Desert Island Authors Draft

[Jespher]

Nice choice. I love the Cremation of Sam McGee!

 

[VF21]

I am at work, so quickly will take:

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

http://www.prestonchild.com/

Co-authors on many books, including a series featuring an interesting take on a Sherlock Holmes-type character:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Pendergast

More later. PM sent.

I picked up Cabinet of Curiosities at a yard sale a couple of weekends ago, not knowing anything about it or the authors. Now I'm very glad I did.

 

[Jespher]

With my 10th selection, I choose:

William Goldman
1931-Present

Best known for authoring the novel and screenplay for The Princess Bride, Mr. Goldman has also offered up his talents to some other classic novels and screen plays such as Marathon Man, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All The President's Men, Heat, Chaplin, Maverick, Misery, The Ghost and the Darkness, and Absolute Power. With biting wit, and sharp character studies, he will make a marvelous addition to my island .

“I’m going to tell you something once and then whether you die is strictly up to you," Westley said, lying pleasantly on the bed. "What I’m going to tell you is this: drop your sword, and if you do, then I will leave with this baggage here"—he glanced at Buttercup—"and you will be tied up but not fatally, and will be free to go about your business. And if you choose to fight, well, then, we will not both leave alive."

You are only alive now because you said 'to the pain.' I want that phrase explained."

My pleasure. To the pain means this: if we duel and you win, death for me. If we duel and I win, life for you. But life on my terms. The first thing you lose will be your feet. Below the ankle. You will have stumps available to use within six months. Then your hands, at the wrists. They heal somewhat quicker. Five months is a fair average. Next your nose. No smell of dawn for you. Followed by your tongue. Deeply cut away. Not even a stump left. And then your left eye—"

And then my right eye, and then my ears, and shall we get on with it?" the Prince said.

Wrong!" Westley’s voice rang across the room. "Your ears you keep, so that every shriek of every child shall be yours to cherish—every babe that weeps in fear at your approach, every woman that cries 'Dear God, what is that thing?' will reverberate forever with your perfect ears. That is what 'to the pain' means. It means that I leave you in anguish, in humiliation, in freakish misery until you can stand it no more; so there you have it, pig, there you know, you miserable vomitous mass, and I say this now, and live or die, it’s up to you: Drop your sword!"

The sword crashed to the floor.”

Bibliography:

Spoiler

Screenplays:

• Masquerade (with Michael Relph) (1965)
• Harper (1966; Edgar Award) - based on the novel by Ross MacDonald
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969; Academy Award)
• The Hot Rock (1972) - based on the novel by Donald E. Westlake
• The Stepford Wives (1975) - based on the novel by Ira Levin
• The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
• Marathon Man (1976) - based on his novel
• All the President's Men (1976; Academy Award) - based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
• A Bridge Too Far (1977) - based on the book by Cornelius Ryan
• Magic (1978; Edgar Award) - based on his novel
• Heat (1987) - based on his novel
• The Princess Bride (1987) - based on his novel
• Misery (1990) - based on the novel by Stephen King
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
• Year of the Comet (1992)
• Chaplin (1992)
• Maverick (1994) - based on the TV series
• The Chamber (1996) - based on the novel by John Grisham
• The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) - based on The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
• Good Will Hunting (1997; consultant)
• Absolute Power (1997)
• The General's Daughter (1999)
• Hearts in Atlantis (2001) - based on the novel by Stephen King
• Dreamcatcher (2003) - based on the novel by Stephen King

Novels:

• The Temple of Gold (1957)
• Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958)
• Soldier in the Rain (1960)
• Boys and Girls Together (1964)
• No Way to Treat a Lady (1964)
• The Thing of It Is... (1967)
• Father's Day (1971; sequel to The Thing of It Is)
• The Princess Bride (1973)
• Marathon Man (1974)
• Magic (1976)
• Tinsel (1979)
• Control (1982)
• The Silent Gondoliers (1983)
• The Color of Light (1984)
• Heat (published in the United Kingdom as Edged Weapons) (1985)
• Brothers (1986)

NonFiction:

• The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (1969)
• The Story of 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977)
• Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (1983)
• Wait Till Next Year (with Mike Lupica) (1988)
• Hype and Glory (1990)
• Four Screenplays (1995) (Marathon Man, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride, and Misery, with an essay on each)
• Five Screenplays (1997) (All the President's Men, Magic, Harper, Maverick, and The Great Waldo Pepper, with an essay on each)
• Which Lie Did I Tell? (More Adventures in the Screen Trade) (2000)
• The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays (2001)

Children's:

Wigger (1974)

Notable Quotes:

Spoiler

“Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.”

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.”

“Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”

“He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.”
“Does it have any sports in it?”
“Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”
“Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.”

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goldman

 

[Prophetess]

very nice

 

[Warhawk]

I really like this author's attention to detail, action sequences, and sense of mystery in his books:

Dan Brown

He only has 5 books under his name (excluding one or two with his wife), but they are VERY good.

Digital Fortress, 1998
Angels & Demons, 2000
Deception Point, 2001
The Da Vinci Code, 2003
The Lost Symbol, 2009


pm sent.

 

[Warhawk]

I picked up Cabinet of Curiosities at a yard sale a couple of weekends ago, not knowing anything about it or the authors. Now I'm very glad I did.

That one was VERY interesting. The ending to Still Life With Crows is quite the kicker!

