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"whose ur fave Author"

I like Philip Pullman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His books are all set up around a character perhaps like u and me and creates a whole trilogy about them they'll get older as the trilogy progress. Whose your favourite author and why ?

More than one Nick Hornby book has been made into a movie. I can't remember the name of the first, although I can remember it and High Fidelity was one of his books, except the movie was set in Chicago and had John Cusack in it. Was pretty decent too.

My favourite authors are not any of the literary greats. I like best seller crime, war, and thrillers etc.

Robert Ludlum
John Grisham
Tom Clancy

In that order. The reason I like thenm is that they are an easy read on a plane or a beach, or in bed late at night when you don't want anything that involves too much thinking. Currently reading John Grisham's The Partner. So far so good.

Nick Hornby not only cos he's Gooner, his books are pretty good and as you see one of his books was made into a film (about a boy) which was superb.

Goatboy wrote:

>
> Nah.
> I bought it on impulse and just have never been able to get into it
> enough to finish the damn thing.
> I'm trying though, oh how I'm trying. I get about 70-80 pages in and
> think "Well...it must be a classic for some reason..." and
> keep waiting for it to dawn on me.


Heh. Well, it was a book written in German by a Czech and then translated into English, so it can read rather badly. It's worth it; the pervading sense of confusion is superbly done.

Light wrote:
> Man, I loved that book but it was hellishly difficult going. Have you
> read "The Castle" by Kafka? Similar to The Trial in that
> it's a confusing world where everyone seems to understand the rules
> except the protagonist, but a little easier on the brain.
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Nah.
I bought it on impulse and just have never been able to get into it enough to finish the damn thing.
I'm trying though, oh how I'm trying. I get about 70-80 pages in and think "Well...it must be a classic for some reason..." and keep waiting for it to dawn on me.

Mess wrote:
> Robin Jarvis. He's not very well known, which is a shame. I suggest
> him to anyone who just wants to enjoy a good story rather than be
> assaulted by complexities and brainy challenges.

I'd say he was my second favourite.

Robin Jarvis. He's not very well known, which is a shame. I suggest him to anyone who just wants to enjoy a good story rather than be assaulted by complexities and brainy challenges.

Like most of Stephen King's earlier books and James Herbet's stuff is great

Goatboy wrote:

> I'm revisting books I haven't read in a loong time like Kafka's
> "The Trial"

Man, I loved that book but it was hellishly difficult going. Have you read "The Castle" by Kafka? Similar to The Trial in that it's a confusing world where everyone seems to understand the rules except the protagonist, but a little easier on the brain.

Can't really say I have a favourite out of all of them.
Authors I look for and re-read:

Edward Bunker, Primo Levi, Stephen Clark, Phillip Pullman, Noam Chomsky, Brian Lumley, Stephen Laws.

I'm revisting books I haven't read in a loong time like Kafka's "The Trial", "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, "The Dirt:Motley Crue" autobiography (filthy, nasty people but you have to admire their stupidity and refusal to die).

Iain Banks is a star, as is Terry Pratchett. Stephen King has his moments, though his new stuff (with the exception of the Dark Tower series) are awful.

1984 is my favourite novel of all time, though curiously I haven't read much else of Orwell's. Tom Clancy provides a good read, though again his recent stuff has been disappointing.