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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
02-25-2007, 07:39 PM
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Fav. author(s)?
What are your favorite authors? What kind of books do you like?
Here are my top 3:
1. Kathryn Reiss
2. Caroline B. Cooney
3. Scott Westerfield
I love books about time travel!!
Now tell me about your taste.
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02-26-2007, 12:33 PM
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I've been reading a lot of Stephen King lately.
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02-26-2007, 04:55 PM
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I definitely love Tolkien. He's brilliant.
Other authors I like? Well, Koonts is pretty good.
Wells I love.
Poe is great for short stories and poetry.
Also, I enjoy Terry Goodkind.
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02-26-2007, 08:55 PM
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Neil Gaiman
Alan Moore
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02-27-2007, 11:54 PM
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Alice Munro is my favourite author, her short stories are amazing. But her last collection of them were the last ones she's going to publish, which is rather sad.
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I wish I had a river so long I could teach my feet to fly
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02-28-2007, 06:30 AM
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In my response I am reminded of a short poem about St.Petersburg:
I was born in Petrograd
I graduated in Leningrad
I retired in St.Petersburg.
Books, and particularly favourite authors, are like that.
20 years ago - Tolkien
15 years ago - Orwell, Steinbeck
10 years ago - Kerouac, Bukowski
5 years ago - Henry Miller, Dostoyevsky
Now - Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami
Next - ???, ???
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02-28-2007, 09:19 AM
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Some of my favorites are Cornelia Funke, J.K. Rowling, Christopher Paolini, Mario Puzo, and Richard Bach.
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02-28-2007, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by skatingaway
Alice Munro is my favourite author, her short stories are amazing. But her last collection of them were the last ones she's going to publish, which is rather sad.
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my creative writing prof is homies with alice munro. apparently hes got in his possession a short story she wrote that her publisher deemed to racy for The View From Castle Rock. ive been trying to sucker it out of him for awhile now.
as for me, faves include mordecai richler, hunter s thompson, salman rushdie, bret easton ellis, kafka, and jd salinger (tho not catcher).
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02-28-2007, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by skatingaway
Alice Munro is my favourite author, her short stories are amazing. But her last collection of them were the last ones she's going to publish, which is rather sad.
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my creative writing prof is homies with alice munro. apparently hes got in his possession a short story she wrote that her publisher deemed to racy for The View From Castle Rock. ive been trying to sucker it out of him for awhile now.
as for me, faves include mordecai richler, hunter s thompson, salman rushdie, bret easton ellis, kafka, and jd salinger (tho not catcher).
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02-28-2007, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by skatingaway
Alice Munro is my favourite author, her short stories are amazing. But her last collection of them were the last ones she's going to publish, which is rather sad.
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my creative writing prof is homies with alice munro. apparently hes got in his possession a short story she wrote that her publisher deemed to racy for The View From Castle Rock. ive been trying to sucker it out of him for awhile now.
as for me, faves include mordecai richler, hunter s thompson, salman rushdie, bret easton ellis, kafka, and jd salinger (tho not catcher).
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03-01-2007, 07:17 PM
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Robyn McKinley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and J.K. Rowling have been my favorites for a long time. I also think Steinbeck has a lot of talent as a writer, although I haven't liked his stories too much yet. Dickenson might be added to my all-time favorite list, also. I'm reading Tale of Two Cities now and I'm blown away.
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03-02-2007, 11:03 PM
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My favorite author, hands down, is William Faulkner.
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03-03-2007, 01:46 AM
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Mathew Reily and...i'll get back to you when i remember his name.
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03-03-2007, 09:32 AM
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I've only got CS Lewis in this category. No one else.
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03-03-2007, 01:52 PM
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Steven Gould- Jumper, Reflex, Wildside
Neil Gaiman- Anansi Boys, Smoke and Mirrors
J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter Series, although Book 3 is the only one with an unpredictable plot. I like her work, but it's not all it's cracked up to be.
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