 

[kennadog]

I really like this author's attention to detail, action sequences, and sense of mystery in his books:

Dan Brown

He only has 5 books under his name (excluding one or two with his wife), but they are VERY good.

Digital Fortress, 1998
Angels & Demons, 2000
Deception Point, 2001
The Da Vinci Code, 2003
The Lost Symbol, 2009


pm sent.

Good one!

 

[kennadog]

Speaking of attention to detail, an amazing amount of research had to go into this author's books. Her intellectual interests are far flung and make for great reading. I've read books from two of her series and she also has some stand alone books that I haven't read yet.

Laurie King



The first book I read of hers was the Beekeeper's Apprentice, which introduces us to an extraordinarily intelligent young women, named Mary Russell, who makes the acquaintance of the much older Sherlock Holmes. Ultimately, she proves fully up to matching wits with Sherlock Holmes and their adventures take off from there. I've loved this series, although, of course, serious Holmesians never like pretenders. Phoo on them, they're far too serious. Sometimes you just have to have fun.

The other series is about a modern day, lesbian detective in the San Francisco PD. Also, a very enjoyable series, although I like Mary Russell better. Maybe. They are just two very different women.

Both make for enjoyable reading, especially if you like a little learning, along with your mystery-solving. I do.

http://www.laurierking.com/

From wiki:

Laurie R. King (born 1952) is an American author best known for her detective fiction. Among her books are the Mary Russell series of historical mysteries, featuring Sherlock Holmes as her mentor and later partner, and a series featuring Kate Martinelli, a fictional lesbian San Francisco, California, police officer.

King's first book, A Grave Talent (1993), received the 1994 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a 1995 John Creasey Memorial Award. This was followed by the 1996 Nero Award, for A Monstrous Regiment of Women, and the 2002 Macavity Award for Best Novel, for Folly. She has also been nominated for an Agatha Award, an Orange Prize, and two more Edgars. Using the pseudonym "Leigh Richards", she has published a futuristic novel, Califia's Daughters (2004).

Bibliography:

Spoiler

Kate Martinelli
1. A Grave Talent (1993)
2. To Play the Fool (1995)
3. With Child (1996)
4. Night Work (2000)
5. The Art of Detection (2006)

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
1. The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994)
aka Or On the Segregation of the Queen
2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995)
3. A Letter of Mary (1996)
4. The Moor (1998)
5. O Jerusalem (1999)
6. Justice Hall (2002)
7. The Game (2004)
8. Locked Rooms (2005)
9. The Language of Bees (2009)
10. The God of the Hive (2010)
11. Pirate King (2011)
12. Garment of Shadows (2012)

Anne Waverly (pseudonym)
A Darker Place (1998)
aka The Birth of a New Moon

Other Novels

1. Folly (2001)
2. Naked Came the Phoenix (2001) (with Nevada Barr, Mary Jane Clark, Diana Gabaldon, J A Jance, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Pam and Mary O'Shaughnessy, Anne Perry, Nancy Pickard, J D Robb, Lisa Scottoline and Marcia Talley)
3. Keeping Watch (2003)
4. Califia's Daughters (2004) (writing as Leigh Richards)
5. Touchstone

PM sent

 

[kingsnation]

Carl Sandburg

Sandburg, IMO is one of the greatest poets ever. He is also an acclaimed bio writer. He wrote some very good bios on Abraham Lincoln that are worth your time but my favorites are his poetry. Some that stand out for me are Chicago Poems, Good Morning, America and Honey and Salt.

Really excited to add Sandburg to my island.

More..

 

[NoBonus]

Well it's late so I'm going to make this fast again to keep the draft moving. Hopefully, I will be able to catch up on these writeups tomorrow.

Carl Sandberg

At first, I thought you wrote Ryan Sandberg

 

[kennadog]

Well it's late so I'm going to make this fast again to keep the draft moving. Hopefully, I will be able to catch up on these writeups tomorrow.

Carl Sandberg

I like it. I considered taking him.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Jorge Luis Borges

Borges was an incredibly productive Argentinian writer who worked entirely in short fiction, essays, and poetry. Toward the end of his life, his degenerating sight pressed him to compose more in poetry, where he could construct the entire work in his head before dictating it. He is probably most noted for his stories, which are filled with non-linear narratives, self-reference, inventive scientific and mathematical discursions, and tend to be remarkably compact - sometimes Borges will cover in ten pages what another writer would flesh out to a novel. One theme in his fiction was to write a review of a fictional work, rather than write the work itself. In some ways he was not a humble man - he was never awarded a Nobel Prize and lamented it, saying, "Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a Scandinavian tradition; since I was born they have not been granting it to me." - but his writings, though idiosyncratic, never border on pretentious.

