I was thinking that this may be the opportunity I have been looking for to try expanding my reading into other areas
.
A lot of these authors are straight off my own lists
And my new list is out full with comments!
My new list, 102-200 is
HERE
My old list 1-101
HERE
Anyways, to your authors listed:
-Aldiss, Brian
Exceptional SF writer loved his
Hellicona work which includes
Helliconia Spring
Helliconia Summer
Helliconia Winter
Sometiimes hard to egt a hold of very good, also do not sleep on on
Starship
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Asimov, Isaac
Legend. I'm not an entirely huge fan of Hard SF, but that said his
Foundation series is requried reading.
-Austen, Jane
Going through a bit of a revival with the popualrity of
Susanna Clarke (at least in regards to getting mentioned) and her noting teh influence of Austen. I think the novel we all knwo is
Pride and Prejudice.
-Bradbury, Ray
Legend.
The Martian Chronciles are must read SF,
Farenheit 451 utopian novel that is a classic of its ilke
A Brave New World by
Huxley, and
1984 by
Orwell, all owing to
Jack London (which I will mentioned under
London)
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Card, Orson Scott
Enders' Game was huge when it came out, I haven't read his fantay stuff but I love the
Ender series. Good, fun reading, that is just thoughtful enough at time to keep you hooked.
Ender's Game is a classic.
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
-Carroll, Lewis
Through the Looking Glass and
Alice in Wonderland, the shrewd shopper gets the editons with
Mervyn Peake's illustrations.
-Clarke, Arthur C
Read
Rendevouz with Rama
-Crichton, Michael
I have heard him speak, he's a brilliant guy; his books iMHO are trash however except for
Sphere.
-Dick, Philip K
Maybe the best ever IMHO. The WWII Alt/History
Man in the High Castle is a absolute classic.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch may be my favortie work by PKD, and
A Scanner Darkly is being made into a movie soon.
-Dickens, Charles
Trivia time who wrote the the first shared-world fantasy? Dickens, I foud nthat out and bought a first print of
Mugby Junction
Interesting piece for a collector.
-Doyle, Arthur Conan
Holmes obviously, after discussing him with another author recently avoid his later works when he became a philanthropist. Awful work.
-Gibson, William
Him and
Sterling (hmm credit Moorcock) the masters of cyberpunk.
Neuromancer,
Pattern Recognition are my favorites btu I also enjoyed
Idoru
-Heinlein, Robert A
I have a profound respect for
Heinlien, but not as much as others, his YA titles just inhibited my total loyalty, however that aside two of his novels are IMHO exampels of the some of the greats
Stranger in a Strange Land ,
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
-Herbert, Frank
Dune is awesome and he still the only writer to ever write a good Duen novel. My
Dune first print, is the unquestioned jewel of my collection.
-Huxley, Aldous
I mentioned him above, author of
A Brave New World, utopian classic.
-Koontz, Dean
I can't admit to having comprehensive knowledge of the work, but I'm about as impressed as I am with
Dan Brown, which is not at all.
-Lewis, CS
Great when I was a kid, a sure classic, now a noticable religous undertone with deep toryism elements that make this series hard to want to read.
-London, Jack
Everoen is going to mention books like
The Call of the Wild, which is solid but his
masterpiece was a utopian novel, that influenced
Orwell, Huxley, and
Bradbury, and was
Iron Heel.
Star Rover is an interesting read as well, leave all that outdoor stuff for the birds and yuppies.
-Lovecraft, HP
Great, perhaps unparralled imagination, who wasn't as succesful at buidlign a story it implementing them. Still a genius, Just buy any collection.
-Machiavelli, Niccolo
Everyone knows about the
Art of War, and
The Prince (hopefully) read
Discourses on Livy.
-McCaffrey, Ann
I can't deny how prolific she was nad I did enjoy
Pern very much...but stared loosing interest after the 150th book or so.
-Niven, Larry
An author I am ashamed for not reading yet who gets lauded everywhere.
Ringworld is supposed to be fabulous.
-Norton, Andre
Pioneer? Yes and may she rest in peace, however I never found anything exceptional about the work.
-Orwell, George
Been touched on,
1984 and
Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allan
His Augie is the inspiration for
Doyle's Sherlock Holmes!
-Rowling, JK
There is not much to expliin, fun series, doesn't take a lot to read, good entertainment. Not profoud in anyway but dam nentertaining.
-Sagan, Carl
I've only read
Contact, which I loved. Isn't there a Jodie Foster movie?
-Shakespeare, William
I don't deny the talent; I just can't stand the product.
-Stevenson, Robert Louis
The supposed classic are
Treasure Island and
Dr. Jerkly and Mr. Hyde (which are good). His
best works are his collected short stories.
-Twain, Mark
I read the bulk of
Twain's work when I was younger,
Tom Sawyer was good,
Huckleberry Finn is a legitiamte contender for best American novel, and
Joan of Arc is underappreciated.
-Tzu, Sun
I like this work to but like
Machiavelli, these works are works we read it seems because were supposed to.
-Verne, Jules
I'm not discounting his imapct or significane, or even saying teh boosk are sub-par, There just not that exceptional IMHO when viewing it from a non-historicaly significant context.
-Weis, Margaret
Garbage. The mere inclusion is insulting to the others on the list.
Wells, HG
i'm sure I'm not the only person rereading
The War of the Worlds right now
The true masterpiece however is
The Island of Dr. Moreau IMHO.
Some great allegory in heree. One of my personal favorites by him is The Screwtape Letters, written based upon "letters" written by a senior devil to his nephew, advising him on how best to get Christians to sin. Mere Christianity is a great theological work that I recommend, as well.
(Except Hellstrom's Hive.) Awesome.
