lukastrika
Joined: Jan 28, 2005
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Dec 21, 2005 - 01:42 |
 
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saying joyce is dull is.... well... rather nonsensillable......
especially when you compare him to i write-45-same-books-with-a-few-new-characters-in-each-writers.....
but, to each there own... |
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ozjesting
Joined: Jan 27, 2004
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Dec 21, 2005 - 01:44 |
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Like the race list at new team selection...so many good choices.
Tom Robbins is amazing on a variety of levels...I like all his books but reserve a special place for Jitterbug Perfume.
I too like Mr. Feist but also understand the arguments leveled against him.
Assasin series by Robin Hobb was a delight. Also quite dig the Battle Axe trilogy by Sara Dougless.
Bill Bryson is a great read as well. While I like all his stuff his latest A Short Histoy of Nearly Everything is AWESOME.
Orson Scott Card! Phillp Pullman. John Irving. and so many others really. |
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BiggieB
Joined: Feb 19, 2005
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Dec 21, 2005 - 01:52 |
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I for instance like Madách Imre aswell as some mentioned above
The Tragedy of Man one of his best plays can be found here, alltough some of the original brilliance is lost on the translation its imo a very good read for all |
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Nighteye
Joined: Apr 19, 2004
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Dec 21, 2005 - 02:06 |
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I'm in a mood for scifi at the moment, and have been for a few years now, its not much fantasy i read nowadays.
My favourite authors right now are: Dan Simmons (the Hyperion saga is still some of the best and most beautiful litterature i have ever read), Peter F. Hamilton (no one writes space opera as him) and not to forget William Gibson (who invented the word cyberspace btw)
Other authors i really enjoy reading are: Tad Williams, JRR Tolkien & Frank Herbert (man does the Dune saga ever rock)
I cant forget good old Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman whose Dragonlance books more or less got me interested in the whole fantasy aspect to begin with. |
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ChangoLoco
Joined: Sep 12, 2003
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Dec 21, 2005 - 02:13 |
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I must admit that I am suprised not to find any from my short list:
Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams
Christopher Moore
There are plenty of other authors I like, but I don't know of anything by any of these authors I didn't like. |
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MrMojo
Joined: Apr 17, 2004
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Dec 21, 2005 - 07:07 |
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Harold Pinter is great. |
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veron
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Dec 21, 2005 - 08:10 |
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Few that comes to mind this early in the morning, in no particular order;
H.P. Lovecraft
Stephen King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jouko Turkka |
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DaemonicLazoth
Joined: Jul 18, 2004
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Dec 21, 2005 - 08:30 |
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for me in no perticualar order
R. Jorden, Ian Irvine, Tolkien, Fiest, Eirc Von Lusterbad, Prachett, Lian Hearn, Adams, Zahn, Stackenpole, Eddings
Thats all I can think of for the moment
(Currently reading Knife of Dreams) |
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Aconite
Joined: Jun 03, 2004
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Dec 21, 2005 - 08:49 |
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For me (in no particular order, and as probably already said in one of the other forums somewhere...):
Roger Zelazny
Harry Harrison
Robert Rankin (possibly the funniest stuff ever - only person that regularly makes me chuckle and get strange looks from other people commuting to work at the same time...)
Shaun Hutson
Simon Clark
James Patterson
(Loads more, but those are the first that come to mind) |
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asperon
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Dec 21, 2005 - 09:13 |
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William Gibson and George R.R. Martin,
even if i mostly read history books these days. |
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Tinkywinky
Joined: Aug 25, 2003
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Dec 21, 2005 - 09:34 |
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Douglas Adams is only mentioned once? And in the third page? I'm astonished. The hitchhikers guide is the best book ever written, bar none!
I just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman and it was quite good. I think I've been way to focused on fantasy in my reading. So my favourite authors would be Terry Goodkind, Terry Pratchett and maybe Elizabeth Moon. Finally I must say that Robert Jordan is a remarkably good writer. When I think about Wheel of time I usually come to the conclusion that it has turned into some kind of soup opera and that the female characters are absurd but whenever I read a new book/reread I get sucked in immedietly; I guess he must have a very good style of writing. |
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DaemonicLazoth
Joined: Jul 18, 2004
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Dec 21, 2005 - 09:46 |
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Twice, his in mine and Changoloco oh forgot to add Frank and Brian Herbert, Kevin J Andersan to the list |
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Qaz
Joined: Apr 28, 2004
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Dec 22, 2005 - 03:02 |
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| lukastrika wrote: | saying joyce is dull is.... well... rather nonsensillable......
especially when you compare him to i write-45-same-books-with-a-few-new-characters-in-each-writers.....
but, to each there own... |
Well I missed the part where I compared Joyce to any other writer. Maybe you can point out to me where in any of my posts I did that.
Second. If I recalled right I only said that Ulysses was dull and not Joyce as a writer. Ulysses is all that’s I ever tried to read of him. So Ulysses is the only book of Joyce I can really talk about.
Let’s not jump to conclusions and stick to facts.
I can only guess that the authors that you think I compared Joyce to is the 3 authors I mentioned in a different post as my favourite authors. So you call these anthers the ones that write 45 books about the “same”. When did Umberto Eco write the 45 books about the "same" with different characters in?.. Especially when quite a few of his books are about Semiotics and does not even have characters in them.
Come back when you got a sensible point |
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lukastrika
Joined: Jan 28, 2005
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Dec 22, 2005 - 03:28 |
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dear qaz, i was actually refering to the state of this thread as it was at the time i read it (looking better now  it stuck my eyes to read joyce being called dull compared to fantasy factory writers, which the thread almost exclusively consisted of (not that i often don't enjoy them as well)... so it was not your attitude or choice (i regard eco highly), it was the general contents of the thread, that was so inviting for some critique, and joyce was a trigger - as a shot in the wrong direction in my view.. on a side note - give the chap some more chance, do read it in english of course, hardly makes sense, imho, if digested differentlanguagely...
on a more constructive note
of the mentioned, i enjoy joyce, duh... gaiman
sometimes pratchett, adams of course (douglas, but i also liked watership down by his surname-sharer, richard), used to love tolkien, who didn't
vonnegut is also a briliant guy, bukowski can be amusing
jules vernes, shell silverstein,
jorge luis borges, cortasar
thomas bernhard - a brilliant guy, made me really read again after a year or three,
italo calvino
beckett
never ment to hurt your feelings, hope you'll find this point a bit more sensillable |
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gken1
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Dec 22, 2005 - 03:33 |
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