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Friday, December 10, 2010
Question Of The Day
Who is your favorite author?
I really like John Grisham. W-spouse and her brother introduced me to his books about 5 years ago.
For escape I like William Johnstone westerns, plenty of action none of it politically correct. If you're into the outdoors, Patrick McManess is absolutely hysterical. You can't read any of his books without laughing until your jaws hurt.
I like Grisham too. My favorite author is Greg Iles. I also like Jodi Picoult, Anne Tyler, Bev Marshall, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, Gail Godwin, Dennis Lehane, Alice Hoffman...
Lonesome Dove & Streets of Laredo & Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry are really good stories. He does great characters. I also really like Ken Follett and James Lee Burke.
We have everything Grisham has written except his latest. We were in the bookstore Tuesday looking for it in paperback but were told it'll be at least 6 more months. Try Carl Hiaasen, a reporter from Miami who writes some very funny but slightly irrevrent "who done it" novels. They're funny enough to make you tear up. http://www.carlhiaasen.com/index.shtml
In the same vain but even less PC is Kinky Friedman (yes the gubernatorial candidate and former Jew Boy). His aren't literary masterpieces but darn funny anyway.
Check the library and I think Walmart had a Hiaasen in the paperbacks.
I love C. S. Lewis....amazing man; I have everything he ever wrote. For everyday reading, I'm a sucker for a new Jodi Picoult novel....all of that "controversy," you know. ;-)
We have some paperbacks we'd loan you on Hiaasan and Kinky. Trust me, the Hiaasen ones are just twisted enough, to be darn funny, yet has a who done it plot
Wendell had no choice but to buy Mad Magazine when the cover had a picture of an adorable puppy with the caption "Buy this magazine or we'll kill this dog".
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For escape I like William Johnstone westerns, plenty of action none of it politically correct. If you're into the outdoors, Patrick McManess is absolutely hysterical. You can't read any of his books without laughing until your jaws hurt.
I like Grisham too. My favorite author is Greg Iles. I also like Jodi Picoult, Anne Tyler, Bev Marshall, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, Gail Godwin, Dennis Lehane, Alice Hoffman...
Most of those are kinda girlie.
John Irving. i love all of his books but, "A Prayer for Owen Meany" has to be my favorite.
John Steinbeck
Lonesome Dove & Streets of Laredo & Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry are really good stories. He does great characters. I also really like Ken Follett and James Lee Burke.
Sandra Brown...but of course I love all of the Twilight books :)
We have everything Grisham has written except his latest. We were in the bookstore Tuesday looking for it in paperback but were told it'll be at least 6 more months.
Try Carl Hiaasen, a reporter from Miami who writes some very funny but slightly irrevrent "who done it" novels. They're funny enough to make you tear up.
http://www.carlhiaasen.com/index.shtml
In the same vain but even less PC is Kinky Friedman (yes the gubernatorial candidate and former Jew Boy). His aren't literary masterpieces but darn funny anyway.
Check the library and I think Walmart had a Hiaasen in the paperbacks.
I love C. S. Lewis....amazing man; I have everything he ever wrote. For everyday reading, I'm a sucker for a new Jodi Picoult novel....all of that "controversy," you know. ;-)
Come on Wendell, you can't pull my leg. Grisham books have no pictures. Your more of a MAD magazine kinda guy.
We have some paperbacks we'd loan you on Hiaasan and Kinky. Trust me, the Hiaasen ones are just twisted enough, to be darn funny, yet has a who done it plot
Wendell had no choice but to buy Mad Magazine when the cover had a picture of an adorable puppy with the caption "Buy this magazine or we'll kill this dog".
Brad Thor, Tom Clancy, Alexander McCall Smith, Greg Ilies and the 3 books by Steig Larsson were excellent.
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