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EJinVA
Number of posts: 2055
Age: 43
Location: Virginia
Tobacco: FVF
C&D Manhattan Afternoon
Pipe: Briar please.
Registration date: 2008-09-30
 |  Subject: Favorite Author/s  Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:49 am | |
| A couple to get things started: I have enjoyed reading John Steinbeck since I was a teen. I fell in love with the Jack Reacher Series by Lee Child just last year while I was laid up after foot surgery. Read the whole series(1-11) in a couple of months, there are a couple more out now.  
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Puff Daddy
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 2021
Age: 45
Location: South of heaven
Tobacco: Uhle's Perfection Plug
Pipe: Castello lust, big time.
Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: Favorite Author/s Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:49 pm | |
| John Steinbeck is an all time favorite, as is Albert Camus. A couple of fly fishing writers who manage to to use fly fishing as a vehicle to orate on life (easy for them because they live fly fishing) are among my favorites, their styles just draw me in - John Geirach and Thomas McGuane. I also enjoy Garrison Kiellor very much.
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davearob
Number of posts: 7
Age: 50
Location: Red Deer Alberta Canada
Tobacco: Still experimenting
Pipe: need to get more
Registration date: 2009-02-27
| | Subject: Re: Favorite Author/s Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:35 pm | |
| I am an avid fly fisher as well and get a real kick out of John Geirach. Steinbeck is another of my favorites. Lately I have been reading Conrad again. I enjoy him a lot more now than 25 years ago when I first read him. Perhaps its because I am more patient now. |
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Idlefellow
Number of posts: 37
Location: The Kansas Prairie
Registration date: 2009-02-24
| | Subject: Re: Favorite Author/s Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:59 am | |
| I've been on a Cormac McCarthy kick lately; just bought Outer Dark yesterday. Recently I began reading (for the first time  ) William Faulkner's short stories. I enjoy William G. Tapply; he writes a couple of neat mystery series (Brady Coyne, a fly fishing lawyer, for one) as well as hunting and fishing stuff.
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There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do...Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. - Jerome k. Jerome
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HistoryMajor
Number of posts: 551
Age: 20
Location: Alberta, Canada
Pipe: Blatter Slight Bent Smooth
Registration date: 2009-01-11
| | Subject: Re: Favorite Author/s Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:27 pm | |
| | Quote: | | I fell in love with the Jack Reacher Series by Lee Child just last year while I was laid up after foot surgery. Read the whole series(1-11) in a couple of months, there are a couple more out now. |
Top quality. If you haven't read them, I'd highly recommend anything by David Morrell. Sort of similar types of characters and story. Really great reads, in my opinion.
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Events of the past, if not forgotten, are teachings about the future - Sima Qian
If liberty means anything at all, it is the freedom to say things that people do not want to hear
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Texas Outlaw
Number of posts: 1118
Age: 36
Location: south Texas
Tobacco: VA
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English
Pipe: Canadians
Registration date: 2009-03-27
| | Subject: Re: Favorite Author/s Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:51 am | |
| I'm impressed. I was starting to think that as a pipe smoker, I was expected to read only hardback books that no one else had ever heard of. I have read Steinbeck and enjoy his work. I lean more towards the macabre. Stephen King Anne Rice Robert McCammon |
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paddy-boy
Number of posts: 211
Age: 31
Location: Birmingham, AL
Tobacco: Balkan Supreme
Pipe: Peterson System 312 rustic
Registration date: 2009-01-28
| | Subject: Re: Favorite Author/s Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:53 am | |
| Walker Percy followed closely by Edgar Allen Poe, who is followed closely by James Joyce. |
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EJinVA
Number of posts: 2055
Age: 43
Location: Virginia
Tobacco: FVF
C&D Manhattan Afternoon
Pipe: Briar please.
Registration date: 2008-09-30
| | Subject: Re: Favorite Author/s Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:54 am | |
| Almost forgot, another all time favorite is Charles Dickens.
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"...So it shall be for all time. If discord has broken out between two beings, let them smoke together. United by this bond, they will live in peace and friendship thereafter."
-attributed to the Great Manitu, the Great Spirit
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wintermute
Number of posts: 28
Age: 34
Location: Long Island, NY
Pipe: Peterson #68 Donegal
Bjarne Skagen Billiard
Registration date: 2009-04-21
| | Subject: Re: Favorite Author/s Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:15 pm | |
| The two authors I keep going back to are William Gibson and Philip K. Dick. I guess they'd be considered science fiction, but of a different grain than is typically expected. On the macabre side of things, Stephen King and especially H.P. Lovecraft rarely disappoint. As far as weird fiction, I love Dino Buzzati. Hard to find him in English, but he's right up there with Kafka. Some of the best military histories I've read: The First World War by John Keegan Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner |
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