Who are your favorite writers of fiction?

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Pam Houston

[Fandango 1,439]

Has anyone here read or tried to read, Joyce's Ulysses?

#### no.

lol...you don't like Joyce?

I only really do conventional narratives and conventional modes of storytelling. Stuff that messes with form and structure doesn't really appeal me all that much.

I couldn't get on with Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting as I found it near impossible to figure out who was speaking. Also didn't much care for Virginia Woolf, although I understand the general idea behind her approach to narrative structures.

Begbie was almost impossible to read in the beginning

Porno was an ok sequel.....

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Has anyone here read or tried to read, Joyce's Ulysses?

#### no.

lol...you don't like Joyce?

I only really do conventional narratives and conventional modes of storytelling. Stuff that messes with form and structure doesn't really appeal me all that much.

I couldn't get on with Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting as I found it near impossible to figure out who was speaking. Also didn't much care for Virginia Woolf, although I understand the general idea behind her approach to narrative structures.

Begbie was almost impossible to read in the beginning

Porno was an ok sequel.....

Begbie was the only character I could reliably identify - mainly because of his excessive swearing.

"I knew that c*nt was gonnae #### some c*nt"

[Fandango 1,439]

Begbie was the only character I could reliably identify - mainly because of his excessive swearing.

"I knew that c*nt was gonnae #### some c*nt"

Oh they were all easily identifiable after the first few chapters, because they were such identifiable characters...but I mucked thru Begbie at first cos I had no clue what he was sayin, lol.

Actually, scratch that. Begbie and Spud were pretty equally ridiculous at times.

Ah wanted the rage tae jist fook off ootay ma viage, tae go oan his ain n jist leav us wi Jean-claude.

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That meant ah'd git hit fir fookin back charges fi the shoap oan a video ah hudane eve goat a deek at.

Thank you, Amazon for the exerpt, lol.

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[MissStacey 1]

Anne Rice (Even better now that I live in New Orleans and am familiar with the places and streets she writes about. Her house on First street that she often writes about is up for sale)

Stephen King- his old stuff only.

Stephanie Meyer- I recently got hooked on her Eclipse series and blew through the first 3 books in 4 days.

Belle de Jour- Secret life of a London call girl. I think she may have more than one book out- I need to check. I have been watching the show and love it. Not fiction, but a great read.

Elizabeth Berg

Anthony Burgess

Wally Lamb

Edited July 23, 2008 by MissStacey

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Michael Ondaatje

Kurt Vonnegut

John Irving

Anne Tyler

Margaret Atwood

Old Stephen King

Jane Austin

too many to mention.......I'm a voracious reader.......

[jundp 191]

Authors I love and will read/re-read anytime. In no particular order and narrowed down to fiction only:

Jane Austen

Oscar Wilde

Seamus Heaney

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Isabel Allende

Laura Esquivel

Shakespeare (yes, I really do love his plays)

Eugene Ionesco

William Goldman

Sara Dessen

Terry Pratchett

Jude Deveraux

EmilyGiffin

Sophie Kinsella

Stephenie Meyer

Frank McCourt

Tom Clancy

Margaret Atwood

CS Lewis

ugh. Probably a lot more. It's a varied group of authors too.

Currently reading (oh yes, I read ALL the time)

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One

Art Spiegelman Maus I and II

Sebastian Junger A Perfect Storm

Richard Adams Watership Down

the above 4 I am re-reading for work, and technically they aren't all being read at this moment, I am reading the first one and alternately reading:

Gerda Weissman Klein All But My Life

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Currently reading (oh yes, I read ALL the time)

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One

Art Spiegelman Maus I and II

Sebastian Junger A Perfect Storm

Richard Adams Watership Down

the above 4 I am re-reading for work, and technically they aren't all being read at this moment, I am reading the first one and alternately reading:

Gerda Weissman Klein All But My Life

Two of my favorite books of all time.

Have to say, as a canuk, I love Timothy Findley. Not Wanted on the Voyage is my favorite book of all time.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

John Steinbeck

Octavio Paz

Milan Kundera

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Paul Gallico, although his books are so difficult to find as only one is left in print. He can write about pretty much anything and make it interesting. Sports stories, love stories, stories about talking animals, etc. He writes stories that are also sweet without being too saccharine.

Connie Willis I was recently introduced to; hurrah for science fiction I am actually able to stomach!

Mikhail Bulgakov

Edward Rutherfurd writes entertaining historical fiction.

Then there are many, many authors who have either only written one book, or of whose works I have only read one book, but which I would still count among my favourites.

And then my secret shame:

Agatha Christie

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Bulgakov's "Master & Margarita" is my old-time favourite. I have to confess, I do read too much . Currently am finishing up Akunin's full collection of works (Russian suspense). My fiance will have to bring me new Sophia Kinsella novel. I also read a lot of Ted Dekker (Christian fiction). Next on my list is the famous Secret. Anybody read that one?

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King, Koontz, and Rice

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I used to love Koontz and read a ton of his work, but if I read the phrase 'sodium vapor streetlight' one more time, I was going to scream....