Thread: Who among these fiction writers is your fav and why?

Originally Posted by mail2sc

any guy from Delhi who knows , where to find old fiction books??
i bought many from places near c.p but couldnt find them anymore....
sydney sheldon was my first love...i also read many soviet authors,,,specially about culture..those were 20 years old books...

anyone please help. i will be going to delhi in next two months...

any guy from Delhi who knows , where to find old fiction books??
i bought many from places near c.p but couldnt find them anymore....
sydney sheldon was my first love...i also read many soviet authors,,,specially about culture..those were 20 years old books...

anyone please help. i will be going to delhi in next two months...

just curious, yes the thing you wrote in your signature..i also believe in it..very personally...

Dear friend if you want books at dirt cheap rates then please visit Sunday Book bazaar at Daryaganj.Please note that it's a roadside market which is frequented by booklovers from all over the NCR.Sydney Sheldon available in plenty for 50-60Rs ..All the best.

I picked JRR Tolkien coz he is my fav.
@J4K. Have u read The Silmarrilion. It has no hobbits in it
My opinion about the rest
Dan Brown: Repetitive formula. The villian of the piece is usually someone very close to the main protaganist and i know this might be literary blasphemy but i did not like The Da Vinci Code. I mean its a good book but not great.
Sidney Sheldon: Have never really liked him. Even he uses a formula. Start with 3-4 characters in the present tense. Flashback to their pasts and pick up the threads in the end.
Jeffery Archer: Very good. Has written on diverse subjects my favorite book "A Twist In The Tale".
Arthur Conan Doyle: The problem with this author was that the character of Sherlock Holmes overshadowed all his other works. His horror/thriller stories are very good. eg : The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales.
JK Rowling: Very good with HP. But the question remains how can she live up to HP with her later books.
Agatha Christie: Very good. Childhood favourite (One warning please avoid reading "Passenger to Frankfurt"... I mean its sooooo slow...I remember looking for the word suddenly thru the book and reading from that point hoping that the book would pick up from that point....I finished the book b4 i realised that i had.... )but as J4k said can't remember the books beyond one month

The best choice will be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J K Rowling.

Reason : Simple, unless it is classic, it wouldn't have created waves.

If you check a book seller, he is sure to have both these authors, any where in the world. Both works are contemporary regardless of time in which it is written.

Both of them teach you something, the importance of character and hardwork . Once you read these books, you start feeling them around you. I bet the one who read sherlock holmes will start deducting each and everything. And Harry potter , i don't know a single person who haven't tried at least one of those spells ( in private of course).

I chose J K Rowling. At least she will receive royalty for those books that they sell. She deserves it for sure.

I don't know whether this writer comes in this category oe not... But i really like the work of Jeff Lindsay.. He wrote 4 books of dexter series.. They are..

• Darkly Dreaming Dexter
• Dearly Devoted Dexter
• Dexter in the dark
• Dexter By design

I'm yet to read Dexter By Design... No need to mention that adaptation of these books are successfully portrayed in TV in the form of Dexter (TV Series)

wow this is news to me

should check it out


book
Dexter kills serial killers

is nt he supposed to be 7 years old or something ?

Dexter TV series is different from Dexter's laboratory.

Originally Posted by ShAdOwCoN

wow this is news to me

should check it out


book
Dexter kills serial killers

is nt he supposed to be 7 years old or something ?

If you like thriller then do read those novels, Amazing is the word..Initially i saw the TV Series and i fell in love with that, and then i read all the novels, Aesthetically written..

Originally Posted by 18lama

Dexter TV series is different from Dexter's laboratory.

Quite obvious, But slight difference..

I got the Darkly Dreaming Dexter .....

Hope its a good read

Originally Posted by ShAdOwCoN

I got the Darkly Dreaming Dexter .....

Hope its a good read

I guarantee

JK Rowling would be my all time favorite... I remember how mesmerized I was when I used to read HP series...

After that John Grisham... Loved his court-room trials...

Next is Dan Brown... Well researched fictions...

I've read all the novels of Sidney Sheldon except one - "Sands of Time"... Credit goes to him for inciting me into novel-reading habit... Loved his female oriented stories...

Finally, Ian Fleming's James Bond novels... Reading a novel was like action packed adventure... Plus every novel had few unforgettable punch lines from James Bond...

Unfortunately, I've read only couple of novels from Agatha Christie and Jeffery Archer yet... So can't judge them...

OMG ! that was very bloody ...... cutting a human into pieces when he is alive !

That's the actual theme of this novel, Killing is in his vein, how he overcome(or i would say turn) that to good thing by eliminating anti-social elements from society... Yes it is bit brutal, but intot good reading (At least for me)

it did not have multi voting i love jeffrey archer agatha christie and sydney sheldon. loved reading - the mysterious affairs of style, the tuesday nightclub and the murder at the vicarage by mrs christie. naked face was one of my fav in school days enjoyed reading doomsday conspiracy , tell me your dreams and windmills of the god though i read all of mr sheldon's novels and when it comes to jeffrey archer certainly sons of fortune,cane and abel,prodigy daughter,as the crow flies and the eleventh commandment are the novels i really relished.

Originally Posted by cool_techie_tvm

So you are fan of XKCD..good

This thread is completely wrong.
How can we compare writers of different genre of fiction

Just for fun...

I like Jeffery Archer the most, especially his short stories collection. I liked his "Quiver full of arrows" and 'Cat o' nine tales". I did like Dan Brown;s Angels and Demons" but after I read the Da Vinci code and Digital Fortress, I found too many similarities in his approach - like Anagram solving, the role of a particular group - it is Opus Die in one and Illuminati in the other and so on. The other author I like is Ken Follet but he is not there ion the list.
Some of Sydney Sheldon's books contain a lot of obscene descriptions to the extent of being repulsive !!

Originally Posted by Admin

Hummm... Ive never read any fiction stuff ever... would like to one day

same here .

Originally Posted by Kangaroo

I like Jeffery Archer the most, especially his short stories collection. I liked his "Quiver full of arrows" and 'Cat o' nine tales". I did like Dan Brown;s Angels and Demons" but after I read the Da Vinci code and Digital Fortress, I found too many similarities in his approach - like Anagram solving, the role of a particular group - it is Opus Die in one and Illuminati in the other and so on. The other author I like is Ken Follet but he is not there ion the list.
Some of Sydney Sheldon's books contain a lot of obscene descriptions to the extent of being repulsive !!

I liked the "Quiver full of arrows" too... And you are right about Dan Brown... He has same theme in all the books... I heard his latest book, "The last symbol" (as the name suggests) is quite similar too... Sydney Sheldon's writing style is a bit seductive... often the protagonist is a female in his novels... Hence, it's interesting for the teenagers with high testosterone and estrogen levels...