Favourite Authors

[northepaul]

Vladimir Nabokov
Nicola Barker
Jonathan Swift
Salman Rushdie
Donna Tartt
Yukio Mushima
Susanna Clarke
David Mitchell

Just getting into Angela Carter at the moment.

Did English Degree a few years back, so I could add another 50 authors that i like, but the above - I love.

When I applied to do a BA I had the choice of English (as in Media writing) or photography....I chose the latter but always wonder what it would have been like the otherway around, you know? parallel universe type thing.

I studied some of Mushima's work for my dissertation - what a fantastic mind he had. I looked at Death By Roses, by Eikoh Hosoe...if you have not seen this work, Zazen its really worth a shifty. It was published just after Mushima's suicide.

Funnily enough, I also looked at Angela Carter's work for another project.


Anyway, favourite authors...hoping it includes poets?
(not in any particular order)
Sylvia Plath
Caol Ann Duffy
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Bronte
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jeanette Winterson
E Gaskell
George Eliot
Robert Louis Stevenson
C S Lewis
Tolkien
E Nesbitt
Ted Hughes
....

To name a few...

[Snadger]

Beano, Dandy and Topper! Do they count?

Reading my 10th Jeffery Deaver book just now......does that say anything about my personality?

[Snadger]

There's at least two of us.

Make that three!

[its hilly]

I can read an average paperback in about 3hrs (and no I dont skip bits and can precis the whole storey if asked) the librarian at my senior school used to give me the thickest books he could find just to slow me down So I was reading War and Peace and Lord of the rings in my teens. I read allsorts but like fantasy best. In no patricular order...
Terry Pratchet
Raymond Feist
Ann McCaffery
Dick francis
Ellis Peters
David Baldacci
Barbara Erskine (lent some to MIL and spooked her nicely )
Katie FForde
Tolkien
And does the GYO forum count, cos I read that every day

[HeyWayne]

the librarian at my senior school used to give me the thickest books he could find just to slow me down

Read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - that'll slow you down.

[binley100]

Make that three!

Four

I like a bit of a blood and guts thriller
Michael Connelly
Tess Gerritson
Kathy Reichs
Patricia Cornwall
Johnaton Kellerman
Geoffrey Deaver....and there's plenty more.

[lainey lou]

I Love
John Twelve Hawks
Lian Hearn
Hanif Kureishi
Emily Bronte
Roddy Doyle
Ben Elton
Tony Parsons
Anchee Min
Robyn Young

Could go on and on, I love to read.
Not a fan of Prachett either!!

[SarzWix]

I'm not a Pratchett fan either, although I can't say I dislike his books - I've never read one!
Zaz, I've had Angela Carter recommended to me, and I've got a bunch of them in my Amazon basket waiting for the day I can afford them all. Or even any of them

Anyone who's a Dick Francis fan might want a look at www.thebookpeople.co.uk - they have a set of 10 for £9.99 at the mo; I'm seriously considering it because lots of them are the oldies which would nicely replace my falling apart copies

[Hilary B]

I sometimes wonder how anyone who has actually READ a Pratchett book could consider them to belong in a 'genre' at all.
I can accept that some just don't like them, and others have never sampled one, but they are NOT to be categorised with ANYTHING else.
Among children's authors, did anyone mention Lucy M Boston?
Elizabeth Goudge is.. special. She wrote for children, and she wrote for adults, but all her books are.. special. "The Little White Horse" I loved from when I first read it aged about 7, and I still love it now.
I'm another one of those 'Finished it, what's next?" readers. Currently working my way through Falco again.....

[RedThorn]

The only Pratchett series I enjoyed was the Digger series. Other than that, I devour most Fantasy/Scifi books

[Seahorse]

In no particular order:

Sarah Waters
Angela Carter
Lindsay Davis
Reginald Hill
Phil Rickman
Jim Kelly
Minette Walters

but I also get totally hooked on genres... polar exploration, mountaineering, the slave trade, etc I end up reading every book on the subject that I can find

[Glutton4...]

Suspenders, murder/mystery, cops'n'robbers, forensic stuff - sommat to get you hooked.

Christie, Cornwell, Reichs, Connolly, Rankin... stuff like that. Having said that, I'm always open to other authors, if I'm lying on a beach, or bored, I will read anything. I can read most paperbacks in 3 - 4 hours too. Gets expensive.

When I was single, I had the habit of reading in the bath (glass of vino and a good book), occasionally I'd nod-off and my book would dip in the water - I have a dozen or so paperbacks that are an inch thicker at the bottom where they swelled up! So, I stick with magazines now.

[snuffer]

Just ordered Jasper Fforde's new book.

Fetched a copy yesterday from Waterstones in Nottingham. Managed to get one that had been signed by the author. I'll be saving it to take on holiday at Easter. We are having a week in Northumberland and a week in S.W. Scotland. Weather, at that time of year, should provide plenty of opportunities for sitting by the fire in the evening reading a good book.

[Rhona]

Well, I'll add it here a it probably doesn't warrant a new thread given this one, but just read that JD Salinger has died, aged 91. Maybe on the People You Thought Were Dead Anyway list for many (total recluse for decades) but thought I'd mention it.

Apparently his safe has 15 completed manuscripts in it - wonder if any will be published?

[northepaul]

Apparently his safe has 15 completed manuscripts in it - wonder if any will be published?

Wow...what a fantastic thought.....