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blind buying!!

honeydevil

honeydevil

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hey, i just couldn't find anything to give my opinion, so i just create a useless thread!!
confess your authors, whos books you would buy without knowing what the book is all about!!

mine is susan elizabeth Phillips ( i really get tired ot writing her name all the time :rolleyes: ) !! who are yours??
 
anything with fabio on the cover :eek:

just kidding
i would buy anything by
irving wallace and taylor caldwell
i have enjoy so far the books wrote by them that i have the chance to read.
but i not even close to had read half of the books they wrote.
 
I was just raving about Barbara Kingsolver, but that post got buried somewhere, I guess . (Who knows where I was...)

Annie Dillard

Anne Lamott

Barbara Vine

Isabelle Allende

John Irving

(to name a few...)


Would you go on a wait list for any of yours? Like a pre-buy list?

:rolleyes:
 
That's actually a good question!

I would buy anything by my fave authors without knowing what the book is about. Anyway, that's kinda interesting. Just leaving it to fate.. :)
 
StillILearn said:
Would you go on a wait list for any of yours? Like a pre-buy list?

:rolleyes:
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the hell NO!! i hate waiting!! and if the author can't write as fast as i read, it's not my problem!! :D
 
StillILearn said:
I was just raving about Barbara Kingsolver, but that post got buried somewhere, I guess . (Who knows where I was...)
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StillILearn, I think it was in the Author Discussion forum. But a quick way to find your posts: Click on your name in an active thread, then go to 'find all posts' and you'll see a list of all your posts. You can do this with any member to find their posts.

Authors I'd get: Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro
 
Eugen, me too on Le Carre. Though it's a bit of a crap shoot, I like to read them all anyway. He wrote a great autobiographical essay this year, which I think appeared in the NY Times book review or maybe The New Yorker.


Also, off the top of my head:

Ethan Canin
T. Coraghessan Boyle (highly recommend World's End)
Amy Tan
Joan Didion
Ian McEwan
 
novella said:
Eugen, me too on Le Carre. Though it's a bit of a crap shoot, I like to read them all anyway. He wrote a great autobiographical essay this year, which I think appeared in the NY Times book review or maybe The New Yorker.
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I like his plots, Novella, but sometimes his writing could be tighter. Always an entertaining read, though. Comes up with great pieces in between pages.
 
Thank you, Ell...

That is where I was! :)

I just finished re-reading "My Invented Country", and now I want to talk about it, so now I'm off to find the appropriate thread in which to do that!

;)
 
Oh I would probably buy ANY book by ANY of my fave authors. Every author is allowed to write a bad book so I expect to find one eventually by each and every author I love.
 
Bernard Cornwell (though not Sharpe) and Jean Auel are the two I can think of off the top of my head :)
 
Dan Brown - Bought his first book the same way ;)
Agatha Christie . . Superb Writer.

But I would also buy any book by my other Favorite Authors.
 
I would never buy a book just because it's by an author who I've read before & liked tbh. I will probably be more likely to read the synopsis for the new book however, if it doesn't appeal to me then I won't read it.

The reason for this is that I've read a lot of Dick Francis books & it got to the point that his newer ones are just a re-hash of others he'd written. It's the same with Barbara Taylor Bradford & Danielle Steele. In my opinion, they are flogging a dead horse.
 
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