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Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: deSelys on October 16, 2004, 04:51:20 PM: Please try to keep political stances at the door.

Mine are (in no particular order): Paul Auster, Donna Tartt and Dan Simmons.

Paul Auster is a fabulous storyteller. He can make the most mundane event a very pleasant read.

Dan Simmons has a superhuman imagination IMO, and he's quite a storyteller too. His only work which disappointed me was "Darwin's Blade".

Donna Tartt plays in the same league. "The Secret History" is a book I highly recommend.
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: NUKE on October 16, 2004, 05:02:08 PM: I don't care for fiction of any type...never got into them ( well, "Big Red" and "The Hobbit" when I was a kid)

I prefer factual books...history and biographies especially.

As a kid, if I loved to ride my bike to the library and study things of interest to me....and I was interested in everything. At home, I read through almost all of our encyclopedia set from A-Z.
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Post by: deSelys on October 16, 2004, 05:05:30 PM: Good for you. I have a lot of history book and some bio's too. But there's more to it.

Unless you only watch documentaries and never go see a movie, you're missing something. A good book beats a good movie hands down IMO.
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Post by: FUNKED1 on October 16, 2004, 05:08:36 PM: Neal Stephenson
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: NUKE on October 16, 2004, 05:10:19 PM: I don't like many movies either. ;)

Very rarley will I feel compelled to see a movie. When they end up on cable and if I am in the right place at the right time, I'll watch and enjoy some of them.
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Post by: Gunslinger on October 16, 2004, 05:12:16 PM: WEB Griffin for his "The Corps" series

Mack Maloney when his "Wingman" series was actually interesting/realistic

Starfist series (SciFi) is good....can't remember the author.

I generally stick to books that are series...I coulnt tell you any other good one's I've read lately.
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Post by: straffo on October 16, 2004, 05:33:22 PM: For Fiction/Fun :
Terry Pratchett,Stanislas Lem , Howard Lovecraft ,August Derleth and a lot of others ...

More classical :
Tolstoï,Dostoïevski ,Eco,Modiano,Perec, Queffelec ,Orwell,Dumas,Hugo,Maupassant,Coonts, Vian,Malraux,Tenessee William,Faulkner,Steinbeck,Bach,Rabelais,Sagan,Renard,Céline and finally Camus.
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Post by: Ripper29 on October 16, 2004, 06:41:14 PM: Dr. SEUSS

Green Eggs and Ham.....
:D
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Post by: Sandman on October 16, 2004, 07:42:50 PM: Dan Simmons
Neal Stephenson
J.R.R. Tolkein
Steven R. Donaldson
John Varley

I liked Orson Scott Card also, before he turned to the darkside and embraced pulp.

Least favorite: Steven King
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Post by: Sandman on October 16, 2004, 07:44:48 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Gunslinger

Mack Maloney when his "Wingman" series was actually interesting/realistic

Was it ever realistic?
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: Dago on October 16, 2004, 08:08:45 PM: I enjoy all the W.E.B. Griffin series. Pretty much similar basis, but a fun easy read.

A few others I try to catch all their works.

I do like reading Viet Nam vets memoirs.

dago
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Post by: AKIron on October 16, 2004, 08:37:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
Neal Stephenson

Haven't read him before but I recently picked up Quicksilver and got only a few pages into it when I learned Dark Tower VII was out. Will get back to Quicksiler after.
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Post by: ASTAC on October 16, 2004, 08:40:57 PM: Douglas Adams

E.A. Poe
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Post by: Rafe35 on October 16, 2004, 09:10:28 PM: An Autobiography by Gen. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle with Carroll V. Glines in:

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: Gunslinger on October 16, 2004, 09:39:28 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
Was it ever realistic?

Except for the "6th sense" the main character had....I'd say yea. Pretty realistic for fiction.