Lived: 1899-1986
Major Works: About 15 volumes of fiction; about 15 volumes of poetry; about 30 volumes of essays and other nonfiction; Notable stories include The Garden of Forking Paths, The Library of Babel, Funes the Memorious, The Lottery in Babylon.
Quote: (From The Gospel According to Mark)

Spoiler

The next day began like all the others, except that the father spoke to Espinosa to ask whether Christ had allowed himself to be killed in order to save all mankind. Espinosa, who was a freethinker like his father but felt obliged to defend what he had read them, paused.
“Yes,” he finally replied. “To save all mankind from hell.”
“What is hell?” Gutre then asked him.
“A place underground where souls will burn in fire forever.”
“And those that drove the nails will also be saved?”
“Yes,” replied Espinosa, whose theology was a bit shaky. (He had worried that the foreman wanted to have a word with him about what had happened last night with his daughter.)
After lunch they asked him to read the last chapters again.
Espinosa had a long siesta that afternoon, although it was a light sleep, interrupted by persistent hammering and vague premonitions. Toward evening he got up and went out into the hall.
“The water’s going down,” he said, as though thinking out loud. “It won’t be long now.”
“Not long now,” repeated Gutre, like an echo.
The three of them had followed him. Kneeling on the floor, they asked his blessing. Then they cursed him, spat on him, and drove him to the back of the house. The girl was weeping. Espinosa realized what awaited him on the other side of the door. When they opened it, he saw the sky. A bird screamed; it’s a goldfinch, Espinosa thought. There was no roof on the shed; they had torn down the roof beams to build the Cross.

 

[jalfa]

well, ten rounds in, it's time to finally pick my favourite author.

T.S. Eliot
wiki

"It's not that I'm afraid of being hurt again:
Nothing again can either hurt or heal.
I have thought at moments that the ecstasy is real
Although those who experience it may have no reality.
For what happened is remembered like a dream
In which one is exalted by intensity of loving
In the spirit, a vibration of delight
Without desire, for desire is fulfilled
In the delight of loving. A state one does not know
When awake. But what, or whom I loved,
Or what in me was loving, I do not know.
And if that is all meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find
And of the shame of never finding it."
(The Cocktail Party)

Notables:

Poems:
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land
Ash Wednesday
Four Quartets


Plays:
Murder in the Cathedral
The Cocktail Party
The Family Reunion
The Confidential Clerk

Favourites:

The Cocktail Party
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land

granted, it was somewhat silly of me to fear a run on modernists, once Joyce was down, but I'm still relieved that Eliot has made it back to me. mostly known for his poetry, my first encounter and the primary reason for my fascination with Eliot was The Cocktail Party. ostensibly a play about a failing marriage that can be read in a very straightforward way, I was shocked to find out about the numerous layers of Greek and Germanic mythology that Eliot constructed his work out of.

this is probably Eliot's greatest strength as a writer. drawing upon his nearly limitless knowledge of literature, culture and myths and combining shreds of those to paint an original and unified picture. his hallmark is, of course, the great Waste Land and I have taken great delight in finding my way through it, whether it meant identifying sources to get a somewhat clearer picture of the contexts he might be referencing, or reading up on other people's views that could be combined to get somewhere.

it is the possibilities that Eliot affords, which I enjoy most. The Waste Land is whatever one makes of it and this goes for all of his writing. you can be entertained by his writing on a surface level, but to really enjoy and appreciate it, you have to become active as a reader. once you do, there is a myriad of things to see, find, and interpret, which is one of the greatest joys I know.

 

[NoBonus]

For my next pick I need some adventure, so I will take:

Jack London
Wiki Here

Books like The Sea-Wolf, Call of the Wild, and White Fang are engraved into the fabric of my soul... love it... plus, there are a ton of Jack London titles I am yet to read on my island!

 

[kennadog]

Jorge Luis Borges, T. S. Eliot, Jack London. All nice picks. I knew I should have taken Jack London with my last pick! Since I love animal stories, of course Call of the Wild and White Fang were two of my favorites in High School.

 

[NoBonus]

my next pick, I need more adventure, so I select:

Louis L'Amour
Wiki Here

I like western tales and Louis L'Amour is the king, IMHO. SO many great books... unbelievable catalog... Click the spoiler list to see... insane

Spoiler

Bibliography[edit] Novels(including series novels)

