I ask because ever since I read a book of Chekhov's short stories years and years ago I have loved Russian authors. There's just something about their writing styles and the setting and the subject matter they often share that clicks with me.

What about you?

do you like ayn rand then lol

do you like pina colada lol

British authors, but only from the last 100 years or so. Older than that and they tend to feel a little stodgy to me.

old cynical sarcastic white men

Scots authors have a great flow. Our speech patterns are quite difficult to actually write and have it work. We also have a very distinctive identity that no one could even try to write about from the inside.

Christopher Brookmyre and Ian Rankin are my favourites. Chris takes the West Central Scotland characters and puts them in what you would think are rather american movie situations in his plots. Which sounds like it wouldn't work at all but it really does and is as funny as hell. His characters are sharp and funny and I went to school with people like that. The books would make the greatest films ever. Though since no one would think of doing it and letting them stay so Scottish it won't happen.

Ian Rankin belongs to the other side of the country in and his are a bit darker and more twisty with less in your face stuff. Murder and the seedy side of Edinburgh. I used to live down the road from him and across the road from the police station in which his main character is based. It was like living it.