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02-24-2006, 04:15 PM
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Originally Posted by Mike C
Murakami's spaghetti fixation can be a bit annoying, but Norwegian Wood is beautiful.
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Murakami is my favourite author at the moment. Norwegian Wood is one of the best books I have ever read. |
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03-03-2006, 06:41 PM
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My favourite author at the moment is James Kelman, and has been for about a year or so.
Actually, what amazes me most about Kelman is that he's not a household name, such as Irvine Welsh or Alan Bissett. No one seems to have heard of him, despite the considerable influence he and the likes of Alasdair Gray have had on Scottish writers for the past twenty to thirty years. I think it sucks.
Anyone else read him?
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03-03-2006, 07:13 PM
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I read so much of How Late It Was How Late but abandoned it. Whether I wasn't in the mood for it or because it was written in the Glasgow patois, which annoys me, I can't say for sure.
He has an ear, however, for Glaswegian language, which I can't deny him. He does for Glasgow what Roddy Doyle does for Ireland.
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03-03-2006, 07:33 PM
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Yeah, I guess because of the accent a lot won't get into his stuff. Nothing you can do about that. Taste is a funny thing. But I would recommend 'A Disaffection' before 'How Late'. It's a far superior novel, and one of the best I've ever read.
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03-04-2006, 03:07 AM
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Bret Easton Ellis
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03-04-2006, 04:23 AM
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Location: Glasgow, UK
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Originally Posted by PeterMc
Yeah, I guess because of the accent a lot won't get into his stuff.
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But I'm Glaswegian. I hate our accent and colloquialisms. |
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03-08-2006, 01:47 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Louisiana
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (team writers), Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe, King's writing as Richard Bachman, and William C. Dietz.
As of late, I've enjoyed the work of the authors stated above most.
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03-08-2006, 02:59 AM
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Prolific Writer
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Sidney Sheldon, Patricia Cornwell, Jonathan Kellerman
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03-10-2006, 02:42 AM
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Prolific Writer
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Lately...
Martin Amis, Albert Camus...That's it.
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03-15-2006, 09:42 PM
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J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, John Ringo, Terry Brooks ~ for descriptive reasons ~, R.A. Salvatore ~ for written combat and lesser descriptive reasons ~.
As of now I haven't been opened to a very many authors, and so I don't have a very vast collection of favorites. Woe is me...
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03-15-2006, 10:19 PM
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Location: Wahiawa, Hawaii
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I like political writers. Michael Moore is entertaining to read. Whoever craft's George Bush's speech's is a genius at writing and using rhetoric. They're very interesting to read.
Note: this doesnt necessarily mean that I support George Bush, so you can put your internet gun away.
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03-16-2006, 07:00 AM
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Stephen King - Why: His Dark Tower universe, including the books related to the Dark Tower
Terry Brooks - Why: Shannara, yes an LOTR copy but at least he knows how to write descriptive battles and doesnt side track and rant about how the old elves built this and that and how dwarves dug this and that.
Michael Savage - Why: Conservative reading  .
Last edited by ramseydbz : 03-20-2006 at 01:39 PM.
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03-18-2006, 10:02 PM
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Philosophy: Thomas Kuhn, Descartes, David Hume (all three because of their influence on today's thinking)
Christian authors: Greg Bahnsen, John Frame, Gary North
Fiction: Frank Peretti
Computer books: Almost anything from the O'Reilly publishing house 
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03-22-2006, 06:44 PM
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H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Rollins, Vladimir Nabokov, Maya Angelou, Steve Ditko, Alan Moore, Thomas Pynchon, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis (for his fiction alone).
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03-22-2006, 07:39 PM
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Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Garth Nix- Favorite by far in writing fantasy, mainly for his work on the Abhorsen trilogy and Shade's Children.
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