Tell me some of the authors who's complete works you've read (or nearly read).
Mine include:
J.D. Salinger Douglas Adams C.S. Forester (almost) Robert Pirsig (only 2 books, but still) J.K. Rowling Kahlil Gibran (almost) Ray Bradbury Arthur C. Clarke (almost) O. Scott Card (working on it!)
Edit: Edgar Allen Poe Mark Twain (more or less) Shel Silverstein Dr. Seuss J.R.R. Tolkein
And an honrable mention to Louis L'Amour. I haven't read anywhere close to ALL of them - but there's so dang many! Even though I've read dozens of them... ;-) First author I really loved.
[ October 07, 2004, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: Brian_Berlin ]
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Mine: (in no particular order)
Douglas Adams Robertson Davies Jack Chalker Mike Resnick (almost) Tim Powers Jonathan Kellerman Isaac Asimov (fiction, only, even the "Lucky Starr" series)
Ooops! Almost forgot:
Arthur C. Clarke (fiction only) Clifford D. Simak
[ October 07, 2004, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
I've read all of Philip K. Dick's short fiction (six or seven large volumes worth), but haven't finished all of his novels yet.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:Robert Pirsig
I have professors who used to hang out with Pirsig. I've also met Gennie DeWeiss - the lady he goes and visits in the house in the canyon in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This makes me incredibly cool by association.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Sndrake, you like Simak? I didn't know anyone here other than myself and celia (and Lead, of course) was familiar with him.
Let's see...authors who I've read completely...
Octavia Butler Maureen McHugh George Orwell Mark Twain Euripides Aeschylus Sophoclese James Tiptree Jr. Cordwainer Smith Douglas Adams J. K. Rowling George R. R. Martin (almost) Frank Herbert
At one time, OSC, but I haven't kept up with his newer stuff so much.
Also at one time Larry Niven, but again, haven't followed him for years.
Roger Zelazny may be on this list, but it was years ago, and I'm only about 95% sure that I've read all of his stuff.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
These are the authors of whom I’ve read everything I can get my hands on. Some of them have some out of print stuff that I haven’t read.
Madeleine L’Engle Gail Godwin Stephen Brust Lois McMaster Bujold Dorothy Sayers Barbara Brown Taylor Ed Stivender Donald Douglas Douglas Adams <--- Scifi Author Doug Adams <---- Religious Author Issac Asimov Kathleen Norris -- all her prose works, haven’t read all her poetry Laura Ingalls Wilder Emma Bull Tamara Pierce Dr. Suess Sandy Eisenberg Sasso JK Rowling
There are probably more, but these are the ones that spring to mind.
[ October 07, 2004, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: dkw ]
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
quote:Robertson Davies
No way, sndrake! (I'm reading The Cunning Man right now.)
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
It never occured to me to do this. Thinking about it, I've only read all of J.K.Rowling.
I may have read all of Roald Dahl's children's work, but not very many of his adult (earlier) books/stories.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I too have read all of JK Rowling and almost all of LKH... Cool. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
dkw -- have you read all of Asimov's books, or just all of his fiction?
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:Sndrake, you like Simak?
Absolutely! They Walked Like Men was one of the very first science fiction novels I read as a kid.
quote:No way, sndrake!
Way, Sara. I started with Fifth Business and worked my way through.
One more:
David Brin
Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
Kafka F. Scott Fitzgerald Edgar Allen Poe Gerard Manley Hopkins
I've also read quite a bit of the fiction of Stendhal, Thomas Hardy and Henry James, but they also wrote essays and other stuff that I've ready very little of.
[Then there's a whole host of Mormon writers, but that's not really fair because many of them have only published a novel or two and/or a few short stories and essays].
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
I was hanging out with a Simak fan and didn't know it? For shame.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
I still go back and reread Way Station every two years or so. I do not want to do the math to figure out how many times that makes that I've read it.
And I don't want anybody else doing the math either. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Hey Noemon, you're the only one I know who's read the book by Frank Herbert about the plague that kills all the males (or the females, can't remember which). Is it any good? I've picked it up several times but always ended up getting something else.
Dagonee
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
I can't answer this. Not because I don't have a list, but because it would mean going up and down my shelves writing down names.
I have the expensive habit of finding authors I like and then hunting down everything they ever wrote. No matter how obscure. Almost killed me when I got hooked on Harlan Ellison in junior high, when his books were out of print and a bitch to track down. Just as I got almost all of them, he started getting reissued...
