catrionalee: didn't know you were a science reader! I like Stephen Hawking too, and Gribbon and Carl Sagan. But I was thinking about fiction writers when I wrote my post...
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catrionalee: didn't know you were a science reader! I like Stephen Hawking too, and Gribbon and Carl Sagan. But I was thinking about fiction writers when I wrote my post...
Hey Tempus, I like to alternate - a story for the soul then a book for the mind :) Sagan is intense!
DH Lawrence
Arthur C Clarke
Christopher Koch
Margaret Atwood
Barbara Kingsolver
John Wyndham
Kazuo Ishiguro
J Auel
JM Coetzee
Suse i am also impressed by Eco, never managed to get far into any of his.
Catrionlee, definitely a few for the mind there! Agree, Sagan is intense, but I loved Contact.
For any book lover I just read "The Uncommon Reader" a novella by Alan Bennett. Only takes a couple of hours and it is delightful. In short the Queen becomes obsessed with books after a chance encounter with a mobile library in Buckingham palace.
Terry Goodkind - currently reading book #9, book #10 has just been released... Let's see if I can get it for my birthday!!
Matthew Reilly
Trudi Canavan - The Black Magician Trilogy
catrionalee: I've read "Cosmos", of course. "The Demon Haunted World" and "Contact" by Carl Sagan. I don't agree with his views on religion (I don't think he understood it as well as he fancied he did), but he was a brilliant scientist and had the gift of explaining it to people who didn't have strong scientific backgrounds.
dusty: Ooh! another Margaret Atwood fan. I read and reread "The Handmaid's Tale"--she just has such a way with words, it's almost lyrical. And I also read the "Robber Bride". Not as good as THT, but still very compelling.
Tempus, have you read anything by Brian Greene?
Saw one of his specials and read a bit about his thoughts on line, but am yet to buy a book - how layman is it??!!
catrionalee: No, I never heard of him. Does he write science? I wrote down the name so I can look him up...
@ Tempus, Hey! yeah, he is very good at explaining string theory if you are interested!
You can read much of his stuff on line, and he did a BBC doco - you might be able to borrow it from your local library of they do DVD's.
catrionalee: thanks--I'll have to check him out.
I love Sidney Sheldon... I love the cleverness of the plots and how these people get their revenge.
Wasn't Sidney Sheldon the one who wrote the book about the plastic surgeon who took revenge on his cheating wife by mutilating her face when she went to him for a face-lift (because her lover said she was gettin' old lookin')?
Khaled Hosseini
James Patterson
JK Rowling
Sidney Sheldon
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Ooh! Another Harry Potter fan!
Fav authors
Elliot Perlman
Milan Kundera
JK Rowling
Anais Nin
Paulo Coelho
Isabel Allende
Bret Easton Ellis
Emily Bronte
William S. Burroughs
Phillip Pullman
:)