Authors I've read

[dougo]

Copying nothings, here's a list of authors I've read 10+ books by, in no particular order:

Robert Heinlein
Piers Anthony
Katherine Kurtz
Philip José Farmer
Roger Zelazny
L. Ron Hubbard (yes, I read all of Mission Earth)
Anne Rice
Larry Niven
Michael Moorcock
Edgar Rice Burroughs
L. Frank Baum
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Franklin W. Dixon (the Hardy Boys books—yes, I know this is a composite pseudonym, but I'm still counting it)

There might be more, but that's what I can think of from a scan of my bookshelves. Notable near misses would be Robert Anton Wilson with 9 (three Illuminatus trilogies) and Iain (M.) Banks—I own 9 of his books but I've only read 5 so far. There are also plenty of authors who haven't written 10 books but I've read all or most of what they have written, including Douglas Adams, J.R.R. Tolkien, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Douglas Coupland, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and J.K. Rowling.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I didn't actually count, I just assumed your count was the total. I haven't read Meaning of Liff so I guess I'm at 9. I played almost all of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom game, though (I gave up when I realized none of my saved games included the pocket fluff). But only the beginnings of Bureaucracy and Starship Titanic. (I just started reading the latter novel last night, but that's by Terry Jones.)

[shannon_a]

Heh. I was going to post the same thing.

You could probably count the Radio Scripts too.

Re: Piers Anthony

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any Piers Anthony books since high school or maybe before, so my memory is kind of hazy.

I read On a Pale Horse but I don't remember if I read any more. I remember it being not that great, but maybe that was what I thought about the second book.

The only Piers Anthony book I actually own is Macroscope, and I seem to remember liking it best, but I don't actually remember much about it. I think it was as close to hard sf as he ever got—the macroscope was some technological device that could see arbitrarily far and could also somehow see back through time, or something.

I enjoyed the first 5 or 6 Xanth books a lot, but I was young.

I also enjoyed Split Infinity and Blue Adept, and probably wouldn't mind reading them again. I remember that games played a significant role in the story. I have no idea if the other 5 books in the series are any good.

I think I liked the Cluster series (or at least the first three) but I basically remember nothing about them at all.

[prusik.livejournal.com]

You read all of Mission Earth?

Why?
(To be fair, I haven't read any of it. I read part of Battlefield Earth but I just couldn't get through it. (I think part of it was finding out that the reason our hero isn't deformed was because he was too much of a male chauvinist pig to do the "women's work" of fetching water. That and it was boring.)

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Well, the first couple were free; I worked at a Software Etc. that was inside a B. Dalton's, and they were in the stripped-covers box that was going around (illegally of course). I don't remember whether I had tried to read Battlefield Earth before or after this, but I never got past the first 200 or so pages into that, big yawn. Mission Earth, though, was a lot funnier, (mostly) intentionally so—it was meant to be satire—but there was also something about the space opera combined with Earth-as-an-alien-world that appealed to me. After about 5 or 6 I was probably reading it more just to see how it ended, but, that's how these things go.