Favourite Writers

[Reg Smeeton]

 I don't really have favourites, read shed loads of books down the years, they tend to go in one ear and out the other...especially the further back they go. Very occasionally I'll re-read something....the most recent newest read was Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan....apart from Fforde.

[iffy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse

I read recently that PG was nearly arrested for treason..certainly was a complex man....incidently i only recently realised it was wode...and not wood!

Pretty much died in disgrace and lived in America.

[thepeoplesgame]

Wanted to put shouts in for Jeffrey Eugenides and Michael Cunningham. Cunningham writes the kind of prose that renders poetry redundant, while Eugenides' Middlesex is a novel of astounding brilliance.

Oh, and I'm reading an Agatha Christie at the moment. It's a yarn, and it rips

[Doore]

Nice to see a variety of opinion.  I'll chuck in at this point some of the heavier stuff - Karl Popper (interesting, often wrong) and Thomas Malthus (ditto) as social commentators.

Henry Winter as simply the best sportswriter there is. 

Homer - the Iliad is, simply, the best story ever told.

[spacey]

I've just read a work which is a collaboration of gifted young writers called Friday Lunches. It's an exhilarating tale full of twists and turns that is unfortunately let down by a shit ending.

[china red]

Neal Stephenson
Allan Massie
John Conolly
C J Sansom
Louis de Bernieres
Gore Vidal

Liked the four Shardlake novels but though Winter in Mardrid was not really up to his usual standards.  Recently I have also enjoyed the first two Robyn Young books.

[Crozzer]

Phyllis Stein and Hewlet Thevegburn are worth a read.

[BANGKOK RED]

Irvine Welsh is a great writer. The book, Porno,his follow up to trainspotting is amazing all the way thru and the ending is fantastic.

I do like welsh but I gave up on Porno as I found the scots language hard going.

I read the acid house recently, which I enjoyed thoroughly.

[pauld]

Liked the four Shardlake novels but though Winter in Mardrid was not really up to his usual standards. 

Oh, bollocks, I've just ordered that for the missus for Xmas. Ah well, it's something else to wrap at least