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Graham Greene
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Raymond Chandler
Thomas Hardy
Tom Wolfe
Tim Winton
Raymond Carver
Nick Tosches
Graham Swift

All off the top of my head, but give me a crate of those fellas' works and I'd be a happy man on a desert island.
 
nick hornby - is able to express just about everything ive ever wanted to say about certain issues/situations that i dont actually have the wit, intelligence or balls to do myself.
 
Originally posted by carneagles
Norman Davies - read "The Isles" a couple of months ago and I'm well into his history of Europe. Cracking read.
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TEST:
What three inventions were cited by Francis Bacon (1620) as changing the face of the known world, and why?

These three were perhaps the most significant in European history.
 

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Originally posted by localyokel
Just read a book called 'Gould's book of fish' by a guy called Richard Flanagan, brother of well known journo Martin.


What a great book. The best book I have ever read. Anyone else read it?
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Haven't read it yet, however I have read an earlier book of his called The Death of a River Guide. Fantastic book, Highly recommended.

Other favourite authors:

Camus
Winton
Carey
Marquez
Irving

There's a Canadian author called Wayne? Johnston I stumbled on a few years ago.

I've read 2 of his books, both great reads; The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Divine Ryans.

Agree with others about Kerouac and On The Road; it was OK but certainly not the ground breaking experience I was led to expect.
 
Some of my faves...

Terry Pratchett - Discworld books
Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch, About a Boy...
Ben Elton - Dead Famous, Stark, Popcorn...
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, The Acid House....
Rob Grant/Doug Naylor - Red Dwarf...
Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones

I wouldn't consider any of these authors "great writers", I just like their material and writing styles...
 
Originally posted by carneagles
Printing, gunpowder, the magnet.

Don't remember that being in The Isles, though. And Pope Steve's just crossed the Alps in the one I'm reading at the moment.
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You know you stuff. Did you realise that the printing brought great wealth to the Roman Catholic church. For many years they sold 'indugances' (on death people spent time in purgatory, an idulgance for ones self or loved one reduced that time). They had been handwritten on parchment which was time consuming. Printing enebled them to be produced by the thousand and cash flowed in freely. So much so that the building of the Systine Chapel, St Peters basillica was paid completely by 'idulgance' fees.

The magnet of course brought the compass and gunpowder brought military strength.
 
I'm more into auto/biographies at the moment. However I admit that I don't mind Carol Higgins Clark. Daughter of Mary and writing is similar however Carol is a lot more humorous.
 
I've been on a Leon Uris run for the last year.

Every book of his I've read I've found extremely interesting, even compelling. Unfortunately, I've think I'm down to only two Uris books left and then - kaput.

QB VII
Exodus
The Haj (maybe the weakest of all)
Trinity (maybe the best of all)
Mitla Pass (starts a bit slow but then really sucks you in)
Redemption (panned by many critics because it doesn't rise to the level of Trinity, but I liked it a lot and it finally sparked a desire in me to learn more detail about Gallipoli).
Armageddon


Next on the list - Topaz.
 

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