Who Is Your Favourite Writer ?

[adrianben]

and name the book (or article). - D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers.

[joggerjayne]

Umberto Eco - The Name Of The Rose

[Buenchico]

That's a hard one. I generally like humour best. The funniest book ever written is Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome but he was hardly a prolific writer.

P G Wodehouse was outstanding (even if somewhat formulaic), with any of the 'Jeeves' series to be commended.

Alan Coren was possibly the best writer of the 20th century though, through his columns in Punch. ("The Hangover in Question" was brilliant).

For anyone with an interest in law, A P Herbert's 'Uncommon Law' (and 'More Uncommon Law') is brilliantly constructed, and incredibly funny!

Since you mention D H Lawrence, I love his poetry rather than his novels. Here's my favourite:
""How can I teach you when your blue
Eyes look at me so?
Your deep bewilderment filters through
My mind, and I know
That I put to flight from out of you
Rare birds that no
Enticing will recall; when I
Do watch your eyes,
Wherein the timid wonders fly
Off in surprise,
Then, oh, I do forget all my
Enterprise,
And all the lessons let slip by:
For you are wise"

Chris

[DTCwordfan]

Also Shokolov and his "And Quietly Flows the Don" - two parts on the White Russian era ré the Communists.

[naomi24]

Craft, I can read it over and over. I have never tired of it.

[DTCwordfan]

Exactly, Sandy, brilliant ending, right out of left corner.

[glasman]

Steinbeck's The Grapes of wrath.

[sandyRoe]

For comedy, apart from Waugh, The Ginger Man, JP Donleavy, or Diary of a nobody, from the same era as Three men in a boat.

[craft1948]

Jane Eyre was my first 'grown-up' book and I've also read it many times. Another is How Green Was My Valley.

[andy-hughes]

Stepehn King - Salem's Lot and Christine.

[Zacs-Master]

Or Chaucer (Canterbury tales).

[pastafreak]

The Brontes for me...Jane Eyre of course. And I only recently read Wuthering Heights....how did I ever miss it? Fantastic-and so different from what I expected.

[NOX]

Terry Pratchett- Reaper Man
Graeme Green- End of the Affair
Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights
Robert Harris- Fatherland
Carlos Luiz Zafon- Shadow of the wind
God of small things- Arandhati Roi
Douglas Adams- Hitchhikers Guide etc

Could be any of those depending on mood, or maybe others...

[sandyRoe]

At swim two birds, the best of Flan O'brien's work. But The Poor Mouth, and The third Policeman are worth a read

[askyourgran]

Tom Bradby, The Master of Rain.
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands.
Thomas Hardy Return of the Native.

[pastafreak]

Shadow of the Wind is sitting on my bookshelf-hope to read it later this year.

[naomi24]

pasta, it has been said that you need to read Wuthering Heights seven times before you can really understand it. Wonderful book - evolved from a strange kind of emotional madness.

[DaisyNonna]

For modern writings, Phil Rickman, The Merrily Watkins series.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

[Stargazer]

If you've never read either of them, then Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier are page turners. It is best if you have not seen the film first. Also The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.