Westward the Tide (London, 1950; first US publication 1976) ISBN 0-553-24766-2
The Riders of High Rock (1951) ISBN 0-553-56782-9
The Rustlers of West Fork (1951) ISBN 0-553-29539-X
The Trail to Seven Pines (1951) ISBN 0-553-56178-2
Trouble Shooter (1952) ISBN 0-553-57187-7
Hondo (1953) ISBN 0-553-80299-2
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1953) ISBN 0-553-27993-9
Crossfire Trail (1954) ISBN 0-553-28099-6
Heller with a Gun (1954) ISBN 0-553-25206-2
Kilkenny (1954) ISBN 0-553-24758-1
Utah Blaine (1954) ISBN 0-553-24761-1
Guns of the Timberlands (1955) ISBN 0-553-24765-4
To Tame a Land (1955) ISBN 0-7393-4406-4
The Burning Hills (1956) ISBN 0-553-28210-7
Silver Canyon (1956) ISBN 0-553-24743-3
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957) ISBN 0-553-25807-9
Sitka (1957) ISBN 0-451-20308-9
The Tall Stranger (1957) ISBN 0-553-28102-X
Radigan (1958) ISBN 0-553-28082-1
The First Fast Draw (1959) ISBN 0-553-25224-0
Taggart (1959) ISBN 0-553-25477-4
The Daybreakers (1960) ISBN 0-553-27674-3
Flint (1960) ISBN 0-553-25231-3
Sackett (1961) ISBN 0-553-06205-0
High Lonesome (1962) ISBN 0-553-25972-5
Killoe (1962) ISBN 0-553-25742-0
Lando (1962) ISBN 0-7393-2114-5
Shalako (1962) ISBN 0-553-24858-8
Catlow (1963) ISBN 0-553-24767-0
Dark Canyon (1963) ISBN 0-553-25324-7
Fallon (1963) ISBN 0-553-28083-X
How the West Was Won (1963) ISBN 0-553-26913-5
Hanging Woman Creek (1964) ISBN 0-553-24762-X
Mojave Crossing (1964) ISBN 0-7393-2115-3
The High Graders (1965) ISBN 0-553-27864-9
The Key-Lock Man (1965) ISBN 0-553-28098-8
Kiowa Trail (1965) ISBN 0-553-24905-3
The Sackett Brand (1965) ISBN 0-7393-4221-5
The Broken Gun (1966) ISBN 0-553-24847-2
Kid Rodelo (1966) ISBN 0-553-24748-4
Kilrone (1966) ISBN 0-553-24867-7
Mustang Man (1966) ISBN 0-7393-2116-1
Matagorda (1967) ISBN 0-553-59180-0
The Sky-Liners (1967) ISBN 0-553-27687-5
Chancy (1968) ISBN 0-553-28085-6
Conagher (1968) ISBN 0-553-28101-1
Down the Long Hills (1968) ISBN 0-553-28081-3 (winner of the Golden Spur Award)
The Empty Land (1969) ISBN 0-553-25306-9
The Lonely Men (1969) ISBN 0-553-27677-8
Galloway (1970) ISBN 0-7393-2118-8
The Man Called Noon (1970) ISBN 0-553-24753-0
Reilly's Luck (1970) ISBN 0-553-25305-0
Brionne (1971) ISBN 0-553-28107-0
The Ferguson Rifle (1971) ISBN 0-553-25303-4
North to the Rails (1971) ISBN 0-553-28086-4
Tucker (1971) ISBN 0-553-25022-1
Under the Sweetwater Rim (1971) ISBN 0-553-24760-3
Callaghen (1972) ISBN 0-553-24759-X
Ride the Dark Trail (1972) ISBN 0-553-27682-4
The Man from Skibbereen (1973) ISBN 0-553-24906-1
The Quick and the Dead (1973) ISBN 0-553-28084-8
Treasure Mountain (1973) ISBN 0-553-27689-1
The Californios (1974) ISBN 0-553-25322-0
Sackett's Land (1974) ISBN 0-553-27686-7
The Man From the Broken Hills (1975) ISBN 0-553-27679-4
Over on the Dry Side (1975) ISBN 0-553-25321-2
Rivers West (1975) ISBN 0-553-25436-7
The Rider of Lost Creek (1976) ISBN 0-553-25771-4
To the Far Blue Mountains (1976) ISBN 0-553-27688-3
Where the Long Grass Blows (1976) ISBN 0-553-28172-0
Borden Chantry (1977) ISBN 0-553-27863-0
Fair Blows the Wind (1978) ISBN 0-553-27629-8
The Mountain Valley War (1978) ISBN 0-553-25090-6
Bendigo Shafter (1979) ISBN 0-553-26446-X
The Iron Marshal (1979) ISBN 0-553-24844-8
The Proving Trail (1979) ISBN 0-553-25304-2
Lonely on the Mountain (1980) ISBN 0-553-27678-6
The Warrior's Path (1980) ISBN 0-553-27690-5
Comstock Lode (1981) ISBN 0-553-27561-5
Milo Talon (1981) ISBN 0-553-24763-8
The Cherokee Trail (1982) ISBN 0-553-27047-8
The Shadow Riders (1982) ISBN 0-553-23132-4
The Lonesome Gods (1983) ISBN 0-553-27518-6
Ride the River (1983) ISBN 0-553-50251-4
Son of a Wanted Man (1984) ISBN 0-553-24457-4
The Walking Drum (1984) ISBN 0-553-28040-6
Jubal Sackett (1985) ISBN 0-553-27739-1
Passin' Through (1985) ISBN 0-553-25320-4
Last of the Breed (1986) ISBN 0-553-28042-2
West of Pilot Range (1986) ISBN 0-553-26097-9
A Trail to the West Audio (1986) ISBN 0-553-45009-3
Last of the Breed (1987) ISBN 0-553-28042-5
The Haunted Mesa (1987) ISBN 0-553-27022-2


[edit] Sackett seriesIn fictional story order (not the order written).[12]

Sackett’s Land - Barnabas Sackett
To the Far Blue Mountains - Barnabas Sackett
The Warrior’s Path - Kin Ring Sackett
Jubal Sackett - Jubal Sackett, Itchakomi Ishai
Ride the River - Echo Sackett (Aunt to Orrin, Tyrel, and William Tell Sackett)
The Daybreakers - Orrin and Tyrel Sackett, Cap Rountree, Tom Sunday
Lando - Orlando Sackett, the Tinker
Sackett - William Tell Sackett, Cap Rountree, Angie
Mojave Crossing - William Tell Sackett
The Sackett Brand - William Tell Sackett, and the whole passel of Sacketts!
The Sky-liners - Flagan and Galloway Sackett
The Lonely Men - William Tell Sackett
Mustang Man - Nolan Sackett
Galloway - Galloway and Flagan Sackett
Treasure Mountain - William Tell and Orrin Sackett, the Tinker
Ride the Dark Trail - Logan Sackett, Em Talon(born a Sackett)
Lonely on the Mountain - William Tell, Orrin and Tyrel Sackett(They go on a mission to help Logan Sackett)
There are also two Sackett-related short stories:

