tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post1636253467418574880..comments2024-03-28T16:21:30.329-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): Runs on Authorspattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-84249965981636614542014-05-13T13:44:46.811-04:002014-05-13T13:44:46.811-04:00You play hardball, Erik. You play hardball, Erik. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-76026424669230796252014-05-13T13:20:04.191-04:002014-05-13T13:20:04.191-04:00N.Gogol, F. Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, Jane Austen...N.Gogol, F. Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, Jane Austen. Erik Donald Francehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02332500850365598564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-45723096395749723802014-05-13T13:17:59.078-04:002014-05-13T13:17:59.078-04:00Marcel Proust -- he's basically got one l--o-n...Marcel Proust -- he's basically got one l--o-n-g book, so that was straightforward. <br /><br />Ian Fleming quickies.Erik Donald Francehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02332500850365598564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-42315520851099595142014-05-12T14:45:25.556-04:002014-05-12T14:45:25.556-04:00As a teen I read Ian Fleming, Harold Robbins, and ...As a teen I read Ian Fleming, Harold Robbins, and Mickey Spillane. Many years later it was Rex Stout and Chandler.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-12811275329699347092014-05-12T14:28:51.076-04:002014-05-12T14:28:51.076-04:00I just remembered that I zipped through the Sword...I just remembered that I zipped through the <i>Sword of Shannara</i> books when in elementary or middle school. I remember very little about the stories.Gerardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-83786000880936940542014-05-12T13:54:44.284-04:002014-05-12T13:54:44.284-04:00Mine may have been MRS. PIGGLE WIGGLE and UNCLE WI...Mine may have been MRS. PIGGLE WIGGLE and UNCLE WIGGLEY. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-16794752882461762482014-05-12T13:38:12.409-04:002014-05-12T13:38:12.409-04:00I just remembered the very first series I did a ru...I just remembered the very first series I did a run on: the Freddy the Pig books by Walter BrooksDave Zeltsermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04007736514118297783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-8724655984258365802014-05-12T13:34:29.272-04:002014-05-12T13:34:29.272-04:00I'm not sure of the order, but writers whose b...I'm not sure of the order, but writers whose books I've exhausted over the year : Ross Macdonald, Rex Stout, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Bruce Jay Friedman, Joseph Heller, Robert E. Howard, HP Lovecraft, Ian Fleming, Charles Willeford, Edgar Allen PoeDave Zeltsermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04007736514118297783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-768241576679531062014-05-12T12:15:42.550-04:002014-05-12T12:15:42.550-04:00I would never do it now. I read more quickly then....I would never do it now. I read more quickly then. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-88032773849742306802014-05-12T12:11:28.333-04:002014-05-12T12:11:28.333-04:00The only one I can recall is Stephen King. I also...The only one I can recall is Stephen King. I also went on a Hammett spree but there was not as many books to sustain me.<br /><br />Oh, as I read comments before posting mine:<br />Vonnegut in high school.<br />Richard Stark.<br />My uncle collected Hardy Boys prints as a kid and many of those ended up with us.<br />The Three Investigators series.Gerardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-15287322116727220052014-05-12T11:24:55.270-04:002014-05-12T11:24:55.270-04:00So many have said "when I find a writer I lik...So many have said "when I find a writer I likeā¦" Yes, me too.<br /><br />I started serial reading with The Hardy Boys, I guess, then all of the Sherlock Holmes stories/novels in a row. Then Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Howard (Conan books), Fritz Leiber.<br /><br />Stuck in a mountain cabin with nothing of my own to read, I tried a Christie that was there and then read about twenty of them in a row. I did the same with the Travis McGee books, and Chandler, Hammett, Pronzini, Stephen Greenleaf. I read the first 5 Gideon Oliver books by Aaron Elkins over a three week span, a half dozen Allingham books in a row, and all of the Tony Hillerman books available at the time one after the other. Boy, was that enjoyable!<br /><br />I also, when a young sprat, read a <i>publisher's</i> books in a row: the Winston Science Fiction series.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-17089916853012590782014-05-12T10:28:00.791-04:002014-05-12T10:28:00.791-04:00I think I read Nancy Drew as they came out-or at l...I think I read Nancy Drew as they came out-or at least sort of. There is nothing more thrilling as a kid than to find a writer you love with a lot of books. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-64416042579969264802014-05-12T09:42:08.388-04:002014-05-12T09:42:08.388-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-63941351193284718222014-05-12T09:42:05.641-04:002014-05-12T09:42:05.641-04:00Patti, I read Indian fiction and nonfiction occasi...Patti, I read Indian fiction and nonfiction occasionally and R.K. Narayan and Salman Rushdie are two of my favourite fiction authors. My reading of other eastern writing is very poor. I do, however, read a lot of Indian and other oriental philosophy, and a bit of western philo too, like James Allen and Meister Eckhart.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-13499602524767325452014-05-12T09:20:17.086-04:002014-05-12T09:20:17.086-04:00Prashant, Do you keep up with eastern writing as w...Prashant, Do you keep up with eastern writing as well as you do western writing. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-12272480307854810342014-05-12T09:19:57.470-04:002014-05-12T09:19:57.470-04:00I started with Tom Swift, then the Hardy Boys, and...I started with Tom Swift, then the Hardy Boys, and then switched to science fiction writers for years: Asimov, Heinlein, Simak, Vance, etc. In the 1970s I switched back to crime fiction reading everything by John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Chandler, Hammett, and dozens more. Once I find a writer I like, I want to read everything in a binge.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-68826413365421107122014-05-12T09:19:32.453-04:002014-05-12T09:19:32.453-04:00Yes, Al. Also for me Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, M...Yes, Al. Also for me Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-77676437952523562014-05-12T09:09:25.463-04:002014-05-12T09:09:25.463-04:00Ross Macdonald in my early 20s When I started read...Ross Macdonald in my early 20s When I started reading him, I was a science fiction fan. I haven't read sci-fi since.Al Tuchernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-64365520286554539472014-05-12T08:54:04.032-04:002014-05-12T08:54:04.032-04:00Ray Bradbury, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, ...Ray Bradbury, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Jack Kerouac, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison Manhunt magazine in high schoolEd Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-25069996495159593062014-05-12T08:50:41.687-04:002014-05-12T08:50:41.687-04:00Patti, I'd probably be reading a lot more if I...Patti, I'd probably be reading a lot more if I hadn't been blogging and reviewing!Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-14022490848100812662014-05-12T08:37:14.597-04:002014-05-12T08:37:14.597-04:00In the last coupld of months of 1973 (the year I r...In the last coupld of months of 1973 (the year I read 333 books) I went through all of the plays of Noel Coward, followed by all of the plays of Eugene O'Neill. Years later I did the same with Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon.<br /><br />Some more mystery writers I read in spurts: Ed McBain, J. J. Marric (John Creasey), Richard Stark (Donald Westlake), Ruth Rendell, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Bill Pronzini, Elmore Leonard.<br /><br />Simenon is the writer I seem to have read in bunches repeatedly over the years, often reading four or five in a row at the end of a year.<br /><br />These days if I read three books in a row by the same author I'd consider it a lot. The last extended runs were John Marsden's Tomorrow series in 2009 and Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series.<br /><br />Jeff M.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-1863619510088844622014-05-12T08:32:19.306-04:002014-05-12T08:32:19.306-04:00I think I've read all the McGees...but I have ...I think I've read all the McGees...but I have more than half of all JDMc's other novels to go...lucky me.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-73180709011887556662014-05-12T08:23:12.424-04:002014-05-12T08:23:12.424-04:00I have a friend who just read the Topper novels.
...I have a friend who just read the Topper novels. <br />Most books I read as they come out--like John D. MacDonald. But I may have read Stout pretty much one after the other. And some writers of smaller outputs. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-22191204497402476562014-05-12T08:13:20.316-04:002014-05-12T08:13:20.316-04:00Oliver Strange as British writer of American-west ...Oliver Strange as British writer of American-west westerns never gained much of an audience here, apparently. First I'm learning of him.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-65985357421294403662014-05-12T08:06:08.693-04:002014-05-12T08:06:08.693-04:00I certainly read as much of Robert Benchley as I c...I certainly read as much of Robert Benchley as I could starting when I was about 12.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com