Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: hesperis Date: 11 Jun 01 - 02:25 AM Anything, (including cereal boxes,) when I'm really desperate for something to read. |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:52 PM Thanks for all your replies so far,some of the authors ive never heard of.If your favourite authors are a bit obscure can you tell us what sort of writing it is,ie crime,horror etc?I think my favourite author at the moment is Dean Koontz,ive read most of his stuff.I buy most of my books from charity shops,you can ofen find newish paperbacks for around 50p,its a good saving when new books are around 6-7 pounds.john |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: MarkS Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:34 PM Hey, Jude (hmmm, wonder if that would work as a song title?) William Forstchen did the Lost Regiment series. Start with number 1, Rally Cry. But be careful, starting with this is like starting David Weber with "On Basilisk Station." Once you read one you will not be happy unless you read them all. Mark |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: MMario Date: 10 Jun 01 - 10:45 PM whoa! Ingathering yes! gotta find it! gotta (re)read! Loved that series - hated the movie. (Shatner RUINED it!) |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Matt_R Date: 10 Jun 01 - 10:42 PM Charles Kuralt was from downhome Onslow County, NC, where I live on the weekends, and have spent 9 years of my life. |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Peg Date: 10 Jun 01 - 09:54 PM Charles Kuralt! What a great man. I have mentioned before, talking to him on the phone just a couple weeks before he died was a high point in my life. Great book he wrote, and I loved Sunday Morning when he hosted it... Charles Osgood is a bit of a buffoon...
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: kendall Date: 10 Jun 01 - 08:23 PM Try Charles Kuralts' On The Road. |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Jun 01 - 07:15 PM I read I've never made it past the first 2 chapters of any Dickens novel, but did read Keroac's 'On the Road' whilst laid out flat over Easter and couldn't work out why it was such an alleged epoch making book. Just me I guess. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 10 Jun 01 - 05:37 PM William Cumpiano" Guitarmaking:Tradition and Technology". (A flawed book, but still worth reading). Tool catalogs from Garrett-Wade, Highland Hardware, Woodworkers Supply and Harbor Freight. Lithiery catalogs from Luthiers Mercantile and Stewart-MacDonald. "Acoustic Guitar" magazine. Nothing too intellectually demanding, been there, did that in my schooldays. Murray
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Sorcha Date: 10 Jun 01 - 04:35 PM Most of the above; also Sheri S. Tepper and her "alternate personas", Rita Mae & SqueakyPie Brown, Alice Walker, the backs of cereal boxes and encyclopedias when I'm desperate,lol! |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: marty D Date: 10 Jun 01 - 04:24 PM WEll JF Cooper AND Lawrence are certainly up there for me, but that doesn't mean I UNDERSTOOD them. Read a lot of Kenneth Roberts when I was young. HE'S easy to read. Carl Jung on a rainy day, and Bret Harte anytime. marty |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: lady penelope Date: 10 Jun 01 - 03:59 PM No, J.F. Cooper is mearly annoying, impossible is D.H. Lawrence, a man who never seemed to know if he was coming or going ( check out the harvest passage from "the Rainbow" ). TTFN M'Lady P.
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: JudeL Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:39 PM Mark - Larry Niven I know & enjoy - but I don't recognise William Fortschen. Could you name me something he's written. Re-reading back through the list I noticed a few more I missed out, Barbara Hambly, P.G. Woodhouse, Patric Tilley, Gerald Durrel , JRR Tolkien and Tom Sharp Jude |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: RangerSteve Date: 10 Jun 01 - 12:50 PM Nobody reads J.F. Cooper, it's impossible. Publishers know this, and all copies are printed with Chapter one followed by 500 blank pages. Really. |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Spud Murphy Date: 10 Jun 01 - 12:41 PM All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy-- Hands down and by all odds!!! When I was about ten, and my favorite author was probably Will James, my mother's favorite uncle gave me 'The Last Of The Mohicans' by James Fenimore Cooper. I spent the next thirty years trying to read that book, and never made it past the first chapter. I'd still be trying, but my mother passed on in 1956 and I no longer felt the desperate compulsion to read it out of respect to my elders. Spud |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:47 AM Tied for the top spot in my personal favs list are Guy Gavriel Kay Neil Gaiman Tack on another vote for Donaldson (some of it any way) |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:21 AM Mudcat mainly. Rarely find time to read books these days but do like Umberto Ecco Flaubert Stephen Donaldson Trashy novels that don't make me think |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: GUEST,Matt_R (cookieless!) Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:09 AM J.R.R. Tolkien Anne McCaffrey Technically, I haven't read anything in almost 2 years. But now that the new Pern book by Anne McCaffrey is out, I'm looking to get back into it! |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Dorrie Date: 10 Jun 01 - 11:03 AM well at the moment media studies-new media technologys as i have an exam in it 2moro and i'm scared |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: RangerSteve Date: 10 Jun 01 - 09:43 AM What ever looks good. History, as long as the author makes it entertaining. Dave Barry, Bill Bryson, P.G. Wodehouse, H.G. Wells, H. Ryder Haggard, Jules Verne, Victorian adventure novels. preferably with original illustrations, true organized crime (I think the Godfather and the Sopranos pale compared to the real thing), Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, cook books, comic strip collections, and once every two or three years I re-read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, probably the best book ever written in any language. |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: MarkS Date: 10 Jun 01 - 09:17 AM Amergin - THANKS for your post. I had no idea the "People" series had been anthologized. Now off to Amazon to see if I can find it. Thanks again.
