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General Talk (primarily non-naturist) => Pitti's Book Club => Topic started by: Pitti on December 21, 2009, 07:09:28 pm
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The title says it all. So who is your favorite writer?
Mine is Stephen King. I love horror literature. As it often in his novel is to average types.
Even ordinary things are on the horror:
Business (Christian, Trucks (short story from Night Shift), From A Buick 8)
Building (Shining)
Images (Rose Madder, Duma Key)
I was very impressed "Cell". Where are the people through their mobile phone to zombis.
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My favourite in the horror genre is Shaun Hutson. I was introduced to his books by a flatmate in London many years ago. The link for me was that all his stories are based in and around London and as I was living and working there at the time, it kind of got me hooked. Managed to buy a few autographed copies of his books as he had done a book signing the day before I found this particular shop. Oh well, nearly met him. Funny thing is, I only ever find his books in the bargain sale bins here in Sydney, don't know why. I currently have 21 of his books on my bookshelf.
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My favourite changes from time to time. Right now I'm reading a lot of Tom Holland. He writes very accessible books about history, so far I've read his books on the fall of the Roman Republic & the rise of the Empire, the Greek/Persian wars of around 500 BC and his account of the end of the first millenium.
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Anthony Horowitz or Darren Shan. When I used to read I only read the Darren Shan vampire books, or the Alex Rider series by Horoqitz
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Although I did make the mistake once of starting to read The Langoliers on one of my airplane trips....... :879
Mistake? I can't imagine a more awesome place to read it.
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Oscar Wilde. Is there anyone more witty than he is? For Horror it would be Poe. Hm, I think my English studies finally entered my character...
And as for German writers: Walter Moers...if any of you anglophones out there can get a hold of his works (especially The City of Dreaming Books)-->seize it, buy it and enjoy it!
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Although I did make the mistake once of starting to read The Langoliers on one of my airplane trips....... :879
If even Final Destination is shown. They are harbingers of evil :786
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Terry Pratchett
Fantastic imagination, wonderful humor and such a great sideways look at real-life hear on normal earth.
Anyone who likes humor or light-fantasy I really recommend!!
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Terry Pratchett
Fantastic imagination, wonderful humor and such a great sideways look at real-life hear on normal earth.
Anyone who likes humor or light-fantasy I really recommend!!
I have to agreehere, he is such a fabulous writer and always makes me laugh. Shame about his condition now :(
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Terry Pratchett
Fantastic imagination, wonderful humor and such a great sideways look at real-life hear on normal earth.
Anyone who likes humor or light-fantasy I really recommend!!
I also agree - great author.
My other favourites at the moment are Peter F Hamilton and Philip K Dick - although mine change fairly regularly as I discover new authors as well.
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My Fav author is Sir Walter Scott with Nigel Tranter close behind
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Favorite writer is Randy Singer. He writes Christian legal thrillers, which are highly enjoyable.
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I'm also going to have to go with Stephen King as a favorite. As well as Michael Chrighton (Jurassic Park), and Ray Bradberry (Fahrenheit 451)
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Favorite writer is Randy Singer. He writes Christian legal thrillers, which are highly enjoyable.
How does that work? I already know how Jesus died so there's not much suspense left...
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Favorite writer is Randy Singer. He writes Christian legal thrillers, which are highly enjoyable.
How does that work? I already know how Jesus died so there's not much suspense left...
:424444 Humm..
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My point is that I don't know what a Christian thriller is and am asking for clarifications. What makes it Christian? The main character have to be a Christian? It happens in Biblical time?
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My point is that I don't know what a Christian thriller is and am asking for clarifications. What makes it Christian? The main character have to be a Christian? It happens in Biblical time?
Ahhh..ok, thanks.
