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Authors you own the most books by?

Stephen King (by a very long way)
Reginald Hill
Lots of other horror and crime authors.
I can't do a count up because my parents took a load of my fiction to temporarily store in their attic (by which I mean most of it they are likely reading before it makes it to their attic) when I was trying to have a clear out last year
 
Boris Johnson. Someone gave me Life in the Fast Lane: The Johnson Guide to Cars as a joke, and my mum got me his Churchill book after we had an argument about whether he was a good writer or not.

Most of my other books I got rid of a while ago due to space issues, and the fact I don't normally ever read books more than twice. I have a few but all by different authors.
 
Stewart Home 14
Fred Vermorel 7
Karl Marx 6
Stefan szczelkun 6
Iain Sinclair 5
William Burroughs 4
Angela Carter 4

Yes I am a cliche.

The Szczelkun’s include 2 versions of an anthology I have a piece in though.
 
Fozzie Bear said:
Stewart Home 14
Fred Vermorel 7
Karl Marx 6
Stefan szczelkun 6
Iain Sinclair 5
William Burroughs 4
Angela Carter 4

Yes I am a cliche.

The Szczelkun’s include 2 versions of an anthology I have a piece in though.
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Im reading Stefans S's new one Silence at the moment - only short but I keep getting distracted
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SILENCE! The Great Silencing of British Working Class C…

This book argues that British working class urban cultu…
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Its good fun, presented in the style of a Power Point presentation
Its given me some theoretical weight to watching Harry Hills Tv Burp on youtube most evenings : D
 
ska invita said:
Im reading Stefans S's new one Silence at the moment - only short but I keep getting distracted
www.goodreads.com

SILENCE! The Great Silencing of British Working Class C…

This book argues that British working class urban cultu…
www.goodreads.com www.goodreads.com
Its good fun, presented in the style of a Power Point presentation
Its given me some theoretical weight to watching Harry Hills Tv Burp on youtube most evenings : D
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I’ve got that on the tablet (the new hoarding!).

I really like him and his approach to stuff. Conspiracy of Good Taste is a good one for class conscious music nerds and I think chilango might like it if he is on a Bordieu tip (not that I have read him)
 
Fozzie Bear said:
I’ve got that on the tablet (the new hoarding!).

I really like him and his approach to stuff. Conspiracy of Good Taste is a good one for class conscious music nerds and I think chilango might like it if he is on a Bordieu tip (not that I have read him)
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Diane Reay seems to rate it, and I rate her, so...

Thanks for the tip. Will add to my list :)
 
Douglas Coupland
Robin Hobb
Joe Abercrombie
Charles Bukowski

Would have been Robert Heinlein by a country mile, but a lot of them got damaged when they were in a box in the garage a few years ago, and I haven't replenished my collection.
 
Fozzie Bear said:
I really like him and his approach to stuff. Conspiracy of Good Taste is a good one for class conscious music nerds and I think chilango might like it if he is on a Bordieu tip (not that I have read him)
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Someone recommended that to me last year. I didn't think I'd heard of him and was a bit startled to discover that I had and why. However I'm afraid I hadn't even got through the introduction and my nose was wrinkling enough that I could hear my mothers warnings about it staying that way. It is an interesting book though and touches on interesting stuff. If people wanted to have a thread about it I'd be happy to take on the role of miserable old git :)

#playingtoyourstrengths
 
Shakespeare - over 20 + collected works (I studied Drama)
Iris Murdoch - 15 ish - most of her fiction
Anne Tyler 15ish - most of her fiction
John MacGahern - 10 - all of his work
D H Lawrence - all his works in collected volume and individual copies
Thomas Hardy - all his work in collected volume and individual copies
Marie Corelli - about 20 - (not a major fan but found one of her books with a fragment of an autographed letter in at a jumble sale and was 'persuaded' to take the entire collection. They were laying about on the grass and a ten year old was manning the book stall).
 
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I’ve only read But Beautiful. I didn’t like it at all. I know it’s acclaimed, but I hated it.
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That's one of his I've never read, but I think my partner, who is a big jazz fan, has a copy.

He's written one on photography (The Ongoing Moment) which is really good. My favourite is his portrait of young people living in South London in the early 80s (The Colour of Memory) which is evocative and beautifully written. Although one of the reasons I like it is that I was young & living in South London in the early 80s!
 
oryx said:
That's one of his I've never read, but I think my partner, who is a big jazz fan, has a copy.

He's written one on photography (The Ongoing Moment) which is really good. My favourite is his portrait of young people living in South London in the early 80s (The Colour of Memory) which is evocative and beautifully written. Although one of the reasons I like it is that I was young & living in South London in the early 80s!
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He’s got all the right credentials and influences, so I should be the right audience, but I just found it annoying.
 
Orang Utan said:
he comes off as such a cunt in that yoga book
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I also find his short travel and reporting pieces quite annoying. It's along time since I read that 'Yoga' book, but what I didn't like was that he was trying to portray himself as cool and edgy ("hey -I'm using magic mushrooms, acid and E, and talking about it really casually"). And it felt a bit like he was writing lifestyle escapist porn: titillating excitement for elements of a more timid general public, who are attracted by this lifestyle but don't have direct experience of it.

I guess there's a fine tradition of this kind of writing, but there's a certain smugness about his pieces that I found irritating. As if he's always thinking profound thoughts, being more of a druggy aesthete than his readers.
 
Yes, I definitely feel that Dyer has a 'cooler than thou' vibe about him! But I do like his prose style and his ability to capture the spirit of an era.
 
top 5 are:
Pratchett - 42
Raymond E Feist - 30
David Eddings - 21
Robin Hobb - 19
Marian Keyes -17

when people write in trilogies and that though it is much easier to build up a collection
 
I think this is my top 5:

Iain M Banks (11)*
Hergé (11)
Jamie Hernandez (9)
John Wyndham (8)
Hugo Pratt (6)

Unless you count The Complete Sherlock Holmes as separate books.

* I borrowed Matter from a friend when it came out in 2008 and it's still on my shelf, which I guess kind of makes it mine now...
 
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