Who is your favorite author of recent popular fiction? (58)
Clive Cussler - Dirk Pitt adventures my favourite being Dragon
Tom Clancy - Jack Ryan, but not read one in a while now though I really liked his early one, Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy - Jack Ryan, but not read one in a while now though I really liked his early one, Red Storm Rising
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The guy who wrote..."Horton Finds a Who"
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Jim Butcher and Dean Koontz, hence, other.
I also like Simon R. Green and Terry Pratchett.
I also like Simon R. Green and Terry Pratchett.
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RillyNiceGuy: ..... ....... The guy who wrote..."Horton Finds a Who"
Opps! Now a pretty girl will think I'm a ditz! I should have looked first!
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Cormac McCarthy
J.M.Coetzee
William Gay
John Baird
Sharon McCrumb
Some unknown Frenchman won the last Nobel Prize for Literature.
His work was not available in Knoxville book stores and I have forgotten his name.
Yeah.
J.M.Coetzee
William Gay
John Baird
Sharon McCrumb
Some unknown Frenchman won the last Nobel Prize for Literature.
His work was not available in Knoxville book stores and I have forgotten his name.
Yeah.
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wonderworker: Cormac McCarthy
J.M.Coetzee
William Gay
John Baird
Sharon McCrumb
Some unknown Frenchman won the last Nobel Prize for Literature.
His work was not available in Knoxville book stores and I have forgotten his name.
Yeah.
J.M.Coetzee
William Gay
John Baird
Sharon McCrumb
Some unknown Frenchman won the last Nobel Prize for Literature.
His work was not available in Knoxville book stores and I have forgotten his name.
Yeah.
lol... forgive me! Poll options are limited, and I couldn't very well put all Americans on there:/
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wonderworker: Cormac McCarthy
J.M.Coetzee
William Gay
John Baird
Sharon McCrumb
Some unknown Frenchman won the last Nobel Prize for Literature.
His work was not available in Knoxville book stores and I have forgotten his name.
Yeah.
J.M.Coetzee
William Gay
John Baird
Sharon McCrumb
Some unknown Frenchman won the last Nobel Prize for Literature.
His work was not available in Knoxville book stores and I have forgotten his name.
Yeah.
And I'm sure that I SHOULD know the Frenchman... again, forgive me. I don't. Pray tell...
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I have thousands of books....but I don't read fiction......mostly self improvement, business, how to, reference, legal, Bible..........etc....not into story books!
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RillyNiceGuy: Opps! Now a pretty girl will think I'm a ditz! I should have looked first!
Don't sweat it. I love that story.
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opentuit: Don't sweat it. I love that story.
I was playin!
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opentuit: lol... forgive me! Poll options are limited, and I couldn't very well put all Americans on there:/
Coetzee is a Dutch--South African,former Nobel winner.
The others have a southern U.S. connection.Everyone knows the South produces the best of American writers.
I honestly dont remember the Frenchman's name...LeCroix...or something like that.
A few years back the Nobel went to an Egyptian Poet....dont remember his name either...
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wonderworker: Coetzee is a Dutch--South African,former Nobel winner.
The others have a southern U.S. connection.Everyone knows the South produces the best of American writers.
I honestly dont remember the Frenchman's name...LeCroix...or something like that.
A few years back the Nobel went to an Egyptian Poet....dont remember his name either...
The others have a southern U.S. connection.Everyone knows the South produces the best of American writers.
I honestly dont remember the Frenchman's name...LeCroix...or something like that.
A few years back the Nobel went to an Egyptian Poet....dont remember his name either...
I'm not nearly as well-read as you are, clearly. Anyway, I wasn't aiming at who is the world's BEST author by any means. I mostly wanted to post authors who had sold a lot of books to provide familiar options to those who wanted to vote... and open discussion about other authors.
With that in mind-- I thank you for providing information about these award-winning authors!
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opentuit: I love John Grisham's and Michael Crichton's books!
Stephen King is awesome too.
I left Dean Koontz off the list, but I did really enjoy his Frankenstein trilogy.
Dr. Suess is a long-time favorite.
Stephen King is awesome too.
I left Dean Koontz off the list, but I did really enjoy his Frankenstein trilogy.
Dr. Suess is a long-time favorite.
I voted for John Grisham but I also really like David Baldacci's books. I just finished "The first family" and i couldn't put it down.
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Jean Webster.
Oscar Wilde,
Louisa May Alcott,
Bronte sisters,
David Eddings,
John Baird,
Terry Pratchett,
Brendan Behan,
Bram Stoker,
Roddy Doyle.