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Wow, it seems that from my description of Randy Singer's work that some are confused, so let me try and eliminate some of the confusion. He writes about issues in modern day America (death penalty, creches, self incrimination, second amendment) and writes about them through a Biblical perspective. For more you can refer to his website, http://www.randysinger.net/ (http://www.randysinger.net/)
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He writes about issues in modern day America (death penalty, creches, self incrimination, second amendment) and writes about them through a Biblical perspective. For more you can refer to his website, http://www.randysinger.net/ (http://www.randysinger.net/)
Can you elaborate on that? Not about what the Biblical perspective is but on how it shows in the books.
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The plot focuses on the intersection of law and biblical principles. For example, one of the books focuses on whether grace or justice is to be shown to parents who are discipling their son in line with their religious beliefs.
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The plot focuses on the intersection of law and biblical principles. For example, one of the books focuses on whether grace or justice is to be shown to parents who are discipling their son in line with their religious beliefs.
That's slightly less unclear to me...
Which ones wins on average, law or biblical principles? :)
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For that you can read the books :). The conclusions of the books are interesting.
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For that you can read the books :). The conclusions of the books are interesting.
While the concept intrigues me, since I'm not a Christian I wouldn't enjoy them as much as you do and the time it would take to finish one is greater than my curiosity.
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For me, it really depends on the genre. For Crime Fiction, I love Agatha Christie and PD James. I loved Gregory Maguire's Wicked Years, but I didn't enjoy all of his work. I love Scott Adams' humour from the Dilbert Books. Gah! So many to chose from, this is only a sample.
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My favorite would have to be a relatively obscure sci-fi author, James White. His Sector General series started me on sci-fi to begin with, so I owe him a lot there. Second place, though, would have to be Isaac Asimov (I love the Foundation trilogy).
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My favorite would have to be a relatively obscure sci-fi author, James White. His Sector General series started me on sci-fi to begin with, so I owe him a lot there. Second place, though, would have to be Isaac Asimov (I love the Foundation trilogy).
I'll second Isaac Asimov! Have you read all of the foundation books? There are actually 15 that are all in the same universe.
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I have read the First and Second Foundation trilogies, and as soon as I get more money I am going to find the Robots series. And is it just me, or is the First Foundation trilogy up there with Lord of the Rings for "best trilogy ever"?
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I am happy there are Asimov fans here. He is definatly one of my favorite Authors. I also like Aurthur C Clarke, and Tolken. I though am sucker for classics, nothing beats Mark Twain, Jules Verne or HG Wells
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As of last Christmas I'm a complete Iain M Banks fanboy. As funds allow I'm working through his entire Culture series - I genuinely haven't found a book he's written that isn't brilliant.
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I'm a big fan of Dan Abnett, a sc-fi author, author of the Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn and Ravenor series of books based in the Warhammer 40k universe. Love his characters and his descriptions of action scenes just sometimes leave me breathless.
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I have a few.
Terry Pratchett is someone I love to read.
HP Lovecraft wrote stuff that had a big impact on me in terms of art and my own attempts at writing.
Reading Jack Kerouac as a teenager made me want to read "like a grown up".
James Ellroy got me reading crime fiction and loving it.
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I also love Kerouac. And Mark Twain. And Tolkien.
How about some writers no one has ever heard of.... Hmmmm. Just looking at my shelf I see the novel Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop. A rather unusual retelling of Frankenstein.
Bon Apetit :65
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Hemingway all the way. Mostly because he was a total badass in every sense of the word. Someone told me once he wrote books too?
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Tolkien and CS Lewis for me, as far as fiction goes. But I don't read much fiction normally.
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I use to have a favourite writer for each mod...
Anyway, my "must" are: Ernest Hemingway (how never read anything of him, try to read some of his descriptions of context...it's unbelievable, you can close the eyes and see it!) and in other moment Stephen King...mostly in his thriller books.
When I wish to feel above, I read Dante Alighieri, he was sacring each night before literature tests in my high school, but now I revalued it...I don't know if abroad it's so common.
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The early Tom Clancy books are unputadownable (loving the new word there). I seem to remember picking up Patriot Games and reading it throughout my sisters birthday....which didnt go down well!
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nice to know im not the only Pratchett fan here.
