Your favourite books/author

[Ranjr]

Sincere plug for a friend and mentor who has passed:

Wolf Whistle, Lightening Song, and The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan.

[downbeatplumb]

Tell me your favourite books and/or authors.

Mine has to be Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series.

Great characters, great humour, and a lot of social commentary.





Also, War and Peace (the first half).

I agree about Pratchett, war and peace though I couldn't finish.
The war bits were ok but I got lost with the peace bits and all the different royals at the various tedious parties

[purplepurpose]

Ben Shapiro. Facts don't care about your feelings.

[The Valkyrie]

Sincere plug for a friend and mentor who has passed:

Wolf Whistle, Lightening Song, and The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan.

I'll see if I can find them.

[Angrboda]

I really enjoyed Stephen Gould's books, but I really don't have a favorite. I read mostly non-fiction. The last fiction that wowed me was in high school with Anne McCaffrey and John Varley.

Other notables, John Steinbeck, Patricia Churchland, Richard Dawkins (nature writing), and Greg Bear.

[Brian37]

Tell me your favourite books and/or authors.

Mine has to be Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series.

Great characters, great humour, and a lot of social commentary.





Also, War and Peace (the first half).

"God Is Not Great" Christopher Hitchens.

"The God Delusion" Richard Dawkins.

"1984" George Orwlell

"Animal Farm" George Orwell

"Charlotte's Web"

[Ranjr]

I'll see if I can find them.

Descriptions of his stories carry the labels, southern gothic and magical realism.  So he's compared to both Flannery O'Conner and Jorge Louis Borges.  He loved them and was flattered by that, but Twain was his biggest influence.

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Did anyone else have a summer of Kurt, where you read all the Vonnegut?

[arewethereyet]

I've cycled through so many phases in reading that I don't know that I can pick a favorite...it's always changing. There are a few books I reread every few years but nothing deep...just books I have found enjoyable. Currently I am rereading "The Egg and I" by Betty MacDonald. It was published in 1945 and I don't recall how I stumbled upon it but I have a couple copies of it and have read it multiple times starting about forty years ago. Ms. MacDonald has a couple other books that I own and I enjoy them too.

There was a movie made but I have never seen it. The characters of Ma and Pa Kettle are from the book, which is a memoir. I do like memoirs that are witty.

I enjoy David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs. I went through a phase last year where my book choices were things like "Sharp Objects" by Gillian Flynn as well as her book "Gone Girl".

I don't read as much as I used to and I really should remedy that.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Tell me your favourite books and/or authors.

Mine has to be Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series.

Great characters, great humour, and a lot of social commentary.





Also, War and Peace (the first half).

"God Is Not Great" Christopher Hitchens.

"The God Delusion" Richard Dawkins.

"1984" George Orwlell

"Animal Farm" George Orwell

"Charlotte's Web"

A survey (don’t exactly recall when or who) concluded that about 30% of people who claim to have read ‘1984’ were lying about it.

Not accusing you or anything, just an interesting factlet.

Personally, I’m convinced that 100% of people who claim to have voluntarily read ‘Moby Dick’ are lying about it. It’s the sort of book one only reads under duress.

Boru

[Ranjr]

Aw man.  I loved Moby Dick.  I skipped the chapter titled Cetology, so I might qualify for that 100%.