"The Courting of Griselda" (available in End of the Drive)
"Booty for a Badman" (available in War Party)
Sacketts are also involved in the plot of 7 other novels:

Bendigo Shafter (Ethan Sackett)
Dark Canyon (William Tell Sackett)
Borden Chantry (Joe Sackett, killed in ambush that B Chantry solves murder, and Tyrel Sackett)
Passin' Through (Parmalee Sackett is mentioned as defending a main character in the book)
Son of a Wanted Man (Tyrel Sackett)
Catlow (Ben Cowhan marries a cousin of Tyrel Sackett’s wife)
Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon a main character in this book was in fact born a Sackett. Mentions William Tell Sackett)
He wrote 105 books

[edit] Talon novelsRivers West
The Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon was born a Sackett she is the main character's mother.)
Milo Talon (Is a cousin to the Sacketts through his mother Em Talon)
[edit] Chantry novelsFair Blows the Wind (the first Chantry)
Borden Chantry
North to the Rails (Tom Chantry, Borden Chantry's son)
Over on the Dry Side
The Ferguson Rifle
[edit] Kilkenny seriesThe Rider of Lost Creek (1976), expanded from the short story published in the April 1947 issue of West magazine, under the "Jim Mayo" pseudonym. (Tuska, Sixth Shotgun)
A Man Called Trent (2006)
The Mountain Valley War (1978), which previously been released as a magazine novella, entitled A Man Called Trent and was re-written for the Kilkenny trilogy. A Man Called Trent is included in the short story collection entitled The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
Kilkenny (1954)
A Gun for Kilkenny is a short story featuring Kilkenny as a minor character, from the collection Dutchman's Flat (1986).
Monument Rock is a novella in the story collection of the same name.
[edit] Hopalong Cassidy seriesOriginally published under the pseudonym "Tex Burns". Louis L'Amour was commissioned to write four Hopalong Cassidy books in the spring and summer of 1950 by Doubleday's Double D Western imprint. They were the first novels he ever had published and he denied writing them until the day he died, refusing to sign any of them that fans would occasionally bring to his autograph sessions. His reason to his young son for doing this was, "I wrote some books. I just did it for the money, and my name didn't go on them. So now, when people ask me if they were mine, I say no." When his son asked if this was not lying he said, "I just wrote them for hire. They weren't my books."

The Rustlers of West Fork
The Trail to Seven Pines
The Riders of High Rock
Trouble Shooter
[edit] Collections of short storiesWar Party (1975)
The Strong Shall Live (1980)
Yondering (1980; revised edition 1989)
Buckskin Run (1981)
Bowdrie (1983)
The Hills of Homicide (1983)
Law of the Desert Born (1983)
Bowdrie's Law (1984)
Night Over the Solomons (1986)
The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
Riding for the Brand (1986)
The Trail to Crazy Man (1986)
Dutchman's Flat (1986)
Lonigan (1988)
Long Ride Home (1989)
The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990)
West from Singapore (1991)
Valley of the Sun (1995)
West of Dodge (1996)
End of the Drive (1997)
Monument Rock (1998)
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999)
Off the Mangrove Coast (2000)
May There Be a Road (2001)
With These Hands (2002)
From the Listening Hills (2003)
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 1
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 2
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 3
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Adventure Stories - Volume 4
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 5
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Crime Stories - Volume 6
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 7
"Trap of Gold"
"The Gift of Cochise"
"The Sixth Shotgun" - September 2005 - ISBN 0-8439-5580-5
"Showdown Trail" - March 2007 - ISBN 0-8439-5786-7
"Grub Line Rider" - March 2008 - ISBN 0-8439-6065-5
"Trailing West" - August 2008 - ISBN 0-8439-6067-1
"Big Medicine" - January 2009 - ISBN 0-8439-6068-X
"West of the Tularosa" - July 2010 - ISBN 978-0-8439-6410-3
[edit] Non-fictionEducation of a Wandering Man
Frontier
The Sackett Companion
A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L'Amour (compiled by Angelique L'Amour)
[edit] PoetrySmoke From This Altar
[edit] Compilations with other authorsThe Golden West
Stagecoach

 

[Prophetess]

very nice pick

 

[Warhawk]

I knew I should have taken Jack London with my last pick! Since I love animal stories, of course Call of the Wild and White Fang were two of my favorites in High School.

I also really enjoyed those stories when I read them. Nice pick.

 

[kennadog]

my next pick, I need more adventure, so I select:

Louis L'Amour
Wiki Here

I like western tales and Louis L'Amour is the king, IMHO. SO many great books... unbelievable catalog... Click the spoiler list to see... insane

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Bibliography[edit] Novels(including series novels)

