[AuntiePam]

Authors we buy by name, without checking the blurb?

In the fantasy/SF/horror genre:

Stephen King
Peter Straub
Dan Simmons
George R. R. Martin
Simon Clark
Jonathan Carroll
William Browning Spencer
Thomas M. Disch
David L. Martin
John Shirley

Out of genre:

Ron Hansen
Larry Watson
Larry McMurtry
Cormac McCarthy

[Cadfael]

Gratch... have you read any of The Brother Cadfael Mysteries by Ellis Peters, very good who-dun-its set in the time of King Stephen.

I have also just ordered some books of this type by a guy called Paul Doherty...Corpse Candle and The White Rose Murders, there is another, but I can't remember it yet. He is being heralded as the natural successor to Ellis Peters



[This message has been edited by dennizm (edited June 05, 2001).]

[gratch]

I love the Ellis Peters books though at the moment i have seen more on TV than i have read. I find they are better to read than watch.
I have read a few of Paul Doherty and they are brilliant, especially one revolving around Robin Hood - Assasin in the Greenwood.
Have you read any Michael Jecks? He is definately the best for me, he writes so well you can really get a 'feel' for the medieval.

[Cadfael]

I have not read any of his, but I will be checking him out... thanks for the recommendation, it has actually surprised me how many writers there are doing this type of book, when I started out on Ellis Peters, I think she was the only one...

... I also like present day murder mysteries as well, notably the Morse books from Colin Dexter

[Cadfael]

Gratch... I was in town yesterday, and I picked up The Last Templar and The Merchant's Partner by Jecks... I will let you know when I have read them, but they do look good according to the blurb.

[Arty]

I read alot of mysteries......mostly historical....Ellis Peters, Anne Perry, Candace Robb.....also Tony Hillerman, Katherine ONeal Gear, Elizabeth Peters, Lillian Jackson Braun
Out of mysteries I love Hemingway, F.Scott, John Knowles, and Mr Shakespeare.

I enjoyed King's: Dark Tower. Did anyone read The Talisman he wrote with Peter Straub?That was a good one.

[MajicK]

I think I am a bit biased because I love Hannibal Lecter, but I recommend Thomas Harris' series on him to everyone. Read them all, they are FANTASTIC to each detail.

The Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal

[tamlyn]

mystery
world war 3/secret agents. i'm obsessed. (although when my mum read a book after me, umm The Aquitaine Progression, she was rather shocked and didn't know how i liked it.)