Author You Would Most Like To Have A Beer With

[Shel_B]

George Plimpton was wonderful. I loved Open Net, and also enjoyed Out Of My League and Paper Lion.

Bryson's Notes From A Small Island and Lost Continent are both hilarious. His description of his childhood motoring vacation (in Lost Continent) with his family is one of the funniest things I've ever read. It brought back some memories.

I read Lost Planet twice within a three-month period. The second time was while on a flight to Vancouver. I laughed so hard on that flight that the attendant asked if everything was alright.

My interest in Plimpton goes back to his days when he founded the Paris Review, which I started reading when I was quite young.

 

[Malo83]

Pancho Villa.

 

[Vil_Riker]

Mark Twain
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Isaak Asimov
Hunter S Thompson

 

[DirectRejection]

Historian Barbara Tuchman.

It is surprising how fresh, relevant and enlightening events from over a century ago can be.

Barbara will have a Stout and I will have a West Coast IPA.

 

[javacontour]

Dave Barry
Jean Shepherd - In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (and others, but that's probably his most famous book, A Christmas Story was based off his stories in the book.)

 

[Finklejag]

Lee Child and I would have a Shirley Temple, I don’t drink.

Thank god no one mentioned James Patterson. His early stuff was good, now he has ghost writers and just puts his name on the cover.

 

[Passport1]

P. J. O'Rourke?

 

[Scuder]

David Halberstram
Ulysses Grant
Roger Kahn
Sydney Schanberg

 

[UncleDave]

Aurthur C Clarke.
The guy basically predicted the future as accurately as anyone I can see.

 

[y_p_w]

Michael Lewis

 

[RooflessVW]

Kurt Vonnegut

Robert Heinlein

John Steinbeck

Joseph Heller

 

[DuckRyder]

Scott Adams.

Gary Larson

 

[97prizm]

Walter Cronkite. Not so much an author but as a journalist a person who embodies news and correct information. His biography was very good.

 

[DwightFrye]

Looking at the list of authors mentioned here, it occurs to me that if an outsider were to open this thread they would find that the motorheads who frequent BITOG are not just a stereotypical bunch of knuckle dragging NASCAR fans with grease under their fingernails but in reality are also some pretty darn literate folks with wide tastes.

 

[KGMtech]

James Lee Burke. And I don't drink beer anymore because of T2 Diabetes, but for him, I'd drain a pint.

 

[Oey12]

E. B. Sledge…he wouldn’t have to ever buy a beer in my presence.

 

[Sonic]

Larry Flint

 

[AmBeRnEcTaR]

Anthony Bourdain

 

[Cujet]

Michael Lewis

I've spent quite a bit of time with him. While he was writing the book "The New New Thing".

I think my first choice would be Robert Heinlein.

 

[y_p_w]

I've spent quite a bit of time with him. While he was writing the book "The New New Thing".

I think my first choice would be Robert Heinlein.

Did you drink beer in his presence though?