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Well, let's see:
James Joyce, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Wolf, Thomas Mann (classics); Amin Maalouf, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (contemporaries)...
There are certainly more of them, these have ones come up spontaneously...:-)
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I love Dostoevsky, Pessoa and Cioran above all...
I recommended to all of you to read some poetry of the Portuguese Pessoa, I really like it. Try "O Guardador de Rebanhos"...
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I'd have to say John Updike, Ernest Hemingway, and f scott fitzgerald.Keepin it old school haha :p
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Score one for hemingway. I just recently learned he made sweet sweet love to a mafioso's girlfriend while in a secret bar during prohibition...i'd like to see updike do that and live.
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I am happy there are Asimov fans here. He is definatly one of my favorite Authors. I also like Aurthur C Clarke, and Tolken. I though am sucker for classics, nothing beats Mark Twain, Jules Verne or HG Wells
Nothing beats the classics in some cases, though I do count Asimov (or at least his earlier works) as classics. In fact, screw it. I hereby redefine "classic" as something I like at least ten years old or so. How about that?
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My favorite writers are
1. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - with his novelles Terre des hommes – „Wind, Sand und Sterne”; Lettre a un otage – „Bekenntnis einer Freundschaft”, Pilote de guerre – „Flug nach Arras”, Le petit prince – „Der kleine Prinz”; L'aviateur – „Der Flieger”. I had read all books from him in both languages, the Frensh novelles are better then the German translation.
2. Jules Verne - I have from this writer all books as paperback (128 Books)
3. James A. Michener - he was an American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which were sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating historical facts into the stories
4. Thomas Mann - he was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the most known exponents of the so called Exilliteratur.
5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - he was a German writer and polymath. Goethe is considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides with Enlightenment, Sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours, his influential ideas on plant and animal morphology and homology were extended and developed by 19th century naturalists including Charles Darwin. He also served at length as the Privy Councilor of the duchy of Saxe-Weimar.
Goethe's influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a major source of inspiration in music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Early in his career, however, he wondered whether painting might be his true vocation; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that he would ultimately be remembered above all for his work on colour.
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Wait a second. Mann was the guy who brought us the infamous Death In Venice. I don't know what else he wrote, but they would have to be pretty good to make up for Death In Venice.
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Mann´s favorite and best book is "Die Buddenbrooks".
Buddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty-six years old. The publication of the 2nd edition in 1903 confirmed that Buddenbrooks was a major literary success in Germany.
It portrays the downfall (already announced in the subtitle, Decline of a Family) of a wealthy mercantile family of Lübeck over four generations. The book is generally understood as a portrait of the German bourgeois society throughout several decades of the 19th century. The book displays Mann's characteristic detailed style, and it was this novel which won Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, although according to Mann's wife this achievement would not have occurred without the publication of The Magic Mountain.
In 1959 and 1960, German filmmaker Alfred Weidenmann directed two film adaptions of Buddenbrooks. Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil was released in 1959 and featured actors Liselotte Pulver, Nadja Tiller, Hansjörg Felmy, Hanns Lothar, Lil Dagover and Werner Hinz. The following year, Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil was released in theaters and featured the same cast.
Franz Peter Wirth directed a 10-hour TV version that premiered in 1979 and was filmed in less-damaged Gdansk.
Mann´s other worldwide bestseller books were: Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull), Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann novel),The Holy Sinner (Der Erwählte), Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder (Tetralogie)), Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns, The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), Mario and the Magician (Königliche Hoheit) , Tonio Kröger and Tristan (novella)
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I really enjoy Edgar Allan Poe's poems and short stories, but my favorite author has to be John Grisham.
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Lately I find Tess Gerritsen great.
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I've read the works of many a good author, but my favorite still has to be J.K. Rowling.
I am not too proud to admit that, while Rowling is not my "favorite" author ever, the Harry Potter series was a very enjoyable read. Good call.
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I read voraciously and omnivorously. Like the late, great John Gross I would like to be able to read everything ever written -- an impossible task.
