who's ur favorite author???

[jeffsays]

hi all....
i have joined this forum recently.i wana ask you people that who's your favorite author? which author do u like most and your opinion about author??

thanks for whatever you are going to post here.....

[chrisalcock]

....Lowe, the fella off Dads Army....

[kristifercolumnbus]

Originally Posted by jeffsays

hi all....
i have joined this forum recently.i wana ask you people that who's your favorite author? which author do u like most and your opinion about author??

thanks for whatever you are going to post here.....

Got to be Joshua Slocum I think,you can't beat the way he nonchalantly sprinkled carpet tacks on the decks to ward off cannibals & there was one time he was sailing away & he made a comment that had me splitting my sides though I can't think of it for now.What a character!

[NickiCrutchfield]

H.W. Tilman.

[timtap]

I read a lot of Biographies from Pilots and figures who's accomplishments played a great role in the WWII and afterwards such as : Chuck Yeager and Bud Anderson, Gunther Rall, and the great man Sir James Martin, the ejector seat pioneer. and many more.
Some very very good reads !!!

[jeffsays]

hi guys thanks for responding...hey tell me one thing thatwhich kind of book you would like to prefer??

[kristifercolumnbus]

Originally Posted by jeffsays

hi guys thanks for responding...hey tell me one thing thatwhich kind of book you would like to prefer??

Got to be true story's/first hand accounts.Like they say the truth is stranger than fiction.

[kristifercolumnbus]

Originally Posted by timtap

I read a lot of Biographies from Pilots and figures who's accomplishments played a great role in the WWII and afterwards such as : Chuck Yeager and Bud Anderson, Gunther Rall, and the great man Sir James Martin, the ejector seat pioneer. and many more.
Some very very good reads !!!

Have you read Guy Gibson "Enemy coast ahead"?Fantastic.

[timtap]

Originally Posted by kristifercolumnbus

Have you read Guy Gibson "Enemy coast ahead"?Fantastic.

Fabulous Book !!!

Best Reads ! Sir James Martin by Sarah Sharman
Yeager by General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos
To Fly and Fight , memoirs of a triple ace Bud Anderson
Eagles Wings By Hajo Hermann
Storm command by General Peter De La Billiere
Gunther Rall by Jill Amadio ( Biography)
The Right of the Line by John Terraine

[Plyn]

HWMBO and I both enjoy the sea thrillers by Sam Llewellyn.

[laurance]

ditto: H.W Tilman, don't overlook the collection of mountain travel books too.

[jeffsays]

hi :thanks: for your reply.i never read sea thrillers.but i would like to read it..

[tomo45]

Joseph Conrad.. some of its kack, but i like 'the mirror of the sea' - kind of a series of recollections and impressions about his life at sea. Its probably what got me into sailing in the first place.

[doug748]

Got to agree with the others - Tilman. Learned, sharp, modest, funny and always entertaining.
George Millar is also good. Isabel and The Sea, is his best, I think.

[Kawasaki]

Lewis Caroll, for exciting My formative years
H G Wells and Charles Dickens for improving them.
Jeremy Clarkson for realising that a lot of 'modern' scribes/authors are trash/not to the standard required!
Oh and Mario Puzo.