Friday at work means...

[aquabean]

I get nothing done.

So I bring you another meme:

Instructions: Take this list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves, and bring the list up to ten by adding some more that do. New paragraph indicates newly-added authors.

J.K. Rowling
William Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tanya Huff
Ernest Hemingway
E.L. Koningsburg
John Steinbeck
Thomas Merton
Agatha Christie

Comments

[nightfallrising.livejournal.com]

J.K. Rowling
William Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett

Geoffrey Chaucer
Rex Stout
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dianna Wynne Jones
Robert Graves
Mercedes Lackey
Dorothy Sayers

If you like mysteries at all, give Sayers and Stout a try (Doyle needs no promptings, I hope ^.^) It's always possible that we have different tastes, but damn those two are good. Yummy munchy snappy prose with 'tecs who know what words are for.

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

(could seriously play this game all day)

J.K. Rowling
William Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dianna Wynne Jones
Dorothy Sayers

James Thurber
P.G. Wodehouse
Barbra Kingsolver
Edward Gorey

Sayers is always good times! Or well, the couple of things I've read have been great. Heh. And Doyle? Of course! Not many people read Thurber any more, but if you want trully inspired humour, he's your man. If I ever start posting the stories I written about my family, you'll see I've hijacked his style.

[nightfallrising.livejournal.com]

(Dresses Bertie up in sparkly bishop's hat, but gives Jeeves the pendant)

Hmmm....

J.K. Rowling
William Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dianna Wynne Jones
Dorothy Sayers
P.G. Wodehouse

George Bernard Shaw
Jane Austen
Pamela Dean

(is enjoying this)

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

*has finally found a worthwhile use for the internet*

J.K. Rowling
William Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dianna Wynne Jones
Dorothy Sayers
P.G. Wodehouse
Jane Austen

William Faulkner
Robert Kirkman (Graphic novels are too books!)

(Note: I do own Shaw, he's just at the house in Mexico and so I choose not to count him. *g*)

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

*lurks around other people's conversations, being obtrusive*

(Dresses Bertie up in sparkly bishop's hat, but gives Jeeves the pendant)

It's moments like these when one needs one's cat to relate intensely cross-referential nerd jokes to. *misses said cat*

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

You've read Tanya Huff? Ah, you rock my utilitarian socks! She's not well-known.

The real question becomes: do you /love/ Gyhard, or do you /love/ Gyhard?

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

*blushes brilliantly* Um...Gyhard?

Really? I'm a Henry girl all the way. He's just so...*grins* yeah.

Have you read the her most recent book? My Tony love knows no bounds. He and I have a little too much in common too. Heh.

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh. *facevaults*

Gyhard is from Huff's "Fifth Quarter" and "No Quarter," from her fantasy series. (I suggest skipping the first book, "Sing the Four Quarters," as it merely sets up plot you can get yourself reading "Fifth.") He's this egoistic I-swear-I'm-evil character that has some issues with immortality. Being thus, I adore him. And he's oh-so-snarky.

Are Henry and Tony from her other books? ^^;;

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

Oh! I've read the first one of that series. I liked it. Haven't gotten around to picking up the rest, but as they seem to come so highly recomended... :-)

Henry and Tony are both from her "Blood" series (Blood Price, Blood Debt, Blood a lot of things). Henry, bastard son of Henry VIII and immortal vampire. *grins* Oh, he's awesome. The whole series is strong, though, the last book...meh. I was never a big fan of Vickie (the main character), but Henry's just so engaging, I read them all. Tony finally comes into his own in her most recent book, Shadow - something I can't remember the rest of, and I love him even more than I did in the first books. He and Henry have such a brilliant relationship and raporte... yes. You must read. Assuming that vampires don't bug the crap out of you, you'll love. Love!