-Russian novel I have read)

Shakespeare

philosophically, Stendhal is probably the author I agree with most (or, in my really grim moods, Francisco Tario or Marlowe)

most overrated authors: Cervantes and Isabel Allende


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08 Nov 2007, 7:21 pm

I like many authors. Here are some of my favorites:
Charles Dickens
J.R.R. Tolkien
Stephen King
Robert Jordan
Isaac Asimov
Tom Clancy
John Grisham
Frank Hebert
Orson Scott Card
Richard K. Morgan
Robert Ludlum
Voltaire - Candide
Brad Meltzer

Lately, I've been reading and thoroughly enjoying some humorous works by these authors: Douglas Adams - Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, William Goldman - The Princess Bride, Christopher Moore - Blood Sucking Fiends and You Suck, and P.G. Wodehouse - My Man Jeeves.



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08 Nov 2007, 11:31 pm

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09 Nov 2007, 2:14 pm

Edgar Allan Poe
Franz Kafka
Knut Hamsun
J. D. Salinger
Charles Bukowski
James Joyce



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09 Nov 2007, 2:26 pm

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Can I pick myself? :D


KBABZ I know that you write roleplays but I never knew that you wrote books?

and, My fave authors are
Joe Craig
J.K. Rowling