Jude - you have to add Larry Niven and William Forstchen to your otherwise super list of authors. |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Jun 01 - 07:23 AM Good threads you've started lately and I don't mean to always link something else, but we've talked of these things before and it's always worth a look to see what's been said around here. Here are some previous thoughts on the subject: Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: lady penelope Date: 10 Jun 01 - 05:45 AM Just about all of the above and I will read Catherine Cookson if there's nothing else, as I have to have something to stop the voices in my head from taking over....... TTFN M'Lady P. |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: JudeL Date: 10 Jun 01 - 05:31 AM Anne McCaffrey, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elizabeth Moon, Mercedes Lackey, David Weber, Steve White, Tom Holt, Maggie Furey, Piers Anthony, S.M. Sterling, Katherine Kurtz, Patricia Kennealy, Julian May, Terry Brooks, Robert Heinlein, Stephen Donaldson, Frank Herbert and incongruous as it may appear Jane Austin. Jude |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Jun 01 - 04:41 AM Almost anything. Mostly crime, Sci fi, legends, history (not historical.....), children's books - Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, Moomins, Dark is Rising sequence - horror, plays, fantasy, biography (particularly like Gerald Durrell, Maureen Lipman and Spike Milligan), travel (Bill Bryson mostly) and classics and old school set books like Moby Dick, Lord of the Flies, To kill a Mockingbird and so on. I don't read Austen, Bronte's or Catherine Cookson. Euugh, ptooey.... LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Amergin Date: 10 Jun 01 - 03:21 AM i don't know i read a bunch of stuff.....though I am currently reading Ingathering (the complete stories of The People) by Zenna Henderson.....my mom used to have The People and the People: No Different Flesh and we both kinda wore those books out..... Some of my favouritse (which do include her books) are the tolkien books....the narnia books...and the band played on....and so on and so forth.... |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: GUEST,SusanGoo@mindspring.com Date: 10 Jun 01 - 02:48 AM Some of these books are so beautifully written the writing distracted me from the story! ENJOY! 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Kristen Lavaransdatter by Sigurd Undsted The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard Time and Again - Can't remember The Raj Quartet - Can't remember Passage by Charles Jordan Song of Solomon - can't remember Woman Warrior - can't remember Ahab's Wife - can't remember Pigs in Heaven/The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Prince of Tides - can't remember The Living by Annie Dillard |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: flattop Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:46 AM I bought Natalie Goldberg's 'Wild Mind, Living the Writer's Life' in The Eternal Moment Bookstore on Wednesday night so I would have something to read while eating in a restaurant before going to Fat Alberts. I shouldn't be caught dead in a place like The Eternal Moment Bookstore but Natalie, most famous for 'Writing Down the Bones,' is top drawer. Here is a quote from the second page of the introduction: '... but reading a book about writing is different from actually getting down and doing writing. I was naive. I should have remembered that after I read the Tibetan Book of the Dead, I was still afraid to die.' |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: GUEST,khandu Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:16 AM The Bible Mudcat threads Dean Koontz Gibrhan Asimov Harper Lee (1000 Xs) Stephen King palms eyes minds backs of shampoo bottles and anything else I can get my hands on! khandu |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: Bat Goddess Date: 10 Jun 01 - 12:24 AM Richard Halliburton Ed Cray Robert H. Rimmer Spider Robinson Robertson Davies A.S. Byatt Lois McMaster Bujold Louise Dickenson Rich John Gould Naguib Mahfouz Rumer Goden the list goes on... Bat Goddess |
Subject: RE: BS: What do you read ? From: toadfrog Date: 09 Jun 01 - 09:55 PM Some favorites: Arundhati Roy Stephen Jay Gould Tim O'Brien Thomas Wolfe Patrick O' Brien William Henry Dana |
Subject: What do you read ? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 09 Jun 01 - 09:37 PM Some of my favourite authors are Bill Bryson Shaun Hutson Steven King Dean Koontz Richard Layman Gerald Seymour What are yours? |