duanja Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 What is your favorite writer? and is there a special book that you keep with you everywhere you go? My favorite writer : Hermann Hesse, Thich Nhat Hahn (as a zen poet), Milan Kundera My Special book : Siddhartha I am curious coz I need to give a presentation one of British or American author in order to validate my English skills, and then I realize that I don't read British- American much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibel Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 I don't read that much anymore .. but before I read a lot. American authors I loved to read were John Updike and Jerzy Kosinzky (I think I read all his books, the movie 'being there' with Peter Sellers is from his hand). And I also loved the' South-American writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa to name the most known and famous ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizardo Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 i did a degree in american literature..... so borrow my essays...haha.. hemingway, faulkner.... but fav is the outsider by camus... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 poe, plath and coelho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duanja Posted August 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook I read the Illusions in Thai, and the Jonathan Livingstons Seagull since I was teenage and totally forgot about them. I plan to present Oscar Wilde. His life is interesting. The problem is I read just The Picture of Dorian Gray, but not any of his plays. Maybe I switch to Richard Bach...at least I read two pieces of his works. Bravo...Bach is American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911nozomi Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 I'm studying japanese culture that s why I love japanese writers n fictions. The best in my mind is Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn. There are three book in set. Check it out ! http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/tales_of_the_otori/ Books of Babana Yoshimoto take occupy big space on my shelf. :shock: Just find out some books with same writer and title printed in US are cheaper than made in Japan. Poor me! I bough most of Yoshimoto s books aleady. Otsuichi made great works about crime and suspense. His works are considered " Violence "' But I found they are so awesome.. You can try " Goth" and ' "Natsu to Hanabi to Watashi no shitai " Patriotrism by Yukio Mishima made me feel sick in stomach about the story of a man commit suicide by harakiri. Someone said, Mishima made his story be real by his commit harakiri. J-books translated in Thai and many of english books are available to read for free at Japan Foundation, Sermmit Tower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocDre Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 Oscar Wilde,"the importance of being Earnest" it's a good play on words, and an easy play to read (no play on words intended with "play") You can't go wrong with John Stienbeck (American Classic) simple read in terms of vocabulary but intense character development. Cannery Row is good because its a novella like Siddhartha, and a quick read. Cheers!! Dre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Sassy Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 Dan Brown Dalai Lama Dr. Sidney B. Simon JRR Paulo Coelho Sarah Dessen and much more :oops: I love many writers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loburt Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 Gonna name someone who didn't write books. Red Smith. The master craftsman and true artist of the sport column. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anenglishman Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 In no real order 1) Evelyn Waugh, esepcially Brideshead Revisited though perhaps u have to be catholic to really get it 2) Anthony Powell, the series A Dance to The Music of Time 3) Tolstoy, anything he wrote 4) Jane Austen, on this at least my daughter and i agree 5) TS Eliot, The Wasteland 6)Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird One of the greatest things about literature is that we can each like different things and none of us are wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S123arpedon Posted September 27, 2006 Report Share Posted September 27, 2006 I love reading George Orwell. His writing style is so humble. Down and out in paris is brilliant. Keep the Aspidistra flying is also an excellent read although it is just downright miserable. I also re-read Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory which is still a great read. Ma Jian is also a writer i like to read. Red Dust took me a while, and a couple of tries to get into but once into it, it is a fantastic read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S123arpedon Posted September 27, 2006 Report Share Posted September 27, 2006 Forgot to add in Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth. Thats one book that usually travels with me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undercover Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 Recently, Platform by Michel Houelllebecq Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Less Recently: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Light in August by William Faulkner V by Thomas Pynchon The Red Queen by Matt Ridley The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Secret History by Donna Tartt My Secret History (and anything else by Paul Theroux) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul Power by Robert Greene Between Meals by A.J. Leibling Turn of the Century By Kurt Anderson The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Independence Day by Richard Ford American Tabloid by James Ellroy The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn Out on the Rim by Ross Thomas Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe and of course, the essential primer for all Bangkok Expats: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave40 Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 and of course, the essential primer for all Bangkok Expats: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Was the film Apocalypse Now sort of based on the above book, is it a good read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_love_som_tam Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 Roundfinger (¹ÔéÇ¡ÅÃ) - a thai writer about his traveling experiences.very funny Butterfinger... he writes about candy bars and easily dropped items. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duanja Posted March 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 I plan to present Oscar Wilde. His life is interesting. The problem is I read just The Picture of Dorian Gray, but not any of his plays. Maybe I switch to Richard Bach...at least I read two pieces of his works. Bravo...Bach is American. The importance of being Earnest is perfect, he's incredibly funny. http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Wilde/earnest/ Lane (the butler). .... I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. Algernon (sir). Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that? Lane. I believe it IS a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. Algernon. [Languidly.] I don?t know that I am much interested in your family life, Lane. Lane. No, sir; it is not a very interesting subject. I never think of it myself. Yeah....I read it last year. Pretty Tingtong guys and girls in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baboe Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 Don't read a lot recently (except for technical books :roll: but those are some of my favorites : Paulo Coulho Gabriel Garcia Marques Tolstoi Lieve Joris Joe Simpson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poul Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 The King Rama VI (Phra Mongkut Klao Chaoyuhua) ? His majesty written many short stories, plays, novels and translated a few plays of Shakespeare. Oscar Wilde John Irving S.P somtow (Thai) Nivate Gunthairath (Thai) John Irwing, absolutely! 'Cider House Rules' - amazing! Other of my own favourites: Hemingway, Steinbeck, Jack London, Dostojevskij, Nevil Shute, Joseph Heller, Elia Kazan and many many more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexanderdream Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 camus, dostoievski, houellebecq, murakami, ellroy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenS Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Book: Vernon God Little Author: DBC Pierre Best written novel I have ever read, every word adds something. No empty words. Along the lines of a dark satire like Fight Club and other Chuck Palahniuk but much better written. I have had people from 18 to 50 read it and say that is said that they it spoke to them and when they were in situations like the main character was in, which is what writing is, relfecting something back to people and have it connect with everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggyHoHum Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 David j. lieberman : get anyone to do anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann_Pattama Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 - John Grisham - Sophie Kinsella. - Jane Green. - Dan Brown. - Helen Fielding - Meg Cabot. - Mary Kay Andrews. - etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babyoiy Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 JRR Tolkien and Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton nad Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project Im joking, they are only writer i can think of.. apart from JK Rowling.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 i love James Joyce, especially his dirty letters to Nora Barnacle! writing dirty letters are just one of the many talents us irish have .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombiedriven Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Simon Hawke- Taming of the Shrew Mercadies Lackey- Healds of Valdimar TOLKIEN David Eddings Robin Cook and many others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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