Authors you have read everthing by
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I dunno - a few lines that demonstrated what a Socratic dialogue was and probably some bits that illustrate what the basic tenets of Greek philosophy were - I was 17 and my mind was on more pressing matters.Donna Ferentes said:
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Cos you're pointing out someone else's 'mistake' without actually saying what it is - typical pedant behaviourDonna Ferentes said:
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Tish, man. You're making that up.Orang Utan said:
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Am I?
Kenny Vermouth
Wankers
Ivan Turgenev
Nikolai Gogol
Frederick Forsythe
Nikolai Gogol
Frederick Forsythe
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Kenny Vermouth said:
*chuckles*
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
There's a difference between the complete works and all the books in print, in some cases at least. JC2 you say you've read all of Henry Miller, but loads of his books aren't in print - at least in Britain - maybe they are in N. America.
I've read nearly all of Orwell (bar A Clergyman's Daughter) and nearly all of Hunter S Thompson (bar the semi-mythical The Curse of Lono). Douglas Adams, but that's not hard.
irishshapes have you really read all of Enid Blyton? I'm not sure whether to be impressed or pity you....
I've read nearly all of Orwell (bar A Clergyman's Daughter) and nearly all of Hunter S Thompson (bar the semi-mythical The Curse of Lono). Douglas Adams, but that's not hard.
irishshapes have you really read all of Enid Blyton? I'm not sure whether to be impressed or pity you....
ska invita
back on the other side
scifisam
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Neva said:
Obviously I meant that I'd read all the available works of his. I was going on the title of the collection that I read while staying at my friend's house (I'd read everything else she had, which is why I gorged on Salinger): 'The Complete JD Salinger Collection.'
I think I mentioned reading all of End Blyton too. There are thousands of the things. As a kid I thought I'd read them all, but then discovered I'd only read all of the older-child fiction, not the Amelia-Jane type stuff, so, for the sake of it, I went back and read all the younger ones. Years later I discovered still more that I'd never heard of, let alone read; perhaps they were releaased post-humously or something. Anyway, I read those too (I was teaching primary at the time), and now think that I have read all of EB, but I could be proven wrong again. The woman was an adventure-creating machine!
There are tons more authors that I've read the whole canon of, but I'm an English teacher who loves books and reads amazingy quickly - reading a whole canon is nothing to boast about in those circumstances.
Paris Garters
Apparently back.
Jane Austen, Ian Banks, Jeanette Winterson, Douglas adams.
Think that's it.
Oh, Ursula Le guin, too, although I'd love to be proved wrong on that.
Think that's it.
Oh, Ursula Le guin, too, although I'd love to be proved wrong on that.
rubbershoes said:
Finished Cormac's new one, The Road, last night.
Father and son struggling to reach the sea in a post-apocalyptic world with the planet's few survivors turned cannibal. No sun, no warmth, no food, no hope.
Possibly the darkest book I've ever read. With the odd ray of light.
Superb, can't recommend it highly enough.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Terry Pratchett, Alan Dean Foster, H Beam Piper, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frederick Pohl, Michael Moorcock, J R Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clifford Simak, Dean Koontz, Edmond Hamilton, EE Doc Smith, James Niven, Fred Saberhagen, Frederick Pohl, Poul Anderson, James Blish, James Butcher, James Hogan, James White, John Wyndham, Larry Niven, Lin Carter, Philip K Dick, Charles Dickens, Douglas Adams, Alistair Maclean, Michael Crichton, Frank Herbert, Harry Harrison, A Bertram Chandler, Ursula K LeGuin, Andre Norton, Leigh Brackett and Anne McCaffrey, Reasonably sure I have read all of theirs (helps that most of them are dead) There are some authors where I know I have read many but not all such as Stephen King, Terry Brooks, James Corey, Harry Turtledove, Suzanne Collins and a few others. One of those whose work will always have a special place in my heart is Lin Carter, my grandfather gave me one of his novels called The Man Without a Planet when I was 10, the first SciFi book I ever read and I was hopelessly hooked. I'm 63 now and have read loads since.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
knight with armour? count bohemond? winter quarters? elephants and castles? three's company?
JimW
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Yes, all of those, and the rarer ones like the one based on Elagabalus, plus Lady for Ransom, Conscience of the King and his other better known ones. Quite a few got reissued as ebooks which made things easier.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
devil's brood?
JimW
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Is that one of the Plantagenet ones, whatever king it was had the red mist bloodline? Rings a bell. Cunning of the Dove about Edward the Confessor is another slightly rarer one.
ETA Oh, just searched and it's Angevins not plantagenets, but yes, did read that, but as you can see, some time ago.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
think i've got cunning of the dove, might be the last one i haven't read
JimW
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Again, been a while (though a few I re-read every other year and will probably do so again) but recall it was quite good, another one where the narrator is a more minor figure close to events rather than the central personage.
JimW
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Pickman's model Just spotted the one I haven't been able to find while searching those others, He Died Old about Mithridates Eupator.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
lots of copies available, have a look on BookFinder.com: New & Used Books, Rare Books, Textbooks, Out of Print
JimW
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Will probably have to wait until I'm back in Europe or get someone at home to order it for me and post it out, BookFinder seems to block requests from here. Will be good as people often want an easy to send present and there's not much else I really want.
