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Post by doccreed on Aug 12, 2019 23:03:36 GMT
Since we are on a King site, let's safely assume he ranks highly among our respective lists. Otherwise, make a top ten or, if you're bored, dazzle us with a top twenty.
1. Richard Russo
2. Anne Tyler
3. Eudora Welty
4. Saul Bellow
5. Wallace Stegner
6. Donna Tartt
7. E.M. Forster
8. W.P. Kinsella
9. James Dickey
10. Truman Capote
11. Virginia Woolf
12. William Faulkner
13. John Steinbeck
14. Toni Morrison
15. John Updike
16. Ray Bradbury
17. James Joyce
18. Breece DJ Pancake
19. Jim Harrison
20. Jane Smiley
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Post by hollygolightly on Aug 16, 2019 3:04:22 GMT
I'll play! doccreed ! These are not in order of preference - more like in order of the 3 bookshelves in the living room that I can see right now.
1. Fannie Flagg
2. Anne Tyler
3. Anne Rice - the early days - /she lost me when she started writing about Christ
4. Marian Keyes
5. Larry McMurtry
6. Eudora Welty
7. Lee Smith
8. Louise Erdrich
9. Amy Tan
10. Alice Hoffman
11. T.C. Boyle
12. George Saunders
13. John Irving
14. Dennis Lehane
Will add soon: Ray Bradbury, HP Lovecraft
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Post by francesca on Aug 24, 2019 1:44:14 GMT
3. Anne Rice - the early days - /she lost me when she started writing about Christ
^^^^^ This is so true. |
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Post by wireman on Sept 7, 2019 22:45:08 GMT
Not in order
John Steinbeck Russell Banks Kurt Vonnegut John Irving William Faulkner John Updike Ray Bradbury
Raymond Carver Tom Robbins Elmore Leonard Robert Heinlein
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Post by wolfbear on Sept 8, 2019 14:27:54 GMT
here is a tenner w/o any real order:
1. Michael Ende
2. William Goldman
3. Saul Bellows
4. JRR Tolkien
5. John Steinbeck
6. George Orwell
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Brandon Sanderson
9. Douglas Adams
10. Piers Anthony
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Post by doccreed on Oct 8, 2019 3:16:04 GMT
Not in order
John Steinbeck Russell Banks Kurt Vonnegut John Irving William Faulkner John Updike Ray Bradbury
Raymond Carver Tom Robbins Elmore Leonard Robert Heinlein
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Post by doccreed on Oct 8, 2019 3:18:13 GMT
here is a tenner w/o any real order: 1. Michael Ende 2. William Goldman 3. Saul Bellows 4. JRR Tolkien 5. John Steinbeck 6. George Orwell 7. Ernest Hemingway 8. Brandon Sanderson 9. Douglas Adams 10. Piers Anthony |
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Post by wolfbear on Oct 8, 2019 9:21:25 GMT
here is a tenner w/o any real order: 1. Michael Ende 2. William Goldman 3. Saul Bellows 4. JRR Tolkien 5. John Steinbeck 6. George Orwell 7. Ernest Hemingway 8. Brandon Sanderson 9. Douglas Adams 10. Piers Anthony Nope. His books are hard to find. But his The Neverending Story is in the top five best books i have ever read. It made a big impression on me as a reader and what a good writer of fiction could really do. |
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Post by morgan on Oct 9, 2019 1:56:47 GMT
Not in order
John Steinbeck Russell Banks Kurt Vonnegut John Irving William Faulkner John Updike Ray Bradbury
Raymond Carver Tom Robbins Elmore Leonard Robert Heinlein
 ) Would like to read Cat's Cradle next. |
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Post by doccreed on Oct 11, 2019 0:55:31 GMT
I'm booting Tartt from my list and replacing her with John Irving, LOL. I should make greater efforts to read more Russell Banks and Vonnegut. The latter will be a new author for me. |
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Post by morgan on Oct 11, 2019 1:05:44 GMT
Can't believe you haven't read any Vonnegut! I haven't read much of his work, but he is wonderful IMHO. I've read Slaughterhouse-Five twice and Welcome to the Monkey House. (And one more that I can't remember. ) Would like to read Cat's Cradle next.  |
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Post by doccreed on Oct 11, 2019 1:42:11 GMT
There was a time when I didn't read science-fiction at all. This changed when I read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury is a marvelous, enchanting writer and I've found he doesn't overdo it with technical aspects common to that genre. Furthermore, John Irving taught with him (Von.) at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and it was while reading about their friendship that I pondered, "what am I missing out on, here?", and Cat's Cradle has been calling my name ever since.   |
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Post by morgan on Oct 11, 2019 2:03:27 GMT
We should do a buddy read! I'll be on the lookout for a couple of copies of it for us.  |
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) Would like to read Cat's Cradle next.
