Favorite Authors

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

Stephen King. Although pretty much everything after Misery was a real disappointment.

I've read that his new one is a return to his well-crafted balancing act between the "real" world and the "horror" world. I can't wait to pick it up.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

I've read that his new one is a return to his well-crafted balancing act between the "real" world and the "horror" world. I can't wait to pick it up.

Which one is that? Hopefully not Cell. That was stupid.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by carrie721

probably dozens.

come over here and help me eat this fresh mozzarella & ricotta i just bought. and get yo' azz on MSN!

Girl, I could make a lasagna outta the mozz and ricotta. I'm gonna go downstairs and record somethin', since everyone's taking off for awhile.

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

Girl, I could make a lasagna outta the mozz and ricotta. I'm gonna go downstairs and record somethin', since everyone's taking off for awhile.

but making lasagna out of it would spoil the fun of having this round ball of mozzarella!

sweeeeeet.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

Which one is that? Hopefully not Cell. That was stupid.

"Lisey's Story"

http://www.amazon.com/Liseys-Story-S...e=UTF8&s=books

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by carrie721

but making lasagna out of it would spoil the fun of having this round ball of mozzarella!

sweeeeeet.

Who eats cheese balls, srsly?

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

"Lisey's Story"

http://www.amazon.com/Liseys-Story-S...e=UTF8&s=books

Ohh, okay. I have heard of that one. I'll look for it next time I'm at the libary!

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

Who eats cheese balls, srsly?

omg, i'm not eating cheese balls! i'm so offended. it's just a perfect mozzarella ... curd. i'm a freak.

[Aisling]

Originally Posted by carrie721

another nabokov lover! i see you've included gogol and bulgakov - are you a russian lit fan? have you read much dostoevsky? i really enjoyed notes from underground.

yes i love russian literature. i have read a lot of dostoevsky, but i am not really a fan. they have a saying that the fan of dostoevsky is never one of tolstoy and vice versa. but i never liked tolstoy either, so i guess i am abnormal! the one piece of dostoevsky's that i do enjoy though is his novella 'white nights'.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by carrie721

omg, i'm not eating cheese balls! i'm so offended. it's just a perfect mozzarella ... curd. i'm a freak.

Uh, you can have the curds... I'm not hungry.

[CreepingDeath]

J.R.R. Tolkien
JK Rowling
Anne Rice
Mary Higgins Clark
Jane Austen
Edgar Allen Poe
Dante Alighieri
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Shakespeare

[sasja]

OOOh yes yes yes russian literature..... Specially in the wintermonths!!! With snow outside and hot chocolate and a nice warm blanket...

"Oblomov" by Ivan Goncharov is a favorite of mine, and I LOVE anything Pushkin ....

I've not read much of Vladimir Nabokov but this thread is inspiring me to go back to the library tomorrow!!

So interesting to read all these... I am writing new names on my library list!

Sasja

[KarmaContestant]

Favorite authors...Clive Barker, Tom Robbins, Patrick Suskind, Gregory Maguire, Anne Rice, Mika Waltari, Joan Grant, Italo Calvino, Mary Stewart.... But mostly just Tom and Clive.

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by carrie721

another nabokov lover! i see you've included gogol and bulgakov - are you a russian lit fan? have you read much dostoevsky? i really enjoyed notes from underground.

I also really enjoyed Notes from Underground. Maybe I should check out Nabokov since you are such a big advocate!

These days it's all about Paula Vogel, Bev Marshall, and Yusef Komunyakaa for me, though I shouldn't lump all three together because one is playwright, one a novelist, and the other a poet, respectively. I'm really getting into Jose Saramago, too.

I noticed that at least one person mentioned Evelyn Waugh. Maybe he's quite good, it's just that I was forced to read Vile Bodies in one of my undergraduate classes and I thought it was just tripe. Aren't other novels of his considered to be better?

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Mary Higgins Clark

Terry Pratchett

JK Rowling

Sophie Kinsella

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

J.R.R. Tolkien
JK Rowling
Anne Rice
Mary Higgins Clark
Jane Austen
Edgar Allen Poe
Dante Alighieri
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Shakespeare

oh, i forgot to list tolkien and austen! i love them both. i've been meaning to read some anne rice for quite a while now - what would you recommend i start with?

Originally Posted by Aisling

yes i love russian literature. i have read a lot of dostoevsky, but i am not really a fan. they have a saying that the fan of dostoevsky is never one of tolstoy and vice versa. but i never liked tolstoy either, so i guess i am abnormal! the one piece of dostoevsky's that i do enjoy though is his novella 'white nights'.

i should pick up white nights - thanks for the recommendation!

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I also really enjoyed Notes from Underground. Maybe I should check out Nabokov since you are such a big advocate!

These days it's all about Paula Vogel, Bev Marshall, and Yusef Komunyakaa for me, though I shouldn't lump all three together because one is playwright, one a novelist, and the other a poet, respectively. I'm really getting into Jose Saramago, too.

I noticed that at least one person mentioned Evelyn Waugh. Maybe he's quite good, it's just that I was forced to read Vile Bodies in one of my undergraduate classes and I thought it was just tripe. Aren't other novels of his considered to be better?

definitely check out nabokov. of course everyone knows lolita, but i always recommend invitation to a beheading because a) not everyone knows it and b) it's better prose, IMO. i'll have to check out the authors you listed; you always mention authors/artists i've never heard of before, and that's cool. hey, how was ani the other night?