[Baba Louie]

Who are the guys and gals whose books you've read and re-read and eagerly look forward for their next publication?
A quick list of mine would have to include:
Louis Lamour ("specially the first 4 "Sackett" family saga)
Robert Heinlin (a Missouri boy - pre-Libertarian Sci.Fi.)
W.E.B. Griffin (always a rich guy character - good reading)
Tom Clancy (Gettin' kinda long winded lately)
Dr. Suess (the kid in me still loves 'em)
Harry Harrison (another libertarian Sci. Fi.)
Ayn Rand (read The Fountainhead at age 14 and decided to become an Architect)
I'll stop there for now. But I've gotta say that I'd rather re-read any of the above anytime rather than watch the boob tube.(Unless a K-State game is on)

Adios Qweeksdraw

[Jim V]

L. Neil Smith, Libertarian Sci-fi. - THE PROBABILITY BROACH
Alan Cole and Chris Bunch - Their STEN series
David Weber - MUTINEER'S MOON series

Louis Lamour - I have 'em all.
John Ross - UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith - THE MITZVA and HOPE

Jerry Kuhnhausen - his 1911 shop manuals

[ 09-06-2001: Message edited by: Jim V ]

[bsampsel]

Robert E. Howard
Barry Sadler
J.R.R. Tolkien
Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickmann
Timothy Zahn (sp?)
Heinlen
Barbara Hambly
Mickey Zucker Reichart
Ayn Rand
the lady who wrote the Pern series (can't remember her name)
and many others...

[Eric of Indiana]

JRR Tolkien
Douglas Adams
John D MacDonald
Alistair MacLean
Tom Clancy
Robert Jordan
David Eddings
Anne McCaffrey
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance books)

This is just a short list, that was compiled by looking at the paperback books that are now missing either the front and/or back cover.
Eric

[Greg L]

(this could take a while)

Brian, it was Anne McCaffrey (Colleen has about 4' of shelf space taken up with her books. One of these days I might even read them)

SF:

Heinlien (top of any list. 2 of 3 kids named because of some of his charecters)
Niven (but only when he is collaborating with someone else. By himself he is getting bad. Early solo stuff quite good)
Dickson
Clarke
(I've never read Harrison. Probably because in the used bookstores that I haunt his books are right next to Heinlien and I would get excited seeing all these hardbacks there only to discover that they were Harry's)

Fiction: (in no particular order other than the top of the bookcase on down)

Follett (good story development)
Forsyth (early stuff good, haven't read much of the very recent)
Mayer
Ross
Bond
Carroll (very good 3 books, too bad that he died)
Hunter (on FFF 'nuf said)
Clancy (I agree, not very good lately. Only read the Ryan stuff not the Op Center)
Berent
Trevanian
Morrell (liked the 1983-93 time period)
Coonts
Coyle (really liked Savage Wilderness and Civil War set)
Brown
Griffin (ok for a while but eventually becomes romance novels for the male mind set (predictable plots, books cranked out in a hurry))

Nonfiction:

Camping/wilderness living:
Angier (I have a painting by Vena proudly displayed)
Whelen
O'Conner

Military:
Mainly Vietnam era bio's leaning more towards "elite" units.
Hackworth
Yager (Colleen met him last year at a confrence. Said that he was a great guy. The night before he gave his speach he was down in the hotel bar telling stories and having a good time)

Humor:

McManus (I've been forbidden to read him in bed unless Colleen is out of town. My supressed giggles annoy her)
O'Rourke


Financial:

Kiosaki
Lynch


Ok, those were the books that are visible to me from my desk. I'm sure that there are plenty that I haven't thought of (7 7'x3' bookcases downstairs and many more books that havent been unpacked yet).

Greg

[bd]

Who wrote all the "Spencer" detective novels? All the titles had a color in them. Was it Parker?

[Eric of Indiana]

Originally posted by BigDaddy:
<STRONG>Who wrote all the "Spencer" detective novels? All the titles had a color in them. Was it Parker?</STRONG>

I think you're getting two author's mixed up. John D MacDonald wrote the Travis McGee series, which all had colors in the title, i.e. Darker Than Amber, The Lonely Silver Rain, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper, and The Turquoise Lament. The Spencer novels were written by Robert B Parker.
Eric

[Sandman]

L. Ron Hubbard
R.A. Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
Stephen R. Donaldson (1st an 2nd Chronicles of Thomas Covenant)
David & Leigh Eddings
Dean Koontz
John Grisham
Louis L'Amour
Tony Hillerman
William W. Johnstone (Ashes series)

And many more. Would take half the night for me to type them all. :)

[Ramangel]

I am gonna be different than y'all :D
And yes, I love to watch chick flicks :D

Fiction
Nora Roberts
J.D. Robbs ( really Nora Roberts again)
Sandra Brown
Maeve Binchy
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Jackie Collins
Judith Micheal, husband & wife writing team Judith Barnard & Michael ?
Robin Cook
Sidney Sheldon

Non-fiction
Suze Orman ~ financial

[bd]

Originally posted by Eric of Indiana:
<STRONG>

I think you're getting two author's mixed up. John D MacDonald wrote the Travis McGee series, which all had colors in the title, i.e. Darker Than Amber, The Lonely Silver Rain, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper, and The Turquoise Lament. The Spencer novels were written by Robert B Parker.
Eric</STRONG>

thanks, Eric, it's been a long time............BD

[bsampsel]

Almost forgot...

