Big Dick McGee
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During the writer's strike, I started reading books again. I mean, I'd always been in the midde of one book or another, but usually TV dominated, and I'd read for maybe a half-hour before bed.
During the writer's strike, I dusted off my library card, and started reading voraciously. I average 3 500-page books a week.
Most of the time, I just went into the library with nothing in mind, maybe just looking for a book that got a good review in Entertainment Weekly.
In taking this approach, I've discovered some authors I was unfamiliar with.
Stephen Hunter is a great thriller/action writer, and his characters are larger-tha-life but certainly not morally infallible.
Jodi Picoult writes about hot-button issues without being preachy. Her novels are those rare books that make you think and feel and care and invest yourself in the characters, even if you don't like them.
Brad Meltzer is a solid, no-flash thriller writer whose ideas are, frankly, a little more fleshed out than his characters.
Jeff Abbott writes thrillers about regular people thrust into irregular situations. They make mistakes, and people-main characters, no less-die as a result.
Cormac McCarthy is a genius. No Country for Old Men was phenomenal, and The Horse Whisperer was even better. Gotta get my hands on The Road soon.
Stephen King has reached a new level of skill. I had been a fan since high school, but drifted away from his books after Needful Things, a book I often referred to as Dreadful Things. I got back into King because of the stellar Dark Tower novels, then bought Duma Key because I had a coupon. GREAT book. I've since devoured Hearts in Atlantis, From a Buick 8, The Cell, and The Girl who loved Tom Gordon.
Can anyone recommend any good authors, whose work is evenly good? I loved A Simple Plan by Scott Smith, but I thought The Ruins was pretty boring and self-indulgent. Any recommendations are very welcome!
During the writer's strike, I dusted off my library card, and started reading voraciously. I average 3 500-page books a week.
Most of the time, I just went into the library with nothing in mind, maybe just looking for a book that got a good review in Entertainment Weekly.
In taking this approach, I've discovered some authors I was unfamiliar with.
Stephen Hunter is a great thriller/action writer, and his characters are larger-tha-life but certainly not morally infallible.
Jodi Picoult writes about hot-button issues without being preachy. Her novels are those rare books that make you think and feel and care and invest yourself in the characters, even if you don't like them.
Brad Meltzer is a solid, no-flash thriller writer whose ideas are, frankly, a little more fleshed out than his characters.
Jeff Abbott writes thrillers about regular people thrust into irregular situations. They make mistakes, and people-main characters, no less-die as a result.
Cormac McCarthy is a genius. No Country for Old Men was phenomenal, and The Horse Whisperer was even better. Gotta get my hands on The Road soon.
Stephen King has reached a new level of skill. I had been a fan since high school, but drifted away from his books after Needful Things, a book I often referred to as Dreadful Things. I got back into King because of the stellar Dark Tower novels, then bought Duma Key because I had a coupon. GREAT book. I've since devoured Hearts in Atlantis, From a Buick 8, The Cell, and The Girl who loved Tom Gordon.
Can anyone recommend any good authors, whose work is evenly good? I loved A Simple Plan by Scott Smith, but I thought The Ruins was pretty boring and self-indulgent. Any recommendations are very welcome!
Someone gave me a box full, I thought I had them all, I see I'm missing the last 5. They are more interesting than the synopsis and there are little bits of quirky humor all over.
