Favorite Authors

[kers]

reallydown, I loved Cry, the Beloved Country, too. I still remember the description of Ixopo: "These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it."

I'm partial to the Russians--Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Anna Akhmatova. My field of study in college was post-colonial lit, so I've always got a soft spot in my heart for Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and various Central American and African authors.

I just bought Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games, and though it's a tome--900 pages! I'm excited to begin it.

 

[reallydown]

Also, in terms of non-fiction, what I've read of Cornell West, John Pilger, Linda McQuaig, Noam Chomsky etc.

 

[wildcritter44]

I am an avid reader of romance, romance mystery, romance intrigue etc. along with the supernatural stuff, paranormal.

I read my different authors books & usually get them at the library so I can trade books often.

My favorite author is Christine Feehan. She has a bunch of books out with 3 series type. If you might be interested check out her web cite
christinefeehan.com

She has a Dark series vampire/(not the usual type), The Drake Sisters (a fun mystery paranormal) and the Game books (x-military & experimented on girls that had psychic abilities).

I like fun, easy, mindless escape type stuff...............

D (wildcritter)

 

[No-Twitch-Tabitha]

Plays - Aristophanes
Poetry - Philip Larkin
Short Stories - Mark Twain
Novels - F. Dostoevsky, mostly 19th century Russian authors

I'm more of a non-fiction reader -- history, biographies, science, math (even textbooks), language (acquisition, semantics, morphology), forensics, psychology, spiritual/religious, music

Usually, when I develop a new interest, I devour as many books as I can about it. I'm an info junkie!

 

[Scott_Fraser]

Have you read any books by Rudyard Kipling, great author. Or read anything by Spike Milligan.
I've read a great book called, "Billy", by Pamela Stephenson. Its about the life of Billy Conolly and it is very funny and very moving as well. "A must read".
Cheers
Scott:hello:

 

[Jen]

I am reading Alan Alda's book at the moment its called 'Dont get your dog stuffed" he had an interesting upbringing.
He is a clever man.
I LOVE Mash I have the whole boxed set always up for a laugh when I watch it. Hubby reckons I am addicted to it!
Jen

 

[Scott_Fraser]

Hi Tabatha
Have you read Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Great book.
Scott:hello:

 

[jods]

When I was younger, the Flowers in the attic series, Virginia Andrews, and Jackie Collins.
Now I'm all grown up, Bryce Courtenay.

 

[jade]

Lisey's Story

Just wanted to update. I am almost through Lisey's Story by Stephen King. I am finding this a difficult read for me. What I can say is that King has outdone himself with this Psycological Horror. The story basically surrounds itself around Lisey coming to terms with her husbands death. During this time she relives the most traumatic portions of her husbands past and her present. Lisey's older sister also has mental problems and ends up catatonia. As I mentioned before it is a hard read for me but mostly because he hits so close to where us with PTSD find ourselves its scary. I will caution though there is alot of childhood abuse and physical assult. An example is lisey's husbands dad suffered from mental illness and would cut himself and his kids to get rid of the Bad-Gunky. If you are a King fan you will enjoy it but like I said this deals with Trauma at its worst.