The Best
Authors
Authors I look for
I like people who have a
flowing style, so that we can easily create in our imagination
their worlds, and with characters we can relate to, and they use
their work to slip in their insights into life.
- Hubert Selby (Last
Exit to Brooklyn)(amazing... best book ever written)
- Tom Sharpe
- Roald Dahl
- Graham Greene (a master storyteller)
- Ben Elton
- Paul Theroux
- Douglas Adams
- David Lodge
- Bob Shaw
..insightful SF
- Terry Pratchett
- Kurt Vonnegut
Junior
- Maureen
Lipman..funny short stories
- Washington Irvine
(short stories :The Wife)
- James T Farrell
(short stories :The Scoop)
- William E. Barrett
(short stories :Seņor Payroll)
- William Saroyan
(short stories :The Shepherd's Daughter)
- Harry Cole ... his
funny stories of his life as a London Policeman
- Edward De Bono
..for his books about lateral thinking
- Lonely Planet..for Travel Guides
- Culture Shock ..for
travel background
Authors I avoid
I hate to read ,
- books that are
heavy even if they are classics
- pulp fiction.. just
telling a story and offering no insights
- books longer than
200 pages
- Ernest Hemingway,
Joseph Conrad etc