OT: Favorite Genre/Authors/Books

[intlzncster]

Classics... nah. I'll watch the movie. I've been trying to get through "Confederacy of Dunces" for 10 years because everyone tells me it's a great and funny read. Still not halfway through it. Bores me to tears.

I really liked that book. Hard to find truly good satire.

 

[intlzncster]

1. Favorite Genre? Generally non fiction looking at social issues and their history, but also like southern fiction and African American fiction
2. Favorite Authors? Cormac McCarthy
3. Favorite Books? Handling Sin, Blood Meridian, Native Son, People's History
4. Favorite Classics? Most Hemingway stuff
5. Book read more than once? Don't think I've read any book twice

Blood Meridian was awesome. Thought the Road was pretty good too. Never saw the movie.

I wanted David Milch (the guy who did Deadwood) to try his hand at a Blood Meridian screen adaptation.

 

[intlzncster]

1. Favorite Genre? Non-fiction now; still like fiction
2. Favorite Authors?
Fiction: Dostoevsky, Cervantes, Hamsun, McMurtry
Non-Fiction: Barbara Tuchman, Raul Hilberg, Robert Mason
3. Favorite Books?
Fiction: Brothers Karamazov, Don Quixote, Master and Margarita, Lonesome Dove, Crime and Punishment
Non-Fiction: Guns of August, Destruction of the European Jews, Chickenhawk
4. Book read more than once? Lord of the Rings, Go to Sleep, Gecko, Curious George

Master and Margarita was really good. Then became amazing when I read the critical addendum and saw how intricate the writing was and just how much went in to it

 

[Dogbreath2U]

Reread Dune a couple of years ago and loved it (again). Wish the sequels were it's equal, but sadly, no.

I liked the first 3-4 books before the last couple went off the rails. It seems like it can be hard to end long series well.

 

[J187Money]

I read a lot of W.E.B. Griffin - military historical fiction.

 

[billythekid]

1. Favorite Genre? Fiction. I've always loved spy books and cop thrillers. I enjoyed the Game of Thrones tv show so much that I read the source books one summer a few years ago and have since been hooked on fantasy.
2. Favorite Authors? Daniel Silva, Lee Child (the last few have kinda sucked), Michael Connelly, Vince Flynn, Stephen King
3. Favorite Books? Currently enjoying the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown
4. Favorite Classics? I read The Hobbit and LOTR when I was younger then took a few decades before getting back into fantasy.
5. Book read more than once? I've read Stephen King's opus, The Stand a few times. All 1,000 + pages of it.

 

[HuskyHawk]

1. Favorite Genre? Fiction. I like fantasy, especially urban fantasy stuff plus spy/espionage and horror/thrillers
2. Favorite Authors? Jim Butcher, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Patrick Rothfus, Ludlum,
3. Favorite Books? Dresden Files series, Good Omens, Neverwhere, LOTR, KingKiller Chronicle series
4. Favorite Classics? LOTR, several from Mark Twain, Common Sense - Thomas Paine, Henry IV and V by Bill S.
5. Book read more than once? Read all 16 Dresden Files books 2-3 times. Harry Potter series twice. LOTR and Hobbit.

Once upon a time I read more non-fiction. I now live entirely too much of it, and when I read I want to escape it. I try now and then, to work something in, but it seems slow and plodding.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Ok cold weather coming which is when I read most of my books (especially on my tablet). Looking for a good reads from like minded Yarders (not amazon). So I ask:

1. Favorite Genre? Fiction
2. Favorite Authors? Ken Follet, Fredrick Forsythe, John Grisham, Robert Ludlam
3. Favorite Books? Pillars of the Earth
4. Favorite Classics? Think and Grow Rich, Eye of the Needle (got hooked on spy novels)
5. Book read more than once? None for me

I like that stuff too. It's been a weak genre lately (no cold war etc.). I'm reading the Atlantis Gene right now, and while it lacks the depth of Ludlum, it's a fast paced and enjoyable thriller 2/3 of the way through.

 

[Vuce]

Many good mentions in this thread. If you like history a little bit Nathaniel Philbrick is a good non fiction writer - Mayflower was very good and I am reading one now about George Washington and Benedict Arnold.

 

[ZooCougar]

Many good mentions in this thread. If you like history a little bit Nathaniel Philbrick is a good non fiction writer - Mayflower was very good and I am reading one now about George Washington and Benedict Arnold.

The book on Custer was really good.