list them

if you can give a little info about their style or what they write about would be great. cough cough please list this...

I am looking for new authors and new books to read since I am done with school finally.
my favorites are Michael Crichton, John Grisham and Steven King.
Really miss Crichton and loved his style.

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11/12/2008 3:10:31 PM

Carl Hiassen

he writes comedic satires of floridian politics, focusing on tourism, crime, and ecological activism

the stories are always funny as shit

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11/12/2008 3:10:46 PM

Michael Crichton no question.

11/12/2008 3:11:14 PM

Maya Angelou

11/12/2008 3:11:20 PM

David Foster Wallace RIP

11/12/2008 3:11:35 PM

11/12/2008 3:11:42 PM

J.K. Rowling!

Dan Brown

11/12/2008 3:11:46 PM

FUCK maya angelou

11/12/2008 3:11:57 PM

SaabTurbo is my favorite author of TWW posts

11/12/2008 3:12:01 PM

Lauren Joffe

11/12/2008 3:12:13 PM

maya angelou is retarded

11/12/2008 3:12:29 PM

Palahniuk, Faulkner, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien

11/12/2008 3:14:37 PM

george rr martin

11/12/2008 3:15:27 PM

geez it was a joke

I don't read much and when I do it's silly non-fiction books from the author of Sex in the City (Candice Bushnell) and other sorts.

11/12/2008 3:15:54 PM

HUNTER S. THOMPSON SON.



OH GOD, IF THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL ENJOYMENT THEN YOU DON'T NEED TO LOOK INTO MR. THOMPSON SON.

HE IS WAY TOO COOL FOR YOU SON. HE WRITES ABOUT HEAVY DRUG INDUCED ESCAPADES. HE ALSO RODE WITH THE HELLS ANGELS FOR QUITE A WHILE IN ORDER TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THEM. HE MANAGED TO NEARLY GET HIMSELF KILLED QUITE A BIT BUT IN THE END THE ANGELS RESPECTED HIM. THEY DIDN'T REALLY FUCK WITH HIM AFTER HE LEFT AND PUBLISHED THE BOOK.

11/12/2008 3:15:57 PM

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"if you can give a little info about their style or what they write about would be great."

11/12/2008 3:16:16 PM

Well I just finished reading Sula by Toni Morrison...I'll have to say that I was really impressed...I may have to obtain some more of her books to read.

11/12/2008 3:16:34 PM

maya angelous writes about black women's vaginas

11/12/2008 3:16:52 PM

i totally played by the rules

11/12/2008 3:16:53 PM

SaabTurbo

His stories of rhee rhee are engaging and hilarious.

11/12/2008 3:18:00 PM

Sara Vowell

incredibly sharp and witty when it comes to history, particularly presidential history

her book on the assassinations of Lincoln, McKinley, and Garfield, Assassination Vacation, is one of my favorite books ever

11/12/2008 3:20:09 PM

god, cos' he made various people write the bible and....in turn, he was sorta the author of the bible.
AMIRITE

11/12/2008 3:54:55 PM

Isaac Asimov

Short stories, few books - I, Robot was one of them - he coined the term "Robotics"


most of his writing deals with human/robot interaction, robot psychology (imagine that).

11/12/2008 3:57:32 PM

Tom Clancy

11/12/2008 4:04:47 PM

Judy Blume has some crazy shit.

11/12/2008 4:06:15 PM

Stephen King - but you know his work evidently (if you haven't read the Dark Tower series pls to do so)

Neal Stephenson - sort of sci-fi, sort of cyberpunk, historical in places. Settings range from Enlightenment-era Europe to the not-too-distant future. Hard to describe exactly, but good. Snow Crash is a good place to start.

Tom Clancy - Action/Espionage, with mostly recurring characters. His earlier books are better than his later stuff. Hasn't written any fiction since 2003, so I'm wondering if he's moved on to other things.

Thomas Harris - Hannibal Lecter and all his friends. Pretty well-written too. Body of work is rather small (5 novels in 30 years, 4 of them in the Lecter arc)

I also really like some novels I've recently read by William Gibson and Tom McCarthy, but haven't read enough to add them into my "favorite authors" list yet. But McCarthy's book Remainder, about a man who suffers a traumatic injury, recieves a large settlement, and uses the money in search of what is "real" and "authentic". Kinda existential, bizarre in places, but fantastic. Give it a try.

11/12/2008 4:29:55 PM

ayn rand

11/12/2008 4:39:17 PM

I'm a terrible recreational reader...BUT...

Nicholas Sparks--YES I SAID IT. I'm a sap, and I like reading sappy girly shit.
Michael Crichton--as I got older and started getting out of my RL Stine phase, i started with Andromeda Strain and a love grew from there.