You might as well ask me my favorite authors, it'll be the same list. If I like them, I'll find anything that has their name on it.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Important addendums:
I've also read almost everything written by these two:
Peter Singer Jack Kevorkian
But I didn't enjoy them.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
I think I've read some of Simak's short fiction, but the thing I remember most is a 1978 novel called The Fellowship of the Talisman. I think it was the first book I ever read that gave me a glimpse at how bad fantasy could be. It was horrible.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
So, how many books has Simak actually written. I've read like a dozen, but that was actually only 4 different books.
City Way Station the one where a small group of people come together (including a woman and a robot) to journey for something but find something else the one where aliens invade, pretending to be friendly, but aren't and that's where the book ends.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Celia,
There's also "Goblin Reservation," which is set in kind an alternate universe. The main character teleports back to earth after discovering that his friends have all just finished burying him. His friends, as I recall, include a neanderthal(?) scooped out of time and who is now a habitual student at the university, and a ghost who doesn't remember who he's the ghost of. It was fun.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
::couldn't have been more pleased when celia compared his writing style to Simak's, a year or so ago::
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Ooops. Porter, you caught me. I have read all of Asimov's fiction and some, but not all (or even most), of his non-fiction.
You'd think the fact that I've read some of the non-fiction would stick it in my head that there's more, but aparently it doesn't.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I'm not sure there are any authors out there whose complete works I've read...
I've read all five of the Harry Potter novels, but Rowling has collaborated on some supplemental books like this.
I've read both of Steve Martin's novels, but none of his plays (although I've seen one) or collections.
I was supposed to have read both of Homer's epics, but I wasn't really paying attention when I did. And, I suppose, there's always the possibility that he wrote others that we don't know about.
I can't think of any others for whom I've even read all of one category (novels, non-fiction, etc.), let alone their complete works.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
heh, i actually have goblin reservation but haven't read it yet.
saxy, i didn't know you were a steve martin fan. i could have brought "kindly lent their owner: the private collection of steve martin" up to chicago.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Hey Noemon, you're the only one I know who's read the book by Frank Herbert about the plague that kills all the males (or the females, can't remember which). Is it any good? I've picked it up several times but always ended up getting something else.
It's called White Plague ,...
And no, he isn't the only one you know who has read it......
Kwea
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:saxy, i didn't know you were a steve martin fan. i could have brought "kindly lent their owner: the private collection of steve martin" up to chicago.
So you're saying you don't read my reviews?
But no worries, I prefer to avoid borrowing books when I can because I tend to keep them for a long time. Especially when the loaning party is two time zones away.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
OK, well up until a minute ago he was the only one I knew who I knew had read it.
Is it any good?
Dagonee
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Stephen Chbosky (compilations not included)
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Sean Russell JRR Tolkien Robert Jordan Steven Brust Tom Deitz OSC JK Rowling Terry Goodkind Jennifer Roberson Guy Gavriel Kay Glen Cook Shakespear Edagar Allen Poe Joel Rosenburg
Just off the top of my head....maybe more later...I'm not sure.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Yes, very good. All the women died because a molecular biologist 's family was murdered by an IRA bomb in Ireland while they were on vacation.
He goes off the deep end, and....
Well, I would read it again. It poses some really good questions, both about terroism and about moral concequences to actions.
Also, the world we know dies, and what replaces it is weird, but thought provoking. It is similar to what we currently know, but different enough that is mad me think.
It isn't the smoothest narritive flow, but it is pretty damn good.
The biological issues raised are very accurate, sometimes so much so that it is scary....I worked at a place that had BioContainment Suites, so I should know.
I would give it a 7 or 8 out of 10, I guess.
Kwea
[ October 07, 2004, 06:43 PM: Message edited by: Kwea ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I've read everything released by Tolkien, but I'm not caught up on the releases of the unfinshed stuff.
Dagonee
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Me either...I said JRR Tolkien, not Chris Tolkien.
I read some of it, but as far as I am concerned most of Christopher's work is on stuff that JRR would never have released, and aren't really novels...more like reference works on the same topics.
Kwea
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Let's see... *mentally scanning bookshelf*
Read all of: Laura Ingalls Wilder (yeah, dkw! ) JK Rowling Isaac Asimov (fiction only) Noel Stratfield Barbara Kingsolver Isobelle Carmody Emily Rodda Sean Williams and... Anthony Eaton
Read most of, but know I'm missing a few, mostly due to $$ restraints and the lack of a decent library: OSC Terry Pratchett Madeline L'Engle Ursula Le Guin Salman Rushdie (Haven't read The Moor's Last Sigh, mostly because I've heard so many bad reviews about it. Guess I should try for myself) Ian McEwan Iain Banks/Iain M Banks (same author: standard fiction/sci fi) Patrick Gale Louisa May Alcott Clive Cussler - strictly brain candy, I swear!
