Favourite Author?
Discussion
Big Read, My Arse...
Right then.. more list making and sharing of knowledge..
Who are your favourite authors, published in the 20th or 21st century? Put them in order of preference.
You can volunteer one or ten. Your favourite book(s) by that author would add value too
5) Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul (yes, and Hitchhiker's I suppose..).
4) P.J O'Rourke - Give War a Chance, Modern Manners, Parilament of Whores.
3) Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forward, What You Make It, One of Us.
2) Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory, Complicity, The Crow Road.
1) Christopher Brookmyre - Boiling a frog, Not the end of the World, A big boy did it and ran away.
Right then.. more list making and sharing of knowledge..
Who are your favourite authors, published in the 20th or 21st century? Put them in order of preference.
You can volunteer one or ten. Your favourite book(s) by that author would add value too
5) Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul (yes, and Hitchhiker's I suppose..).
4) P.J O'Rourke - Give War a Chance, Modern Manners, Parilament of Whores.
3) Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forward, What You Make It, One of Us.
2) Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory, Complicity, The Crow Road.
1) Christopher Brookmyre - Boiling a frog, Not the end of the World, A big boy did it and ran away.
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon.
Intelligent near-future "speculative fiction" (as in 'good Sci-Fi')
David Brin's work is quite good too.
Edit: Oh yeah, Pterry (
) Pratchett is a good read too, although he is getting slightly formulaic these days.
>> Edited by JonRB on Friday 16th April 19:31
Intelligent near-future "speculative fiction" (as in 'good Sci-Fi'
) David Brin's work is quite good too.
Edit: Oh yeah, Pterry (
) Pratchett is a good read too, although he is getting slightly formulaic these days. >> Edited by JonRB on Friday 16th April 19:31
Oh God 20th century? Can't think of one. Oh hang they're coming through...
John Fowles - The Magus.
JG Ballard - most of his writings but esp. Empire of the Sun and The Drowned World. But Cocaine Nights? - keep it.
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall. ummm...
Tom Wolfe. B of V and Right Stuff
Just looking at the shelves here .... so many books... all the wife's of course. Lots of crap in here to be honest. Better put hers in though. Helena Ravenscroft, the complete works of...
Joe Conrad was turn of the century I think so we'll just squeeze him in. End of the Tether.
Tolkien gets a shout.
Michael Green- The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship. Patrick Tilley - Mission (gives a fun new slant on religion)
Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch and High Fidelity but not the other stuff.
Whoever wrote the TR6 Repair Operations Manual.
That'll do. What do I win?
John Fowles - The Magus.
JG Ballard - most of his writings but esp. Empire of the Sun and The Drowned World. But Cocaine Nights? - keep it.
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall. ummm...
Tom Wolfe. B of V and Right Stuff
Just looking at the shelves here .... so many books... all the wife's of course. Lots of crap in here to be honest. Better put hers in though. Helena Ravenscroft, the complete works of...
Joe Conrad was turn of the century I think so we'll just squeeze him in. End of the Tether.
Tolkien gets a shout.
Michael Green- The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship. Patrick Tilley - Mission (gives a fun new slant on religion)
Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch and High Fidelity but not the other stuff.
Whoever wrote the TR6 Repair Operations Manual.
That'll do. What do I win?
I'm with you on Douglas Adams, I love the Dirk Gently books.
Robert Rankin - The Antipope (and the other parts of the Brentford Trilogy)
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 and Closing Time
Frank Herbert - The Dune series (of books)
Terry Pratchet - Particularly the City Watch books
Umberto Eco - Focaults Pendulum, The Name of the Rose
Mark Helprin - Winters Tale
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Dostoyevski - The Idiot, honourable mention because the concerns of the main characters in the book mirror those of many people on this forum. Its a great example of how nothing much changes.
Robert Rankin - The Antipope (and the other parts of the Brentford Trilogy)
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 and Closing Time
Frank Herbert - The Dune series (of books)
Terry Pratchet - Particularly the City Watch books
Umberto Eco - Focaults Pendulum, The Name of the Rose
Mark Helprin - Winters Tale
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Dostoyevski - The Idiot, honourable mention because the concerns of the main characters in the book mirror those of many people on this forum. Its a great example of how nothing much changes.
No fictional favourites but found this an amazing book.
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the 'Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown was fantastic too
>> Edited by Apache on Friday 16th April 20:34
Christopher Brookmyre - viciously Carl Hiassen with a UK spin 
Earlier books better
Alastair Reynolds - quality imagination stretching Sci-Fi
Bill Bryson - never fails to raise a laugh!
Michael Connelly - hard bitten cop chat
Terry Pratchett - self-explanatory
Iain and Ian M Banks - unexpected yet conventional
James Ellroy - a movie in every one!
Earlier books better Alastair Reynolds - quality imagination stretching Sci-Fi
Bill Bryson - never fails to raise a laugh!
Michael Connelly - hard bitten cop chat
Terry Pratchett - self-explanatory
Iain and Ian M Banks - unexpected yet conventional
James Ellroy - a movie in every one!
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