Authors?

[NadaRekowski]

I had a small library with roughly 1000 books. Classics and Avantgarde/ poetry mostly. Read them all and gifted them to the streets just keeping a 100 of my favourites.

 

[Tone C]

Hmm....

Slightly worried about the TS choice of books as I know there's an overlap and I think he may be stalking me ....

Right , just for reading pleasure, not going highbrow here ..

Robert E Howard - Conan books on their own are enough.

JT Edson - I was reading these before TS was born probably...I started 1983 or so...

Lee Child before it got ridiculous...

Bryce Courtney - hasn't written loads of books but The Power of One is a book I go back too.

Tolkien - just for the Hobbit. Not really a fan of the rest as yet.

Frank Herbert - Just for Dune .

Anne McCaffrey - the Dragon books of Pern

Piers Anthony - Xanth and all his other stuff

CS Forrester or Dudley Pope - Naval fiction

Stephen King


I could probably swap other authors in and out depending on mood ..

Frederick Forsyth or John Grisham as honourable mentions...

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Hmm....

Slightly worried about the TS choice of books as I know there's an overlap and I think he may be stalking me ....

Right , just for reading pleasure, not going highbrow here ..

Robert E Howard - Conan books on their own are enough.

JT Edson - I was reading these before TS was born probably...I started 1983 or so...

Lee Child before it got ridiculous...

Bryce Courtney - hasn't written loads of books but The Power of One is a book I go back too.

Tolkien - just for the Hobbit. Not really a fan of the rest as yet.

Frank Herbert - Just for Dune .

Anne McCaffrey - the Dragon books of Pern

Piers Anthony - Xanth and all his other stuff

CS Forrester or Dudley Pope - Naval fiction

Stephen King


I could probably swap other authors in and out depending on mood ..

Frederick Forsyth or John Grisham as honourable mentions...

I should have included Lee Child I have all his Reacher novels, getting Exit Stragedy about a week ago, great series of books.

Have something by all those except Courtney.

 

[Tone C]

I should have included Lee Child I have all his Reacher novels, getting Exit Stragedy about a week ago, great series of books.

Have something by all those except Courtney.

Told ya he was stalking me.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

One book that has always amazed me is Frankenstein, how did a teenage girl come up with that idea and do it like she did, totally amazing.

My last read.....House on the Borderland by Wiliam Hope Hodgson, a bonafide classic in that Cosmic Doom genre, in a word............weird. A good weird..

 

[zapataxiv]

One book that has always amazed me is Frankenstein, how did a teenage girl come up with that idea and do it like she did, totally amazing.

My last read.....House on the Borderland by Wiliam Hope Hodgson, a bonafide classic in that Cosmic Doom genre, in a word............weird. A good weird..

thats a great little read. as a kid the image of gis dog falling into dust.broke me
have you read flight to arctarus? its another wierd liminal fiction book

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

thats a great little read. as a kid the image of gis dog falling into dust.broke me
have you read flight to arctarus? its another wierd liminal fiction book

I have been watching these youtube videos from guys into reading, after the fifth one mentioned Home on the Borderlad, I had to have it.

I confess got a little lip quiver about Pepper also.

Funny you'd mention Flight of Arctarus, once again been hearing a lot about it, so......just a matter of time, gotta have it.

Have most of Poe and Lovecraft do need to branch out.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Some make a distinction between 'authors' and 'writers'. I, however, do not.

Dean Koontz
Stephen King
James Lee Burke
Pat Conroy
Cormac McCarthy
John D. MacDonald
James Clavell
Haruki Murakami
Ian Fleming
Clive Barker

 

[Satur9]

Stephen King
Lovecraft
Bernard Cornwell
Dostoyevsky
Robert Heinlein
Ramsey Campbell
Ursula K Le Guin
China Mieville
Dan Simmons
Ernest Hemingway

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Stephen King
Lovecraft
Bernard Cornwell
Dostoyevsky
Robert Heinlein
Ramsey Campbell
Ursula K Le Guin
China Mieville
Dan Simmons
Ernest Hemingway

What is your take on Ramsey Campbell?

