How about some Wodehouse?
Of the ones you've suggested, this is the only author I've not yet picked up. Which was the brief.

Other than that, my fallback for these situations is Austen, sometimes Charlotte Brontë; or The Scarlet Pimpernel. Or Dumas. How about Evelyn Waugh? You love him, don't you?
I do love Waugh, but he's a little depressing really.
Or Dickens? Sorry, my brain does not go many other places these days, and I am desperately craving Bleak House, but I don't have time to read it.
Sometimes I think you're rather odd.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
I've reached a reading block.
03/10/2011 08:34:23 PM
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i'm enjoying neal stephenson's new book.... it's different from other things
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03/10/2011 10:29:18 PM
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I'm sure I'm going to get lamblasted for this suggestion...
04/10/2011 12:33:32 AM
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I love YA books to distraction. Some really fresh, fun writers doing YA! *NM*
04/10/2011 06:42:08 PM
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Heh... get used to that.
04/10/2011 02:02:01 PM
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of course they are!
04/10/2011 02:45:45 PM
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There is actually a book called that: Reader's Block. But it is not fun and simple.
04/10/2011 07:05:14 PM
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I expect not.
10/10/2011 06:44:02 PM
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Wilde, Pratchett or something similarly humourous and witty usually helps me at that point. *NM*
05/10/2011 06:20:28 PM
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Re: I've reached a reading block.
05/10/2011 11:33:56 PM
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LOVE The Native Star. Not easily obtained in the UK but such an enjoyable book! *NM*
06/10/2011 10:54:02 AM
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I've just ended a 3-month reading hiatus with Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns *NM*
12/10/2011 03:33:51 PM
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