As a genre...I REALLY like chick smut--they're easy reads that make me laugh. *shrug* Celia Rivenbark is hilarious. She's a NC writer--We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle and Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank. There's also Susan Reinhardt who is another NC writer. She wrote Not Tonight Honey, Wait Til I'm a Size Six My future m-i-l likes the same kind of stuff...I got her House of Testosterone: One Mom's Survival of a Household of Males for mother's day by Sharon O'Donnell. She loved it

11/12/2008 4:46:03 PM

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"george rr martin"

His stories are fantasy, but low fantasy. Not much magic, and a lot of gritty, depressing, hellish medieval warfare and politics.

11/12/2008 4:47:46 PM

beverly cleary

roald dahl

11/12/2008 4:56:15 PM

R.L. Stine

GOOSEBUMPS and FEAR STREET

j/k i only maybe read like 2 goosebumps, the one with the comic book guy that ends up being real and i dunno why i said i read 2

i didn't/don't read books

11/12/2008 5:20:53 PM

Jeff Noon
- Sexy futurism with cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic stuff

Robert Anton Wilson
- Sex, drugs, and sci-fi with lots of humor

11/12/2008 5:24:48 PM

Vladimir Nabokov

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"Nabokov is noted for his complex plots, clever word play, and use of alliteration."

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"intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works"

11/12/2008 5:35:26 PM

Maya Angalou tought me poetry. she is kinda weird. she don't like white folks much.

John Irving- funny crazy books, that are kinda sad too. that tell us how strange our normal lives really are. or something like that. check out his latest book. Until I find you It is about tatoos and a guy looking for his father. good stuff.

11/12/2008 5:41:32 PM

^^LOL. Entire thread about that already

11/12/2008 5:41:48 PM

grisham = (no offense. i mean i get that his novels are catchy or whatever, i just don't see the appeal. i can't read shit like that. i guess it is "good" for what it is, just not my style)

recently i've had trouble with fiction though. i haven't read a book in forever. maybe it is because all i do is read and i get sick of it. but i do enjoy nonfiction. which is weird. but i will try to play:

vonnegut is the first that jumped into my mind. style: dark, weird

i will perhaps try again later

11/12/2008 6:06:33 PM

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"Michael Crichton no question. "

11/12/2008 6:08:55 PM

Mario Puzo is the shit. His books are hard to put down, like Grishams...but have a lot more substance IMO. Although he has a few easy 'grisham-like' books....The Godfather, The Sicilian (better than the The Godfather), and the The Family are three of my favorite books.

I like Joseph Heller and some Vonnegut. I enjoy Grisham if I've got a 5 hour layover in an airport and want something to entertain me. And with his law background, at least his shit is accurate.

11/12/2008 6:14:48 PM

Somerset Maugham - Stories about dealing with the crushing horror of existence and the emotional toll of every day life, though things usually end well.

Robert Heinlein - Very much a scientific sci-fi writer who also had a significant Libertarian lean to his writing and philosophy

11/12/2008 6:15:43 PM

^^ yea grisham is good for stuff like that

i mean i read stuff like that at the beach, layovers, etc. same with dan brown. haha. easy reads and they hold your attention that is why they are "good"

but definitely not my favorite.

i should also note i usually don't finish these books though. i've finished like 2. one dan brown, one grisham. i don't get what my problem with it is. just can't get into them even if they are "gripping" i get distracted by other things

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11/12/2008 6:16:59 PM

obligatory Douglas Adams

11/12/2008 6:18:17 PM

John Sandford - mysteries/fictional conspiracies. he has one series where a hacker solves conspiracies/murders/crimes/etc.

Vince Flynn - sort of like Tom Clancy, based on a CIA agent taking out bad fuckers and what not.

11/12/2008 6:18:17 PM

Richard Dawkins

Christopher Hitchens

11/12/2008 6:18:19 PM

crichton, the dude who wrote encyclopedia brown, the dude who wrote the box car children...all i can think of right now

11/12/2008 6:18:53 PM

There's plenty of stuff that is entertaining but not good. Most of the stuff that people read is the book equivalent of a popcorn movie. Grisham, Dan Brown, Clancy, J.K. Rawlings, etc. are not great authors, but they're entertaining and easy to read. I don't think I know anyone who really likes to read a Dostoevsky novel, but they're great literature with tremendous depth and quality.

It's hard to find something that is both great literature and fun to read, only a few come to mind... Twain, Dumas, Willa Cather, Kipling, for some people Hemmingway... they're certainly few and far between.

11/12/2008 6:23:33 PM

Dostoyevsky
Kundera
Nabokov
Chabon
Vonnegut
Malemud
Heller

that order.

11/12/2008 6:28:24 PM

I guess I know one person who likes to read Dostoevsky.

11/12/2008 6:33:16 PM

J.R. Ward - Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Long books. Vampires. Sex. Violence. What more do you need?

Anne Rice - Same as above.

11/12/2008 6:38:59 PM

Isaac Asimov, Vonnegut, and I know it seems cliche but...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was absolutely phenomenal.

11/12/2008 6:39:28 PM

Wally Lamb

and I got his new book in the mail today

w00t

11/12/2008 6:39:38 PM