Mary Gaitskill's written novels, too.
meara, Lee Child writes the Jack Reacher series, which I only know because S. loves them.
Sex with robots is more common than most people think.
Spike ,'Lineage'
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 4:38:25 pm PDT #14097 of 28286
Because books.
Jessica - Mar 14, 2011 4:38:42 pm PDT #14098 of 28286
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 28286
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 28286
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 28286
"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 28286
"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
Dana - Mar 14, 2011 5:08:36 pm PDT #14103 of 28286
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Huh, you'd never heard of Enid Blyton? It's not often I get the drop on any of you guys.
I love the BBC Poirot and Marple adaptations because they're like CSI or Law and Order, where actors you know constantly turn up.
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2011 5:12:21 pm PDT #14104 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, god, Enid Blyton wrote everything. EVERYTHING. I don't think there was a more prolific kids and YA author that I was into as a kid. Every fucking series of hers, except the Noddy ones, because they were too young. But The Faraway Tree? Famous Five? Secret Seven? Her boarding school series? Stuff of my childhood.
I have heard of Maigret, but I didn't know who the author was.
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 5:14:42 pm PDT #14105 of 28286
Because books.
I didn't hear of Blyton until a few years ago, but I'm not sure her books were in print here when I was a kid. The older books I was reading then were usually my mom's -- Cherry Ames mysteries, the Beany Malone books, The Five Little Peppers.
I'd heard of Maigret, too, but not the author.
megan walker - Mar 14, 2011 5:24:11 pm PDT #14106 of 28286
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Huh, you'd never heard of Enid Blyton? It's not often I get the drop on any of you guys.
Well, it's not like my mother had any familiarity with British or American children's literature so my exposure to it is pretty random. Of course, that instead meant early exposure to Tintin, Astérix, and Le Petit Nicolas and I think I'm fine with that. Also, lots of Babar.