Favorite Authors

midwesterngirl · #1 01-04-2003, 05:20 PM

Are any of you ladies fans of author James Patterson?For those that don't know who he is,he writes the Alex Cross novels.He is one of the few authors who's books I will buy in hardback.I bought his newest last night but haven't had a chance to start reading yet.
Who do you read?

Sistermadly · #2 01-04-2003, 06:26 PM

I just finished the first of the Lemony Snicket books. I also read The Wind Done Gone, a parody of Gone With the Wind by Alice Randall, Loose Lips by Rita Mae Brown, Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons, and The Way Forward is Through a Broken Heart by Alice Walker over Christmas break. I just started Trans-Sister Radio by Chris A. Bohjalian today.

As far as favorite authors, I always return to Tom Robbins, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morisson, Eudora Welty and Margaret Atwood again and again.

#3 01-04-2003, 07:14 PM

ok these are my less then educational type authors but still a good read:

Danielle Steel.... because i need to live vicariously thru someones else love life right now

John Gresham....because he is from the south and i love the south and plus he writes legal thrillers and i am heading into the field of law.

Laura

APhiAngel · #4 01-05-2003, 12:24 AM

I believe her name is Jane Green, she wrote Mr. Maybe and Jemima J. I have yet to read Mr. Maybe, but Jemima J. is so good! I gave it to one of my sisters and she finished it up in a day.

TechAPhi · #5 01-05-2003, 04:00 AM

Jane Austen and Ivan Turgenev = geniuses!

bruinaphi · #6 01-06-2003, 02:32 AM

Some fun young authors: Elizabeth Young ("A Promising Man" & "Asking for Trouble") and Jennifer Weiner ("Good in Bed" and "In her shoes"); Jane Green ("Mr. Maybe" and "Bookends").

Pop authors I love: Tom Clancy (just read Red Rabbit); Nora Roberts (like the non-scary books); Mauve Binchey (sp?) (just read "Quentins"); Pat Conroy

Other books on my shelf waiting to be read: Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dolloway" (read it in HS, but saw THe Hours and now want to read it again); The Hours (see id.); Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (I LOVED "War and Peace").

My mom jokes that I'll read Comet bottles if I don't keep a good supply of books but I just love reading. I read a lot of really great books that were recommended on another thread in chit chat a few months ago including Rob Kean's "The Pledge."

valkyrie · #7 01-06-2003, 11:54 AM

Dave Eggers!!! His book "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is AWESOME, as is his new one "You Shall Know Our Velocity." He is an amazing writer and I want to be just like him when I grow up -- hee hee.

I also like J.D. Salinger. He is probably the most brilliant writer of our time.