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04-26-2007, 05:51 AM
|  | the fastest slug | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | Living Authors
Shakespeare and Austen and Plath etcetc. all get enough worshipping (deservedly and it should stay that way but - )
Which LIVING and writing authors do you love? Who excites you right now?
Here are two I love :
Ali Smith - I bought one of her short story collections out of curiousity about a year ago and it was the first time a short story made me properly cry. I like how playful she is with language and sometimes her novels frustrate me when I get to the end but I love the journey there. 
Sean O'Reilly - I bought Watermark a couple of years ago and whenever I think about it takes me back into the trance I was in while reading it. I can't wait to read the rest of his work.
I'd also really like to hear about any emerging novelists or poets just being published now that any of you love already? |
04-26-2007, 06:08 AM
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| | | irvine welsh!
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04-26-2007, 07:00 AM
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| | I like him too . I went to see him do a reading last year in Waterstones in Glasgow he seems lovely.
I bought his new book though and I never bothered finishing it. I don't know he doesn't make me excited any more. It all started when my boyfriend got the wrong cover we got the sausage.  |
04-26-2007, 07:59 AM
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| | | Paul Auster
oh and JD Salinger. i forgot he was still alive.
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04-26-2007, 08:02 AM
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| | | Doris Lessing is just barely living I suppose, at 88 or 149 or something. But I still rate her, and she's still turning out fantastic books. A living treasure, a living fossil.
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04-26-2007, 12:05 PM
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| | | peter carey. he is wonderful. my favourite living author. he excites me.
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04-26-2007, 12:36 PM
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| | | My fave are Paul Auster, David Leavitt, and Nick Hornby <3
I also like Ian McEwan, Salinger, Don Delillo and Irvine Welsh.
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04-26-2007, 04:32 PM
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| | | Norm Chomsky and Gore Vidal. |
04-26-2007, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Hedgehog  I like him too . I went to see him do a reading last year in Waterstones in Glasgow he seems lovely.
I bought his new book though and I never bothered finishing it. I don't know he doesn't make me excited any more. It all started when my boyfriend got the wrong cover we got the sausage. | what's the new book called?
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04-26-2007, 04:35 PM
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| | is salingr still alive? yay
that's why there's no catcher movie
he's my favourite EVER
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04-27-2007, 04:23 AM
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Originally Posted by discolexy is salingr still alive? yay
that's why there's no catcher movie
he's my favourite EVER | He's still hanging in there. Thankfully his odious son Matt's acting career (Captain America, anyone?) is even less visable than JD.
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04-27-2007, 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by discolexy what's the new book called? | The Bedroom Secrets of the Masterchefs. I don't know where you live but over here in Scotland they had I think 4 different covers I forget what they all were now but one was a sausage and another one was an asparagus, and there is a fly on the sausage I think. I have to go look out the book to tell you but I know the cover wasn't the one I wanted, not that that should really matter but  Quote:
Originally Posted by obscurearse My fave are Paul Auster, David Leavitt, and Nick Hornby <3
I also like Ian McEwan, Salinger, Don Delillo and Irvine Welsh. | I like Nick Horny too sometimes. Quote:
Originally Posted by citylights Paul Auster | Have I been living under a rock I've never heard of Paul Auster I'm going to look him up on Amazon. What is your favourite of his?
Does anyone love any living poets? |
04-27-2007, 05:50 AM
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| | Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my all time favourite writer!
He is 80 though.  |
04-27-2007, 06:22 AM
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| | | ntozake shange
alice walker
toni morrison
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04-27-2007, 08:46 AM
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04-27-2007, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by pretty polly Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my all time favourite writer!
He is 80 though. | he is also dead
Haruki Murakami is mine, but i hardly read modern novels.
i like Terry Pratchett too, no better fantasy writer for young adults.
based on single books:
Peter Carey - his history of the kelly gang was immense
Alex Garland - the beach is a fine cult novel, and his film scripts are excellent
Bill Bryson - his short history of nearly everything was great, and his travel books are meant to be great too.
Jostein Gaarder - great educational philosophy novels
Harper Lee and J.D. Salinger are both still alive too, but not publishing  |
04-27-2007, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Dig For Fire he is also dead
| No, he is not. |
04-27-2007, 12:16 PM
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04-27-2007, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by citylights Paul Auster
oh and JD Salinger. i forgot he was still alive. | this post for timeserved authors who might be dead soon anyway and will enter the canon, which is a big pile of puke. i like paul auster, delillo yeah. alasdair gray. um. atwood. um. my brain is dying. i used to like books
oh god doris lessing. thanks for the reminder bort. i need to read the sontaran experiments again, i mean the sirian experiments again |
04-27-2007, 07:44 PM
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