Favourite Author

[Blue Floyd]

Charles Dickens.

He's still the best. Full stop.

 

[Tiggi]

George Orwell.

 

[Jasper]

Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian & Suttree) not so keen on the later McCarthy lite stuff.

E Annie Proulx - particulary the early stuff (Postcards & Shipping News)

Tibor Fisher

Another vote for Hardy's poems although haven't read the novels for many years I don't agree that he's not a great novelist too.

Hermann Hesse - particularly Glass Bead Game.

Paul Smith - Annie

 

[Glens of Antrim]

One auther is too hard, but for sheer entertainment it has to be George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman (except the last one :Upset

 

[musicbox]

I like Flashman too.... but haven't read the last one yet - what's wrong with it?

Flashman in the Great Game is probably my favourite.

 

[Glens of Antrim]

musicbox wrote:

I like Flashman too.... but haven't read the last one yet - what's wrong with it? Flashman in the Great Game is probably my favourite.

IMO GMF's allowed his grumpy old reactionary persona to infect the book. There's also a slight feeling of it being Flashy by numbers. Plus I want him to write the American Civil War book before he's too old

Think my favourite book is Flashman at the Charge. Farting himself back onto his horse during the Charge of the Light Bridge;in GMF's hands laugh out loud funny.

 

[gsrai]

David Gemmell

Terry Pratchett

And if I really need a touch of real life then John Grisham (although very samey these days)

 

[griffo104]

Jasper wrote:

Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian & Suttree) not so keen on the later McCarthy lite stuff.

Suttree - what a great book, just got his latest but also like yourself not really enjoyed some of his later ones.

 

[Jasper]

griffo104 wrote:

Jasper wrote:

Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian & Suttree) not so keen on the later McCarthy lite stuff.

Suttree - what a great book, just got his latest but also like yourself not really enjoyed some of his later ones.

I read "No Country for Old Men" over the summer and just thought, well yeah, that was good, if judged by anybody else's standards but when you know what he's capable of, I just thought he's really not that bothered about writing great books anymore. Shame.

 

[murray johnson]

Paul Auster, William Boyd & David Mitchell (at the moment!)

 

[mosfet]

Primo Levi