Who’s your favourite classic author and your favourite contemporary author?
Who’s your favourite classic author and your favourite contemporary author?
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Who’s your favourite classic author and your favourite contemporary author?
Classic: Daphne du Maurier
Contemporary: Cormac McCarthy.
I like Du Mauriers atmospheric writing style and Mccarthy’s darkness ?
Wonderful Daphne du Maurier!
What is ” atmospheric” writing?
I don’t if it’s an actual term? I just think when I read her I get a good understanding of the atmosphere and the tension etc between her characters and in her locations
I think it’s a literary technique used to give readers a type of feeling based on details such as setting, background, objects etc. for example, ‘It was a dark, stormy night, the rain fell in torrents, a violent gust of wind swept up the streets’….. Mainly used to create an emotional effect.
Jane Austen – Diana Gabaldon
I was new to Austen. I kept putting her off as I assumed I wouldn’t like her books. I was wrong ?
Dickens – Palahniuk.
I just bought David copperfield a few days ago, I plan on reading that and bleak house this year. Have you read those two?
The first when I was too young, the second is my favorite (displacing Tale of Two Cities, which had been my favorite!).
@Chris great! I’ve been looking Forward to both ?
Bleak House has been referred to as the first novel which featured a detective as a major character. Very interesting.
@Chris I still love ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
Wilkie Collins-Dixie Cash
I’ve still not read anything by Collins yet ?
The Moonstone was quite good. Collins was a good friend of Dickens.
@Chris it’s been on my tbr list forever , I really need to get around to reading it.
The Woman in white is very good, too!
•Dostoevsky or Poe
•Terry Brooks or Bernard Cornwall
Dostoevsky is great , I love crime and punishment ?
The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov are my favorites.
@Emily I’ve just got brothers karamzov, it had been on my tbr list for awhile. Was going to read it last month but I read a few biggies last month ie les miserable and the stand so I thought I’d have a few pallet cleansers before my next biggie ??
Thomas Hardy – André Aciman
My favourite classic author is Jane Austen (I’m a romantic at heart) and my favourite contemporary is Nora Roberts.
Do you lile Anne Tyler?
To be honest, I’m.not a fan.of women’s fiction. But my taste may be changing!
I’ve never heard of her. I’ll look her up though.
Tastes do change. Before last year I’d never read a classic or a memoir and now I really enjoy them.
Hardy – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Great pick re Carlos Ruiz Zafon! Can’t wait for Labyrinth of Spirits to be released in September!
??Me too❗️
Jane Austen —- P.D . James.
Classic: Charles Dickens
Contemporary: Neil Gaiman
Finished my last Dickens book today
Charlotte Bronte – Annie Proulx
Classic: Thomas Hardy. Contemporary: none.
Classic : Upton Sinclair
Modern;
Philip Roth
John.Updike
Edna Ferber
Tenn. Williams
Toni Morison
Robert B. Parker
Theodore Drieser
Arthur Miller
August Wilson
Henry James/ Dave Eggers
George Eliot. David Mitchell.
Thomas Hardy/Jhumpa Lahiri
Ernest Hemingway. Carlos Ruiz Zafon (cemetery of lost book series). Runner up for fav contemporary authors are Jussi Adler-Olsson, C.J. Box, Brad Thor and Patrick Rothfuss!
Classic: Daphne du Maurier
Contemporary: Barbara Vine
Du Maurier is my favourite too ?. Rebecca and my cousin Rachel are especially good ?
@Sean Yes, I love those two! The next one on my list is The House on the Strand.
@Marie hope you like it, was my least favourite of hers but still well written. Jamaica inn is good too.
I have a load of favourite Classic Authors, I have never really gotten into modern authors
Old : : W. M. Thackeray
Newer :: Ray Bradbury
John Steinbeck (Classic) and Val McDermid (Contemporary)
I love Steinbeck, too.
do you have a fave Steinbeck novel? My fave is East of Eden (love the movie also) but every one of his seems to have a different style. I’ve read all his journals and letters also – they’re very illuminating!
Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden are my two favorites.
Yes, Grapes of Wrath is another fave of mine.
The movies for both books were excellent and were big money.makers at the box office.
absolutely!
Classic: Jane Austen. Current: Nora Roberts. Each one did something for my love of literature/expanding it (in their own special ways) so they became my favorites.
Charles Dickens and Stephen King
Classic, Trollope Contemporary C.J Sansom
Charles Dickens and Neil Gaiman