Authors you love

[bruce]

I'm talking no mater what of theirs you read your were never disappointed. Plus I finally get a reason to use this pic of the two of them together.



That's Ian Fleming & Len Deighton two great spy masters

[Chris L]

Flannery O'Connor.  Scott Williams is playing a recording of her reading "A Good Man is Hard to Find" on his WFMU show this Monday.

[emma]

Flannery O'Connor. 

This was going to be mine! Seriously!
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is my father's favourite thing ever. My mother had to talk him out of Flannery as a first name for me but it ended up being my middle name. I hated that name so much that I refused to read anything of hers and then one day I did, and that was it.

Anyway. Another one.

Miriam Toews can't do anything wrong, as far as I'm concerned.

[Sploops]

Tom Sawyer

[Dorvid Barnas]

Tim O'Brien.

[Forrest]

Tim O'Brien.

You beat me to it, Dorvid! My favorite author of all time.

[Sarah]

Neal Stephenson.

[masterofsparks]

William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Hubert Selby Jr, Nick Tosches

[bobby.]

Roald Dahl
Flann O'Brien
Dave Eggers

[masterofsparks]

A few more:









James Ellroy, George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, Lawrence Block

[Beth]

James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene!!!!

[Susannah]

Literally every author Beth named ("Middlemarch" is hands down, my favorite book of all-time), plus Jonathan Coe, Julian Barnes, John Fowles, AS Byatt, David Grossman, Henry Fielding and Robert Graves.

[Beth]

Literally every author Beth named ("Middlemarch" is hands down, my favorite book of all-time), plus Jonathan Coe, Julian Barnes, John Fowles, AS Byatt, David Grossman, Henry Fielding and Robert Graves.

I looooved Middlemarch, but I think my favorite of hers is Daniel Deronda. The Mill on the Floss also rocks

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I don't think there are any authors where I've read and loved absolutely everything.  And it changes every so often - I still like Jack Kerouac, but he lost a lot of appeal after I turned 30.  But here's a short list of faves:

George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, Luc Sante, Jonathan Lethem, Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, Herman Melville, George Orwell, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Naguid Mahfouz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Slavoj Zizek.

[dave from knoxville]

Also Saunders! Also Vonnegut! Rudy Rucker, Wallace Stevens, John Irving (OK, I'm pedestrian, shoot me), Joseph Heller. Raymond Smullyan. Raymond Carver. Douglas Hofstadter. Sir Bertrand Russell. Philip K Dick.


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