Robert Asprin's Myth series...waiting for the man to write another one...left us hanging on the last one. Wanna know if the dragon dies or not.

bryan

[Jim V]

Hit or Myth, Az, Skeeve and Eeep.

[guerrilla1138]

Oh my...long list...in no particular order.

Fiction
Hunter S. Thompson (Could I have gotten away by just saying Gonzo? or would you have thought of a muppet?)
Ken Kesey (Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest right now, and generally liking the hell out of most of it.)
R.A. Heinlein
Gore Vidal
Trevanian (Read Shibumi when I was 9. It screwed me up. :D )
Laurell K. Hmailton (Even if she cant write well the Anita Blake books are a guilty pleasure of mine...even if her gun stuff sucks.)
Edward Abbey (Read The Monkey Wrench Gang last year. Another book that screwed me up for the better.)
R. Lance Hill (The Evil That Men Do is a great book. The Main character Holland is everything that I would expect the real deal profession assasin to be. And he has good taste in guns.)
Tim Zahn
Harry Harrison
Thomas Harris
Jeffery Deaver
Edgar Allen Poe
H.G. Wells
Robert B. Parker
Agatha Christie
Henry David Thoreau
Dr. Suess

And probably a bunch of other ppl...but I'm to tired to remember names tonight.

[Baba Louie]

Had my favorite (and only) girlfriend read the list and she came up with her list of favorites (it seems we share the addiction of reading interesting authors).
In no particular order (but off the top of her head)

Stephen King "His insight into human nature is perhaps too real. Fantastic story-teller"

Dean Koontz "Master of character development...
(she's read them all)"

Anne George "lighthearted, humorous; an "American" cozy"

Barbara Michaels "also writes as Eizabeth Peters"

Agatha Christie "what can one say? THE Grand Dame"

Catherine Coulter "Interesting characters... FBI/Police procedurals from the female view"

Jonathon Kellerman "art mimics life"

Joan Hess "a child psychologist writes about a child psychologist, good reading"

Janet Evanovich "Her characters seem so real. She tells a good story and I laugh out loud every time I read about their (mis) adventures"

Anyway, I find it very intersting that the family found in this thread all seem to share common interests in what and who we read.
Could it be "birds of a feather..."?

Adios Qweeksdraw

[Tom S.]

Oh my.

Many of my favorites showed up on others lists, you folks have good taste!

Let me add:
David Drake
Joel Rosenberg

For the SF/Fantasy folks out there. If you like military SF, Drake may be the best thing going since Heinlein... :D

But I'll reread most anything rather than watch the tube... ;)
Almost forgot! H. Beam Piper. I find I need to reread his "Lone Star Planet" every couple of years to remind myself of how a gummint should oughta work!
Tom
:D :D :D

[ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: Tom S. ]

[Kalvan]

Fiction: I'll second Heinlein, Harrison, and Drake. L. Neil Smith's Probability Broach is quite good, as is Abbey's The Brave Cowboy. Really liked Sadler's Casca series. I'd add H. Beam Piper; Eric Flint (1632 and also the Belisarius series in cooperation with Drake); S.M. Stirling (Draka series); Frank Yerby; Mary Renault; Rosemary Sutcliffe; Harry Turtledove; Jerry Pournelle; John Barnes; Gary Jennings; Stephen Hunter; Steven Pressfield (Gates of Fire)

History: Arther Ferrill; Robert Drews; Michael Grant; Donald Kagan; Philip Haythornthwaite; Albert Nofi; Paddy Griffith; Bruce Catton; Harold Lamb; J.B. Bury; A.H.M. Jones; Peter Connolly; Victor Davis Hanson

Political: Vin Suprynowicz; L Neal Smith; Claire Wolfe; David Kopel; F. A. Hayek; John Taylor Gatto

Military: David C. Isby; William Green; James F. Dunnigan; Bernard Fall; John Keegan; Norman Polmar; Bill Gunston; David G. Chandler

Gun Stuff: John Farnam; Gabriel Suarez; Jeff Cooper; Louis Awerbuck; Jim Grover; Gila May-Hays; Walt Rauch

I'm sure that I'm forgetting many, but that ought to keep y'all busy for a while :).

[Old Soldier]

Looks like no one reads Don Pendleton's The Executioner!!!!!!!! :(

[Eric of Indiana]

Originally posted by A Simple Old Soldier:
<STRONG>Looks like no one reads Don Pendleton's The Executioner!!!!!!!! :(</STRONG>

He's still writing those? :eek: He was almost to triple digits when I was in high school. I used to read his stuff, but now that I have other demands on my money than books, I normally use the library instead of the bookstore. I make exceptions for certain authors, and will buy other books that I identified with.
Eric