Thread: Favorite author?

Two of my favorites. I reading Waugh's Black Mischief right now and it's killing me. This machine killed fascists: http://tinyurl.com/6renef

I hope this doesn't sound condescending, but can I just say I love your posts? The description of memoirs as "oceanic" and the phrase "elegant malignity" are so perfect to me. You're a good writer.

Yes... about Cemetery ... that's basically the book I was focusing my negative energies on. Along with Terminal Freeze (Child's solo effort). Cemetery was just awful for me, but I don't like the subject matter. I won't say anything. But it's not offensive... it's just something that Americans love for some reason and I never got into it!! Try getting it at the library maybe? Btw, Preston's The Monster of...

Yeah, Anthony is in that--the blond with the long hair--I forget who he's hot on, as it's been a few years since I saw the film! Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.

Thank you, jordan-r . In French, those huge saga-like novels that go on for thousands of pages are called romans-fleuve , 'river-like novels'. Since Saint-Simon's memoirs go on considerably longer than that (in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade editions, Proust's roman-fleuve takes 4 Bible-like volumes; Saint-Simon's memoirs take 9 !) the least I could call them was oceanic ! ...his aptitude did not come...

Funniest novel ever written! You're my wife now.

I'm actually excited that I will be the first to name the man, the myth, the legend: Mr Eric Arthur Blair, or...George Orwell. The only writer since Milton to greatly influence multiple formats of writing. From the speculative novel, to journalism, all the way to his own very school of technical writing/editing. An absolute genius. There are some that would say the correlation between Orwell's novels and the sudden drop in approval...

Bill Bryson and Richard Russo. Though I love the Harry Potter books, I don't think Rowling has written enough to fit under the "favorite authors" category. Yes, there are seven books, technically, but they are all one story. Similarly, JRR Tolkien and George RR Martin (another favorite of mine) simply don't have a huge catalog of work to weigh the merits of. Martin has a slew of short stories, and an assortment of...

Who is your favorite author? For me, it would have to be between Stephenie Meyer and Margaret Peterson Haddix. My Current Status Twilight: Finished Eclipse!!

Ruth Rendell - and I'm going to meet her on November 12th!!! "Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke."