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Post by PigWrestling on Aug 10, 2011 13:04:54 GMT -5
I prefer a horror author named Brian Keene. A lot of critics cal him "the next Stephen King", but I actually think he's a lot better then Stephen King. His better books include Ghoul, which is soon going to be a movie on Chiller Network, The Rising and City of the Dead series, and Castaways.
Another very good author is Richard Lange. His first novel was called This Wicked World. It was a very good crime novel set in Los Angeles which includes drug dealers, dog fighting, and many other things. Its definitely worth picking up.
Also someone that I'm pretty sure everyone has heard about, Robert Kirkman, the author of The Walking Dead comics. If you haven't read anything by him definitely pick up The Walking Dead or Haunt.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2011 20:40:51 GMT -5
Stephen King has been a favorite of mine. I also like Brian Lumley, Max Brooks, & Bentley Little.
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Post by Vegas on Aug 10, 2011 21:38:02 GMT -5
My boss, at the hip hop radio station I am working at through this week to make some extra money, tells me to read or play on the Internet in between answering business calls.
So, after just finishing my first James Patterson book "Kiss the Girls," I went to the library and checked out the book "Jack and Jill" to read at work over the next two days.
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Post by TTX on Aug 14, 2011 7:27:47 GMT -5
Douglas Adams mostly. Do like Harry Turtledove as well.
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Post by jrgoldman on Aug 14, 2011 13:14:31 GMT -5
Jim Carroll and Frank O'Hara for poetry. In terms of fantasy and sci fi stuff, GRRM, as previously mentioned, is really great. I also like Samuel R. Delaney.
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Post by Shon Maxx on Aug 15, 2011 19:37:14 GMT -5
William Blake, HP Lovecraft (and any writers in his 'clique'), Harlan Ellison, Piers Anthony, Scott Kenemore.
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Post by wildfire on Aug 16, 2011 12:35:20 GMT -5
Douglas Adams mostly. Do like Harry Turtledove as well. I'm a big fan of Harry Turtledove, too... I just ordered the Atlantis trilogy to read on my next business trip. I think the Darkness books were my favorite, but the 'Guns of the South' series and the Krispos books were all really good. |
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Post by chewey on Aug 16, 2011 16:02:44 GMT -5
I love Cormac McCarthy. His books are violent to the point of just being violent sometimes, but he is by far my favorite author. No Country for Old Men obviously won an Academy Award, while The Road won the Pulitzer, and All the Pretty Horses won the National Book Award, but the bloodiest and most graphic story and perhaps best known is Blood Meridian. Pick up any of those sometime.
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Post by Gunslinger on Aug 16, 2011 18:24:48 GMT -5
I'll read anything by Lawrence Block. YEAH! Lawrence Block is in my crime writer top three with Richard Stark and Joe Lansdale. For non-crime, I like Hugh Cook, Roger Zelazny, China Mieville, Christopher Moore, Stephen King (for the Dark Tower), and way too many others. Are Dustin and I the only ones from here on Goodreads? |
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Post by Mawson on Aug 17, 2011 2:10:52 GMT -5
What is Goodreads?
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