There are many great authors and many more who, though far from great, are entertaining within their own genres. The compilation of a list of these approaches impossibility and is in any case always open to argument.
Overall, hands down, my all-time favourite author is William Shakespeare.
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It is a hard question to answer honestly. People change and with that change in personality comes change in preferences to literature. I have read modern authors like Stephen King, James Patterson, Ken Follett and Harlan Coben at different times in my life as well as the "classics", and everything else i was forced to read in University.
Without trying to sound like a dick or an uncool "sell-out" i will say that most people that says that their favorite author is Machiavelli, Asimov, Dostoevsky or any author like that comes across as sounding like a pretentious hipster. Reading is about enjoyment and I have met very few people that enjoyed the "classics". It has always been my belief that something gets lost in the translation.
I am not trying to run anyone down or cause problems. I am just trying to state that it is okay to read "fluff" and enjoy it. Rowling, King, Patterson, C.S. Lewis and Stephanie Meyer all wrote entertaining books and most people read to be entertained not to "look cool".
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My favorite writers are
1. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - with his novelles Terre des hommes – „Wind, Sand und Sterne”; Lettre a un otage – „Bekenntnis einer Freundschaft”, Pilote de guerre – „Flug nach Arras”, Le petit prince – „Der kleine Prinz”; L'aviateur – „Der Flieger”. I had read all books from him in both languages, the Frensh novelles are better then the German translation.
Great stuff in small packages. The BF has actually been to Villa Cisneros and seen the lighthouse mentioned in Wind, Sand & Stars
2. Jules Verne - I have from this writer all books as paperback (128 Books)
Did you like Into the Niger Bend? I thought that it was very different from most of Verne's books.
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Without trying to sound like a dick or an uncool "sell-out" i will say that most people that says that their favorite author is Machiavelli, Asimov, Dostoevsky or any author like that comes across as sounding like a pretentious hipster.
Reading Machiavelli seems like a penance to me and I cannot for the life of me imagine anyone enjoying Dostoevsky, while other people love them. But I cannot imagine placing Asimov in the same court. He wrote very good, readable, cutting-edge science fiction, not as flashy and maguffinish as most scifi authors but very absorbing and entertaining.
Reading is about enjoyment and I have met very few people that enjoyed the "classics".
While you must speak for your own circle of acquaintances from my own experience I simply cannot agree. Reading is all about a love of language. I like Shakespeare, Dumas, Dickens, Austen, the Brontes and a host of others, and so did many of my friends. Some of the new classics-in-waiting are Tolkien, Rowling, Ruiz Zafon and others. Should they be dismissed in advance because of the expertise of their authors? Many modern authors make literary references to various classics and if you don't understand them they give you a Huh? moment.
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Without trying to sound like a dick or an uncool "sell-out" i will say that most people that says that their favorite author is Machiavelli, Asimov, Dostoevsky or any author like that comes across as sounding like a pretentious hipster.
Reading Machiavelli seems like a penance to me and I cannot for the life of me imagine anyone enjoying Dostoevsky, while other people love them. But I cannot imagine placing Asimov in the same court. He wrote very good, readable, cutting-edge science fiction, not as flashy and maguffinish as most scifi authors but very absorbing and entertaining.
Reading is about enjoyment and I have met very few people that enjoyed the "classics".
While you must speak for your own circle of acquaintances form my own experience I simply cannot agree. Reading is all about a love of language. I like Shakespeare, Dumas, Dickens, Austen, the Brontes and a host of others, and so did many of my friends. Some of the new classics-in-waiting are Tolkien, Rowling, Ruiz Zafon and others. Should they be dismissed in advance because of the expertise of their authors? Many modern authors make literary references to various classics and if you don't understand them they give you a Huh? moment.
I threw Asimov in there for the European sounding name. You are correct, I was being a bit hasty.
