Favourite Author

[perseus]

Aldous Huxley or George Orwell?

Whio is the better of the two?

I go for Huxley, although 1984 is more realistic than Brave New World.

 

[keaton]

Grahame Greene with George Orwell and Albert Camus just behind

 

[Trufflehound]

Grahame Greene

He was good in Dances with Wolves...

 

[looney]

I asume you mean fiction.

Dean Koontz

PJ O'Rourke

AC Clarke

R.Heinlen

 

[London Irish]

George Eliot greatest writer ever, FACT.

No one has ever combined emotional, literary and intellectual intelligence so successfully in novels.

Forget the fact she's a Victorian writer, everything she does is steeped in modernity. Daniel Deronda is the very late 20th-century mania of search for identity, Middlemarch is all about the setting up of the NHS and Felix Holt is all about Ken Livingstone.



If I'd have to go for someone living, then Milan Kundera, whose critique of Stalinism in "The Joke" and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" easily surpasses the comic book novels of Orwell.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

is Headhunters the second and England away the third or the other way round ?

I think Headhunters is the last one.

Braders, you are correct, Headhunters is the second one and England Away is the last one.

As I mentioned in a previous post Headhunters features an entirely different set of characters and England Away has a mixture of characters from both the earlier books.

I agree with Richie that the film completely lost the "social comment" feel that the book has. In fact social comment is a theme that runs right through all the John King books that I have read. I have read Human Punk & White Trash and both are excellent. I got the Prison House for Christmas and I cannot wait to get stuck into that on my daily commute to London.

Albion, England & John King forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[Braders]

yeah i've got human punk on my "must read" shelve at the moment

 

[Yorkie]

Jane Austin

 

[Thimble Keegan]

yeah i've got human punk on my "must read" shelve at the moment

Well get it off there and read it...It even mentions Brighton.

Albion, England & John King forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[Tooting Gull]

Generally a favourite book person rather than a favourite author, I have read one or more good books by many of those mentioned here but equally they all produce duds occasionally.

Picking one, though, probably John Irving as he has written more superb books than anyone else I can think of.

 

[Lush]

Jane Austin

Yorkie - psssst....Austen.

Quick edit it - no-one will know.....

 

[Yorkie]

Yorkie - psssst....Austen.

Quick edit it - no-one will know.....

My favourite modern author is a toss up between J K Rowling (good call Dave) and Marcia Willett.

 

[Woodchip]

Errm. Probably be Toby Litt, Kevin Sampson, and Stephen King. In no particular order.

 

[Beach Hut]

Evelyn Waugh

Bill Byson

 

[Lush]

Evelyn Waugh

Bill Byson

BRYSON!!!!!

SAKE. Can't you people read

 

[dougdeep]

Darles Chickens.

 

[Yorkie]

BRYSON!!!!!

SAKE. Can't you people read

Yep, we can read, but cannot type for some reason

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If I'd have to go for someone living, then Milan Kundera, whose critique of Stalinism in "The Joke" and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" easily surpasses the comic book novels of Orwell.

That's all well and good. He should never have got rid of Harry Redknapp tho.