"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:17:15 -0800, the infamous "LDosser"
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:27:57 -0800, the infamous "LDosser"
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his
heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till
the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943

Which current authors do think might be Maugham's equal, if any?

Since I haven't read Maugham, I couldn't tell ya, Lob. That quote is
from the Motivational Quote of the Day site. (std disclaimer applies)
http://www.quotationspage.com/mqotd.html

An interesting character and excellent author.

Yeah, I wouldn't doubt it. Most folks who have said interesting enough
things to be quoted centuries later were interesting authors.

Which of his novels have you enjoyed, and why? (in ten words or more)
chortle

Of Human Bondage. A succinct examination of human relationships.


I just finished Stephen Hunter's _Hot Springs_ this morning. We
vacationed there often when I was growing up on Little Rock AFB, so it
was an unusual feeling to be reading a fiction novel about it set 20
years before I was there. When you simply have to be elsewhere, his
novels take you there. I've been really pushing it for the past
several months, so it's nice to have that kind of distraction and
peaceful hobby to diffuse the stresses.

I've got a Sony Reader - birthday gift from SWMBO last year - that I carry
with me everywhere for the waiting times. Right now I'm rereading Kim
Robinson's Mars Trilogy. Just started Green Mars last night. Have another
half dozen or so books on the reader just in case ...