can someone recommend some good fiction writers?

[posix]

I like the style of michael crichton for example. and stephen king doesn't float my boat.

any recommendations?

[trubleshtr]

Personally, I enjoy Hemmingway. But then again I have a fondness for the Florida Keys/Cuban life styles.
I spend the rest of my time reading technical manuals. I just finished one on basic programming and cartesian robots.

[vacpress]

some of my favorite authors and their 'best' books, but they may not appeal to you

nabokov-lolita
safran foer-everything is illuminated
milan kundera-unbearable lightness of being
garcia marquez-100 years of solitude
albert camus- a happy death
faulkner-as i lay dying
dave eggers- heartbreaking work of staggering genius
oscar wilde- salome

etc.

unfortunately, i dont think these will appeal to most chrichton fans..

checkout chuck palahniuk(fight club) or jeffery eugenedies(virgin suicides). they are interesting writers. worth checking out if you dont like 'serious fiction' but want something a little different... and, of course, eugenedies won a pulitzer...

[vacpress]

if you want to read hemmingway, the sun also rises is extremely good.

[Geof]

I. M. Banks, a fellow countryman of yours.

[ZipSnipe]

Phillipe Jose Farmer and his series " The Fabulous River Boat" and the title does'nt even begin to describe what lies within.....

[Geof]

Originally Posted by ZipSnipe Phillipe Jose Farmer and his series " The Fabulous River Boat" and the title does'nt even begin to describe what lies within.....

Have you read the whole series? I did and found they were really good for the first two or three but toward the end they tailed off and didn't really come to a good ending.

[spalm]

Wow, you guys are serious. Let me try something different.

Definitely not up to the literary level of Hemmingway and Faulkner, but if you are looking for a light read….

If you want some whacked American Florida humor, try Carl Hiaasen.

If you like spy/intrigue stuff, try Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity guy).

For mystery (in her earlier books) try Patricia Cornwell.

[Geof]

Thought of another one; "Shadow Of The Wind". Very trendy it was even advertised on the walls of Tube Stations over there a few months ago.

[ZipSnipe]

Yeah Geof read the whole series and can agree with you on the end of the series, but overall fantastic reading.

[HayTay]

Just a few from off the top of one of my piles of books:

Jeffrey Deaver - The Blue Nowhere

David Morrell - Desperate Measures and others

John Case - The Genesis Code, The First Horseman and The Eighth Day

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - The Cabinet of Curiosities, Relic, Reliquary, The Ice Limit, and Mount Dragon

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Deception Point, and Digital Fortress

Michael Crighton - Timeline and others

Ian Caldwell - The Rule of Four

Dean Koontz - Watchers and others

Michael Palmer - Silent Treatment, Natural Causes and others (mostly medical thrillers)

Can you tell I love to read? Let me know what other Authors and topics you like and I can dig through some more piles, stacks, boxes and shelves for other recommendations.

HayTay

P.S. Does anyone else read the Destroyer series created by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir? A trashy, far-fetched, and quick read, I got hooked on them in high school in the '70s and have read every one of them. I know they're silly, but, they have their moments. The author(s) poke fun at almost everything; politics, entertainment, religion, fads, thugs, medicine, etc. Some are better than others, but I usually get at least one chuckle per book. And whether we admit it (or not), after reading a couple of them we start to wish we could acquire the skills of the heroes, Remo & Chiun.

[WhiteTiger]

If you're gonna read Farmer, try the World of Tiers series.

Literally anything by Heinlein is worth reading too.


Tiger