I can only speak to my own circle of acquaintances and it always come back to the ones that say they love the classics are the ones that are always looking for a way to feel smarter or more important than everyone else. It never fails, through 13 years of taking University classes. It is classic hipster nonsense, step 1 read a classic author, step 2 start talking down all other literature, step3 hold nose in air.
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I can only speak to my own circle of acquaintances and it always come back to the ones that say they love the classics are the ones that are always looking for a way to feel smarter or more important than everyone else. It never fails, through 13 years of taking University classes. It is classic hipster nonsense, step 1 read a classic author, step 2 start talking down all other literature, step3 hold nose in air.
I do understand that there is nothing so sophomoric as a sophomore who has just discovered some writer of note and then can't stop himself from expounding on it and dismissing all others. Instant experts are always so very annoying. Those who discover dead and discredited political writers are usually more so.
As for fluff, it is all good in its time and place. Few people I know keep War and Peace on the bathroom bookshelf or go to sleep having read a few chapters of Nietzsche, though God knows it puts me to sleep fast enough. If I get tired of Shakespeare, Hobbes or Tolkien I can always turn to the complete works of Janet Evanovich.
You will find that the people on this forum are very respectful of the opinions of others. We may not agree on everything but we do agree on the right to hold one's own opinion.
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I believe that we are in agreement. You just articulated the argument better than I did.
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Thomas Bernhard, Elfride Jelinek, Miha Mazzini, Antoni Libera...
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As a huge fan of poerty I would say William Wordsworth. In terms of books/stories I would say James Patterson
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In English I like Virginia Woolf and Shakespeare, but I love classical literature (Homer and fellas) and I love sheerly and especially Brazilian Literature: João Guimarães Rosa, Mário Quintana, Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Can't have enough of it! :) João Guimarães Rosa actually is the best writer in the whole world and I'm sorry for non-portuguese speaking people because they can't read it. JK guise :4345
And although I recognize that so much hipster blabbering really annoys people (have a couple of acquaintances just like that), I swear that I'm sincere about it. I do not look down on other types of literature as inferior, though. That is stupid. But being judgmental about one who says he likes classicals is, too - actually, you are being just as prejudiced as the hipster kittehs. Why not let people love what they want without having to judge if he's this or that? One of the great things about naturism wasn't about learning how to live with the difference?
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My favorite author of books is definitely Terry Pratchett. Especially his series on the character Tiffany Aching. Ingenious books, amazing author.
My favorite poet is definitely Robert Burns, closely followed by Edgar Allen Poe. But Burns is the only one from whom I consistently read from, I pick up works here and there.
-Padraig
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Pitti what do you think about Agatha Christie?
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Pitti what do you think about Agatha Christie?
Agatha Christie was a very good writer. I really like the "Miss Marpel" crime stories and the story "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (Alibi) is a fascinating story. Only the figure of Hercules Poirot, I can not suffer, as it is for me an arrogant version of Sherlock Holmes. Christie is really the Queen of Crime (and the Princess of Crime is for me Tess Gerritsen) :786
And how do you like Agatha Christie? :66664333
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Kurt Vonnegut is unbeatable for me. I've read nearly every book he's written. Spot on satire and humor.
I also enjoy Mark Twain, Joseph Heller (obviously, or at least obvious to those of you that have read Catch 22), and Charles Bukowski. Bukowski seems like a real jerk, but Ham on Rye is the tightest writing I've ever read.
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If I had to pick up only one, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marques. Apart from him, cannot forget Haruki Murakami nor Orhan Pamuk.
I also read many Croatian writers and poets, but too few of those get translated :(
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Cant say i like one writer only or know who all writers are, but here are some good ones:
William Shakespear
William Blake
Robert Frost
J.K.Rowling
J.R.R.Tolkein
Edgar Alan Poe
List goes on and on.... I try not to be picky with genres. As long as a book is well writen ill go for it. Give me a horror that makes me pee in my pants. A mystery that keeps me gussing. Romance that makes me make rain(i never cry only make rain). Adventures that have inspiring heros and dastardly villans. Fantasy that leaves the booring and mundane behind. Comedy filled with whit and wonder. So many books so little time.
