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Grex Books Item 10: Who is YOUR favorite author?
Entered by omni on Sun May 8 02:48:03 UTC 1994:

 
   Who is your favorite author and why?

111 responses total.

#1 of 111 by omni on Sun May 8 02:48:29 1994:

 Mark Twain, because of his sharp and biting wit.

#2 of 111 by curby on Sun May 8 18:11:09 1994:

George Alec Effinger, because of his messed up sense of humor.

#3 of 111 by melinda on Mon May 9 01:15:52 1994:

Now, Paul Auster, because of themes of chance and fate, as well as the
way he can fold a story into itself to explore the relationship btw
writer and reader.

#4 of 111 by gerund on Mon May 9 05:52:30 1994:

 A favorite author?  Oooh.... hard to say.
 I guess I have a favorite poet and a favorite book and some other
 favorite literary things, but I don't seem to have any one particular
 I author I'd call my favorite.

#5 of 111 by sun on Wed May 11 13:00:01 1994:

Wow...I have to choose???  Hmmm...I guess Mercedes Lackey.  She is 
WONDERFUL!!!  I have almost all of her books, and she never gets dull, or
bad.  She mixes humanity, feelings, paganism, and plot in a wonderful way.

I also like Alexandre Dumas--who wrote The Three Musketteers, The Count of 
Monte Christo, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

#6 of 111 by omni on Wed May 11 21:42:55 1994:

 I also like J.D Salinger, John D MacDonald, John Grisham, John Stienbeck
Scott Turow among others.

#7 of 111 by sun on Thu May 12 02:35:09 1994:

I liked the FIRM, but never got into his other books...

#8 of 111 by omni on Thu May 12 05:01:35 1994:

 Not to incite drift, but The Client is reading just like THE FIRM did,
but I'm not being very religous about it. I just picked up "The Pastures
of Heaven" by John Steinbeck. It's only 228 pages long, and I'll be dropping
Puddin'head Wilson soon enough so I'll keep the number at 7.

#9 of 111 by carl on Sun May 15 12:24:09 1994:

If I had to pick one favorite, I'd go with M. Scott Peck.  His books
concern human growth and they have helped me to better understand
and integrate many aspects of myself.

#10 of 111 by sac on Sat Jun 4 23:41:31 1994:

Michael Crichton and Stewart Woods - they write great fiction.
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#11 of 111 by alfee on Sun Jun 5 21:45:23 1994:

J. D. Salinger, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, 
Barbara Kingsolver....I could really go on.  Each author has a sly wit
and subtle sense of humor.  The fiction is wonderful, most have short 
story anthologies for when I don't have time to commit to a whole novel, 
and I enjoy the subject matter--people.

#12 of 111 by brenda on Tue Jun 7 21:26:29 1994:

David Eddings, Douglas Adams, Lyndon Hardy... I like Scifi/Fantasy, and
I like the humore these authors add to their stuff

#13 of 111 by carl on Tue Jun 7 22:15:00 1994:

And I liked Gunther Grass.  I've read _The_Tin_Drum_ a few times
and enjoyed it tremendously.

#14 of 111 by wjj on Wed Jun 8 03:22:42 1994:

Virginia Woolf
Tom Robbins
E.M. Forster
Salinger
Roger Zelazny

#15 of 111 by greenops on Wed Jun 8 05:18:16 1994:

Michael Ondatje
Russell Banks
Carolyn Chute
Ambrose Bierce
Larry Brown
Pinckney Benedict.............................

#16 of 111 by wh on Wed Jun 8 08:44:38 1994:

Re 11. Could you recommend something by Dorothy Parker?

#17 of 111 by katie on Thu Jun 9 20:00:07 1994:

 Farroll Sams
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#18 of 111 by alfee on Fri Jun 10 03:41:47 1994:

Bil--absolutely.  The best way, I think, to get acquainted with Parker's 
work is to read her anthology 'The Portable Dorothy Parker', edited by 
Brendan Gill.  Libraries and bookstores generally carry it.  It is full of 
short stories, poetry, and her often scathing book critiques.  It's a 
really good read, and you can take it in small bites that way.  Let me
know what you think!

#19 of 111 by raven on Fri Jun 10 04:40:45 1994:

        Italo Calvino. His work is wonderfuly dense and lyrical. He has a good
grasp and science and human emotions (a rare combo). If you want to check
out hisstuff try Invisible Cities first. One of my all time favorite books.
I'm also a big fan of Annie Dillard, William Blake, and Nelson Algren.

