Favorite Novelists and their best work
Submitted by grizham1 on Tue, 07/01/2003 - 04:20
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Favorite Work- The Silmarillion
James Joyce
Favorite Work-Ulysses
Kurt Vonnegut
Favorite Work- Slaughterhouse Five
George Orwell
Favorite Work- 1984
Stephen King
Favorite Work- The Gunslinger (Dark Tower Series)
Ray Bradbury
Favorite Work- Fahrenheit 451
Frank Herbert
Favorite Work- Dune (only the first book...)
C.S. Lewis
Favorite Work- Out of the Silent Planet
James Morrow
Favorite Work- Towing Jehovah
T.E. Lawrence
Favorite Work- Seven Pillars of Wisdom
That's all I can think of now, more coming later
Nice to find another James Morrow fan here. I've read just about all his stuff, and Towing Jehovah might be my favorite as well. Although I just finished Only Begotten Daughter and I'd want to reread TJ before making that call definitively.
Pretty unusual to pick The Silmarillion as your favorite Tolkien! While it's not my favorite (I'm far too conventional for that), I loved it as well, but the first 75 pages or so are quite the deterrent to finishing. Very slow going. I know a guy that awarded himself with a chocolate chip for every page completed until the book got moving. :-)
Absolutely true about The Silmarillion. The first hundred pages or so feel like a new version of the bible with different names for all the characters you've learned from all those years ago as a kid in sunday school. I myself didn't enjoy those first 100 pages or so, but I didn't dislike them either. Being a historian and all I love all the elements Tolkien employs in creating his mythical prehistoric world. Still I feel like the scope of this book he wrote is even grander than Lord of the Rings.
As for Morrow, Towing Jehovah is his crown jewel, at least in my humble opinion.