besides Shakespeare 8-) what do SP fans read?

Hey, in response to a recent troll post, the subject of fan reading has come up. So what do you guys like to read?

I've read some Shakespeare, Tolstoy, etc. With respect to more modern day writers, I'd have to say John Irving is one of my favourites. John Nichols, as well -- loved his New Mexico Trilogy.

My favourite Canadian writers are Hugh MacLennan (The Watch That Ends The Night, Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising) and Robertson Davies (The Deptford Trilogy). Pierre Berton's historical books are also great.

Right now I'm reading WInston Churchill's The Second World War -- good ol' Winnie, that dude kicked ass!

Another great historical nonfiction book is celebrating its 100th year of publication - Sailing Alone Around The World, by fellow Nova Scotian Joshua Slocum. It describes his journey as the first person to ... what the title says.

Mike Campbell SP fan and book reader

I read a lot of stephen king (and he's a damn good author too). Currently I'm reading The Stand, the uncut version (1421 pages). Other than that, I read a lot of other horror as well as a lot of humorous stuff Mike K.

"Censorship is a load of bollocks" - Chumbawamba

I read comic books. Lots of them, but surprisingly, comic books are a legitimate art form.

Strangers in Paradise: A black and white independent about two women and a guy, written with really witty dialogue and some of the most realistic characterization around. This is the kind of comic book you give to women who don't read comic books.

Scud the Disposable Assassin: A robot is bought from a vending machine and is programmed to kill a target, until it realizes that if it kills the target, it will self destruct. So it blasts off the target's arms and legs and puts it on life support.

Clerks, Jay & Silent Bob: These comics are written by Kevin Smith, the guy who wrote and directed Chasing Amy, Clerks, and the upcoming Dogma (Mallrats wasn't that good).

Apart from comics (more expensive than cigarettes and alcohol, I tell you), I also read sci-fi stuff when I get the chance. My fave novelist right now is (ta-da), Neal Stephenson, writer of Snow Crash, Zodiac, and Diamond Age.

FYI, Snow Crash is about a guy who's a pizza delivery boy for the mafia, a computer hacker, and a swordsman. And his name? "Hiro Protagonist."

Peace, Vince Yim

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I'm an avid fan of Terry Pratchett and would even read his shopping list (no, seriously). I am also a Stephen King fan, but not quite as avid.

I also read Dave Barry, some Koontz, Piers Anthony, Virginia Henley (historical novelist), and Sir Author Conan Doyle.

LizrdLuvr

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Well then, you're in luck! I found it in a bookstore the other day. Permit me to read a passage.

"Eggs, milk, broccoli, clothespins."

Douglas Coupland, Will Self, Colin Transport.

Uh...no offense but what does this have to do with South Park? -Toni

MAFC65 wrote:

Toni wrote:

Well, it is kind of interesting to see the backgrounds of the people who do enjoy the show. It's interesting to know that I prefer Steinbeck and someone else prefers Danielle Steel, but we both agree on South Park.

Rabbit

I'm a big fan of Fantasy and the Techno-Thriller. Tom Clancy, Steven King, and Raymond Fiest are some of the authors I follow all the time.

Mr Vee-One

My top 10 books of all time:

Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) Shadowland (Peter Straub) The Long Walk (Stephen King) Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) The Gunslinger (Stephen King) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Bored of the Rings (the Harvard Lampoon) The Manitou (Graham Masterton) A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula LeGuin) A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)

MAFC65 wrote:

I really admire John Irving and have read all of his works except for his most recent, which is in the "to read pile". My favorite author is John Steinbeck. I thoroughly enjoyed "The Milagro Beanfield War" but haven't read the other two in Nichols' triology.

I read just about everything, with the exception of mysteries, espionage and romance. I actually don't read a lot of fiction, but then there's just so many great writers out there -- Tom Wolfe, Thomas Wolf, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Joyce Carol Oates, Lindsay Welsh, Norman Mailer (great writer even though he's an asshole!), Mark Twain, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I have a soft spot for Southern writers such as Faulkner. I also enjoy books often called "the classics" -- Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Hugo. I don't care for Charles Dickens and I detest James Joyce.

I read a lot of history (very fond of Pierre Berton) and reference books. I have about 2,150 books in my home office here ... I'll admit to being addicted to them ... !

