Was thinking about the October Book Club and how wonderful Kazuo Ishiguro is, with his deep understanding of humanity and his ability to paint subtle pictures with words. I need to replace the books by him that I left behind in hostels.
Soooo.
Which authors would you unreservedly recommend to people?
I don't unreservedly recommend. I tend to take into account the people I am recommending to. That said, Helen DeWitt and Nick Harkaway are among my most recommended, in part because I assume people have heard of the others I would recommend, and that they have therefore either read them or decided not to. I think Frances A. Yates will also join the list of gushees (or is the gushee the one that is being gushed at?). I also gush about Dumas, Wodehouse, Tolkien, Borges, Eco, Benjamin (I do recommend him a lot) and Calvino. It depends a lot on context, though. Muriel Spark is on my mind a lot lately. And Stephen Fry.
Who do you love to read again and again?
All of the above?
Which authors do you think are consummate artists?
Borges. The others all have traces of it. Borges, and possibly Benjamin (but I have never read him in original) blows me away with it.
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Which authors do you gush over?
05/10/2010 11:07:03 PM
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Re: Which authors do you gush over?
05/10/2010 11:46:07 PM
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Dahl? Which works in particular? *NM*
06/10/2010 12:37:41 AM
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Pretty much all of them? Why, have you had bad experiences with him? *NM*
06/10/2010 12:41:58 AM
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No, the experiences I remember were largely positive.
06/10/2010 03:10:38 AM
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Oh, I meant mostly his children's books, haven't read all of his adult stuff either.
06/10/2010 10:04:56 AM
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05/10/2010 11:54:01 PM
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Goodkind. And whoever wrote that Hanna Montana "Crush-tastic" book.
06/10/2010 12:37:39 AM
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Re: I am not longer a twelve-year old girl, and therefore I do not gush.
06/10/2010 01:53:59 PM
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Robert Anton Wilson, Jung, and I'm getting to be gushy over Steinbeck.
07/10/2010 06:22:40 AM
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Wodehouse, Orwell, and Douglas Adams. I'll never tire of reading and rereading their books. *NM*
08/10/2010 08:18:03 PM
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R.A. Salvatore. I know it's absurd but his Drizzt novels get me misty, esp when his dwarves grieve.
12/10/2010 04:57:38 PM
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