Westward the Tide (London, 1950; first US publication 1976) ISBN 0-553-24766-2
The Riders of High Rock (1951) ISBN 0-553-56782-9
The Rustlers of West Fork (1951) ISBN 0-553-29539-X
The Trail to Seven Pines (1951) ISBN 0-553-56178-2
Trouble Shooter (1952) ISBN 0-553-57187-7
Hondo (1953) ISBN 0-553-80299-2
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1953) ISBN 0-553-27993-9
Crossfire Trail (1954) ISBN 0-553-28099-6
Heller with a Gun (1954) ISBN 0-553-25206-2
Kilkenny (1954) ISBN 0-553-24758-1
Utah Blaine (1954) ISBN 0-553-24761-1
Guns of the Timberlands (1955) ISBN 0-553-24765-4
To Tame a Land (1955) ISBN 0-7393-4406-4
The Burning Hills (1956) ISBN 0-553-28210-7
Silver Canyon (1956) ISBN 0-553-24743-3
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957) ISBN 0-553-25807-9
Sitka (1957) ISBN 0-451-20308-9
The Tall Stranger (1957) ISBN 0-553-28102-X
Radigan (1958) ISBN 0-553-28082-1
The First Fast Draw (1959) ISBN 0-553-25224-0
Taggart (1959) ISBN 0-553-25477-4
The Daybreakers (1960) ISBN 0-553-27674-3
Flint (1960) ISBN 0-553-25231-3
Sackett (1961) ISBN 0-553-06205-0
High Lonesome (1962) ISBN 0-553-25972-5
Killoe (1962) ISBN 0-553-25742-0
Lando (1962) ISBN 0-7393-2114-5
Shalako (1962) ISBN 0-553-24858-8
Catlow (1963) ISBN 0-553-24767-0
Dark Canyon (1963) ISBN 0-553-25324-7
Fallon (1963) ISBN 0-553-28083-X
How the West Was Won (1963) ISBN 0-553-26913-5
Hanging Woman Creek (1964) ISBN 0-553-24762-X
Mojave Crossing (1964) ISBN 0-7393-2115-3
The High Graders (1965) ISBN 0-553-27864-9
The Key-Lock Man (1965) ISBN 0-553-28098-8
Kiowa Trail (1965) ISBN 0-553-24905-3
The Sackett Brand (1965) ISBN 0-7393-4221-5
The Broken Gun (1966) ISBN 0-553-24847-2
Kid Rodelo (1966) ISBN 0-553-24748-4
Kilrone (1966) ISBN 0-553-24867-7
Mustang Man (1966) ISBN 0-7393-2116-1
Matagorda (1967) ISBN 0-553-59180-0
The Sky-Liners (1967) ISBN 0-553-27687-5
Chancy (1968) ISBN 0-553-28085-6
Conagher (1968) ISBN 0-553-28101-1
Down the Long Hills (1968) ISBN 0-553-28081-3 (winner of the Golden Spur Award)
The Empty Land (1969) ISBN 0-553-25306-9
The Lonely Men (1969) ISBN 0-553-27677-8
Galloway (1970) ISBN 0-7393-2118-8
The Man Called Noon (1970) ISBN 0-553-24753-0
Reilly's Luck (1970) ISBN 0-553-25305-0
Brionne (1971) ISBN 0-553-28107-0
The Ferguson Rifle (1971) ISBN 0-553-25303-4
North to the Rails (1971) ISBN 0-553-28086-4
Tucker (1971) ISBN 0-553-25022-1
Under the Sweetwater Rim (1971) ISBN 0-553-24760-3
Callaghen (1972) ISBN 0-553-24759-X
Ride the Dark Trail (1972) ISBN 0-553-27682-4
The Man from Skibbereen (1973) ISBN 0-553-24906-1
The Quick and the Dead (1973) ISBN 0-553-28084-8
Treasure Mountain (1973) ISBN 0-553-27689-1
The Californios (1974) ISBN 0-553-25322-0
Sackett's Land (1974) ISBN 0-553-27686-7
The Man From the Broken Hills (1975) ISBN 0-553-27679-4
Over on the Dry Side (1975) ISBN 0-553-25321-2
Rivers West (1975) ISBN 0-553-25436-7
The Rider of Lost Creek (1976) ISBN 0-553-25771-4
To the Far Blue Mountains (1976) ISBN 0-553-27688-3
Where the Long Grass Blows (1976) ISBN 0-553-28172-0
Borden Chantry (1977) ISBN 0-553-27863-0
Fair Blows the Wind (1978) ISBN 0-553-27629-8
The Mountain Valley War (1978) ISBN 0-553-25090-6
Bendigo Shafter (1979) ISBN 0-553-26446-X
The Iron Marshal (1979) ISBN 0-553-24844-8
The Proving Trail (1979) ISBN 0-553-25304-2
Lonely on the Mountain (1980) ISBN 0-553-27678-6
The Warrior's Path (1980) ISBN 0-553-27690-5
Comstock Lode (1981) ISBN 0-553-27561-5
Milo Talon (1981) ISBN 0-553-24763-8
The Cherokee Trail (1982) ISBN 0-553-27047-8
The Shadow Riders (1982) ISBN 0-553-23132-4
The Lonesome Gods (1983) ISBN 0-553-27518-6
Ride the River (1983) ISBN 0-553-50251-4
Son of a Wanted Man (1984) ISBN 0-553-24457-4
The Walking Drum (1984) ISBN 0-553-28040-6
Jubal Sackett (1985) ISBN 0-553-27739-1
Passin' Through (1985) ISBN 0-553-25320-4
Last of the Breed (1986) ISBN 0-553-28042-2
West of Pilot Range (1986) ISBN 0-553-26097-9
A Trail to the West Audio (1986) ISBN 0-553-45009-3
Last of the Breed (1987) ISBN 0-553-28042-5
The Haunted Mesa (1987) ISBN 0-553-27022-2


