{"id":6774,"date":"2015-08-02T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T17:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2016-06-17T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T22:54:06","slug":"authors-you-cant-go-wrong-with-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/authors-you-cant-go-wrong-with-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors you can&#8217;t go wrong with, part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This list continues from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/authors-you-cant-go-wrong-with-part-3\/\">part 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Joanne Bertin<\/h2>\n<p>Bertin&#8217;s 3 fantasy books are all in her <strong>Dragonlord<\/strong> series. There was a 13-year gap between the second and third one. Hopefully she will now continue to write more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Dragon and Phoenix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great book\n<ul>\n<li>The Last Dragonlord<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Good book\n<ul>\n<li>Bard&#8217;s Oath<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>James Clavell<\/h2>\n<p>Clavell&#8217;s historical fiction books are all brilliant &#8212; they&#8217;re non-stop action, with all the characters plotting against each other. He also worked on movies, including <strong>The Great Escape<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpieces\n<ul>\n<li>Shogun<\/li>\n<li>Tai-Pan<\/li>\n<li>Gai-Jin<\/li>\n<li>Noble House<\/li>\n<li>Whirlwind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Douglas Coupland<\/h2>\n<p>Coupland understands modern society and presents it very humorously.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Generation X<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great books\n<ul>\n<li>The Gum Thief<\/li>\n<li>Shampoo Planet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Charles de Lint<\/h2>\n<p>De Lint often sets his books in a world very much like ours except magic exists.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Someplace to be Flying<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great book\n<ul>\n<li>Memory and Dream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Malcolm Gladwell<\/h2>\n<p>Gladwell writes nonfiction &#8212; all of his books are important for living in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpieces\n<ul>\n<li>The Tipping Point<\/li>\n<li>Outliers<\/li>\n<li>What the Dog Saw (short pieces)<\/li>\n<li>David and Goliath<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Walter M. 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Joanne Bertin Bertin&#8217;s 3 fantasy books are all in her Dragonlord series. There was a 13-year gap between the second and third one. Hopefully she will now continue to write more. Masterpiece Dragon and Phoenix Great book The Last Dragonlord Good book Bard&#8217;s Oath James Clavell Clavell&#8217;s historical fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[87,7,42],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6898,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions\/6898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}