Note: Badtz here is writing about Harlan Ellison:
Anyone else want to help me explain why this applies to almost every bleeping author that’s ever lived?
Someone who I love that hasn’t been mentioned… Ann Patchett
I highly recommend all of her books.
Oohhh, Eve was TOO nice to me!
I HAVE to say that the Grande Dame herself, Eve Golden, is my all time favorite biographer (or else). I’ve only read “Anna Held” so far, but it is good.
My other favorites?
Frederick Forsythe (especially Day of the Jackal)
Robert Heinlein
David McCulloch
Colleen McCulloch
Stephen Jay Gould
Willy Ley
L. Sprague deCamp
Martin Gardner
T.H. White
Fredric Brown
Mark Twain
Lucian
Martial
Hans van Gulik
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur C. Clarke
Isaac Asimov
Cecil Scott Forester
Can one have a favorite author?I have many!Books are like potatoe chips,you can’t have just one.
Tom Clancey(Without Remorse)
J.R.R.Tolkien(Lord of the Rings)
Frank Herbert(Dune)
Fletcher Knebel(Night of CampDavid)
Alan Dean Foster(Day of Dissonance)
Terry Brooks(Vale of the Vole)
THIS IS JUST A BEGINING!!!My head swims!
READ!READ!READ!READ!READ!READ!READ!READ!READ!READ!READ!
How about favorite politicians, Claudia?
I’m guessing, Dan Quayle?
Depends on what I feel like reading. For humorous essays, nobody beats S. J. Perelman in my book. I’m very fond of Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle for mysteries. And for sports biographies and sports nonfiction, Robert Creamer is tops. In the children’s book category, while J. K. Rowling is wildly popular and I do like her style in the Harry Potter series, I think it’s a little premature to make her my favorite. Gloria Skurzynski and her daughter, Alane Ferguson, are both excellent writers of children’s fiction and nonfiction. I also like Stephen King. I think he’s been given a bad rap because he brought a resurgence to the horror genre. But I find his narrative gripping, his pacing superb, and his grasp and deployment of what makes people want to keep reading is excellent. You can’t ask for more than that.
Non-fiction: Howard Zinn.
Fiction: George Orwell, Joseph Heller (although I hate everything he did that wasn’t Catch-22…Catch-22 is my favorite book, and keeps him near the top), Douglas Adams, Stephen King.
Nick Hornby
Harper Lee
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Alison Weir (she writes history)
(Its a shame Harper Lee hasn’t really written anything besides To Kill A Mockingbird)
Dangerosa - Alison Weir. The Children of Henry VIII is in my TBR pile. (Not Liz and the others, the book.)
Think I’ll grab it and head for the recliner, turn on the heat and the massage, and wait for spring.