BS: Your Favorite Authors

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: GUEST,fred miller
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 05:24 PM

Caterina, I actually like Proust, but agree it sags after a while. The real story is in the first two volumes, for me, the rest resists being remembered. Never could figure out what E.M. Forster was writing about though.

a question for those who love Gregor Samsa. What becomes of his hollowed, starved carcass? The housekeeper wants to say what she did witth it, but the family doesn't want to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: GUEST,fiddler
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 05:36 PM

Anyone read Lick Creek by Brad Kessler? (not sure on the spellin')
McCarthy, Twain, Louis Owens, Burke, Shakespeare, Sam Watkins, and Headley. Also, James Horan, his Confederate Spy is a great, great book.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Art Thieme
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 09:25 PM

I doubt it was intentional, but compare Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to Woody Guthrie's song "East Texas Red" !

(Wow, it takes thread creep to bring us back to music these days.) ***BIG SMILE***

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Cluin
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 01:06 AM

Sneaky, Art. ;)

Well, if we're talking poetry, I gotta go with W.B. Yeats every time.

Cluin (who still don't know what Robert Bly was blethering about in Iron John. Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly, OTOH...)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Pushkin
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 03:41 AM

Forgot a few!

H Rider Haggard
Steinbeck for the two Cannary Row books
Edgar Rice Burroughs for his martian chronicles, not Tarzan
Richard Bach for Illusions
Agatha Christie
Raymond E Feist
Robin Jarvis
Anne Rice
Reginald Hill
Phil Rickman
Julian May
E M Forster
Emily and Anne Bronte - not Charlotte

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Grab
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 07:23 PM

Art, by mentioning his brother, you reminded me:-

Gerald Durrell - stories that can make you laugh until you drop the book!

On other books, I've got an old sci-fi paperback by a bloke called Laurence M Janifer - never seen anything else by him, which is a shame bcos it's good. Think he's maybe one of the "Golden Age" authors who are now out of print.

Another name that's not come up yet - William Horwood. His early Duncton Wood books were pretty good (later ones sucked), but Skallagrigg is outstanding.

Tom Sharpe as well - Vintage Stuff is his best, but there's any number of others to choose from. Not the kind of thing you'd give your granny to read, but bloody funny all the same!

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 08:06 PM

Addendum:

George McDonald Fraser
Colette
Anatole France

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 09:24 PM

Rapaire wrote "Poddy, I never would have guessed Heinlein! 8-)"

I wonder, Poddy, are you named for Heinlein's Poddy?

Haruo
authorized Esperanto translator of Podkayne of Mars

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Cluin
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 09:27 PM

Grab,

I really liked Horwood's "The Stonor Eagles". Time to reread that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Dec 02 - 09:29 PM

I never read any Terry Pratchett until about four months ago; since then I've read at least a dozen, probably 15 of his magna opera (most recently, speaking of opera, Maskerade, his takeoff on The Phantom of the). I think he's fantastic (or at least clever). ;-) (Even if he does kinda diss folk singing now and then.)

Julio Baghy
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Sándor Szathmári
Endō Syūsaku
Ursula K. Le Guin
Herman Melville

to name a few.

Haruo

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Dec 02 - 09:26 PM

I left off Antoine de St. Exupery. His Wind, Sand and Stars is a masterpiece. The Little Prince is pretty fine too.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Authors
From: *daylia*
Date: 25 Dec 02 - 12:49 PM

I love "The Little Prince"! 'The eyes are blind ... one must look with the heart...'

Do cartoonists count as "authors"? I'd really like to include Charles Shultz for 'Peanuts'! And Jim Davis for 'Garfield'!

They've brightened up my life for a very long time! :-)

daylia