FabSwingers.com forum: Favourite Author?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Whether it be horror, thriller, romantic or even comic book, whose the best in your eyes

For myself it has to be the great late Richard Laymon, started to read his books in my teens and continued until he sadly passed away, am yet to find another author who can even come close

Also love Mandasue Heller, she bases her books in and around Manchester, so they always some how seem real. If you like Marina Cole, give Mandasue a go

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Whether it be horror, thriller, romantic or even comic book, whose the best in your eyes

For myself it has to be the great late Richard Laymon, started to read his books in my teens and continued until he sadly passed away, am yet to find another author who can even come close

Also love Mandasue Heller, she bases her books in and around Manchester, so they always some how seem real. If you like Marina Cole, give Mandasue a go

Martina*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i have two.they are Nick Hornby and irving welsh.Both very different but touch the human side in me.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

love martina cole. my favourite one was 'The Take' but Sky 1 ruined it last year

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I have a dozen Martina Cole's I prefer here early stuff like Goodnight Lady, Broken and Dangerous Lady. Although I enjoyed the Graft and the Know, not as much though, then I came across Mandasue. I have The Take but haven't read it, I did see the series and enjoyed it but completely understand how it ruined it for you, they never do books justice. I had similar with The Green Mile and The Beach.

I do love Carrie the film, more than the book, so that's one plus

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By *_jkCouple
over a year ago

glasgow

just about pee myself laughing every time i read a christopher brookmyer!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"just about pee myself laughing every time i read a christopher brookmyer!

Will google him

I've just finished Adrian Mole - The Prostate Years, had a good chuckle to it

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"I have a dozen Martina Cole's I prefer here early stuff like Goodnight Lady, Broken and Dangerous Lady. Although I enjoyed the Graft and the Know, not as much though, then I came across Mandasue. I have The Take but haven't read it, I did see the series and enjoyed it but completely understand how it ruined it for you, they never do books justice. I had similar with The Green Mile and The Beach.

I do love Carrie the film, more than the book, so that's one plus

i think The Take was her hardest book yet, lots of things in it that make you go 'oh my god!!!'

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

I don't usually read Stephen King but have just battled through a great book of his called 'The Dome'.....really enjoyed it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To the OP, thanks for the heads up on Heller, will give her a try!

For pure amusement factor I still like Gilly Cooper, pure escapist nonsense, but fun!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Terry Pratchett and Louise L'amour

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"just about pee myself laughing every time i read a christopher brookmyer!

First ones of his I read were (I think) One fine day in the middle of the night? and Quite ugly one morning.

I love Isla Dewar and have all her books, was lucky to meet her as she lives locally too.

But I return over and over since my school days to Oscar wilde and Shakespeare.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

james patterson is one of the best i have read for along time.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"To the OP, thanks for the heads up on Heller, will give her a try!

For pure amusement factor I still like Gilly Cooper, pure escapist nonsense, but fun!

Your welcome, have never read a Gilly Cooper, but am a sucker for Jackie Collins

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh and Roddy Doyle... I had to stop reading one of his books in public once because I was laughing out loud all the time!

The commitments, The van, The snapper, early works of his but even now I love his writing. xxxx

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By *ertnbeckyCouple
over a year ago

oldham

george cornwell

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For us it has to be George McDonald Fraser at the moment,his series of Flashman books take some beating.

They're a mixture of historical fact,adventure and bawdiness,with a refreshingly liberal helping of Victorian type politically incorrect observations and humour thrown in........Brilliant!

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By *heekychezzaWoman
over a year ago

warrington

Don't think I could choose one author above all the rest....but one of my favourites is John Irving. Sometimes his books take a bit of time to get into...but once in....hooked to the last page.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"james patterson is one of the best i have read for along time."

I used to pre order his books. The last Alex Cross of his started it about a dozen times before abandoning it!

Now I enjoy David Baldacci, Lee Childs, Thomas Harris and Dan Brown. I've also read every McBain, Koonz, Herbert and King!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is so many, Janet Evanovich, Mark Billingham, Colin Forbes, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Alex Kava, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, Jonathan/Faye Kellerman.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jodi Picoult without a doubt. Beautifully written social commentary.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ye gods, all these authors I have read and love, from Irving Welsh to Homer.....I'm a book junkie.... thank you for bringing this thread up and I'm off to the cellar to dig out some of my favourite oldies from the boxes they repose in. xxxxxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Clive Barker

Iain Banks

William Gibson

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Terry Pratchett,

Robert Rankin,

Stephen King,

George Orwell,

Dan Brown (with a lil pinch of salt).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mark Billingham

Sue Grafton

Patricia Cornwell

Fate Kellerman

love crime novals

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh and I forgot the late great Douglas Adams.

How very remiss of me

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Editor of the Bella magazine..

fecking great read

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

James Herbert though hasn't released a new book for 4 years

Bernard Cornwell, great accurate historic fiction, also the Sharpe series

Allan Mallinson, similar to the Cornwell books

others to mention, Conn Iggulden, Kevin Lewis, Chris Ryan, Andy Mcnab, Jack Higgins, also read quite a few Biographies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Peter James - writes cracking English Crime Thrillers

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston

Julia Donaldson, author of 'The Gruffalo' and other kids books.

I know there kids books but I actually really enjoy reading them to my lad at bed time...

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By *iceguydaveMan
over a year ago

Monmouth

"Don't think I could choose one author above all the rest....but one of my favourites is John Irving. Sometimes his books take a bit of time to get into...but once in....hooked to the last page."

Chezza - good call, you've reminded me to go dig out 'a prayer for Owen Meany', I could read that book once a year for the rest of my life and never get tired of it.

On a lighter note, and cross referencing the zombie movie thread, I just read and hugely enjoyed 'world war Z' by Max Brooks.. bizarrely, the son of Mel...

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By *ipstickCouple
over a year ago

swansea

Terry Pratchett and Clive Barker

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

I like James Patterson, he is a shameless spewer of pulp fiction but I love his character Alex Cross.

His writing style is very easy to read with very short punchy paragraphs that appeal to my short attention span and low IQ.

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston

That 'God' chap did one once, but he seems to have stopped writing now...I was hoping for a sequel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love Martina Cole too, but like you I prefer her earlier stuff, also like Mandasue Heller. Others I can think of Lesley Pearse, James Patterson, Ian Rankin, Anne Rice (nobody will beat her with Vampire stories as far as I'm concerned!) and lets not forget the Beauty and the Beast stuff, her take on that story was most definitely interesting LOL My fave series I've read I think other than the Vampire chronicles would be Diana Gabledon's Cross Stitch series, I absolutely love Jamie and Claire and the way she weaves the Scottish history through it. Pearse does that a lot too, she weaves history into her stories. I love Stephen King too but I get nightmares when I read his stuff so I'm a bit wary :P Desperation is the one that spooked me the most, it gives me shivers just thinking about it!

Oh yeah and JK Rowling, love the Harry Potters! It's a bit like films, so many I can't remember them all

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

The books I have to have as soon as they are released is Barbara Erskine. Historical fiction but based on true historical people, great reads

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love mostly all books and author types (cept westerns) so could not possably pick one but Douglas Adams had a wee spot in my heart, just love the Dirk Gently books!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"james patterson is one of the best i have read for along time.

I used to pre order his books. The last Alex Cross of his started it about a dozen times before abandoning it!

Now I enjoy David Baldacci, Lee Childs, Thomas Harris and Dan Brown. I've also read every McBain, Koonz, Herbert and King! "

All of the above plus a side order of Clive Barker, and Brian Lumley's Necroscope series..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like the one who pulled the sword from the stone, the one with the round table

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