That is until he went into outter space with his mortal enemy to set up a string of nukes to go off at just the right point in time to devert an meteor racing headlong to destroy the earth....AND said reaction sent him into an alternate demension were WWII never started and his arch enemy is part of a christian evangacle row boat. That's pretty much when I lost interest.

But the whole WWIII scenario and the disarmament of America. That wasn't too far out there.
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: Sandman on October 16, 2004, 09:41:15 PM: If I recall the story... and I only read one.. they were nomadic fighter pilots. The part that I found completely unrealistic was that the planes didn't seem to require routine maintenance.
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Post by: Gunslinger on October 16, 2004, 09:47:07 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
If I recall the story... and I only read one.. they were nomadic fighter pilots. The part that I found completely unrealistic was that the planes didn't seem to require routine maintenance.

Yea that did get left out....knowing what I know about A/C now. I know for every hour of flight requires a number of hours of mait.

These guys were flying there planes like they were the family car.

There were alot of good books in the series and a few dumb ones as well.
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Post by: Sikboy on October 16, 2004, 09:51:07 PM: Quote
Originally posted by NUKE
I don't care for fiction of any type...never got into them ( well, "Big Red" and "The Hobbit" when I was a kid)

I prefer factual books...history and biographies especially.

I'm in the same group as NUKE for the most part. It takes me forever to find fiction that doesn't make me want to puke.

As far as writers in General, I have to say P.J. O'Rourke.

Mathew Brzezinski wrote an excellent book called "Casino Moscow" but I haven't read anything else of his.

My guilty pleasure though is Harry Turtledove. I hate how much I like reading his Alternative History books.

-Sik
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Post by: Octavius on October 16, 2004, 09:59:35 PM: Robert Anton Wilson among many favs.
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Post by: Jackal1 on October 17, 2004, 03:59:33 AM: Peter Hathaway Capstick
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: Blooz on October 17, 2004, 08:53:54 AM: Harold Coyle (The Team Yankee series)

Stephen King (Pet Semetary and Misery are favs)
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Post by: lazs2 on October 17, 2004, 10:11:03 AM: alternate history ones... Harry Turtledove..

Real history.... Eric Bergerud

fun spy... Clive Cussler.

Classic novel... the old drunks born in 1900... Fitzgerald and Hemingway..

science fiction Farmers "Riverworld"

detective.. stewart Kaminsky

Ayn rand for liberal bashing

lazs
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Post by: Ghosth on October 17, 2004, 10:18:51 AM: Fantasy, McCaffrey, Terry Brooks

Sci Fi I grew up on the masters, R A Heinlein, Niven, Anderson, Piper, Norton etc.
Just finished a rather interesting series by Robert Doherty that pulls ALL the old legends together. From Atanltis to UFOs & crop circles.

Its funny that while I enjoy playing war, (AH, MTW, shooters etc) it doesn't often suit my reading desires.
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Post by: Curval on October 17, 2004, 10:18:55 AM: You are missing one from that list lazs. ;)
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Post by: Bluedog on October 17, 2004, 10:19:45 AM: Raymond E Fiest and David Eddings
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Post by: lazs2 on October 17, 2004, 10:27:46 AM: curval, probly missing a bunch... I read a lot but that is what popped into my head.

lazs
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Post by: majic on October 17, 2004, 10:47:20 AM: W.E.B. Griffin (I like the Marine ones better than the Army ones.)

Allen Cole and Chris Bunch (Sten series)

David Drake

David Weber

Michael and Jeff Shaara (though Jeff's books are not as good as The Killer Angels.)

I agree with the person who didn't like King. The Stand was so beautifully set up and a major disapointment at the end.

Most anything else I read is non-fiction. Ambrose would be the only author I can point out there.
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: Nilsen on October 17, 2004, 11:23:01 AM: 1) That guy that writes the storyline for most of Jenna Jamesons movies.... don't remember his name atm.

