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For some reason (I think because I was thinking about Mark's EMPIRE thread) I was thinking about Alex T while in the shower today (heh heh heh) and the book he's working on. So... give me the top five ILX authors who you would purchase books by just because they wrote them - no paging through and waffling on whether you think you'll read it all, is it good enough, etc. etc.

― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

new impulsive book buying answers

― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

6. Pine F (sorry pf but hey top 6 ain't bad)
5. Alex T
4. Tom E
3. Michael D
2. Mark S
1. Frank K

when er composing my list I realized that I was thinking of people who I expect to write a book or who I would not be surprised by's writing a book. so like use that restriction in your list.

― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

1. Josh K

― Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Martin Skidmore
Suzy Corrigan
Arthur
Ron
bnw
MArk S

― anthony, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(off-the-top-of-my-head answers - heh I should read through some old threads for a propah answer)

6. pinefox
5. nabisco
4. tim finney
3. tom e
2. josh
1. mark s

(obv. I would read something by Momus but I would page through it & waffle on whether etc etc)

― Ess Kay, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

* Rainy
* Ned
* Dan
* Tracerhand
* Doorag

― jel --, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh and I'm talking novels.

― jel --, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hands up if... oh, why bother.

― david h(owie), Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ramosi, obviously.

― clive, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

josh, i thought number one was dave q.

― jess, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

1. frank k
2. marcello
3. rainy
4= seriously, I would read books of one kind or another by abt 35 ILxers easy, inc.everyone so far mentioned and everyone who's so far posted (jel you should take your tinypictures to the TASCHEN postcard ppl)
5. dear god let me finish my own stupid book one day

― mark s, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

JESS! thank you so much I almost forgot. but no not no. 1, let's say... 7.

― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yeah! ramosi!
yeah! rainy!
maura
sarah
jess
honorable mention: tim

and i'm maybe not necessarily thinking novels

p.s. anthony, thank you, but me writing would really be a disaster.

― Ron, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Aw, Jel wuvs me. I would name a list but I would inevitably leave someone out, so I won't. Suffice to say, Lots O' Good People Here are worthy of reading. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would read a book about carpentry from ron or a foto book.

― anthony, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There are people mentioned here who I don't know. Is Frank K Frank Korgan? I would be keen to read books by anyone who I have made friends with via ILX, and several others here too. Depends what it was: I'd rather read Mark S on music than on the history of caravans, for instance, but basically I agree with Mark that there are lots here I'd read most anything by.

I'm flattered that Anthony mentions me. Perhaps he liked the plot outline I made up in my last email about swing bands and supervillains and masters of disguise and reggae and crime detection spanning sixty years in a Barth/Pynchon style.

Actually I was asked to write a book once - Gollancz, I think it was, wanted to commision me to write a history of comics, but the money was pretty rub and they wanted a very straight and thorough US comics history, whereas I wanted to just pick out the stuff I liked, deal with the artistic highlights, a sort of critical book. It sounded too tedious to do it their way for that money. I regret it, a bit - it would be nice to have a book with my name on the cover.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So, ilx posters: search and destroy.

― david h(owie), Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's six, now, right? OK.
Tracer
Duane
Dave Q
Anthony
Michael Daddino
M. Matos

I can't do just six. I'd also read:
Nathalie
Ned
Fritz
Frank Kogan
Mark s
Tom
Jess
Ethan

I'm a hog for you, ILX.

Anthony-Me? A book? Ahahahahaha. I can barely complete a sentence these days. Thanks for thinking of me, though.

― Arthur, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wouldn't read any of your books.

― david q, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

well Ned has enough one-liners on ILM to fill a whole book so he just needs to compile them. Same goes for mark s and tom.

But seriously:

1) frank K 2) mark s 3) tim 4) nabisco 5) pinefox

― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(in no particular order)menelaus darcy, mark s, nabisco, rainy, elizabeth anne marjorie aka haloist. five is so few, there are many more whos names i would like to mention. hmmm.

― di, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Any of you. (I paid real cashmungy for a copy of Careless Talk Costs Lives, for fuXake)

― Graham, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

well Ned has enough one-liners on ILM to fill a whole book so he just needs to compile them.

Some might think this excessive.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ha, david, it's not the same thing!

― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Several of the above mentioned, also Maryann, Di and Sarah

― Maria, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would read books by each and every one of you. Really. I also read cereal boxes, adverts in the underground, lists of ingredients, crossword puzzles, and all the messages that crawl across the bottom of my telly screen -- and if any of you were to write any of those, I swear I would read them, too.

― Aimless, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

''Some might think this excessive.''

yeah you're right...let's never speak of it again!

― julio Desouza, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'd read the dust jacket, look at the photo, then decide I'd wait for the paperback edition. Actually, I have no idea.

― Mandee, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Troussé / Jones / Ewing / Sinker / 5th-place play-off: Baran vs Hand

― the pinefox, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How do you answer this question using people who won't be used by anyone else and who might feel left out without patronising them in the style "oh you're not as good, see the consensus, but it's a shame you're feeling left out"?

