[JustinThought]

This looks like a fun (and informative!) thread, so I thought I'd throw my three-cents-worth in.

I'm turning into something of a stodgy reader, I guess. In discussions of books, I always state that I have three favorite authors--one of them still living. RAH (and if I have to explain that, well, it's kinda pointless...), John D. (ibid), and Dean Koontz. Though I do throw in Patricia Cornwell as well, just to get my dose of blood-'n-guts to round things out. I think I have (nearly) everything Heinlein ever wrote, both in paper and digital format; almost everything Koontz has ever written--except, of course, his extremely early and very hungry works of erotica; and quite a few of MacDonald's early stuff--the entire Travis McGee series, of course, and an almost equal number of other works, my favorite being The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything.

But all of MacDonald's books are good-to-great reads, mostly because of the way he develops his characters, and the fact that he is not repetitive in his situational plot lines. You can go from a corrupt real-estate developer in Florida, then transition to the inner workings of a megachurch "business" without even skipping a beat.

I also enjoy reading some of the old Michael Shayne books, just for perspective, but I can't say I'm as excited about those as I was forty or fifty years ago.

But those are the primary books that are occupying my Samsung tablet's SD card. You'll also find Philip Jose Farmer's Ringworld series sitting there, partially re-read; and a smattering of Tom Clancy pretty much collecting digital dust over there on the top shelf.

I'd probably be able to work my way through these collectibles faster if I wasn't borderline OCD and insist on noting every typo I find and entering the corrections into my evolving digital e-book format as I go along--which is the original reason I ran across this forum!