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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2017 14:46:57 GMT
Truman Capote F. Scott Fitzgerald Edith Wharton
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 12, 2017 15:25:40 GMT
Charles Dickens and George Orwell are the ones closest to my heart. Also love Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Albert Camus, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, and John Steinbeck.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 13, 2017 22:08:22 GMT
Jane Austen Michael Crichton Kazuo Ishiguro C.S. Lewis
Looking at my bookshelf, those are the only authors that come up more than once. I have pretty much everything from Austen -- even Love & Friendship, The History of England, The Watsons and Sanditon, which had the potential to be her greatest novel if she lived to finish it.
I've got The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery and Sphere from Crichton.
I have Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day from Ishiguro, although I'm planning on picking up Nocturnes and The Buried Giant at some point in the future.
And Lewis has The Screwtape Letters and his masterpiece: Till We Have Faces.
A lot of writers only write one or two really good books, in my experience.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 16, 2017 2:49:20 GMT
Any "bestseller" author is a mixed bag for me, but Crichton has the best track record by far. Sphere and Andromeda are great thrillers that scare because what happens doesn't make sense: disintegrating air hoses and all of the unsettling little events that happen in the base of Sphere frighten because they almost feel like some horrible nightmare from another dimension.
The Great Train Robbery is his best, though. It's The Sting in Victorian England, and a complete blast all the way through.
Sure, Crichton has his share of duds -- especially when he goes political (Rising Sun, State of Fear). But when he goes for pure genre fiction, he's leagues better than just about anyone else.
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Post by stephen on Jun 16, 2017 13:22:47 GMT
Cormac McCarthy James Ellroy Thomas Pynchon Stephen King Flannery O'Connor James Sallis Will Christopher Baer Craig Clevenger James Jones Ken Follett Larry McMurtry
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Post by jimmalone on Jun 16, 2017 16:51:51 GMT
Charles Dickens Alexandre Dumas Leo Tolstoy Raymond Chandler Victor Hugo Carlos Ruiz Zafon Javier Marias Orhan Pamuk Haruki Murakami Tad Williams J.R.R. Tolkien Umberto Eco John Steinbeck Georges Simenon Jonathan Franzen Dorothy Sayers
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Post by Viced on Jun 16, 2017 17:36:05 GMT
Any recommendations? I've only read The Train, which had its strengths but was nothing great overall for me. I have a copy of one of the Maigret books... but it's like #25 or something and I don't know if it's best to start there or if it doesn't matter.
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Post by jimmalone on Jun 16, 2017 18:33:37 GMT
Any recommendations? I've only read The Train, which had its strengths but was nothing great overall for me. I have a copy of one of the Maigret books... but it's like #25 or something and I don't know if it's best to start there or if it doesn't matter. Well I mainly love the Maigret novels, which are aside from Raymond Chandlers work the best crime novels in my opinion and as a huge fan of that genre I had to include Simenon. Those books are not only crime novels, but a wonderful portrait of people, society, it's time and often include huge criticism about social issues. They are not simply divided in black and white as most other crime books. And especially they are written in a fantastic style, something he has in common with Chandler. The order of reading them is really not important. You could start with any novel you want.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 2:31:29 GMT
Charlotte Bronte. I've never read finer words than hers.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jun 25, 2017 7:11:39 GMT
William Faulkner is my all-time favorite
others: Flannery O'Connor Evelyn Waugh Charles Dickens Cormac McCarthy Fyodor Dostoyevsky John Steinbeck Thomas Pynchon Sylvia Plath George Orwell Margaret Atwood D.H. Lawrence
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Jun 25, 2017 11:49:59 GMT
Tennessee Williams Fernando Pessoa Luis SepĂșlveda Jhumpa Lahiri Fiodor Dostoievski Sylvia Plath
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 16:20:32 GMT
William Faulkner is my all-time favorite others: Flannery O'Connor Evelyn Waugh Charles Dickens Cormac McCarthy Fyodor Dostoyevsky John Steinbeck Thomas Pynchon Sylvia Plath George Orwell Margaret Atwood D.H. Lawrence Thoughts on John Keats and Edna St. Vincent Millay? They seem so up your alley.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jun 25, 2017 17:03:56 GMT
Cormac McCarthy Philip K. Dick Thomas Pynchon
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jun 25, 2017 20:46:35 GMT
William Faulkner is my all-time favorite others: Flannery O'Connor Evelyn Waugh Charles Dickens Cormac McCarthy Fyodor Dostoyevsky John Steinbeck Thomas Pynchon Sylvia Plath George Orwell Margaret Atwood D.H. Lawrence Thoughts on John Keats and Edna St. Vincent Millay? They seem so up your alley. I love them. They are up my alley. It's funny, I was never as big on poetry as I was on the classic novel (Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson aside), but in recent years I've come to appreciate poetry a little more. Right now I'm into Dylan Thomas. This might seem morbid, but there's something about poetry with death as a theme that gets me every time.
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Post by ChairfaceC on Jun 26, 2017 4:24:42 GMT
Joseph Conrad has been my favorite for the longest time now. Philip K Dick was my first favorite back in like middle school when I read The Man in the High Castle. I've been reading a lot of Ambrose Bierce (again) lately too.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jul 15, 2017 23:05:09 GMT
HENRY JAMES EMILE ZOLA EDITH WHARTON GEORGE ORWELL JOHN IRVING COLETTE STEPHEN KING
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