Authors you own the most books by?

[geminisnake]

Surprised at the prevalence of Thomas The Tank Engine - wasn't a part of my childhood, and even if it was, they would have been long disposed of

Son watched the videos, think he had a couple of books but TTTE was the first thing he actually sat down to watch as a toddler, I was so happy to finally have something I could get him to sit still for!!

PTK I think I was about 23 when I first read Light Fantastic

 

[PTK]

Son watched the videos, think he had a couple of books but TTTE was the first thing he actually sat down to watch as a toddler, I was so happy to finally have something I could get him to sit still for!!

PTK I think I was about 23 when I first read Light Fantastic

Have you read The Long Earth books by Terry Pratchett?

 

[geminisnake]

Have you read The Long Earth books by Terry Pratchett?

Ooooh!! No, I haven't, didn't know they existed til you posted, thanks, will need to get the library onto those!! It'll give me a break from the JD Kirk books I'm reading the whole lot of(they are good, both the Hoon ones and the Jack Logan ones)

 

[PTK]

Ooooh!! No, I haven't, didn't know they existed til you posted, thanks, will need to get the library onto those!! It'll give me a break from the JD Kirk books I'm reading the whole lot of(they are good, both the Hoon ones and the Jack Logan ones)

The Long Earth books are not comedy, they are serious science fiction.
I read the first one, and it was quite entertaining, but it was poorly imagined, in my opinion.
It is about a series of parallel Earths to which people travel.
There is also Long Mars.

 

[stdP]

A more exhaustive search of my bookshelves confirms (but Jesus H Tapdancing I need to organise better) - if you consider collections of comics as a book/author combo that is - I have confirmed a surprise new entry at number 1 - my parents have been buying me a Matt (he of the cartoons of the torygraph) Of The Year for christmas every year since, it seems, 1996... so I think that puts Matthew Pritchett in to the running with a grand total of 27 wee tomes :O This is probably not the greatest new to ingratiate myself with urban but it's the cold, hard truth. And I still find Matt amusing and relatively human compared to the utter batshittedness of his parent publication.

Behind Matt, Graham Oakley and PKD comes Margaret Atwood, Terry Pratchett and Neal Stephenson. I was honestly surprised to find my Atwood beat Pratchett but it looks like I got most of my pterry in my head from the library rather than actually buying all the books - a shame, since it looks like they've re-done all the iconic covers with... less iconic covers

If I could find them, probably next up would have been Jack Chick at a guess. I've been happy to pick up and digest his delectable world view via his Tracts over the years, haw haw! I imagine they're hidden in the same dusty cupboard as my Sithrak Tracts in order to hopefully confuse future [archa|th]eologists.

I loved those as a child! Vividly remember the trendy vicar.

I still find myself getting lost in the beautiful pictures every once in a while, and loving the dry disconnect between what goes on in the writing versus what's being depicted. Works of subtle genius IMHO.

 

[nogojones]

Is it true that the company can delete them from a kindle even if you have bought them?

IIRC I think on a Kindle, Amazon can, and has deleted books in the past.

If you use a tablet instead with an e-reader app, then they can't do shit. Plus all the books are free

 

[Dom Traynor]

I own pretty much all the works of Ken MacLeod, Charles Stross, Iain M Banks and Adam Roberts. Yes I am a socialist SciFi fan, why do you ask? They plus Tintin and Asterix are probably my biggest runs of single authors by a long shot.
Women authors I have all the books Claire North has written under that name, plus all of Nnedi Okerafors and NK Jemisen.

 

[Dystopiary]

Oliver Sacks I think,

Secondly, I think, Edward Said. (A lot of my books are currently packed away.)

 

[hitmouse]

IIRC I think on a Kindle, Amazon can, and has deleted books in the past.

If you use a tablet instead with an e-reader app, then they can't do shit. Plus all the books are free

Oh yeah, it was ages ago so I'd forgotten it, but they did once go around deleting everyone's copies of 1984. Hate to hand it to Amazon but that is pretty funny:

Amazon Kindle users surprised by 'Big Brother' move

Owners of Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader are protesting after they were mistakenly sold illegal copies of George Orwell's books - and then saw them deleted from their gadgets without their knowledge

www.theguardian.com

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

IIRC I think on a Kindle, Amazon can, and has deleted books in the past.

If you use a tablet instead with an e-reader app, then they can't do shit. Plus all the books are free

I have thousands of e-books i obtained for free and i use my kindle to read them