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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
03-29-2006, 04:26 PM
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Chuck Palahniuk (who has had a huge influence on my style of writing, to a point where it becomes annoying, but still), Jodi Picoult, James Patterson, M. C. Beaton, Robert Muchamore, Darren Shan... I like loads of other books, too, though, but I'd say that they're my favourite authors.
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03-30-2006, 05:34 PM
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Location: You'll never know! MwaaaHaaaaHaaaHaaa!
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Oh so many, Authur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Jules Vern, Richard Matheson, Michael Crichton, Douglas Adams, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child(team), Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, and Terry Prachett...I'm know I'm missing some...keep slipping my mind right now.
I think the writing of Terry Prachett has the most effect on my writing at the moment.
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Critique these if you want, and I'll critique yours. (PM me if you have something specific)
Balance: I, II, III, IV, V, VI , VII
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06-11-2006, 02:15 PM
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Stephen King, James Herbert, Dean Koontz, Marianne Curley, George Orwell, Charlotte Bronte, Jodi Picoult, Dan Brown, Darren Shan, Nicola Morgan, Adeline Yen Mah.. and many thousands of others.
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06-11-2006, 09:53 PM
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Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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My favorite authors are J.K. Rowling, Diana Gabaldon, John Grisham, Audrey Niffenegger, Nora Roberts, Diane Mott Davidson, and that's all I can think of at the moment.
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06-12-2006, 12:32 AM
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My favourite prose writers would probably have to be Lafcadio Hearn, M.R. James, GK Chesterton, Laurence Sterne, Lewis Carroll, and Evelyn Waugh, in no particular order. Macaulay too owns a special place in my heart.
My poetical tastes tend toward the Orient.
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Great God, how frail a thing is man; how swift his minutes pass:
His age contracts within a span, he blooms and dies like grass.
Last edited by Addison : 06-12-2006 at 12:39 AM.
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06-12-2006, 11:26 AM
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I Like Tom Clancey. He's reserch for the books is outstanding, and he know what he's writing about. He also can keep the flow of the book going.
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06-13-2006, 01:52 AM
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Jack London, Chuck Palahniuk(sp?), George Orwell, Mark Twain, JRR Tolkien, Robert Louis Stevenson, CS Lewis, many more...
Last edited by MarkINR : 06-13-2006 at 01:55 AM.
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06-17-2006, 11:11 PM
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Last edited by Writer87 : 11-24-2007 at 10:14 PM.
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06-17-2006, 11:32 PM
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J.R.R. Tolkien, Frank Peretti, Beverly Lewis, Angela Elwell Hunt, Francine Rivers, Bodie & Brock Thoene.
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06-18-2006, 08:41 AM
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Steinbeck, Pynchon, Wolfe, Woolf, Delillo, Maugham,Hunter Thompson, Burroughs, Kerouac, Hawthorne, Davenport, just to name a few that come to mind without looking around the house for books that have been read.
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06-18-2006, 11:49 AM
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Michael Criton
Tom Clancy
Stephen King
Terry Goodkind
J.K Rowling
For the life of me I can't think of too many other authors that I've read recently. I've been kind of grabbing random books from the discount stores, so your guess as to the author is as good as mine. I did just read a book titled Raising Atlantis, can't remember the guy's name, was pretty good though.
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06-18-2006, 12:19 PM
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Right now, I'd have to say (in no particular order), H. G. Wells, J. R. R. Tolkien, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett (although I started to tire of the Discworld series after Jingo).
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Some people never go krazy. What truely boring lives they must lead. (Blackie Lawless)
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06-19-2006, 06:12 AM
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Location: Australia
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Saint exupery
Stephen King
for now...
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06-19-2006, 12:58 PM
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Friedrich Nietzche(sp?)
Aldous Huxley
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ed greenwood (personal preference he writes fantasy in Forgotten Realms)
Dean Koontz
Prose out of the Romantic era I enjoy, author usually doesn't matter but I enjoyed most of William Blakes stuff (Marriage of Heaven and Hell, America, Europe, to name a few)
I enjoy the Beat writers, Kerouac and Burroughs come to mind.
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. -John Muir
I can hear Orwell....
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06-22-2006, 09:40 AM
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Has anyone mentioned Hunter S. Thompson? The interesting thing about him is that when he was writing a book he would actually do the things he was researching instead of just looking it up in another book. Very good writer.
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