[edit] Sackett seriesIn fictional story order (not the order written).[12]

Sackett’s Land - Barnabas Sackett
To the Far Blue Mountains - Barnabas Sackett
The Warrior’s Path - Kin Ring Sackett
Jubal Sackett - Jubal Sackett, Itchakomi Ishai
Ride the River - Echo Sackett (Aunt to Orrin, Tyrel, and William Tell Sackett)
The Daybreakers - Orrin and Tyrel Sackett, Cap Rountree, Tom Sunday
Lando - Orlando Sackett, the Tinker
Sackett - William Tell Sackett, Cap Rountree, Angie
Mojave Crossing - William Tell Sackett
The Sackett Brand - William Tell Sackett, and the whole passel of Sacketts!
The Sky-liners - Flagan and Galloway Sackett
The Lonely Men - William Tell Sackett
Mustang Man - Nolan Sackett
Galloway - Galloway and Flagan Sackett
Treasure Mountain - William Tell and Orrin Sackett, the Tinker
Ride the Dark Trail - Logan Sackett, Em Talon(born a Sackett)
Lonely on the Mountain - William Tell, Orrin and Tyrel Sackett(They go on a mission to help Logan Sackett)
There are also two Sackett-related short stories:

"The Courting of Griselda" (available in End of the Drive)
"Booty for a Badman" (available in War Party)
Sacketts are also involved in the plot of 7 other novels:

Bendigo Shafter (Ethan Sackett)
Dark Canyon (William Tell Sackett)
Borden Chantry (Joe Sackett, killed in ambush that B Chantry solves murder, and Tyrel Sackett)
Passin' Through (Parmalee Sackett is mentioned as defending a main character in the book)
Son of a Wanted Man (Tyrel Sackett)
Catlow (Ben Cowhan marries a cousin of Tyrel Sackett’s wife)
Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon a main character in this book was in fact born a Sackett. Mentions William Tell Sackett)
He wrote 105 books

[edit] Talon novelsRivers West
The Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon was born a Sackett she is the main character's mother.)
Milo Talon (Is a cousin to the Sacketts through his mother Em Talon)
[edit] Chantry novelsFair Blows the Wind (the first Chantry)
Borden Chantry
North to the Rails (Tom Chantry, Borden Chantry's son)
Over on the Dry Side
The Ferguson Rifle
[edit] Kilkenny seriesThe Rider of Lost Creek (1976), expanded from the short story published in the April 1947 issue of West magazine, under the "Jim Mayo" pseudonym. (Tuska, Sixth Shotgun)
A Man Called Trent (2006)
The Mountain Valley War (1978), which previously been released as a magazine novella, entitled A Man Called Trent and was re-written for the Kilkenny trilogy. A Man Called Trent is included in the short story collection entitled The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
Kilkenny (1954)
A Gun for Kilkenny is a short story featuring Kilkenny as a minor character, from the collection Dutchman's Flat (1986).
Monument Rock is a novella in the story collection of the same name.
[edit] Hopalong Cassidy seriesOriginally published under the pseudonym "Tex Burns". Louis L'Amour was commissioned to write four Hopalong Cassidy books in the spring and summer of 1950 by Doubleday's Double D Western imprint. They were the first novels he ever had published and he denied writing them until the day he died, refusing to sign any of them that fans would occasionally bring to his autograph sessions. His reason to his young son for doing this was, "I wrote some books. I just did it for the money, and my name didn't go on them. So now, when people ask me if they were mine, I say no." When his son asked if this was not lying he said, "I just wrote them for hire. They weren't my books."

The Rustlers of West Fork
The Trail to Seven Pines
The Riders of High Rock
Trouble Shooter
[edit] Collections of short storiesWar Party (1975)
The Strong Shall Live (1980)
Yondering (1980; revised edition 1989)
Buckskin Run (1981)
Bowdrie (1983)
The Hills of Homicide (1983)
Law of the Desert Born (1983)
Bowdrie's Law (1984)
Night Over the Solomons (1986)
The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
Riding for the Brand (1986)
The Trail to Crazy Man (1986)
Dutchman's Flat (1986)
Lonigan (1988)
Long Ride Home (1989)
The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990)
West from Singapore (1991)
Valley of the Sun (1995)
West of Dodge (1996)
End of the Drive (1997)
Monument Rock (1998)
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999)
Off the Mangrove Coast (2000)
May There Be a Road (2001)
With These Hands (2002)
From the Listening Hills (2003)
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 1
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 2
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 3
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Adventure Stories - Volume 4
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 5
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Crime Stories - Volume 6
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 7
"Trap of Gold"
"The Gift of Cochise"
"The Sixth Shotgun" - September 2005 - ISBN 0-8439-5580-5
"Showdown Trail" - March 2007 - ISBN 0-8439-5786-7
"Grub Line Rider" - March 2008 - ISBN 0-8439-6065-5
"Trailing West" - August 2008 - ISBN 0-8439-6067-1
"Big Medicine" - January 2009 - ISBN 0-8439-6068-X
"West of the Tularosa" - July 2010 - ISBN 978-0-8439-6410-3
[edit] Non-fictionEducation of a Wandering Man
Frontier
The Sackett Companion
A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L'Amour (compiled by Angelique L'Amour)
[edit] PoetrySmoke From This Altar
[edit] Compilations with other authorsThe Golden West
Stagecoach

I've never read him, but was wondering if someone would pick him. Certainly a major writer in his genre of choice.

