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ColonelCathcart Since: Jun, 2013
#1: Dec 28th 2013 at 7:19:36 PM

Title really says it all: Which authors do you think should be read more often than they are?

For me, it would have to be Sinclair Lewis. I've never read a book of his I haven't liked, his books contain a humor that he just puts down, almost seeming oblivious to what he has said and what makes it funny, and the satire in his books still seems relevant to modern society. But now, fewer than half of his books are still in print, and I can't understand why, or why his books that are still in print aren't better known.

edited 28th Dec '13 7:26:31 PM by ColonelCathcart

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#2: Dec 28th 2013 at 10:02:58 PM

Garth Nix. Sure, most his books are marked "junior fiction." Doesn't stop his settings from being more intelligently constructed than 99% of what I've read.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#3: Dec 29th 2013 at 1:11:22 AM

CJ Cherryh....no matter what I read from her, it is always intellectual challenging, and I mostly stumbled over her work by accident, despite the fact that her books have been around for ages. Some of them are sadly out of print. It was a hard fight to get all of them.

KlarkKentThe3rd Since: May, 2010
#4: Dec 29th 2013 at 10:33:40 PM

Garry Kilworth, probably. He is the first author I discovered who mastered the skill of description, using just enough words, not too many, not too little. He never wastes a word.

He also did Welkin Weasels.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#5: Dec 30th 2013 at 1:25:22 AM

David and Leigh Eddings. All the cool kids love George R.R Martin but I can't read any more of his stuff for pleasure. The Eddings stuff? Anything except The Dreamers - that cosmic retcon at the end of the last book ruined the whole series for me.

The Belgariad, Malloreon, Elenium and Tamuli series books are up there with the best fantasy series ever written. They use just about every trope in the dictionary and they make them fly. The Belgariad is the best gateway drug into the world of fantasy fiction that has ever been written, and I say this having read Harry Potter, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books repeatedly.

swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#6: Dec 30th 2013 at 5:09:45 AM

I think everybody likes the early Eddings book (the Dreamer series was a disappointment, I didn't even manage to read more than the first book). I am currently rereading the Elenium Saga. And honestly...I have read those series more often than any other Fantasy series.

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#7: Dec 30th 2013 at 7:27:09 AM

Sherwood Anderson. His stories are at least the equal of any other American lit from that period, but get unaccountably little love, in school curricula or elsewhere.

swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#8: Dec 30th 2013 at 12:44:34 PM

There are also writers which get a lot of love in some countries, but not everywhere...which is too bad.

edited 30th Dec '13 12:45:51 PM by swanpride

rhea from Syracuse, NY, USA Since: Aug, 2010
#9: Dec 30th 2013 at 4:34:07 PM

Pretty much anyone who writes deserves more love, we can't revere our authors enough. Also, the people who translate literature deserve more love.

Sherwood Anderson definitely does need more love, as does Clarice Lispector, Sigrid Undset, and Mervyn Peake.

Jorge Luis Borges deserves more love too. They should grant him that Nobel prize retroactively.

Aldo930 Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon from Quahog, R.I. Since: Aug, 2013
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#10: Jan 2nd 2014 at 10:26:32 AM

Michael Ende. Most of his books aside from The Neverending Story aren't well known, and it is a shame, because Momo and The Night Of Wishes are genuinely good reads.

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lordGacek Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Jan 2nd 2014 at 10:45:31 AM

Jacek Dukaj. My issue is an author that receives much love, but could receive a lot more if more of his works were translated. That certainly counts as not getting enough.

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#12: Jan 2nd 2014 at 10:51:10 AM

[up]By that criterion, I'd include Pierre Corneille. I don't count Racine because in so many ways, his stuff is fundamentally untranslatable; but Corneille seems more like a guy whose works simply haven't yet found the right translator.

sabrina_diamond iSanity! from Australia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: LET'S HAVE A ZILLION BABIES
#13: Jan 2nd 2014 at 9:43:57 PM

Pretty much Neal Shusterman, his earlier book Mindstorms was at the peak of his creativity and yet his earlier anthology short stories were unheard of (Mindquake and Mindtwister), even though I got a copy of his book...

edited 2nd Jan '14 9:47:55 PM by sabrina_diamond

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#14: Jan 5th 2014 at 9:41:29 AM

Matt Ruff. Every book is a different genre/sub-genre and each of them is interesting and fun. Nick Harkaway who builds wonderful worlds with interesting characters and does wonderful Mind Screws

edited 5th Jan '14 9:47:19 AM by tricksterson

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#15: Jan 5th 2014 at 12:25:57 PM

I second Michael Ende. The worst thing is that most people know "The Neverending Story" movie, but how many have read the book? It is a masterpiece.

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#16: Jan 5th 2014 at 1:51:51 PM

K.J. Parker- a favorite of mine for whom I've created two pages.

Also, Joe Abercrombie (although he's fairly well known)

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rhea from Syracuse, NY, USA Since: Aug, 2010
#17: Jan 5th 2014 at 2:14:59 PM

Momo is good, there is a lot of heart in that book.

Aldo930 Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon from Quahog, R.I. Since: Aug, 2013
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#18: Jan 5th 2014 at 7:19:21 PM

The only book of his I own is The Night Of Wishes, which is a great read itself.

I have yet to find a copy of Momo.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#19: Jan 7th 2014 at 9:04:52 AM

I've read the Neverending Story a few times. I just wish Hollywood had...

Aldo930 Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon from Quahog, R.I. Since: Aug, 2013
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#20: Jan 7th 2014 at 12:15:45 PM

It's said that Michael Ende hated the first Neverending Story movie so much that he wanted his name taken off it.

I wonder how he reacted to the third...

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#21: Jan 8th 2014 at 2:59:57 PM

It's understandable...the movies, especially the sequels, are basically what he was writing against in the book. I nevertheless like the first one, with the exception of the ending scene when Bastian flies through the real world. They did so well up to this point....

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#22: Jan 11th 2014 at 6:28:42 AM

[up][up]Homicidal rage would be my first guess on that one.

Aldo930 Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon from Quahog, R.I. Since: Aug, 2013
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#23: Jan 11th 2014 at 11:16:30 AM

Given it was released in Germany near his death... Well, I'm not implying anything, but...

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
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#24: Jan 11th 2014 at 5:34:41 PM

Tor Seidler. Granted, I'm basing this entirely on The Wainscott Weasel, but not just any children's author can make me feel concerned for a one-eyed weasel.

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#25: Jan 13th 2014 at 6:37:06 AM

...but not just any children's author can make me feel concerned for a one-eyed weasel.

F'narr

edited 13th Jan '14 6:37:40 AM by InverurieJones

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'

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