Favorite Authors...

[Call me Gytha]

Ian Rankin - Rebus
Reginald Hill - Dalzeil & Pascoe
R D Wingfield - Jack Frost
Ruth Rendell

Can you guess what my favourite genre was before I started reading fantasy fiction

 

[Connavar]

Ian Rankin - Rebus
Reginald Hill - Dalzeil & Pascoe
R D Wingfield - Jack Frost
Ruth Rendell

Can you guess what my favourite genre was before I started reading fantasy fiction

Im the big crime lover regular here and i warmly welcome a fellow fan


I have recently started reading Rebus and enjoyed the first book immensly.

You like only brit crime ? Have you read american harboiled ?

 

[Urien]

Shakespeare
Cormac McCarthy
Iain Banks
Stephen King

On the bench... Dostoyevsky, Peake, Matheson, Gemmell, Erikson, Hamilton, Lovecraft, Tolkien and no doubt many I'll think of later.

 

[Connavar]

Shakespeare
Cormac McCarthy
Iain Banks
Stephen King

On the bench... Dostoyevsky, Peake, Matheson, Gemmell, Erikson, Hamilton, Lovecraft, Tolkien and no doubt many I'll think of later.

You didnt check first page right ?

No SFF in this list.

You think i would rate S.King before Gemmell otherwise

 

[Call me Gytha]

Im the big crime lover regular here and i warmly welcome a fellow fan


I have recently started reading Rebus and enjoyed the first book immensly.

You like only brit crime ? Have you read american harboiled ?

I have also read American authors, Patricia Cornwell pretty much started me off on the genre but I've lost my taste for her novels. A load more years back than I care to remember I lived in Germany and was stuck for books. I discovered a little general store which sold second hand English print books and they had a hoarde of Ed McBain which I really enjoyed and I rank P Highsmiths Ripley series as one of my all time favourites. Of course I've also read Grisham and Harris but I find with a lot of US authors what I expect to be crime is often thriller and I would appreciate any recommendations you might have

 

[Clansman]

I am a big fan of those TV series, and have meant to pick up those books at some point. I have always preferred British crime drama to American. Hollywood just tends to mess it up too much with happy endings and gooey romances added in.

 

[Connavar]

I have also read American authors, Patricia Cornwell pretty much started me off on the genre but I've lost my taste for her novels. A load more years back than I care to remember I lived in Germany and was stuck for books. I discovered a little general store which sold second hand English print books and they had a hoarde of Ed McBain which I really enjoyed and I rank P Highsmiths Ripley series as one of my all time favourites. Of course I've also read Grisham and Harris but I find with a lot of US authors what I expect to be crime is often thriller and I would appreciate any recommendations you might have

There is a thread big name thrillers writers. Go there and post and i will give different kind US crime than Grisham and co. I dont read Grisham and co i read more high quality crime. I dont read crap just cause its a bestseller.

I like classic PI, hardboiled crime alot and US crime fiction is full of those. There are good modern police,PI stories that are very good i can recommend too.

 

[Spade]

Ben Bova
Stephen Baxter
Stephen King
Robert Heinlein

 

[Clansman]

BZZZZZZZZZZT!

non-SF&F authors.

 

[mirinda]

Lois Duncan
Joan Lowry Nixon
James Patterson
Scott Westerfeld

 

[Rothgar]

Umberto Eco
Eiji Yoshikawa
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alexandre Dumas

 

[zabylin]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mikhail Bulgakov
Ayn Rand

can't think of a fourth one right at this moment that is not SFF

 

[Hari Seldon]

Herman Hesse
Charles Bukowski
Hunter S. Thompson
James Clavell

 

[kcs_hiker]

Herman Wouk
Michael Connelly
Patrick O'Brian
Ernest Hemingway

 

[Joel007]

I'm just re-reading Mark Robson's books again
I always forget how good they are when I haven't read them for a while.

 

[DeepThought]

Don't read much outside SF&F excepting non-fiction, of course. But from the little bits I read:

Herman Melville
Lord Byron
Edgar Allan Poe
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Cheers, DeepThought

 

[The Procrastinator]

I read mostly SFF too, but I do have some "normal" authors I am very fond of. Some faves:

Jane Austen
Patrick O'Brian
Gerald Durrell
A. A. Milne

(Am I allowed to pick A.A. Milne?)

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Tim Winton
John Marsden
Elizabeth Honey
Roald Dahl

Yes, three of them are Australians. But but but they're brilliant!

 

[Paul Alabaster]

Tess Gerrestein is a new fav of mine

 

[Ragnar]

Hunter S Thompson
Chuck Palahnuik
Thomas Hardy
Tom Wolfe
Iain Banks
Bernard Cornwell