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Post subject: Favorite Authors
 Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 03:37 AM
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Since there really isn't anything worth watching on TV these days, I've recently taken up my old love of reading. A good friend hooked me up with an author by the name of John LeCarre, and I've been going though his books like there's no tomorrow. I love the genre, so I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions for when I finish this series.
I've read all of the Alex Cross series, excellent stuff.
What I'm looking for:
James Bond sort of espionage, spies, intrigue.
I'm especially partial to stories happening in Great Britain.
But I'm open to new things too.
Tell me what you're reading...... |
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 03:52 AM
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Anton Chekov
http://chekhov2.tripod.com/
Number #154 "The Bet" hooked me much like
Star Trek's "Balance of Terror" hooked me  |
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 04:11 AM
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| I am currently reading a series of books by Lilian Jackson Braun... The Cat Who books. |
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 07:19 AM
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I have been reading books by Archer Mayor. He is from Vermont.. and writes some killer mystery, who dunnit novels. When I go back to Vermont, I am going to buy more...  |
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 08:10 AM
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I really enjoyed a novel called Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. It's a crime novel but set in Stalinist Russia where there is no crime because it's a perfect society! So when the policeman starts to investigate, he becomes an enemy of the state. Very gripping and a glimpse into a completely dystopian society.
If you want something quintissentially British, I am rereading Far from the Madding Crowd, which is very evocative of teh english countryside. |
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 11:33 AM
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I have enjoyed the Clive Cussler books, Dirk Pitt, Austin and in particular more recently the Oregon Files, they (Oregon) would make an excellent series of movies.
I really like the books written by Steve Berry and I bought The Paris Vendetta recently and I will read that after the latest Oregon Files book.
I also enjoyed the Dan Brown books but not his last effort, that was rubbish. |
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 05:29 PM
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The book I'm reading right now is:
"Beeps, Bleats, Boskas & Other Common Galactic Verbage:
The Star Wars Guide to Inter Galactic Language."
By Ben Burtt
It is a fun book to read on how they came up with the languages for the 6 movies and the Clone Wars series...and also how they used some real Nigerian and Kenyan dialogs in the first 3 movies....
For example here is the language they made for the Ewoks:
"Kiney chattu toma tip-yip."
Translation:
"Blessings on your fowl."
Jawa:
"Ütinni!"
Translation:
Battle cry...
don't ask me about Jar-Jar Binks language it was too funny...
DIanaG |
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 06:29 PM
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Maybe you would like some books written by Sherman Alexie...
Like Reservation Blues and Indian Killer....
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 08:55 PM
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| littlestar wrote: | Maybe you would like some books written by Sherman Alexie...
Like Reservation Blues and Indian Killer....
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Oh yes! I have both of those books. They are though-provoking as well as entertaining.
I also have the movie, "Smoke Signals." Packed with Native symbolism. |
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 09:25 PM
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| Presently reading The Associate by John Grisham |
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Post subject: Re: Favorite Authors
Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 10:08 PM
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I'm not reading anything these days,but I could recommend books that I read as an English major at Rutgers University that I liked and see if it's your fancy(you may have read them already):
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Metamorphosis by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Six Characters in Search of an Author By Pirandello
Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
And a string of Shakespearean plays(I did the history,comedy and tragedy).Hope this helps. 
| CaptJTK wrote: | Since there really isn't anything worth watching on TV these days, I've recently taken up my old love of reading. A good friend hooked me up with an author by the name of John LeCarre, and I've been going though his books like there's no tomorrow. I love the genre, so I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions for when I finish this series.
I've read all of the Alex Cross series, excellent stuff.
What I'm looking for:
James Bond sort of espionage, spies, intrigue.
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But I'm open to new things too.
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 10:20 PM
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Jim Butcher's "The Dresden Files" are good, if you are into the fantasy/sci fi who dunnit kinda thing! Dresden is a warlock, but it's set in present day Chicago. It's got vampires, fairies, witches, and a talking skull!!! My kinda stuff!!!  |
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Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 01:54 AM
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Stephen King
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Herman Melville
Isaac Asimov
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Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 02:11 AM
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| BB wrote: | Stephen King
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Herman Melville
Isaac Asimov
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Dickens, Twain, Melville & Asimov, since I was a kid. King was a good read until Bag Of Bones and then I gave up, he went too dark for me. Over the edge.
I want a good thriller, but demonic stuff, no. |
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Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 02:28 AM
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OH WELL THEN..... HP LOVECRAFT is OUT
You said Detective /Mystery stuff?...or did I misread |
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Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 02:34 AM
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Detective, mystery, just don't do the dark side anymore.
Lovecraft, a little too much on the side I don't care to cross. |
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Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 04:48 PM
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| It's Frantz Kafka,not Dostoyevsky who wrote [u]The Metamorphosis[/u].My bad. |
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Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 05:38 PM
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Louise Brooks is a good author! There's a new book containing some of her letters. It's called, "Dear Stinkpot". Here's a link-o-rama:
http://www.examiner.com/x-7605-SF-Silen ... ise-Brooks |
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Posted: Mar 26, 2010 - 12:12 AM
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| vampyregirl wrote: | | Jim Butcher's "The Dresden Files" are good, if you are into the fantasy/sci fi who dunnit kinda thing! Dresden is a warlock, but it's set in present day Chicago. It's got vampires, fairies, witches, and a talking skull!!! My kinda stuff!!! |
I loved the TV Series but as usual anything I like gets cancelled, I did not realise they were a book series, how many are there, I would love to have a read of them if they were released in Astralia. |
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Posted: Mar 26, 2010 - 12:34 AM
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| I love Jean M. Auel's storytelling style |
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Posted: Mar 26, 2010 - 02:06 AM
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YEAH...I got hooked on DRESDEN...and then it was gone....  |
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Posted: Mar 26, 2010 - 05:39 PM
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| littlestar wrote: | | YEAH...I got hooked on DRESDEN...and then it was gone.... |
Yeah me too... what was UP with THAT? Just like they did with SERENITY. |
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