Author Meme

[karena]

Tagged by astrocrabpuff

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends choose.

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[helios137]

I once heard Issac Asimov give a speech in a local junior high school. He was brilliant, kind and not pretentious at all! He signed a couple of books of his that I had brought with me. A generous soul who had a curious and benevolent mind.

I don't know Hodgins, Rothfus or Connelly. Why are they on your list?

[karena]

Jack Hodgins is an excellent Canadian author. He writes a lot about BC, which makes me feel closer to that part of Canada. I still have a few of his books (I usually give my books away now) which I remember to be very evocative of sense of place, and he has a special sense of humour. I'd recommend The Invention of the World. I think he teaches creative writing: http://www.jackhodgins.ca/... )

[helios137]

Thank you very much. I checked the links and all three seem interesting!

[randomdreams]

Tolkien
CS Lewis
Kenneth Grahame
(these are roughly in order of when I first encountered them)
Salinger
Heinlein (influenced me at one time, but now I've swung pretty much in the opposite direction, but still, has to be listed)
John McPhee
Jane Austen
PG Wodehouse
Atul Gawande
Malcolm Gladwell
Barbara Kingsolver
Chuck Palahniuk
Michael Chabon
Seymour Hersch
Mark Kurlansky

[karena]

There are quite a few authors there who I have never read:
Kenneth Grahame, John McPhee, PG Wodehouse, Atul Gawande, Michael Chabon. Seymour Hersch, Mark Kurlansky. Why have they made an impression on you?

Just a quick 15.

[sooguy]

1. Philip K. Dick
2. Kurt Vonnegut
3. Mark Twain
4. H.G. Wells
5. Terrence Green
6. Ray Bradbury
7. Joseph Boyden
8. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Tim Powers
10. Ann Rice
11. Robert Sawyer
12. Stephen King
13. Mitch Albom
14. Robert Charles Wilson
15. Peter Watts

Re: Just a quick 15.

[karena]

I have still to read my first Dick. I know, I know. I LOVE the genre. I'd better get cracking!

Who are Terrence Green, Boyden, and Powers?

Re: Just a quick 15.

[sooguy]

PKD (Philip K. Dick) is a tough one to recommend a place to start. Personally I really like UBIK and "Eye in the Sky" that show his unique perspective on the universe, although Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was my first taste of Dick and fulfilling but very dense and depressing at points (actually most of his work saps your will to live!) I always make a personal rule never to read more than two PKD novels back to back for fear of becoming to morose

Re: Just a quick 15.

[karena]

Oh, that Boyden! I think I have ignored him because he is modern Canadian, and I have read so much Canadian stuff that I'm getting rather jaded about it all. :/ A lot of it is very boring!

[astrocrabpuff]

Excellent list!