Favorite Writers / Books ?

[Melissa Pink]

Originally Posted by SluttyShemaleAnna

Wahh, why's it gotta be my favourite one? Can I give a top 5 in no particular order? Ok, and restricting to fiction only I'll do non-fic later

Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick (can this count as 1/3 of a book as it's not a novel?)
The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
Strata - Terry Pratchett
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

Wahhh, Can it be a top 10?

ok, i'll just add A Scanner Darkly and be done...

Ok actually, I will pick a favourite; Mother Night, a totaly brilliant book, written as the autobiography of a nazi who wasn't a nazi, but also was a nazi. The book stands on it's truely brilliant creation on a confused and bizarre, but ultimately believable and relate-able character in an even more confused and bizarre world.

Ultimately I like scifi novels the best, I've never been one for classics or character/narrative driven books, I like concept driven books best, and sci fi delivers on that (by that I mean proper scifi though, not some space opera drivel, Dune fans, i'm ripping on you here...) , not that I don't like good narrative driven books, I just like it better when a book is less a story, and more a trojan horse for some unnatural thought process.

Phillip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut are two of my favorite writers. I like most of their work but "The Man in the High Castle" and "Mother Night" are two of my favorites. I like the social commentary of both men and the World War Two themes of both novels are especially relevant in today's turbulent world.

I read "Myra Breckinridge" by Gore Vidal years ago and really related to her.

My other favorite writer is Charles Bukowski. Anyone that has ever felt like an outsider in the "mainstream" world, been poor, drank too much, had gratuitous sex and worked a series of shit jobs can relate to Bukowski's life as illustrated eloquently in his prose and poems set mostly in Los Angeles in the 40's and 50's.