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When I was a kid I used to read lot of Hardy Boys. Now if you read the first chapter you can predict the end. The only series I can read now and enjoy from my childhood is Asterix. Each time you read it you find something new.

I know what you mean, JK - I used to love Archie comics before - I really don’t care much about them right now. Agatha Christie of course, is another story - she still beats all these contemporary thriller-writer-women like Mary Higgins Clark and Sue Grafton hands down.

I would echo you both w.r.t Archie/ Irving Wallace

Some of the comics are still fun to read (the old Marvel stuff, Tintin and Asterix) but Archie & Richie Rich — I have to wonder, what was wrong with me?
:blush:

And there are still tons of grown-ups in India who read this..:tongue3:

Funnily enough, lot of the (latter-day) P.G Wodehouse doesn’t seem to fire me up any more?

I have stopped reading fiction nowadays. I used to hammer novels like there was no tomorrow. Reality is a lot more interesting. By chance I picked up a book by Douglas Hofstader (I always mess up his last name) Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Gawd.. what a book! Only later I stumbled across the fact that the guy won a pulitzer for that book. Godel is a goddamn genius I say. In one fell swoop he brought down the whole foundation of axiomatism set up by Bertrand Russell and AN Whitehead in their magnum opus Principia Mathematica, crumbling down.

sorry for digressing.. :-) I couldnt resist!

u are one of the few ppl whom i have seen mention Irving Wallace…oh boy he was one of my first fiction authors too and do i hate him now….i agree with Kane and Abel being an all-time fave…

u are one of the few ppl whom i have seen mention Irving Wallace…oh boy he was one of my first fiction authors too and do i hate him now….i agree with Kane and Abel being an all-time fave…

my childhood was spent re-reading tintin and asterix. I still read them when I go home :beam: the magic never dies i guess…
Among all books of archer”kane and abel”, “not a penny more not a penny less” and his short stories are my favs..
try asimov its a different world.:nice:

Hey, I agree with you completely on Irving Wallace… when younger, I used to THINK very little about the books I read, before or after reading them…. it was ‘while’ reading that mattered, I mean, the pace and style and so on was enough to keep me engrossed….

but now, I evaluate the books I read and so many fall short of expectations…. have learnt to be especially wary of books with hype around them….

Kane ‘n Abel is one my all-time fav too … The Day of the Jackal too falls in this category!

L.

Hello everyone, i recorgnise that this is an old site but i was researching for the author called irvin wallace and got here. is there still anyone on this site and does anyone have any idea how or where i can get the books of irvin wallace. he was my great childhood author
thanks
dele