LibraryThing Author: Andy Ray

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain

Dress Her in Indigo by John D. Macdonald

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT - Caspak Sequence by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Phantoms by Dean Koontz

The Shining by Stephen King

Darker Than Amber by John D. MacDonald

One Monday We Killed Them All by John D. MacDonald

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Friends: cassalvira, csmargo, Hagelstein, JeremyCShipp, TheresaWilliams, Tobe, virgingloves, WholeHouseLibrary

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Library285 books — see library

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Tagsjohn d. macdonald (56), stephen king (35), dean koontz (19), harry crews (13), edgar rice burroughs (8), richard s. prather (7), mark twain (6), mike shaara (5) — see all tags

GroupsAdirondacks and beyond, Antiquarian Books, Beowulf, Bestsellers over the Years, Book Care and Repair, Book Collectors, Book reviewers, Broke!, Dean Koontz Fans, Deep South — show all groups

About me i read twice as much as i write; it's a privilege i allow myself. i shudder sometimes when i see how much time generations from 30 years old down spend on television/computer screens. maybe that's why we're getting production type novels and writings now rather than what i like to call "delicious prose." (Capote, Koontz, are examples of the latter). i've published four books since 1990. I've been clean and sober since then, too. There is a correalation.

About my library this is my third library. the first was any book i could get ahold of and keep (5 through 16). the second was a collector library (23 - 52). Started this one at 60 and it only has works in it that i LOVE TO READ. Took me a long time to learn the simple truth that you are what you read.

Homepagehttp://andyray.net

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Real nameandy ray

Locationdeltona, florida

Emailwriterandyray.net

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Member sinceMar 6, 2007

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Andy,

Re: your query of comparison of Ross Macdonald to JDM, I highly recommend RM; he's kind of a different flavor of JDM but darker and more world-weary; less graphic violence, more refined and psychologically convoluted if I remember right. He's closer to Raymond Chandler than JDM. I'm a bit biased on him because the novels are set in Southern California and RM (Kenneth Millar's nom de plume) lived in Santa Barbara, my home town. This goes for other SB authors like Sue Grafton, so you get my drift, I hope. I'd flesh this out some but I've not read RM recently enough for specifics and you're already familiar with JDM. All those books are at my second home in the mountains and unavailable to me while it's still cold and snowy up there. You can be sure, at least, that RM does exhibit and develop a "philosophy" in his works, and I've always considered him the same category of weight as JDM. Hope this helps you out. Sorry for the delay: just saw your post today.

Cheerio,

TK

posted by oroboros at 12:11 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

Thanks Andy:

I am excited to check out the new authors, including yourself! It's such a great discovery to find a new author and then new books.

Thanks for the help!

Carla

posted by keywestcarla at 11:47 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2008

Andy: Thanks for the invite an I'll check it out. I've got final edits on my novel to finish and I'll have that wrapped up by the end of March. That's taking all my time and energy right now. I'm sure you know the feeling...

posted by CliffBurns at 8:15 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2008

Hi--Thanks for the invitation back in October to join the professional writers group. For some reason I was never notified of the invite and had to look at my profile page to see it. Better late than never.

posted by cwzimmer at 9:35 am (EST) on Feb 11, 2008

Hi AndyRay,

Thanks for your comment. You can combine or separate names on our Author pages, meaning you can put in your "vote" on whether an author's name is correct, or representing the correct person, etc. Combining names into an Author's page, for example, would be useful for pseudonyms or abbreviated names.

Hope this has been helpful,

Lindsey
Assistant LT Librarian
lindsey@librarything.com

posted by lindseynichols at 4:43 pm (EST) on Dec 24, 2007

Oh, I'll have time to READ it--but if you want substantive comments or edits, I can't guarantee I'll have that kind of time. Get back to me a few weeks ahead of time, and I'll let you know how much attention I can give it. I've always got three or four writing/editing projects going at once, but there are periods where I can devote my time to other things--and your book sounds, at the very least, interesting!

Glad I could be of help, small though that help was. Take care.

John

posted by john_sunseri at 10:20 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2007

Thanks for your comment over at the Top 100
Novels of All Timegroup. I just wanted to clarify that this wasn't my list. I took the rankings from five different lists and mathematically averaged them out. I never said these were the ones that I would choose. Each one of these books appeared on at least three top lists. Not my list but lists like the New York Times, Radcliffe and other respected lists. You can see how I selected the books on
My Blog. The top books appeared on all six.

All I am saying is that if that they are probably worth reading so why not. I've read many books that would probably in my opinion be ranked above some of these. But that's not what the list was about. And how do I know unless I read them all.

posted by LeisaWatkins at 12:22 am (EST) on Nov 8, 2007

Hi. I actually found Yes I can by Sammy Davis Jr. a few months ago at a Friends of the library book sale. I may have purchased it for fifty cents. It's in paperback and in fair condition. I only got t hrough the first chapter. It is a good read so far, but I have moved on to other books. I'll probably pick his book up again a few months down the road.

posted by lean55 at 3:47 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2007

No books that I know of.

All the Way Back in the World Turned Upside Down.

Grenville's Planet in Perilous Planets.

2066 Election Day in Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction, so should be in the Science Fiction Century 1 volume edition and any other differently named split.

posted by bluetyson at 9:56 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Got your message, sorry I haven't responded I have been a tad busy and my head isn't thinking str8. I just went to the Port Orange monthly book sale and added 46 more books to my library. I got them all for 50 cents, woohoo!!! So excited, and such a dork. How do I do the pre-review on that book you mentioned for next year? I am still trying to figure out this site and some of the features. I did notice before you were close. I have been to a few of the used bookstores in Day Beach, but lately my obsession has been at the library sale- twice now I have made out well.

Look forward to chatting!!!

posted by thebarnazi at 1:58 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Just finished reading A Candle in the Rain and enjoyed it very much. As a college student in Florida during the 1960s, I can confirm the veracity of your book, though I did not have the range or depth of Ilya's experiences. I ask that a novel hold my attention and make me think; yours did both of those for me, and its ending caught me totally by surprise.

Last week, I read Deep in the Heart by your mentor Wyatt Wyatt. Several years ago, I heard Wyatt mention that the book was constructed around the concept of a palindrome, or words to that effect. Having read the novel, I found it interesting to see how he actually worked it out in the novel but at the same time kept it from becoming a dry intellectual exercise. Like your book, his gives the sense of life with strong emotions and passions.

Thanks for suggesting these novels to me.

Tobe

posted by Tobe at 10:47 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2007

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