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favorite authors
Hey guys I'm on a long car ride home. So I'm being cool and going on the ledge from myphone. So I wanted to know who you guys' favorite authors are.
For me its definately F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby and This Side of Paradise hold my heart. Haha Sooo to help pass time on this drive. Your input? |
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I'm a big fan of Anne Rice's Mayfair witches series: The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos. These books weave American and European history and combine it with folklore and legend to spin a fascinating tale of Witchcraft and the occult in a very fresh and believable manner. I read the books usually twice a year... all 3 book combined are around 2,500 pages of reading.
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Jodi Picoult - her books are great & she writes about controversial topics ranging from wrongful birth suits, to suicide pacts & death penalty. It really makes you rethink your views on some of these things. Her book "Change of Heart" has dramatically changed my view on the death penalty. Also, they are not easy reads and sometimes people can be offended by them, depends what type of person you are, but they generally make you think about things & I think that's important.
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Louie that sounds awesome. Have you everread triad?
And jillian that reminds me of this one book I read a while ago. I think it was like alice's diarry or something. I really liked it |
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Don Paterson
J.K. Rowling (Trite answer but I do adore her books. It's just a shame that she chose to end The Deathly Hallows the way that she did. Honestly, that epilogue was tragic. And not in a good way) Sylvia Plath Edgar Allen Poe Lord Byron William Shakespeare Primo Levi (Probably the only Author that has ever truelly broken my heart. I read "If This Is A Man" when I was in Sixth Form as a class book, and I recall crying in class during certain passages. Heart wrenching wouldn't even begin to describe the honeyed passages of this novel. It's a credit to the man that he found himself able to recall his experiences in such grim detail.) Oscar Wilde Last edited by Silver Springs; 11-27-2010 at 09:02 PM.. |
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Yep! I've got Triad. It's kind of corny, but has an interesting premise for sure.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (I adore his style. Just simply beautiful.)
Cormac McCarthy Kate Chopin Sylvia Plath William Blake (my favorite poet) William Wordsworth Khaled Hosseini Bill Bryson John Irving Margaret Atwood Eugene O'Neill Tennessee Williams William Faulkner and JK Rowling. I just think she's a tremendously gifted storyteller. |
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Hands down... Tolkien.
"The Simarillion" is stunningly epic in a way Harry Potter isn't.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
JK Rowling Evangeline Walton Jane Austen Emily Dickinson Edgar Allen Poe F. Scott Fitzgerald Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky Alexandre Dumas Oscar Wilde H.P. Lovecraft Anne Rice Tess Gerritsen Bernard Cornwell Thomas Harris
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Kimberly Last edited by CreepingDeath; 11-27-2010 at 09:09 PM.. |
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Authors: MICHAEL ONDAATJE, Janet Fitch, Margaret Atwood, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cormac McCarthy, Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath, William Faulkner, JK Rowling, Charlotte Bronte, Vladimir Nabokov, Anita Diamant
Poets/essayists/playwrights: T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Sharon Olds, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Kim Dana Kupperman ("See Me Slant" is the best creative essay ever), Tom Stoppard (ARCADIA!!) |
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I really love Stephen King. I get so lost in the worlds of his books, especially the more epic ones like The Stand and Under the Dome. He can be a bit predictable at times but no other author transports me as much as he does except...
J.K. Rowling, who is fantastic and I think it will be a crime if we never get to see another book from her. Not necessarily a Harry Potter book, anything in general. She so successfully created a whole new world with the details so in place that it feels like it exists. I love her style as well. I'm also a fan of Thisbe Nissen, who doesn't have many books, but wrote my absolute favorite, The Good People of New York. |
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I love Fitzgerald.
Also Edmund Wilson, Jacques Barzun, Richard Mitchell, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Jacqueline Susann, Beaumarchais, & King David.
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H.G. Wells
Terry Pratchett J.R.R. Tolkein Neil Gaiman Those would be the four that I can go back to time and time again and still get something from. Strangely they're all fantasy/sci-fi but 90% of the books I read by other authors aren't in those genres. I usually find fantasy and sci-fi to be a bit silly () and, half the time, they're just a rip-off of Wells or Tolkein anyway. |
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I like Michael Crichton and Kenneth Oppel.
At the moment I am reading a book by Carrie Fisher called, Wishful Drinking Great book!
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George W. Bush - Decision Points
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