Book meme

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From uitlander:

Oscar Wilde
John Fowles
C.J. Cherryh (but i haven't read it because it bored me)
Umberto Eco
John Le Carre
Stephen Jay Gould
Douglas Adams
John Mortimer (I think)
Terry Pratchett (lots)
J.R.R. Tolkein (boring)
Stephen Fry
Iain Banks
China Mieville
Ben Schott
Mike Burrows

From rmc28:

Terry Pratchett
Arthur C. Clarke
Ursula K. Le Guin
Diana Wynne Jones
Robin Hobb / Megan Lindholm
Bernard Cornwell
Lois McMaster Bujold
Dick Francis
Georgette Heyer
Isaac Asimov
Michael Crichton
Edward Tufte
Richard Stevens
Donald Knuth
Greg Egan

So, 5 and 5...

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Hah. Yes, it's not a short book - quite long for its time - and it's got a density to it that's a real pain if you're more fond of 'things happening'. I'm usually a great fan of story, so Cherryh is probably my major exception. It's not that things don't happen, more that she concentrates on character interaction - with each other, and with the circumstances they find themselves in. Somehow she sucks me in to that in a way that other writers just don't.

Strip all that out, and you have a quite short book of pure story.

Perhaps you'd click now, or it could be another ten years, or perhaps never.