 

[NoBonus]

genre of choice.

Great, you have opened a huge debate... for a writer, is genre really a choice? If you are writing from the heart, you just write what you write, not what you choose...

 

[kennadog]

Great, you have opened a huge debate... for a writer, is genre really a choice? If you are writing from the heart, you just write what you write, not what you choose...

I think most authors pick a genre that really interests them, that they feel like they want to write about. I would say that this usually equates to "writing from the heart." So I don't see any contradiction.

I think it would be hard to force yourself to write about something you could hardly care less about. Still, even if it's "from the heart" it's always a choice. Not everybody follows their heart (or their head).

Some authors do write in more than one genre, but I'd say a lot of writers pick an area they want to write in: science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, westerns, historical, or some combination, etc. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[NoBonus]

I think most authors pick a genre that really interests them, that they feel like they want to write about. I would say that this usually equates to "writing from the heart." So I don't see any contradiction.

I think it would be hard to force yourself to write about something you could hardly care less about. Still, even if it's "from the heart" it's always a choice. Not everybody follows their heart (or their head).

Some authors do write in more than one genre, but I'd say a lot of writers pick an area they want to write in: science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, westerns, historical, or some combination, etc. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm just messing with you... there is no real debate...

 

[kennadog]

I'm just messing with you... there is no real debate...

I take things so seriously, I'm easy to mess with. Just ask my son. He does it all the time.

 

[jalfa]

sorry for taking so long, had to think about this one.

Peter Carey
wiki

Notables:

Illywhacker
Oscar and Lucinda
Jack Maggs
True History of the Kelly Gang

Favourites:

Oscar and Lucinda
Jack Maggs

five million ways to go about this, but as I'm still wavering on some picks, lets go to Australia. Carey is a true contemporary author and one of the most critically acclaimed writers there is, as he has won a booker prize for both Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. he is pretty diverse in his topics, as he has done a fictional Australian history (Illywhacker and True History of the Kelly Gang), a love story that never quite becomes one (Oscar and Lucinda), a post-colonial rewriting of a Dickens's classic (Jack Maggs) and even downright Thrillers (The Tax Inspector).

Carey experiments a lot in his style, too, which makes it hard to pin down. what you can usually expect from a Carey novel is strong, but flawed and often times very weird characters, a tendency towards the gritty, and very little hope for a happy end. he likes to employ metafictional strategies and in Jack Maggs used those to go toe to toe with Charles Dickens (who is a character in the book) and, in my opinion, comes out victorious.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Joan Didion

Joan Didion - Sacramento's own army brat turned New Journalist. Although she has written five novels, she's better known for her non-fiction work, where she uses carefully crafted sentences to raise journalism to a narrative art ("spare, elegant prose" stated the National Book Foundation for her 2007 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters). In addition to her ten nonfiction collections, she has written five novels, five screenplays and a play.

Lived: 1934-
Major Works: Slouching Toward Bethlehem; Play It As It Lays; Political Fictions; Where I Was From; Blue Nights
Quote: (From Slouching Toward Bethlehem)

Banyan Street was the route Lucille Miller took home from the twenty-four-hour Mayfair Market on the night of October 7, 1964, a night when the moon was dark and the wind was blowing and she was out of milk, and Banyan Street was where, at about 12:30 a.m., her 1964 Volkswagen came to a sudden stop, caught fire, and began to burn. For an hour and fifteen minutes Lucille Miller ran up and down Banyan calling for help, but no cars passed and no help came. At three o’clock that morning, when the fire had been put out and the California Highway Patrol officers were completing their report, Lucille Miller was still sobbing and incoherent, for her husband had been asleep in the Volkswagen. “What will I tell the children, when there’s nothing left, nothing left in the casket,” she cried to the friend called to comfort her. “How can I tell them there’s nothing left?”

In fact there was something left, and a week later it lay in a Draper Mortuary Chapel in a closed bronze coffin blanketed with pink carnations. Some 200 mourners heard Elder Robert E. Denton of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Ontario speak of “the temper of fury that has broken out among us.” For Gordon Miller, he said, there would be “no more death, no more heartaches, no more misunderstandings.” Elder Ansel Bristol mentioned the “peculiar” grief of the hour. Elder Fred Jensen asked “what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” A light rain fell, a blessing in the dry season, and a female vocalist sang “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.” A tape recording of the service was made for the widow, who was being held without bail in the San Bernardino County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder.

 

[NoBonus]

Is there someone designated to help with pre-lists on this draft... being Father's day this weekend, I need to pre-list.

 

[kennadog]

Is there someone designated to help with pre-lists on this draft... being Father's day this weekend, I need to pre-list.

As far as I know, you can selct anyone who can post to this board, except one of us participating in the draft. VF21 did it for someone else.

 

[kennadog]

Capt. Factorial: I must admit, I like your list so far. Didion is a nice choice.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Is there someone designated to help with pre-lists on this draft... being Father's day this weekend, I need to pre-list.

There is no official designee, though if somebody not in the draft steps up for you, that would be great.

The tough part about being at the 1/8 draft position is that there's no *drafter* you can hand your pick off to who won't be picking in front of you. I can do it, though, if no non-drafter volunteers.

 

[Uk kings fan]

Sorry guys im not involed but im really enjoying this draft Just want to say great picks guys