#20 of 111 by greenops on Fri Jul 8 18:49:32 1994:

Adding to my list, Reynolds Price. I recently finished his
recent autobio. A WHOLE NEW LIFE, and I highly recommend it.
Now I'm picking away at THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.

#21 of 111 by melinda on Sat Aug 27 12:56:13 1994:

Paul Auster, Larry McMurtry, Tom Robbins, John Irving, Anita Brookner, 
Anne Rice (my personal mind candy).  Auster, Robbins, and Irving all have
new books out.

#22 of 111 by mwarner on Sat Aug 27 21:36:00 1994:

Has anyone read John Irving's new book yet?  I enjoy his writing.

#23 of 111 by omni1 on Sun Aug 28 01:18:55 1994:

 Larry McMurtry has a new book as well. It's called "Pretty Boy Floyd"
and it is co-authored, although I cannot remember her name.

#24 of 111 by grandste on Sun Aug 28 01:26:19 1994:

Am reading a delightful fictionalized account of Edwardian-era Battle Creek
("The Biggest Little City in the USA") and the rule of John Harvey Kellogg, the
natural food and cereal i:help

#25 of 111 by melinda on Sat Sep 3 00:35:31 1994:

McMurtry, too?!  It's going to be a busy fall...

#26 of 111 by lem on Thu Sep 29 13:05:05 1994:

Herman Melville must be one of the greatest writers to ever live.
We should be proud that he was an American.  He tells great jokes
and his mind is as interesting and mysterious as the ocean, itself!
"... the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and 
among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the
multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the
firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs." The Castaway
                                            -- Hermy-Baby

#27 of 111 by omni on Thu Sep 29 17:43:53 1994:

 McMurtry is not one for short books.He's like Michener and Clavell who
both suffer from diharrea of the word processor. ;)

I enjoy Stephen King and Peter Straub as well.

#28 of 111 by krebsy on Fri Sep 30 12:55:33 1994:

Terry Pratchett is the best writer to come out of the UK for ages as his books
are just so bloody good! :)

#29 of 111 by buk on Thu Dec 8 20:34:33 1994:

Charles Bukowski
Ernst Hemmingway
J.d. Sallinger
F.Scott Fitzgerald.
Martin Amis
Georgr Orwell.
William Carlos Williams.
John Irving
Albert Camus
Oscar Wilde
Douglas Adams
Douglas Copeland
These are a few of my favourite things.

#30 of 111 by mekare on Fri Dec 23 08:09:50 1994:

ANNE RICE always and forever....

#31 of 111 by beren on Wed Jan 4 10:58:26 1995:

Tolkien, the best of the best.. what else is there to say?
Van Vogt
Jack vance
Asimov
Heinlein especially "Time enough for Love" is very good
Douglas Adems
Tanith lee
Leguin
Margaret Weiss & Tracey Hickman
If I read non-SF I sometimes /very often get bored with the narrow minded plot
that a lot of books have.. they don't have the mind boggling idea's about the
way the universe works... that does not mean that I do not read anything else
than SF... but more than half is...

#32 of 111 by cyberpnk on Thu Jan 5 17:39:06 1995:

Michael Moorcock, Steven Brust, Walter Jon Williams and William Gibson

#33 of 111 by elayne on Sun Jan 8 21:32:53 1995:

Like a lot of you, I like J.D. Salinger, I am currently reading Franny and
Zooey. I have also read most of the works of Margaret Atwood (loved The Robber
Bride and Life Before Man) and Margaret Laurence (The Diviners, A Jest of God)

#34 of 111 by spartan on Tue Jan 17 23:28:05 1995:

Well, I would have instantly shouted out that my favorite author was Stephen
King just a month ago. But now, after reading four of his books, I'm starting
to lean toward Richard Bach.

#35 of 111 by yang on Thu Jan 26 06:49:27 1995:

 Doesnt anybody like Stephen crane? How about Roald Dahl?The other Authors
I read are Leslie charteris(saint!)
George Orwell
Graham Greene
Larry Collins
Tell me what you felt about 'The diary of Anne Frank'

#36 of 111 by katie on Thu Jan 26 18:20:17 1995:

I very much like Crane's poetry; disliked _Red Badge of Courage_ and some
other of his prose.

#37 of 111 by randall on Fri Jan 27 00:37:01 1995:

Stephen King!  No one comes close (well, maybe Crihnton(sp?)
or possibly Anne Rice).

#38 of 111 by omni on Fri Jan 27 07:18:30 1995:

 Chriction is good, and knows how to pace a story so it remains interesting.
I'm in the middle of Disclosur and it's going very well for me.

#39 of 111 by remmers on Fri Jan 27 11:26:51 1995:

(Crichton)

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