i am glad to see all the responses to this thread.. but i would also like to see the reasons WHY Peoples are attracted to a particular Author ?.. the style of Steven King and Conan Doyle ?.. the concepts and gritty humor of Heinlien.. the attraction of the genre itself (Vamp, Romance hight Fantasy)
i have enjoyed Anne McCaffrey for years and grew up cutting my teeth on Asimov.. who while best know for his SF books wrote on a huge range of subjects... among them a delightful serious of mystery short stories..where with a clever and ironic twist.. the the butler dies not do the crimes.. but he does solve them ( Jeeves meets Sherlock Homes sorta stuff)
the Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown stories sound intriguing and the concept reminds me of Don Marquis and his Archie and Maribel stories..
http://www.donmarquis.com/archy/ check out the one the "lesson of the moth"...i have always loved the concept of how the stories get written.. and the lack of Caps makes them look like something by e e cummings (who am also fond of ))
i have not read much romance,., but if the Clan of the Cave Bear counts i have read a lot of Jean Auel's
books.. with Her increasingly randy cave people
I've read James Patterson with his tight prose and twisty plots.. and have gone thru with pleasure each time.. the collected works of Sherlock Homes.. as well as Doyles Proffor Challanger books
Read a bit of Prachett and some Cristie.. who i first met up with after seeing the wonderful PBS series of Hercule Pirot teleplays..i have always been too lazy to get into mystries.. which is strange.. cause i adore figuring out things in SF.. like who were the HeeChee in Fredricks Pohl's Gateway Books ( i wasn't even close ..lol)
Oh Marion Zimmer-Bradly .. i stared reading Her stuff when they first came out as Ace doubles ( for the younger of you.. that is to say most.. Ace paperbacks use to publish novellas in a wonderful; way.. two to a book.. with two covers.. You'd Read one then flip the book over and starting from the other side.. read another)
Love Card's Enders Books.. i think that Speaker to the Dead and XENOCIDE are the best.. i think i've read Dianne Duane's Star Trek Books.. certainly Her name on a spine will make me pick it up.
oh.. and at long last// i am reading in full a Gorian book.. it was on sale at the local library for 50 cents and begged to be bought.. i have read parts of Norman (Mainly FIGHTING SLAVE) and have been put off my his lenghty digressions to discuss minutia.. but i his Early books.. it adds to.. rater than distracts from the flow of the story...
oh... Yes.. most of Howards Conan stories were re written after His death by a plethora of writers.. but his other works stands strong.. KING KULL, BRAN MAC MORM, SOLOMAN KANE.. and if You enjoyed ERB's Martian novels.. Howard's interplanetary ALMURIC...
well that's enoff for now.. i gotta get choring in camp soon..
smiles
dakota {Property of Tira}