Rabbit

Cartman said pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whtasoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human suffering and unites it with the secret cause. A girl got into a hansom a few days ago , he went on, in London. She was on her way to meet her mother whom she had not seen in mnay years. At the corner of the a street the shaft of a lorry shivered the window of the hansom in the shape of a turd. Mr. Hanky pierced her heart. She died on the instant. The reporter called it a tragic death. It is not. It is remote from terror and pity according to the terms of my definition. -The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking both ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of it. You see I use the word arrest. I mean that the tragic emotion is static. Or rather the dramtic emotion is. The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Deisre urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts. The aesthetic emotion is therefore static. The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.

Stan said, Cartman you are one dumb fatass.

AHHHH!!! I wasn't going to respond to this thread, since everyone else has already mentioned my favorites, from Douglas Adams to Steinbeck. (And I am SO glad to know SP fans here are well-read)

But Dickens is my absolute favorite writer, and the second-greatest writer in the history of the English language.

God bless Trey for his occasional Dickens references in SP.

I may be poor, but I don't smell like spoiled milk, ~Lisa

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Who do you consider the first?

Rabbit (Who also detests Hemingway)

LOL. I wondered if anyone would take my bait...

And the number one writer in the history of the English Language is...

Shakespeare, of course. I prithee, pulleth on mine finger, please.

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Me reading. That hasn't happened in a while, except for stuff we had to read for school or summer reading. (For school, so far, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles) My summer reading books were-Tex, by S.E. Hinton; Sounder, by some guy whose name I have forgotten; Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury. I didn't really care for any of these books that much, maybe because I felt like I was forced to read them--if I feel like I'm being forced into doing something, I automatically hate it; I don't know why, I guess it's just how I am. Well, anyway, I don't really follow any authors, and I don't really ever have any time for reading anymore (with a job, school and NO study halls, volunteer work, voice lessons, math club, school newspaper, drama club, choruses, international club, and a zillion things) I haven't read anything that's not for school for several years now.

When I was younger (and when I had time to read), I used to read Boxcar Children, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley Twins, and a bunch of gaggy weird stuff that I find pointless nowadays.

Now, I still like the Animorph series--aliens kick ass! And, I *LOVE* The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster.

Hmm, I guess that's it! :)

~Kyle Broslofski~

Alright, I'll have a go.

In no particular order:

Isidore Ducasse  (Like, Maldoror rocks!)
Orson Scott Card (Even though he's extremely homophobic, possibly
                  anti-semitic, and when you get right down to it, way
                  too didactic, especially lately.)
Terry Prachett
Piers Anthony    (Not so much anymore)
What's-his-name Dostoevsky (Was it Fyodor? Those darn Russians and their
                            zany names....)
Christopher Durang
Edward Albee
David Foster Wallace (I encourage everyone to seek out and read "Infinite
                      Jest". Don't be intimidated by the size. It's a
                      really entertaining read. And deep, too. Yeah.)
Stephen King
Robert Browning (And it was by way of Stephen King I got introduced to
                 him, so no one knock King, okay? Browning rox! That's my
                 last duchess painted on the wall! Yeah!! Ave virgo!)
Tony Kushner
Tina Landau
Eugene Ionesco

Um...

Oh, and Edward Lear.

My favorite children's book is "The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles", which was written under a pen name by Julie Andrews.

--CS (No, I have NOT read anything by the Baroness Orczy yet.)

P.S. Poets and playwrights count, don't they?

P.P.S. To those who would complain about the off topic nature of this thread: I, for one, think it's interesting to learn about the people here who share our interests. But hey, who am I to talk... I haven't posted anything really on topic in ages. The most recent episode of South Park I saw was "City on the Edge of Forever". Oh, woe is me....

Shame, I have. Great book, I need to see the show more then ever now. By the way, you like fantasy writing so you kick ass even more. I have to get my ass on some Terry Prachett, he sounds great.

-Kim (still trying to read 'Seventh Son' without loosing interest, hasn't succeded so far Currently reading: Little Men)

Reading totally sucks ass - Eric Cartman

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Hmm. Actually I *do* read Shakespeare, and E.A. Poe, and HP Lovecraft, and Terry Goodkind, and Mr. King, and Robert Jordan, JRRT, etc etc etc. And South Park is Hella Funny.

-Doktor7

Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Queenan, Elmore Leonard, Flannery O'Connor, Tom Clancy, JD Salinger, Joe Bob Briggs, Nick Tosches (to name a few). Haven't read Shakespeare since college.

-Steve