Who is your favourite author?

Right then feens and beours and blaaas etc who is your favourite author?

What kind of books are you into? (mucky books are not allowed!)

Mine is defo James Patterson. At this point ive read all but 3 of his books, and i only discovered him last July.

He has a series involving Dr Alex Cross. He is a detective and also a top class phscyiatist (in fact he is a bit of a pain in the ass after a while he is so good!). But the way Patterson tells a tale is amazing. Chapters no longer than 4 pages, so its hard hitting, fast paced stuff.

There are also others, like When the Wind Blows, Hide and Seek (almost finished reading), Cradle And All, Midnight Club. Loads.


There is also a new series with a female hero (!!!!!!!), Lindsay Boxer. Well worth a read also.

So if u are a reader, and are into crime novels, find Patterson esp the alex cross series starting with
Along Came A Spider (great book, shít movie)
Kiss The Girls
Jack And Jill
Cat And Mouse
Pop Goes the weasel
Roses Are Red
Violets Are Blue
4 Blind Mice.

Read them in that order, esp the last 3.

Also i quite like Michael Connelly, Grisham and biographies on the Krays.

So what ya'll into?

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Originally posted by GWA
who is your favourite author?

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Roy Keane.

Gor, how cultured. I thought I'd walked into the wrong site.

I've got two copies of Along Came A Spider, for some odd reason. Same edition an' everything. Patterson ain't bad, but I haven't read a whole lot of him.

My most read author is probably Terry Pratchett, I tend to go around in a circle on his books every time a new one is released in paperback, which means I've read some of them nearly a dozen times. Lately I read a lot of detective/mystery books: Michael Connolly (Bosch rocks), James Lee Burke (Clete and Helen rock), Kathy Reichs. Also Carl Hiaasen, whose characters are fantastically funny. And I'm partial to a little sci-fi, particularly Isaac Asimov's robot stories, and other stuff that's a little humorous.

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I'm a big fan of Nick Hornby.

I've read a few of his books (About a Boy, How to be Good, High Fidelity) and thought they were all excellent.

Also Homer. He might've only done one but what a cracker, eh?

The Mr. Men series.
Anything by Enid Blyton, esp. Noddy
My all time favourite though, is
James and the Giant Peach, or anything else by Roald Dahl

douglas adams....and anthony bourdain. sports wise tom humphries. thought quinny's book was better written than roy's.

Carmen Laforet, shes a spanish writer and if you speak or understand spanish I recommend you read a book of hers....

Read a book recently called 'The Sweetest feeling' by Jaye Carroll, a great book.

Also love Kathy Rodgers, she lives in Longford and has just published 'Misbehaving'...a good read!

Grisham is a fav. of mine, best book IMO is The Rainmaker, film is bad attempt though.

For anyone who has a decent level of Irish I'd urge them to read Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé's auto-biography. Divided into three sections, Youth in the Gaeltacht, living in London in the 60's and working in the States during the civil rights movements. Great read.

Graham Greene would be my favourite writer of fiction.

i prefer books on history/culture/geography.

A great writer on these subjects is Ryszard Kapuscinski. His book on Africa "the Shadow of the Sun" is unforgettable.

Douglas Adams by a mile - Hitchhiker's Guide is brilliant!

Read a lot of science books these days, so tend to read subjects rather than authors.

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Originally posted by GWA
Mine is defo James Patterson.

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with ya on that one, his books are agreat read. apart from that biographies (mainl political ones) are my fix

Stephen king dean koontz n james herbert laxative city or wha?

Nick Hornby for me too! High Fidelity, Fever Pitch and About A Boy are all top class and How To Be Good is well worth a read too.

Also into a small amount of sci-fi, mostly David Gemmell (try 'Legend') though I'm reading through my trusty ole David Eddings at the moment as well.

Also... :o I have all the Harry Potter books...

Read some Grisham too but find them a bit samey these days.

Ah when I was younger I was into the like of Tom McCaughren, Don Conroy, Richard Adams and Brian Wizard too. And that lad Victor Canning's book 'Runaways' or something like that was an enjoyable read too.

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Originally posted by eoinh
Graham Greene would be my favourite writer of fiction.

i prefer books on history/culture/geography.

A great writer on these subjects is Ryszard Kapuscinski. His book on Africa "the Shadow of the Sun" is unforgettable.

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Have you read Antony Beevors books?? the Stallingrad, Berlin Spanish Civil war etc tough read as the is so much going on but worth it

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Douglas Adams by a mile - Hitchhiker's Guide is brilliant!

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Fantastic book pity they made the Programme

have to say mine is a sligoman eamonn sweeney . he wrote the great "theres only one red army" and "the photograph " which are both great books.

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Have you read Antony Beevors books?? the Stallingrad, Berlin Spanish Civil war etc tough read as the is so much going on but worth it

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Read Stallingrad and Spanish Civil war. Both very good, especially as I didn't know much about them beforehand. Had to read the spanish CW one twice to get a decent idea of what was going on though.

Frederick Forsyth is excellent as well.

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Also... :o I have all the Harry Potter books...

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you should try Artemis Fowl

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Originally posted by Niamh_GalwayGal
you should try Artemis Fowl

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So I've been told. It's on my 'To Do' list! :D

SWM is brilliant, how ****ed wud u be if u were a yank readin it tho!

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have to say mine is a sligoman eamonn sweeney . he wrote the great "theres only one red army" and "the photograph " which are both great books.

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loved there's only one red army, great stuff.

depending on the mood i'm in

graham greene (for something mysterious)
kurt vonnegut (for something brilliant)
carl hiassen (for something funny)

favourite book of all time though is anthropology by dan rhodes, check it out, it's the funniest thing i've ever read.

Now that I think of it Homer did more than one book.

While I'm at it - Mick Foley.

His two excellent books (Have a Nice Day and Foley is Good) are, to my knowledge, no longer being sold because of the WWF/WWE change.

People tend to dismiss them straight away because he was a wrestler but "Have a Nice Day" imparticularly is probably the best non-fiction book that I've ever read and would be near, if not at, the top of my all-time list.

If you see it or can get a lend of it then do, you won't be disappointed.

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Originally posted by UCD_4_Life
While I'm at it - Mick Foley.

His two excellent books (Have a Nice Day and Foley is Good) are, to my knowledge, no longer being sold because of the WWF/WWE change.

People tend to dismiss them straight away because he was a wrestler but "Have a Nice Day" imparticularly is probably the best non-fiction book that I've ever read and would be near, if not at, the top of my all-time list.

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Wouldn't mind reading that actually, I read Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's alright and it wasn't bad.

An extremely good read is, quite surprisingly, Alex Fergusons autobiography.

i haven't seen it but i hear that the Mick foley film/documentary is meant to be very good too.

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Originally posted by Conor74
Yep, best book ever, by a mile, by a country mile. Brilliant.

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The cover is nice :)

Starting it soon Conor .... bare with me :)

There's a couple of Mick Foley books in Easons in Limerick if Colm or anybody else is interested. Can't remember exact titles or anything but sure it's a start right?

I can read anything by Michael Connelly.

So far I have read:
The Black Echo
The Concrete Blonde
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Gods of Guilt
The Scarecrow