 

[toasty]

Herman Melville
Hunter S Thompson
Ed Abbey
Stephen Crane
Jack Handey
Joe Abercrombie
Mark Bowden
Jon Krakauer
Sebastien Junger
Ted Connover




honorable mention to Jim Butcher @Harry Dresden we will meet and drink one of these one day

I used to read to learn about life now I read to relax....life sucks why read more about its' suckage?

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Some make a distinction between 'authors' and 'writers'. I, however, do not.

Dean Koontz
Stephen King
James Lee Burke
Pat Conroy
Cormac McCarthy
John D. MacDonald
James Clavell
Haruki Murakami
Ian Fleming
Clive Barker

Got most of Burkes Dave Robicheaux novels, love his style.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Herman Melville
Hunter S Thompson
Ed Abbey
Stephen Crane
Jack Handey
Joe Abercrombie
Mark Bowden
Jon Krakauer
Sebastien Junger
Ted Connover




honorable mention to Jim Butcher @Harry Dresden we will meet and drink one of these one day View attachment 1130584

I used to read to learn about life now I read to relax....life sucks why read more about its' suckage?

I can;t believe I have nothing by Joe Abercrombie, sheesh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Anyone here ever read The Monk by Matthew Lewis?

 

[Satur9]

What is your take on Ramsey Campbell?

I like him a lot. He is slow and deliberate. More psychological than just some monster lurking about, though he does that too. Top-notch atmosphere and a lot of his works just make me feel extremely uneasy. Can't really explain it very well. You really have to pay attention to small things that might not be obvious to many.
He is like the anti-Koontz. Not much action compared to many horror writers, but more of a literary style with things being more ambiguous.

Most I know do not really like him, but I absolutely do. He is like crab legs for horror fans. You got to really work for it, but it is extremely worth it. He kind of reminds me of Thomas Ligotti in a way, if you know him. Except Ligotti has a more cosmic flair to a lot of his stuff, but the ambiguous and dreadful atmosphere is similar.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

I like him a lot. He is slow and deliberate. More psychological than just some monster lurking about, though he does that too. Top-notch atmosphere and a lot of his works just make me feel extremely uneasy. Can't really explain it very well. You really have to pay attention to small things that might not be obvious to many.
He is like the anti-Koontz. Not much action compared to many horror writers, but more of a literary style with things being more ambiguous.

Most I know do not really like him, but I absolutely do. He is like crab legs for horror fans. You got to really work for it, but it is extremely worth it. He kind of reminds me of Thomas Ligotti in a way, if you know him. Except Ligotti has a more cosmic flair to a lot of his stuff, but the ambiguous and dreadful atmosphere is similar.

Great read and pushed me into finding somehing other than the few stories I have from some anthology.

What novel would you recommend?

 

[Satur9]

Great read and pushed me into finding somehing other than the few stories I have from some anthology.

What novel would you recommend?

Ummm, depends on what you really enjoy. I would say start with his short story collections, either "Dark Companions" or "Cold Print" to see if you like his style, which you will notice very quickly if you like his style or not. As for a first novel, I would probably say "The Searching Dead" is a great first novel by him. Though if you are cool, just jump in and read "The Hungry Moon". Both are excellent to me, but of course, your results may vary lol

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Ummm, depends on what you really enjoy. I would say start with his short story collections, either "Dark Companions" or "Cold Print" to see if you like his style, which you will notice very quickly if you like his style or not. As for a first novel, I would probably say "The Searching Dead" is a great first novel by him. Though if you are cool, just jump in and read "The Hungry Moon". Both are excellent to me, but of course, your results may vary lol

Thank you so much, I will be looking into getting that "The Searching Dead".

I have read enought of his short reads ot know I like his stuff, i need more of it.

What in the hell is a ot.....ha~~

 

[Satur9]

Thank you so much, I will be looking into getting that "The Searching Dead".

I have read enought of his short reads ot know I like his stuff, i need more of it.

What in the hell is a ot.....ha~~

Awesome! Let me know what you thought of it if you remember. It is really good imho

I try to steer people towards short story collections for first-time readers of more difficult authors. Especially those with strong styles. If you liked them, you will probably like more of their works, and the "cost" is minimal doing it that way. No need to waste 15-20+ hours on a novel if you don't enjoy the overall style.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

I feel like 90% of authors mentioned here are modern murrkan authors that wrote stuff that was adapted to movies.