2) Tom Clancy

3) Stephen King
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: Toad on October 17, 2004, 11:39:22 AM: Robert Ruark

Stephen Ambrose (OK, not Wild Blue)

Mark Twain

Tom Wilson (A Thud Driver, IIRC... Lucky's Bridge, Tango Uniform,Termite Hill; lovely little trio of VietNam flying books)

Michael and Jeff Shaara

Rick Atkinson

Datus Proper... greatest pheasant hunting book EVAR... "Pheasants of the Mind"; this guy can express the "why".

James Michner

Just a few that pop into my head at the moment.
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Post by: medicboy on October 17, 2004, 11:41:42 AM: Tom Clancy, Dale Brown
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Post by: Murdr on October 17, 2004, 11:43:33 AM: J.R.R Tolkien
Raymond E Feist
Early Tom Clancy
Steven King
J.K Rowling
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: vorticon on October 17, 2004, 12:33:45 PM: philp jose farmers
robert aspirin
whoever wrote the wuntver/ebenezum books
robin hobb
david farland.
j.k. rowling of course

i also enjoy some stuff by piers anthony(NOT XANTH) and ann mcaffrey(NOT THAT DRAGON CRAP). the shadow run books are allright, but i generally avoid that sort of "brand name" books.
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Post by: medicboy on October 17, 2004, 12:36:12 PM: Don't remember the auther but the book "Arc Light" about ww3, best book evar!!!!!!
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: Dowding on October 17, 2004, 12:47:17 PM: Joseph Heller, Raymond Chandler, Bernard Cornwell, Derek Robinson, George Orwell and Len Deighton.
Title: Who are your favourite writers?
Post by: Dune on October 17, 2004, 12:59:15 PM: In no particular order:

H. Beam Piper
O Henry
Robert Ruark
Ernest Hemingway
Jerry Pournelle
Gordon Dickson
Lawrence Sanders
Clive Cussler
Peter Capstick
Frank Herbert
Cesare Beccaria
Robert Heinlein
George Orwell
Andre Norton
David Drake
Mark Twain

btw, it's nice to see other Capstick, Cussler and Raurk fans :aok
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Post by: Creamo on October 17, 2004, 05:51:37 PM: I have been reading garage sale books I buy a entire box at a time, as no one author stands out after high school study hall but King.

One thing that sticks out is "Goralski" World War II Almanac: 1931-1945. Since I put it in the bathroom, haven't read a shampoo bottle in months, just BLENDER once in awhile.

This still has me wondering just how badass the 88 was.

(http://webpages.charter.net/ck2112/weapons.jpg)

Some of you WWII buffs could explain this to me. I mean, when the Tiger started rumbling the rocks in Saving Ryan, and the books off my living room shelf from the DTS, I was sure that would be the most terrifying weapon one could face, but real soldiers seems to not even care, it was the 88.

Why?

This book also documents how many guys shat themselves in combat and why. Good stuff.
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Post by: Elfie on October 17, 2004, 06:26:58 PM: A couple of my favorites are Terry Brooks (Sword of Shannara series) and Robert Jorden (Wheel of Time series)
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Post by: Raubvogel on October 17, 2004, 08:26:29 PM: Robert Heinlein, all his stuff.

David Drake

S.M. Stirling wrote a pretty good alternate history book titled "Marching Through Georgia." A good twist on WW2 alternate reality.
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Post by: Sandman on October 17, 2004, 10:12:03 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Elfie
A couple of my favorites are Terry Brooks (Sword of Shannara series) and Robert Jorden (Wheel of Time series)

Pffft... Robert Jordan is horrible, IMHO. I got through about 3/4 of his first Wheel of Time book... far too unbearable to continue.
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Post by: bigsky on October 18, 2004, 02:22:11 AM: john steinbeck
r. a. salvatore

creamo, you need to watch the movie "when trumpets fade" an hbo flick that is on dvd, to understand why 88s where so feared. it is my favorite ww2 flick.