Anonymous
06/30/2025 13:50
Subject: Your favorite author
Jhumpa Lahiri, and with a common of finding such subtle humor in their work, Elizabeth Strout, Edith Wharton, Colm Toibin
Anonymous
06/30/2025 13:48
Subject: Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ray Bradbury is a favorite, particularly his short stories.
+100.
I picked up Something Wicked This Way Comes last year after not having read any Bradbury since I was a teenager and loved it.
Anonymous
06/30/2025 13:45
Subject: Re:Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor Jenkins Reid mentioned twice? John Grisham? I mean, I love a good beach paperback for a mindless read, but as your favorite author? I had no idea DCUM was so downmarket
Since when is John Grisham “downmarket??!”
Fully respect everyone’s right to like what they like, but I think we can all agree John Grisham is no literary master.
I’d put him there with Michael Crichton. (I love Michael Crichton.) Really fun works, interesting, sometimes you learn something— but you’re not reading for the prose.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 23:58
Subject: Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ray Bradbury is a favorite, particularly his short stories.
+100.
+1000 I have a big collection of his books. Martian Chronicles is my favorite short story.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 22:05
Subject: Re:Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor Jenkins Reid mentioned twice? John Grisham? I mean, I love a good beach paperback for a mindless read, but as your favorite author? I had no idea DCUM was so downmarket
Since when is John Grisham “downmarket??!”
I mean, I love a whole range of authors but John Grisham has always been downmarket. I mean not down/est of markets I guess but for the dcum crowd, definitely mid to down. And I can completely enjoy John Grisham!
Anonymous
06/29/2025 22:00
Subject: Your favorite author
Im surprised no one has said Kristin Hannah!
Anonymous
06/29/2025 21:13
Subject: Re:Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor Jenkins Reid mentioned twice? John Grisham? I mean, I love a good beach paperback for a mindless read, but as your favorite author? I had no idea DCUM was so downmarket
Since when is John Grisham “downmarket??!”
Fully respect everyone’s right to like what they like, but I think we can all agree John Grisham is no literary master.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 19:03
Subject: Re:Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Taylor Jenkins Reid mentioned twice? John Grisham? I mean, I love a good beach paperback for a mindless read, but as your favorite author? I had no idea DCUM was so downmarket
Since when is John Grisham “downmarket??!”
Anonymous
06/29/2025 14:26
Subject: Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Ray Bradbury is a favorite, particularly his short stories.
+100.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 14:14
Subject: Your favorite author
Ray Bradbury is a favorite, particularly his short stories.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 14:08
Subject: Your favorite author
Anna Lee Huber. Though her writing is dense, her attention to detail is incredible and she does an inordinate amount of research for her books. I can’t help but buy everything she writes.
Anonymous
06/29/2025 09:26
Subject: Re:Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:My favorites include:
• John Grisham - because I really love legal thrillers.
And he is the master of them imo.
• Freida McFadden - her novels are easy to read + she really delivers on unexpected and unpredictable storylines.
I am addicted to her books 📚!
+1 I love this genre of books
Anonymous
06/28/2025 21:56
Subject: Re:Your favorite author
Taylor Jenkins Reid mentioned twice? John Grisham? I mean, I love a good beach paperback for a mindless read, but as your favorite author? I had no idea DCUM was so downmarket
Anonymous
06/28/2025 21:33
Subject: Re:Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Barbara Kingsolver. Some of her stuff gets a little preachy even for me, but most of it hits just right-- independent women making their way in the world through smarts and resolve, tending relationships, living with nature.
Everyone seems to have read the Poisonwood Bible, which I strongly disliked. Prodigal Summer is one of my all-time favorite books, and seems to be much less well-known. Go get it!
Only book that I did not like by Kingsolver was Demon Copperhead.
That is her best book. Just incredible.
I hated it! And I love her work AND David Copperfield.
Anonymous
06/28/2025 21:29
Subject: Re:Your favorite author
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Barbara Kingsolver. Some of her stuff gets a little preachy even for me, but most of it hits just right-- independent women making their way in the world through smarts and resolve, tending relationships, living with nature.
Everyone seems to have read the Poisonwood Bible, which I strongly disliked. Prodigal Summer is one of my all-time favorite books, and seems to be much less well-known. Go get it!
Only book that I did not like by Kingsolver was Demon Copperhead.
That is her best book. Just incredible.