To those of us who love reading fictional literature.

[Metalhead]

I recently finished reading "Factotum" by Charles Bukowski, I need to read more by him ASAP.

Another favorite writer of mine is Anton Chekov.

Who do you love to read in your spare time?

 

[Outdated]

For me it was always the dungeons and dragons type fantasy stories, with a few science fiction thrown in to mix it up a bit. And the occasional action thrillers like Clive Cussler too.

 

[honeytoast]

I've been wanting to read 'Love Is a Dog from Hell' by him. It's been on my 'to read' list for awhile.

 

[honeytoast]

As for authors - I don't really have anyone specific I love. I gravitate towards historical fiction + regular fiction. I've been reading a lot by Japanese authors these days.

Haruki Murakami is okay. I enjoyed 1Q84 a lot, but the rest of his stuff isn't that great to me. Especially Norwegian Wood. What a waste of my time.

 

[DrBadStrings]

James SA Corey and The Expanse series is amazing sci-fi. 9 books and a collection of short stories in the series. Currently on book 8.

I also really enjoy and hate Raymond E Feist for fantasy. I only say hate because he infuriates me with cliff hangers and twists I didn't see coming.

Then there is Chuck Palahniuk. Author of Fight Club and so many better and equally bizarre works of fiction that are all heavy social critique.

And I cannot forget the brilliance that was Kurt Vonnegut. Also scathing social commentary.

 

[Rocco]

I've been wanting to read 'Love Is a Dog from Hell' by him. It's been on my 'to read' list for awhile.

It’s pretty good, and is a great follow up to “Women” as lots of the poems in it (Love is a dog) are based on characters in women. These works have an interesting but vulgar view of women at times.

I like to read a lot of different stuff, some favorites are Louis L’Amour. H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, Stephen King’s early and mid career, and novels from the World of Darkness based on various WOD rpgs.
I recent read Love is a Dog from Hell and Women from Bukowski, Dark Canyon by L’Amour, and started re-reading Splendour Falls a collection of short stories about WOD changelings.

 

[Markness]

William Gibson, Clive Barker, and S. Andrew Swann have been on my regular novel readings lately.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Asimov, Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, C S Lewis, et al.

 

[honeytoast]

It’s pretty good, and is a great follow up to “Women” as lots of the poems in it (Love is a dog) are based on characters in women. These works have an interesting but vulgar view of women at times.

I like to read a lot of different stuff, some favorites are Louis L’Amour. H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, Stephen King’s early and mid career, and novels from the World of Darkness based on various WOD rpgs.
I recent read Love is a Dog from Hell and Women from Bukowski, Dark Canyon by L’Amour, and started re-reading Splendour Falls a collection of short stories about WOD changelings.

I have heard of 'Women' but didn't know there was a connection with the book I wanted to read. I'm not much of a poetry reader. The title of "Love is a Dog From Hell" grabbed me.

 

[Jeff T]

I just finished the Robert Crais' Elvis Cole series of detective novels (set in LA).
Right now on the seventh book of John Sandford's Lucas Davenport novels and spinoffs
Last year finished the Lee Child's Reacher series; also the various Child/Preston books-
the semi-individual novels as well as the Pendergast series.
Several other series......

Nothing particularly cerebral.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Yes, John Sandford’s novels are entertaining, also
Carl Hiaasen
CJ Box
Octavia Butler
Mari Jungsted

And many more

 

[Mr. Stevens]

I recently finished reading "Factotum" by Charles Bukowski, I need to read more by him ASAP.

Another favorite writer of mine is Anton Chekov.

Who do you love to read in your spare time?

Bukowski is cool. The one I have is called Open All Night. In some ways he's like the Beats, but without the pretense. And it's neat that he was just a postal worker, writing about his everyday life.

Chekov is also a favorite. I'm more familiar with the short stories. I really love "At Home."

As for authors - I don't really have anyone specific I love. I gravitate towards historical fiction + regular fiction. I've been reading a lot by Japanese authors these days.

Haruki Murakami is okay. I enjoyed 1Q84 a lot, but the rest of his stuff isn't that great to me. Especially Norwegian Wood. What a waste of my time.

I don't know which other Japanese authors you've read, but I love Junichiro Tanizaki and Shusaku Endo, if you haven't tried them.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

My favorite authors:

Junichiro Tanizaki
Toni Morrison
Jeanette Winterson
Julian Barnes
William Trevor
Virginia Woolf
H.G. Wells (not just the sci-fi books)
Elizabeth Taylor
Naguib Mahfouz
Franz Kafka
Jorge Luis Borges
Pablo Neruda
William Carlos Williams
James Joyce
Samuel Beckett
Joseph Conrad
Elizabethan/Jacobean drama (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster)
Honoré de Balzac
Emily Dickinson
Heraclitus
Sigrid Undset
Harold Pinter
William Maxwell
David Malouf
Marianne Moore
Pär Lagerkvist
Italo Calvino
Rimbaud/Verlaine/Baudelaire

 

[FayetheAspie]

Mystery series