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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
 
I went to my Library, and I got a bookmark that says: "If you like Tom Clancy, you'll enjoy: Dale Brown, Jack Higgens, Jow Weber, Stephen Coonts, Larry Bond."

I was wondering if the educated souls here could enlighten me as to what a bookmark that started "If you like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you'll enjoy:..." would finish with?

In other words, what other authors are comparable to Doyle?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
The guy who wrote Timecop?

"He literally changed time!"

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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
 
I would refer Arthur Conan Doyle to Jules Verne mabey. A modern Arthur might be Michael Crichton?

-FTM

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
 
Hmm. Edgar Rice Burroghs. And if it be 19th century detective stories you're after, read "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Poe.

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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
 
well remember that ARthur conan doyle didn't just write Sherlock Holmes stories, he wrote a book called The Lost World about dinasaurs.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
 
Doyle also wrote supernatural stories, The stories of Brigadier Gerard, and The White Company. All of which he would rather have been remembered for than Holmes, believe it or not.

I only know this because Julia is a rabid Doyle fan.

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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
 
what about H.G. Wells, or Arthur C. Clark, or Orson Scott Card?

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
 
I was actually wanting lesser known authors, and if I didn't specify it at first, I was looking for the mystery genre.

But, I've come across many interesting articles on the internet, and I'll check them out soon.

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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
 
mystery Genre then ok well I reccomend James Patterson, Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, Jack and Jill, Cat and Mouse, and Pop Goes the Weasel, anything by David Baldacci but preferebly Absolute Power, mabey a John Grishim Novel (I actually haven't read him) or if you want funny mysteries then try out Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

-FTM

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funniest TV quote.....

"A small penis is a clean penis"
-Matt Real World Hawaii
 

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
 
James Patterson's pretty good, I think. I started one of his novels, but never finished it.

PS-This is going to sound really anal-retentive of me, but, Gepta001, 'Maybe' is spelled 'ye'.

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I bet when Neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would
always end up saying "Don't forget the big heavy eyebrows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky eyebrows too, and then they would get mad and eat the snowman.

-Jack Handey

 

Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
 
guess you can learn something new everyday, I wonder how long I've been misspelling that word on the forums.

-FTM

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funniest TV quote.....

"A small penis is a clean penis"
-Matt Real World Hawaii
 

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
Er, you mean it's spelt "mabye"?

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
 
Is that a joke?

I meant individual pronunciations of the Y and the E.

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I bet when Neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would
always end up saying "Don't forget the big heavy eyebrows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky eyebrows too, and then they would get mad and eat the snowman.

-Jack Handey

 

Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :
 
Didn't Arthur Conan Doyle admit that he based Sherlock Holmes on Edgar Allen Poe's detective stories?

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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
 
I hadn't heard that, I don't think its true though.

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funniest TV quote.....

"A small penis is a clean penis"
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