Oh! I've heard really good things about The Wind-up Girl, but I guess I hadn't heard his name.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:06 pm PDT #14093 of 28287
Because books.
Polter-Cow - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:14 pm PDT #14094 of 28287
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Mary Gaitskill (I'm guessing a mystery writer?)
Mary Gaitskill writes very kinky short stories.
Though admittedly, only Bacigalupi due to a free Baen book--is he really popular?
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
meara - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:43 pm PDT #14095 of 28287
Harlan Coben whoops got him confused with Lee Child. Who I think of as very similar: Books I read on airplanes. :) Myron Bolitar, ex-sports star, now agent who ends up all up in mysteries and gets shot and stuff.
I hadn't heard of him until I was in a used bookstore in Vietnam and there were tons of his books. But when I came back to the states he seemed to be everywhere.
meara - Mar 14, 2011 4:37:51 pm PDT #14096 of 28287
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
Well, sure, but Harlan Coben and Debbie Macomber have tons of books each--I'm confused by whether his point is "award winning authors in their genre" (...I don't actually think HC or DM are very GOOD) or just "popular authors in their genre"?
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:38:25 pm PDT #14097 of 28287
Because books.
Mary Gaitskill's written novels, too.
meara, Lee Child writes the Jack Reacher series, which I only know because S. loves them.
Jessica - Mar 14, 2011 4:38:42 pm PDT #14098 of 28287
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wind-Up Girl was fantastic.
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:40:56 pm PDT #14099 of 28287
Because books.
I'm confused by whether his point is "award winning authors in their genre" (...I don't actually think HC or DM are very GOOD) or just "popular authors in their genre"
That's what I was wondering, because he's only written two novels so far, and one of them just came out last year. The awards are great, but they don't make him quite a household name at this point.
-t - Mar 14, 2011 4:41:09 pm PDT #14100 of 28287
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
There are people who know those names, and other people who don't know those names, is his point, I think. I didn't actually get very far into the article before I lost interest, though.
Ginger - Mar 14, 2011 4:41:13 pm PDT #14101 of 28287
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The only one I hadn't heard of his Mary Gaitskill, and googling indicates it's the kind of thing I never read.
megan walker - Mar 14, 2011 5:06:14 pm PDT #14102 of 28287
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I imagine one reason Simenon is so high on that list (and he is huge in Europe) is that he was extraordinarily prolific. He wrote over 200 novels, many of them based around his dectective Maigret character. His novels are often turned into TV films, sort of like all the BBC and Agatha Christies telefilms.
Monsieur Hire with Sandrine Bonnaire is probably the best known feature film adapted from his work (and it's a remake of Panique, which is from the 40s).
Oddly enough, I was looking up Jules Verne novels this weekend and came across a list of the most translated authors, where I had never heard of #5, a children's author (a few of her series were familiar but the name meant nothing).
Disney Productions
Agatha Christie
Jules Verne
William Shakespeare
Enid Blyton
Vladimir Lenin
Barbara Cartland
Danielle Steel
Hans Christian Andersen
Stephen King