What an eclectic mix.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
What Chris said.
Off the top of my head,
Asimov's fiction (look suspiciously at anyone who claims to have read all of Asimov's fiction, but I have. Including his Lucky Starr books. And his mysteries. And his joke books.)
Heinlein (ditto)
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Charles Sheffield
Nancy Kress, his wife
Douglas Adams
Clive Cussler
Terry Stinking Goodkind, unless, like Robert Jordan, he is really just a pen name for an author published elsewhere
There are also several authors whose collected works I own but have not yet finished working my way through. These include McCaffrey, LeGuin, Rowling, Feist, and Pratchet.
[ October 07, 2004, 11:14 PM: Message edited by: Icarus ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
What,you have all of Heinlein's joke books as well?
(and yes, by your weird definition of *all* I should move Asimov to the second list. But I'm too lazy)
[ October 08, 2004, 12:26 AM: Message edited by: imogen ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Louis L'Amour (well over a hundred) OSC, with the exception of the OOP Worthing stuff Frederik Pohl Gary Paulsen
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
is it true? Am I going to be the first person to list this* author???
Stephen King* - well, okay, I haven't read some of his earlier shorts that appeared in the men's mags and are not yet republished in collections elsewhere..... Anne McCaffrey (at least I think so) Dean Koontz Jean Auel Anne Rice (again, I think so)
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
I don't think there's anyone I've been able to totally read, but...
I've read the entire Left Behind series. I've read all the Harry Potters. I'm currently reading the latest Lemony Snicket (and chomping at the bit for the upcoming movie). I read all the Madeleine L'Engle fiction I could get my hands on. I'm in the process of reading all the Sandra Brown I can get my hands on. I'd like to get through all of Stephen King's stuff. I've read/own most of OSC's novels. I have read all the Douglas Adams that I'm aware of.
Posted by esl (Member # 3143) on :
dkw, you mean Tamora Pierce? I think I've read all of her books, maybe not the newest ones because I like to read her series all at once..
I feel like I haven't lived long enough to have read anyone's complete works. Of course, I'm working on OSC. a bit nervous about Lost Boys though. I've heard it's really scary; I just need to psych myself up for it.
Posted by Garick (Member # 6619) on :
I've read a lot of series.. But the only author that I've diligently gone to seek and find every one of his books is:
Paulo Coelho
Posted by Taberah (Member # 4014) on :
Here's an author almost all of you can add to your list: Harper Lee.
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
Neil Gaiman Neal Stephenson Dave Barry Chuck Palahniuk L.E. Modesitt Micheal Crichton Stephen R. Donaldson (New Thomas Covenant is coming soon!)
That's it, there are some others where I have read most of their work, but these are the only ones I have read all of.
--ApostleRadio
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:I've read a lot of series..
Oh man the list would totally explode if we were to list series we'd completed (at least of published to date)
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
louis l'mour (my grandfather collected all of them before i had half the collection even started) Ben Bova (to current date) Nathaniel Hawthorne Clive Cussler Greg Bear Longfellow Robert Jordan (to current date) OSC (to current date, and by availabilty. Amazon does not sell all) Beverly Clearly (I can't remember how it's spelled. It has been so long) Terry Goodkind Dean Koontz (most)
These are all I can remember w/o having my book list on me. I have a list w/ every book I own on it. I have a small....ok medium sized book collection.
Posted by sarfa (Member # 579) on :
Hmm, the only author that I think I've read every book by is Frank Herbert (and yes, the White Plague is a very good book, though not one of Herbert's best).
I've come pretty close with Heinlein (at least his novels). I think there are one or two of his dirty old man stage books that I skipped and there might be one or two of his older ones that I missed (considering how many he has written).
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
I don't think I've ever actually read someone's complete works...
I read every single Sherlock Holmes story and novel, but I never read anything else by Sir A. C. Doyle. I read everything by Oscar Wilde, except his numerous plays (and yes, I am aware that that is a huge chunk of his output). I read about two thirds of Poe's short stories, and then got bored.
I guess I'm just not perseverent.
[ October 10, 2004, 08:11 PM: Message edited by: digging_holes ]
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Very few:
Neil Gaiman J. K. Rowling Tony Hillerman Dorothy Sayers (fiction)
In general, I can't read too many books by the same author in too short a space of time, otherwise I stop appreciating the author as much as I should. ("Oh, this plot/character/theme is too much like the one she wrote 10 years ago.")
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
JK Rowling (all HP books) Laura Ingalls Wilder Michael Crichton LM Montgomery Jennifer Chiaverini John Grisham Marcel Pagnol Dorothy Keddington
*hides face in hands and mutters* everything written by Danielle Steele though 1998
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