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soojar:
Usually hide to read Jackie Collins then (couldn't afford to let my sisters catch me reading their books not to talk of one with those kind of vivid contents). For the Jefferey Archer, you need to complete the series, the next one after Prodigal daughter is "Shall we tell the president?" Jefferey Archer is a story teller, his short stories too are solid. My best from him so far is still "Not a penny more, not a penny less" I can also go for "honor among thieves"

Thanks for the updates on Jeffery Archer..

Will get those too..

GabrielYulaw:
My apologies. I can't really guess ages from photos. I actually thought you were in your late twenties or early thirties. If I talked down to you it really wasn't intentional. I apologise.

When I used to go to church, our pastor banned all youths from reading James Hardley Chase books cos of the pics on the cover, so I can relate about what you said about you and your dad.

Thank you..

You"re among several people who think I'm in early 30s..

I guess good genes from my folks, healthy living and Grace as we would say in this part of the world contribute to that..

Thanks again

Kweenpresh:
i don’t think there’s a novel that can ever be worse than “the old man and the sea”

Boring old man Santiago and his bad luck in catching fish..

We almost cursed the Literature professor that forced us to read it during my undergrad days..

Ndipe:
Mariama Ba

Epistolary writer...

'So Long a Letter..

Classic Literature text..

Legend!

ImaIma1:
You really love reading. You practically mentioned my favourites too. But I'll add:

Robin Cook (known for medical thrillers)
Francine Rivers ( Redeeming love, And The Shofar Blew)
Ted Dekker (Three, Red, White, Green)

Ted Dekker, Robin Cook....Yeess!

Francine Rivers,...will seek her out..

Thanks

AreaFada2:
I liked them years ago. But looking back, they are simplistic.

My favorites are Guy de Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert, Tonie Morrison, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Bronte sisters, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Wolfgang von Goethe, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Jonathan Swift and Guenter Grass.

Irish writers are just too good.

Good list you have here but most of the authors you listed
Charles Dicken
Emile Bronte
Jonathan Swift
WB Yates etc and classic writers in Literature...As a graduate of English Language/ Literature, l read those as part of my course of study..

By the way, my favorite classic literature writer is Thomas Hardy...His ' Mayor of Casterbridge' and '. Tess of D'Urberville' are pure delight..

GabrielYulaw:
How old are you dear? Back then there was nothing like the internet and Nigerian parents totally didn't sit their kids down and talk to them about the birds and bees. Get my drift?

That meant that a lot of us learned about sex and love making from books. Harold Robbins' books were adult as sin and very detailed in the raunchy stuff. Jackie Collins not so much.

I learned more about birds and bees from Robbins, I guess the opposite was true for you.

I guess you have the impression I'm a kid or indomie generation the way you talk down to me...( I find your comment offensive by the way)..

And for the record, l was 46 in May..

I read my first novel (James Hardly Chase) in 1985 when l was in primary 6..Had to hide it from my dad because the rauchy picture of the model in lingerie on the cover page would make my dad think it was porn..

So, l know what I'm talking

Novels were and still are my things..

GabrielYulaw:
Not true. Jackie inserts a lot of comic relief in her books, like someone leaving a pile of fresh shit on another person's desk in Hollywood Wives.
Harold Robbins doesn't do that. In my opinion, he's far superior to Jackie. It's like comparing Naomi Campbell to Tiwa Savage.

I meant, Harold Robbin's language and diction flow so greatly.. ( that's what I believe they have in common)

Unlike Jackie Colin who is so foul-mouthed with ecletic multiple characters ( 0ne madder than the next)

In fact , most of Jackie colin novels should be rated 18.. Damn! She's so graphic and paints the craziest picture in one's head..

I also like how she creates a character and builds on him or her through about 5 novels.. Like the Lucky/, Dino Santagelo, Lennie Golden,, Stanislopous, SAntino Bonatti, etc..

She developed those fictious chracters all through 5 novels and at a point i almost believed Lucky santagelo is real..

Actually, an American writer-friend told me Lucky Santagelo is actually the real life of Jackie Colin.

GabrielYulaw:
Wow! we share much of the same tastes. For me, Dan Brown's Inferno had to be the most gloriously amazing book of the 21st century. It's sublime to the highest.
Kane and Abel was endlessly amazing and awesome and Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives is A-class.
As for Robert Ludlum, dude is in a class of his own. He's one of my top 5 writers of all time, along with Tom Clancy, Mario Puzo, T.H. White and Harold Robbins.

Tom Clancy, the war writer..

Mario Puzo: The Mafioso writer... I love his Don Corleon saga!

Harrold Robbin to me is the male version of Jackie Colin.. rauchy stories and unapologetically foul mouthed..

Purely for adults especially jackie Colins

Pedrocross4568:
Wow. Some great authors u listed here sister.
Respect to you dear. But I think James Patterson and David Baldacci should be on your list.
If you are yet to read any of there books, pls do get one and thank me later.

You're right dude!

Great writers..

vivaciousvivi:
You are like my book twin!
Remove Danielle Steel and add Agatha Christie and sprinkle in some Harold Robbins, Robert Ludlum and Stephen King plus your list and I am good to go!!!

Do you prefer hardcopy or soft?

Agatha Christine and James Hardley Chase... My teenage books

Harrold Robbins writes exactly like Jackie Colins..

Page turners, all of them..

vivaciousvivi:
You are like my book twin!
Remove Danielle Steel and add Agatha Christie and sprinkle in some Harold Robbins and Stephen King plus your list and I am good to go!!!

Do you prefer hardcopy or soft?

Hardcopy for reference..

And in case I want to force someone apathetic to novel to start reading

tsspsolutions:
Wow! You've read all Hadley Chase novels? You really try oh. My count should be between 60 - 70.

I read most of Hardley Chase in the early 80s..

With the real paper back, not the pirated copies sold now..

He's the best detective and crime busting novelist I know..

And with the most exotic location and setting for his novels too

Reading his crime novels will take you to everywhere in the world..

Just like Sydney Sheldon

tsspsolutions:
I love reading too but unfortunately, the advent of smart phones has taken the will power to read novels away from me.

Same here.... But I still find time to read and 'initiate people' into reading...

mii4u:
But u forgot to add James Hadley Chase for me, well all u listed are my favourite + Hadley Chase

I read most of James Hardley Chase and Barbara Cartland when I was in my early teens..

And now i'm in my late 40s..

I believe I have read all his books..

Jackie Collins : Hlollywood Wives, Hollywood Husbands, The World is Full of Divorced Women, Rock Star, Lucky, Chances, Lady Boss, Lucky Vendatta, Dangerous Kiss, Hollywood Kids, Hollywood Divorce, The Stud, The World is Full of Married Men,

Sidney Sheldon : If Tomorrow Comes, Rage of an Angel, Master of the Game, Noonday Conspiracy, Naked Face, The Other Side of Midnight, Bloodline, Memories of Midnight, The Stars Shine Down, Stranger in the Mirror...

Danielle Steel: ( Daddy, Zoya, Malice, Lightning, Story of Nick,

John Grisham : The Street Lawyer, Pelican Brief, The Firm,

Jeffery Archer: Kane and Abel, The Prodigal Daughter

Other great authors are: Sandra Brown, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Barbara Kartland, Robert Ludlum, Dan Brown,

Wow! I love reading!