― david h(owie), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

books are so passe. ;-)

― nath, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mark S, Mike D (who should just write more stuff, full stop), Jess, Tim F, Josh and Tim H. And Tom E and Frank K as well. And you can add Pinefox to that list if the main focus of the book wasn't music. I wouldn't buy a book by Momus unless it took the form of a dialogue with Mark S in which Mr Sinker comprehensively demolished everything Momus has ever said.

― RickyT, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh yeah, and Dave Q, definitely. And Marcello. And... hmmm, actually, this is really silly, cos I'd probably by a book by anyone I knew unless I'd had a bad experience with one of their books before. Same with records and films.

― RickyT, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

momus has said lots of perfectly sensible and interesting things, rickyt

― mark s, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I know, but I find your arguments against his dafter ideas much more interesting and entertaining than his expositions of his better ones

― RickyT, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So you demolishing some of his better ideas would be even better. IYSWIM

― RickyT, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"momus has said lots of perfectly sensible and interesting things, rickyt" = "Mr Sinker comprehensively demolished everything Momus has ever said" = "let me finish my own stupid book one day" huzzah!

― Graham, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If I'm being totally honest - I think, possibly, (aesthetically?), Momus is the best writer on ILx. The fite!! has begun. Haha.

― david h(owie), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ricky T - you can be on my list too, as long as your book doesn't have words in it

― the pinefox, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ramosi, Mandee, Archel, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) and me. I'd love to be in a position to be read.

― Mark C, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wouldn't read a book by any ILXer on the strength of his/her name on the cover alone, unless I knew them personally.

― Archel, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If Momus wrote a book, it would be large and colorful with lots of glossy illustrations. I would buy it in a heartbeat.

― Maria, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would get a Pinefox book off the library van. I've already got a Troussé one. He reads some Boyzone lyrics out to a load of schoolkids.

― PJ Miller, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

PF, I wouldn't buy a book written by me if were you, words or no words. My writing is so bad it's bound to be rubbish even without words. I really didn't mean that comment about music as strongly as you seem to have taken it; I think you're an excellent writer. It's just that your musical aesthetic is so far away from mine that there'd have to be a lot of 'paging through and waffling' before I decided to buy the book or not.

― RickyT, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would only read a book if written by d00mie. He's my friend.

― david h(0wie), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The question is, how many ILXers have actually written books?

― Justyn Dillingham, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Books that were published or manuscripts looking for a publisher? Since I fall in the latter category.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am in category 3

― the pinefox, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

All of my books have been published under the pseudonym "Haruki Murakami."

― nabisco, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

mr murakami sir will you please sign my copy of norwegian wood

― Josh, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dude, you want him to sign your wood? What happens when you want to take a shower?

Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh.

― Butthead, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My GOD that was painful.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would buy a book by Mike Hanle y.

― jel --, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would buy it if it was in Portuguese. Well, at least if it was translated to Portuguese by Altavista's Babel Fish, thats the best Hanle y

― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

1/Ramosi
2/Dave Q
3/Tim Finney
4/Marcello Carlin
I'm sure I'm forgetting someone...

― Michael Bourke, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

god there are at least another five people i feel definite about mentioning... sarah starry, ellie, ned raggett (in fact already have read some of his stuff), george gossett, petrajane.

― di, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

five months pass...

Huh?

― Sspeedy, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

1. Frank K
2. Mark S
3. Tom E/Pete B
4. Marcello C
5. Stevie T

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

mandee
the pinefox
mark s
jerry t nipper
allyC
RJG

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

If Anthony E. put out a poetry book, I'd buy it.

Is everyone listed on this thread so far really an author?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lady Emma's Musings and Reflections on the Coarser Sex

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ha ha I like the way not even my friends think I could write a book worth reading.

One day I will unleash the Great Stoke Newington Novel I have always been promising, and I will make a point of leaving you all out of the acknowledgements.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha,

I swop 'RJG' for 'N.'

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hardly any of us mentioned are authors at all. I was asked to write a book once, but I declined - I sort of wish I'd done it, just to have a book with my name on the front.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't believe I missed an opportunity to use the sentence, "Stop using a Sharpie, Ned" as a bad joke.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

ILXors who have published books:

- Suzy
- Chuck Eddy
- Maura
- ummm thats it I think

Pinefox and Mark S and maybe a couple of others have books 'forthcoming' though.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

*whistles idly*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is Mark P's book still pre-pub or is it available yet?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry Mark P - I forgot!! That thread was only abt a week ago too :(

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've done copy editing for published textbooks; does that count?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

When my book hits the streets, you'll see.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

mel w, ramosi, marcello, em@il.com, martin, julio.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Yay, Jel is going to throw books at Mike Skinnner!)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

ethan
dom
cankles
big hoos
garu g

― gershy, Saturday, 24 May 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Cankles Soup For The Soul would be an Xmas must.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 24 May 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link

-- Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 01:00 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

What is it with Old ILX and saying "heh heh heh"?

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 24 May 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link

people on old ILX lol like this

― Matt, Saturday, 24 May 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link

but on the nu-ilx we just bitch and that

― Matt, Saturday, 24 May 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link

We do polls as well.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 24 May 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Truly, it is a paradise.

― Matt, Saturday, 24 May 2008 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link

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