>>>>>I'm not quite finished yet, so don't anybody spoil it for me. But if anybody wants to read something quite astonishing, pick up a copy of "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. What a duo. Two of the best there is writing together.
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Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking toward Tadfield.
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>>>>>And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Then a Good Thumping But Secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.>>>>
>>>>Maybe I will check it out on your recommendation. Conceptually, though, I wonder how successful a book written by a duo can be. IMO one of the defining qualities of a book is that it comes from a unique, personal POV.
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>>>I think that must be a joke and not a serious comment given the amount of reading you've done...
>>>
>>>Bill Crider and Willard Scott
>>>Perri O’Shaughnessy
>>>Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgens Clark
>>>Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes
>>>Faye Kellerman and Jonathon Kellerman
>>>James Reasoner and Davis Dresser
>>>etc
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>>No, ir wasn't a joke at all. I don't respect any of them.
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>>I expect I will be booted from here momentarily, having replied indiscreetly to Kevin, so will leave you with a few recommendations.
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>>Graham Greene -- my favorite writer ever, period.
>>Jim Thompson -- dark as night, the source of many movies
>>Jhumpa Lahiri -- an emerging legend
>>Raymond Carver -- see my post a couple of weeks ago
>>Richard Russo
>>Richard Price
>>Amy Tan
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>>And on and on and on....
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>Coincidentally I've just started re-reading Graham Greene. Wouldn't go so far as to say he's top of my list of best authors - but right up there.....
>Taking them off the shelf at random I just finished 'The Comedians' and now back to 'Travels with my Aunt'. In Paris:
>"I went restlessly out and crossed the little garden where an American couple (from the St. James or the Albany) were having tea. One of them was raising a little bag, like a drowned animal, from his cup at the end of a cord. At this distressing sight I felt a long way from England......."
>:-}
Beautiful. He had serious matters in mind -- faith, mainly, and the haphazard ways of men and women together -- but the reason I will not stop reading and rereading him is his ability to write elegant passages.
Can't find the passage I wanted, something about a train passing the Outer Circle every two minutes. But I did find this, not bad.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/jul/03/classics.grahamgreeneHis books were cinematic. Literally dozens of them were made into movies. Among the most famous, "The Third Man," was written as a screenplay first.