Oscar Wilde,
Louisa May Alcott,
Bronte sisters,
David Eddings,
John Baird,
Terry Pratchett,
Brendan Behan,
Bram Stoker,
Roddy Doyle.
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DUBLINGUY1973: I voted for John Grisham but I also really like David Baldacci's books. I just finished "The first family" and i couldn't put it down.
Are you the type who can read a chapter day?
...or the compulsive sort like me, hungering to get to all of it one sitting!
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GingerBe: Jean Webster.
Oscar Wilde,
Louisa May Alcott,
Bronte sisters,
David Eddings,
John Baird,
Terry Pratchett,
Brendan Behan,
Bram Stoker,
Roddy Doyle.
Oscar Wilde,
Louisa May Alcott,
Bronte sisters,
David Eddings,
John Baird,
Terry Pratchett,
Brendan Behan,
Bram Stoker,
Roddy Doyle.
I would go along with some of those names, but I wouldn´t classify them as recent popular fiction.
Hi ginger.
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Last 10 nobel prize winners for literature up to last year........
2009
HERTA MÜLLER who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.
2008
JEAN-MARIE GUSTAVE LE CLÉZIO author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.
2007
DORIS LESSING that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.
2006
ORHAN PAMUK who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.
2005
HAROLD PINTER who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms.
2004
ELFRIEDE JELINEK for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clich s and their subjugating power
2003
JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider
2002
IMRE KERTÉSZ for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history
2001
V. S. NAIPAUL for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.
2000
GAO XINGJIAN for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama.
2009
HERTA MÜLLER who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.
2008
JEAN-MARIE GUSTAVE LE CLÉZIO author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.
2007
DORIS LESSING that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.
2006
ORHAN PAMUK who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.
2005
HAROLD PINTER who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms.
2004
ELFRIEDE JELINEK for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clich s and their subjugating power
2003
JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider
2002
IMRE KERTÉSZ for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history
2001
V. S. NAIPAUL for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.
2000
GAO XINGJIAN for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama.
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JAN_is: I would go along with some of those names, but I wouldn´t classify them as recent popular fiction.
Hi ginger.
Hi ginger.
Hi Jan. Anything that get reprinted over and over gets classified as popular, and recent, in my weird thinking.......
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GingerBe: Hi Jan. Anything that get reprinted over and over gets classified as popular, and recent, in my weird thinking.......
Ok, I kind of agree with you, and think the same, but I doubt many others will.
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GingerBe: Last 10 nobel prize winners for literature up to last year.........
Oh my!!
How do you even have time to make tea???
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GingerBe: Last 10 nobel prize winners for literature up to last year.........
Oh my!!
How do you even have time to make tea???
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opentuit: Oh my!! How do you even have time to make tea???
I like to read, and I speed read quite often.
At one stage a few years back, I used to read 9 books a day.
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JAN_is: Ok, I kind of agree with you, and think the same, but I doubt many others will.
When did I ever care about what "others" thought?
Love your streak of independance and individuality too.
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GingerBe: Hi Jan. Anything that get reprinted over and over gets classified as popular, and recent, in my weird thinking.......
I think those are called "classics," which is an infinitely higher designation than "popular."
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I love to read John Grisham. He is from my neck of the woods and writes about places I have been. I can travel in my mind to those places in his books. Plus I love good lawyer and courtroom fiction.
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opentuit: I think those are called "classics," which is an infinitely higher designation than "popular."
Strangely enough I knew that!
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GingerBe: Strangely enough I knew that!
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Big_John: I love to read John Grisham. He is from my neck of the woods and writes about places I have been. I can travel in my mind to those places in his books. Plus I love good lawyer and courtroom fiction.
I've never been to Mississippi, but his books grab me too. Nice combination of gripping story and easy reading; so I can move smoothly through it like a movie-in-my-mind, so much more real and gripping without someone else's visual interpretation clogging up my own associations.
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They aren't exactly recent popular fiction authors but more sci-fi fantasy: Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov. Regular fiction: Lawrence Sanders
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opentuit: I've never been to Mississippi, but his books grab me too. Nice combination of gripping story and easy reading; so I can move smoothly through it like a movie-in-my-mind, so much more real and gripping without someone else's visual interpretation clogging up my own associations.
Usually I don't like his endings, but that doesn't turn me off.
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Who is your favorite author of recent popular fiction?(Vote Below)
Stephen King is awesome too.
I left Dean Koontz off the list, but I did really enjoy his Frankenstein trilogy.
Dr. Suess is a long-time favorite.