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Who is your favorite author

jim walls_3
jim walls_3 Member Posts: 31
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  • ernie_3
    ernie_3 Member Posts: 191
    hmmm

    Would have to be Mr Holohan. For fiction, Tolstoy Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, W Somerset Maughm, DH Lawrence.
    See Dan, you're in great company!
  • Unknown
    Unknown Member
    Dan & Siggy

    But for reading material on a day off, I like Linda Greenlaw, and also Sebastion Junger.

    Kind of a Salty theme, I realize now...

    Noel
  • ernie_3
    ernie_3 Member Posts: 191
    Oh yeah

    Did I leave out Mr Lanthier aka Firedragon? Sorry. Really like the Riello book.
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Besides our host,

    and non-work related...John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemmingway, Issac Asimov, Tom Clancy, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King. Also the guy who wrote the "Sharpe" series, his name escapes me. Besides his well-known stuff, Ray Bradbury wrote a short story about a lighthouse keeper and his new assistant that is one of the most heart-breaking stories ever written. Anybody ever read it? The title is 'The Fog Horn". Also, anything by Jean Sheperd. His "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories" was the funniest account of a prom night that was ever written, and his hilarious send-up of kid summer camp "the Mole People Battle the Forces of Darkness" had me gasping for air between howls of laughter!
  • Ranger
    Ranger Member Posts: 210
    \"Other than Dan\"

    James Webb,(Fields of Fire) and Hunter S.Thompson.
  • Ken_8
    Ken_8 Member Posts: 1,640
    In no particular order,

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Ayn Rand, O. Henry, George Orwell, James Michenor, Kenneth Roberts, John Steinback, Gahlil Gabran, Alex Hailey, Norman Mailer, Steven Abrose, and last but certainly not least, St. Paul

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  • Firedragon_4
    Firedragon_4 Member Posts: 1,436
    Thank you Sir and that now

    makes you one of my favorite authors.

    Let's see, Dale Brown, Kipling, anything from TSR for the dragon in me, James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Steinbeck, Machevelli, hell, anybody. I read on average a book a week. Reading is wisdom!
  • Bill Nye
    Bill Nye Member Posts: 221
    Would have

    to say Dan Holohan, Bill Bryson, Eric Sloane, Tom Clancy, Robert Lundlum,James Fenimore Cooper.

    With work and school and the internet and trade magazines I don't give myself anytime to read fiction anymore. Winter time is for reading, summer time is for spending as much time outdoors as possible.
  • Jim Erhardt
    Jim Erhardt Member Posts: 52
    This is a no-brainer....

    ...Dan.

    Not only do I thoroughly enjoy Mr. Holohan's style, but he has also inspired me to embrace the art of writing myself, and guided me to a good start - even inviting me to his home to share some writing pointers. Thank-you Dan!

    How much of an impact has this had on me over the last 5 years? Go to Google and type in the search phrase "nature photography." Click the very first link on the top of the search results. ;)

    It's safe to say that many of my "professional accomplishments" would not have happened without Dan's encouragement. To keep the chain unbroken, I now try to provide the same encouragement and guidance to others.

    Time to buy a brick, I think.....
  • eric_2
    eric_2 Member Posts: 148
    Without question

    Steven King for recreation (whenever that may be) and our host Mr. Holohan for everything work related. I remember Pumping Away like it was only yesterday.....
  • Mark J Strawcutter
    Mark J Strawcutter Member Posts: 625
    new one

    In addition to Holohan, Bryson and Ambrose I really like David Mccullough - especially "Path Between the Seas" about the Panama Canal "The Great Bridge" about building the Brooklyn Bridge and "The Johnstown Flood".

    Mark
  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,599
    the trio

    That's easy! Dan gets the honors for being The Great Communicator in heating and philosophy. Frederick Dye (Dead Man) who understood hot water well enough to "see" it, and John Tyndall (Dead Man) who turned teaching science and physics into an art form.
  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,232
    God.

  • Wayco Wayne_2
    Wayco Wayne_2 Member Posts: 2,479
    Steinbeck or Dan? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    Stienbeck is my favorite. (However he never wrote about primary secondary, quite a shortcoming) Both men of the people. For light fiction I like Clive Cussler and Dean Koontz. "Watchers" is one my favorite by him. Ann Tyler. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Ken Kesey. Tom Wolfe. Tom Bodet(the Motel six guy writes wonderful short story humour) Garrison Kiellor, John Irving. Many more will pop to mind later I'm sure. WW

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  • ernie_3
    ernie_3 Member Posts: 191
    left out a few

    Nicolai Gogol, (Dead Souls), Chekov, for short fiction
    Hemingway, of course for "Immovable Feast". Joyce for "Dubliners" Franz Kafka for (short) "Metamorphis".
    Quote from W. Somerset Maughm..."Should a person read and read and not wtite, is like putting meat in a grinder and nothing comes out the other end". Oliver Wendall Holmes says that "language is the blood of our souls".
    Disarelli says "With words we govern men".My quote is "Words are the ambiguous mirrors of our existence". Also "through the breath we know ourselves".
  • ernie_3
    ernie_3 Member Posts: 191
    and yet

    Not one mention of Gustave Flaubert?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Very impressive list

    But how do you explain the Jackie Collins paperback in your room at Wetstock Baltimore ?

    And don't say it was Murph's , we all know he can't read .
  • Ken_8
    Ken_8 Member Posts: 1,640
    It was......

    Hunt's

    Honest. It was: really.

    I'm not lying... well, not actually.

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  • jackchips_2
    jackchips_2 Member Posts: 1,337
    Have read

    Truman and John Adams by McCullough, Mark and they were both excellent-worth all the awards he won. I'll have to look for his others.

    As far a favorite author, there are just to many good ones to name. Favorite book is Grapes of Wrath although there are many a very close second.

    Dan, of coarse is on the list. The only writer I have more of is Ian Fleming who wrote about one of the worlds most famous characters: Bond, James Bond.
  • hydronicsmike
    hydronicsmike Member Posts: 855
    Besides the obvious answer...

    ...Dan and Siggy, I like reading what Robert writes. Can I start a rumor and force the Beanmeister to write a book?
  • Nick W
    Nick W Member Posts: 200
    Running with the Bulls

    Having just returned from Pamplona, I'll go with Hemingway.

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  • Nick W
    Nick W Member Posts: 200
    Running with the Bulls

    Having just returned from Pamplona, I'll go with Hemingway.

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