Edith Wharton, Ken Kesey, Iris Murdoch, Janet Frame (Kiwi), Frank Sargeson, Alan Duff, Bryce Courtnay, Barbara Vine, to name but a few....Doris Lessing also, The Fifth Child, loved that one!!
Your five favourite authors
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Oh, and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Her novella/short story Mr Wrong is really good. A haunted car story with a twist. Made into a film by Kiwi director, Gaylene Preston back in 1985, also titled Mr Wrong. Love the film version too. It's a haunted Jaguar in the film, an MG in the book...
Jules Verne, John Connolly, Chuck Palahniuk, Agatha Christie, Stephen King
Ray Bradbury
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Barbee Oliver Carleton*
Rosemary Sutcliff
William O. Steele
*All alive when I started reading them. Mrs. Carleton is the only one still alive...very old!
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Barbee Oliver Carleton*
Rosemary Sutcliff
William O. Steele
*All alive when I started reading them. Mrs. Carleton is the only one still alive...very old!
Truman Capote
John Irving
Ray Bradbury
Eudora Welty
Jim Harrison
John Irving
Ray Bradbury
Eudora Welty
Jim Harrison
A tough question...
1. Stephen King - Great storyteller, imagination and knows exactly what buttons to push.
2. Ursula K. Leguin. - Fantastic SF and fantasy writer. The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word For World Is Forest and many more masterworks.
3. Orhan Pamuk - Great turkish author. The Black Book, My Name Is Red, Snow and many more.
4. Rudyard Kipling - So much more than just the Jungle Books. Great horrorstories, Kim and Captain Courageous are great novels, many great novellas and short stories (The Man Who Would Be King)
5. P.G. Wodehouse - The overall funniest author over a long career. It is very difficult to be funny so many times but he does it.
1. Stephen King - Great storyteller, imagination and knows exactly what buttons to push.
2. Ursula K. Leguin. - Fantastic SF and fantasy writer. The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word For World Is Forest and many more masterworks.
3. Orhan Pamuk - Great turkish author. The Black Book, My Name Is Red, Snow and many more.
4. Rudyard Kipling - So much more than just the Jungle Books. Great horrorstories, Kim and Captain Courageous are great novels, many great novellas and short stories (The Man Who Would Be King)
5. P.G. Wodehouse - The overall funniest author over a long career. It is very difficult to be funny so many times but he does it.
Stephen King (duh)
Asimov
Dickens
Colleen McCulloch
Alastair Reynolds
Asimov
Dickens
Colleen McCulloch
Alastair Reynolds
Harlan Ellison
Jack London
Stephen King
Clark Aston Smith
William Hope Hodgson
I wish it it we're only five books.
Jack London
Stephen King
Clark Aston Smith
William Hope Hodgson
I wish it it we're only five books.
1. Anne Rice
2. H.P. Lovecraft
3. George R.R. Martin
4. Algernon Blackwood
5. Iris Johansen
Runners-up: Tom Knox and Anne McCaffrey
2. H.P. Lovecraft
3. George R.R. Martin
4. Algernon Blackwood
5. Iris Johansen
Runners-up: Tom Knox and Anne McCaffrey
Paullina Simons
Larry McMurtry
Katherine Mansfield
James K Baxter
E M Forster
Janet Patterson Frame
Stephen King (not in that order necessarily) - Bazaar of Bad Dreams - picked it up for a paltry $8.00 in a very pricey ( 70's house telephones for $70 bucks etc, give me a break!) antique shop in
Paeroa, NZ on a daytrip last Saturday, rolling green countryside and vintage King. The best King book in years!! Reminds me of the
calibre if Skeleton Crew or Different Seasons. I love short stories and its very very readable.
Larry McMurtry
Katherine Mansfield
James K Baxter
E M Forster
Janet Patterson Frame
Stephen King (not in that order necessarily) - Bazaar of Bad Dreams - picked it up for a paltry $8.00 in a very pricey ( 70's house telephones for $70 bucks etc, give me a break!) antique shop in
Paeroa, NZ on a daytrip last Saturday, rolling green countryside and vintage King. The best King book in years!! Reminds me of the
calibre if Skeleton Crew or Different Seasons. I love short stories and its very very readable.
1. Clive Barker - where SK's narrative has the blue-collar working-man's appeal, Clive's prose is elegant, atmospheric and so perfect for his dark tales of the fantastique. Even in this era of liberal cable television standards, Clive's imagination goes to places that not even the bravest of film producers dare tread.
2. Oscar Wilde - I always recommend Wilde for anyone who wants to truly appreciate the beauty of the English Language, especially for those who may be put off by the archaic diction of Shakespeare's era. Start with his short stories. Reading The Picture of Dorian Gray is a must.
3. HP Lovecraft - his imagination was boundless and frightening.
4. Edgar Allan Poe - the beauty of his prose combined with a dark, haunted imagination.
5. The Brothers Grimm - do yourselves a favour and don't go for the watered-down mess that was handed down to Western civilisation in an attempt to give it mass-market commercial appeal (thanks Disney). That version is good for your kids. These are really ancient European tales of horror and magic. My love of folklore from all over the world started with these stories.
2. Oscar Wilde - I always recommend Wilde for anyone who wants to truly appreciate the beauty of the English Language, especially for those who may be put off by the archaic diction of Shakespeare's era. Start with his short stories. Reading The Picture of Dorian Gray is a must.
3. HP Lovecraft - his imagination was boundless and frightening.
4. Edgar Allan Poe - the beauty of his prose combined with a dark, haunted imagination.
5. The Brothers Grimm - do yourselves a favour and don't go for the watered-down mess that was handed down to Western civilisation in an attempt to give it mass-market commercial appeal (thanks Disney). That version is good for your kids. These are really ancient European tales of horror and magic. My love of folklore from all over the world started with these stories.
Haruki Murakami
Hunter Thompson
George Orwell
Robert McCammon
Patrick O'Brian
Hunter Thompson
George Orwell
Robert McCammon
Patrick O'Brian