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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
10-06-2007, 10:58 AM
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Daphne Du Maurier is one of my favourites. She was local and wrote about historical things here. EV Thompson is another good historical Cornish writer. Diana Gabaldon is another one I like.
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10-07-2007, 12:06 AM
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my fav is Matthew reilly, he writes action so fast paced its like a movie, srsly, i also like R.L Stine, Emily rodda and Anthony horowittz
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10-08-2007, 05:38 PM
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So little time is true
I agree. There is so little time to read all the great books. My favorite author so far is James Joyce. I just love his books.
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10-25-2007, 05:59 PM
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My favourite authors are probably:
Garth Nix
Eoin Colfer
Stuart Hill
Darren Shan
Diana Wynne Jones
Christopher Paolini
Alison Croggon
Terry Pratchet
Wow that's a long list.... I like to read.
However I also hold these authors in high esteem:
Ursula le Guin
Jonathan Stroud - This guy comes in at almost Favourite...
J.K. Rowling - Please no comments on how you hate/love her.... she's a good writer.
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10-25-2007, 07:00 PM
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Tolkien, Vonnegut, Jonathan Safron Foer (I read his two novels and though they were incredible. I'm waiting for a third and keep meaning to find his earlier publications.)
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10-25-2007, 10:37 PM
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V.C. Andrews. Her actual work (when she was alive) is absolute poetry, but the most recent books (after the Hudson series; 2000) have declined in all areas. The ghostwriter has made a mockery of her name.
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10-25-2007, 11:00 PM
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I love Stephinie Myer! and Charles Dickens. Actualy I LOVE all books!
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10-25-2007, 11:05 PM
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Oh, Stephinie Meyer is good, but she is mostly a character developer... Her books have kind of wemt downhill since Twilight.
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10-26-2007, 09:16 AM
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Roger Zelazny
Ursula Le Guin
And an odd choice: Elizabeth George. She writes detective fiction, with the usual adult themes of sex, gory violence and macabre death intertwined with the story. But I love how she unfolds her plots and makes her characters come alive, even the most minor ones. She's also written a book on (what else?) "How To Write", which I've found to be invaluable.
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11-02-2007, 12:41 AM
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I have a lot of favorite writers but Hunter S Thompson tops my list for sure.
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11-04-2007, 12:15 AM
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- Keith Ablow - Arthur C. Clarke - Douglas Adams - Orson Scott Card - Kurt Vonnegut - George Orwell - Scott Adams - H.G. Wells - Philip K. Dick - William Shakespeare - Agatha Christie - Charles Schulz (yes, he is the creator of the comic strip Peanuts! In so creating the comic though, he contributed a great deal to pop culture, and some of his strips actually had a moral and were fictional accounts of his own life) - The Beatles (wrote songs that never originally appeared in print, though like poetry, many of their songs have been studied and have a very poetic sense)
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11-09-2007, 04:00 AM
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Darren Shan
Stephen King
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11-09-2007, 04:30 PM
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I love Dickens also, Seattle. But my favourite so far is The Old Curiousity Shop. I can never ever forget little Nell and her grandfather. I like Hard Times a lot too.
I also must admit that I spent a few weeks one summer reading the Anita Blake series back-to-back on my parents' screened-in front porch in cottage country. I couldn't put them down for the life of me. I did feel a little guilty, at times, but it pleased me to no end. I would recommend her to anyone who loves vampires and thrilling fiction.
But I would suggest no one author more to anyone than Charles Dickens. His novels seem big, but his characters and contrasting sceneries are entrancing. It'll be gone before you know it, and you'll feel sad at having lost it.
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11-11-2007, 12:12 PM
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well, i'm a teen and i like meg cabot right now, and i adore dannielle stell and probably read about 20 of her books, sadly that is nothing out of her hundreds lol.
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11-12-2007, 01:43 PM
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Charolotte Bronte...I love old European novels.
In my younger days it was Jacqueline Sussan. Her books always had a shocking ending.
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