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Post by Monday Morning on Sept 20, 2009 20:58:53 GMT -5
So, this could kind of go with the other thread I posted, but it is a tad bit different! I was wondering who you like to read, or what authors you'd recommend. My favorites are: Charlaine Harris Laurell K. Hamilton Holly Black Melissa Marr Stephenie Meyer
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Post by girlyesterday on Sept 21, 2009 5:59:43 GMT -5
I probably have too many favourites ...
Melissa Marr Roger Zelzany Scott Westerfeld Neil Gaiman Philip Pullman David Eddings David Gemmell Jennifer Fallon Robin Hobb Isobelle Carmody Neal Shusterman Charles de Lint Mark Chadbourn Ray Bradbury
And probably a heap more I can't think of right now
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Post by raquelaroden on Sept 21, 2009 6:15:38 GMT -5
Monday Morning: ooh! Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer--definitely two of my favorites.
girlyesterday: Oooh! Philip Pullman and Neil Gaiman--I haven't read everything by them, but I loved Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, and I recently read the first volume of Gaiman's Sandman series. So good!
Some additional favorites (including some guilty pleasures):
Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen George Eliot J. R. R. Tolkien C. S. Lewis Alexander McCall Smith G. K. Chesterton Deanna Raybourn Karen Robards Amanda Quick Sandra Brown Iris Johansen Janet Evanovich (the Stephanie Plum series)
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Post by Stacy on Sept 22, 2009 19:39:49 GMT -5
Charlotte Bronte (and her sisters, but Jane Eyre is my most favorite book of all time)
Edgar Allan Poe (I think he's definitely my biggest influence)
Jane Austen
Terry Pratchett (I have a pretty complete Pratchett collection. Unfortunately my in-laws have ruined Pratchett for me because they also really like his stuff but their way of being fans clashes with my way of being a fan....and yeah.)
Chuck Palahniuk
Robin McKinley
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Post by dbloveshermac on Sept 22, 2009 20:35:31 GMT -5
Oooooo, good question!
Agatha Christie Tad Williams Louisa May Alcott C.S. Lewis
And while I don't read them often enough to call them favorites, I am fond of: J.R.R Tolkien Jane Austen William Faulkner
Hmmm, this list looks pretty serious. I feel the need to say that I am a great fan of Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, and Dilbert. Maybe they're not considered great literature, but they are great examples of storytelling.
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Post by raquelaroden on Sept 22, 2009 20:40:01 GMT -5
Oh! Louisa May Alcott! One of my favorites too.
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Post by Monday Morning on Sept 23, 2009 22:07:55 GMT -5
Gosh, I feel silly. Here are all of these great classic authors and I have my few modern authors. I guess my favorite classical authors would be F. Scott Fitzgerald and Scott O'Dell. I like Jane Austen, but I've never read her books. But I really like the movies!
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Post by thelunarfox on Sept 25, 2009 12:46:03 GMT -5
It's hard to pick favorite authors. It's like picking my favorite bands.
The only one that is always constant: Isaac Asimov. Comic books (because I would count that): I loved Chris Clarmont's early run (late 70's early 80's) on X-Men when it was all space opera-y.
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Post by girlyesterday on Sept 26, 2009 1:00:34 GMT -5
I don't really read classic authors either MondayMorning. Their writing gives me a headache. I do try and read the well known authors of a particular genre. I tend to be fairly open minded about trying new authors and genres.
I did try reading Lord of the Rings - I only got partway through The Two Towers. All the singing was getting on my nerves. I know Tolkien is one of the great authors of the 20th Century but I found his narrative to be too dry for me. Reading LOTR was more like work than enjoyment. I'm probably among the minority though.
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Post by Monday Morning on Sept 26, 2009 10:42:05 GMT -5
No, I'm with you. I tried reading The Hobbit and had to stop. I could not get into it at all.
Oh, for those us that are Melissa Marr fans, on her Myspace, she said that Universal picked up the movie rights to Wicked Lovely, so we'll be seeing a movie adaption in the near future!
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Post by raquelaroden on Sept 26, 2009 14:02:03 GMT -5
Monday Morning & Carnaxa: lol about Tolkien--I love his stories, but I know what you mean. They can be difficult to get through. Some of the parts drag, but others are so beautiful and laden with all these wonderful meanings that they bring tears to my eyes. I think what impresses me the most about Tolkien is his amazing ability to build worlds--I mean, he made up languages and legends to go with each of his races, and a whole creation story, and....goodness. It makes me feel like such a lazy writer. I just throw my characters into Sunset Valley and whine when I have to build additional locales.
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Post by moondaisy on Nov 4, 2009 22:55:57 GMT -5
It's so hard to mention my favourites... I have so many, it hardly is a question of 'favourite' anymore. But here we go, my shortlist;
Dean Koontz Stephen King Jeffrey Deaver Martina Cole J.R.R. Tolkien C.S. Lewis E. A. Pole Martin Gray Margaret Atwood Doris Lessing Audrey Niffenegger ...
I could go on and on. I read the backside of cereal packages in the morning LOL.
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Post by rad on Nov 5, 2009 5:35:36 GMT -5
Hmmm. Favourites are hard to choose, particularly as sometimes I will like one book they've done but not any others. I like a lot of factual/humorous books as well.
The following are generally good though (and I like some of those already mentioned too): Jonathan Coe David Peace Ian McEwan Zadie Smith Rose Tremain Lionel Shriver Jostein Gaarder Curtis Sittenfeld George Orwell Clare Morrall Toby Litt
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Post by mdpthatsme on Nov 15, 2009 2:19:59 GMT -5
I'm not much of a reader for a writer....but, I suppose, I do have writer's out there I like... AVI Laurell K. Hamilton Khaled Hosseini G.P. Taylor Anne Rice Tamora Pierce Edgar Allan Poe (no doubt about it; he's the best poet) Stephenie Meyer R.L. Stine Comic books are the bomb, by the way...but I really don't pay attention to who writes them...my bad.
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