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Ian Fleming
JRR Tolkien
Clive Cussler
WEB Griffin
Tom Clancy
I just do not get into the classics or scifi. Give me an action/adventure or historical fiction or LOTR and I am happy.
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Anthony E. Zukier
Nick Stone
Darren Shan
P.C and Kristen Cast
James Pattinson
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J.K Rowling
I'm sure theres a few more but I cant remember them :P
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James Pattinson
I'm sure theres a few more but I cant remember them :P
Yay James Pattinson, he is the only author I have really been interested in. I should start reading some of his books again.
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That's if you manage to get past the first page :P
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Just dont let me get distracted :p
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Okay Okay, I wont get naked then :P haha
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:909 I didnt mean that
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I know I know :D
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Right now, I'd have to say Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I've always been fascinated by Sherlock Holmes as a character through shows and children's books, but it wasn't until about a year ago that I started reading the original stories and novels. I've been hooked.
I also read a lot of Stephen King. I'm currently reading It; it's so loonng.
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J.r.r tolkien is my favorite writer.
I also love
J.d salenger
Terry pratchet
Graham mcniel
Wiliam golding and
Chuck palaniuk
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This is a toughe. I do really like John le Carre along with P.G. Wodehouse. But asking to pick a favourite would be almost an impossible task for me.
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My absolute favorite author is j.r.r tolkien. I also love terry pratchet, chuck palanihuk, william golding and j.d salanger.
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I agree with others who have said this is tough, but off the top of my head John Steinbeck and Stephen King come to mind:
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Karen Rose, she is writing perfect
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George Orwell, i adore his consideration about the possible involution of society.
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Ahh, that sucks, all of you got the question wrong!
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The correct answer is of course Knut Hamsun=D
And the second place, though far, far below first; Oscar Wilde=)
There, that cleared things up!
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Hmm lots of classics and sci-fi.
I read a lot for my degree in college....so Poe, some Shakespeare, Tim O'Brien (fiction), Anthony Burgess- A Clockwork Orange
Stephen King :)
I prefer fantasy and urban fantasy though so; C.S Lewis, David Eddings, Melanie Rawn, Tad Willliams, Carol Berg, D. J. MacHale and Garth Nix (both young adult authors), Joel Rosenberg, Rob Thurman, Gini Koch, George R R Martin
My ultimate favorite, Jim Butcher
Sam :)
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Ayn Rand. Not that I'm really an objectivist, I just like her writing.
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my favorite writer is terry pratchett, because of his genious humor, fantasy and writing style.
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Neil Gaiman and Stephen King all the way!
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I would like to mention the Father of English Literature, Geoffrey Chaucer! If the last time you read The Canterbury Tales was in a modern translation in high school, then take another look, in the original Middle English. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how funny it is, and how insightful Chaucer was about the human condition.
Or maybe I'm just a language and history geek and no one else will be interested! :laugh:
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My literature guru: JRR Tolkien
My spiritual teacher: Paulo Coelho and Kahlil Gibran
My professor: Michael Crichton
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I think Lemony Snicket or Ridley Pearson.
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There are so many great writers living and dead, and who have written in so many different genres, that I would not hazard a qualitative comparison to choose an overall favourite. There are so many that I like that I can (almost ) do an A-to-Z list quite easily: Austen, Bradbury, Clarke, Dickson, Eco, Forester, Graves, Hemingway, Ibsen, Jack, King, Lewis, Maguire, Nabokov, Orwell, Peters, Quinnell, Rothfuss, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Updike, Vonnegut, Wilde, X (hmm, X is a problem), Yeats, Zafon. And of course, standing alone in the zombie naturist genre there is Stuart.
Then there are those best not mentioned . . . Atwood springs to mind.
Books are nutrition for the mind. You are what you eat.
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JK Rowling. She really is an exceptionally good writer. (Being lazy, I listened to most of the Harry Potter series in audio format, read by the outstanding reader, Jim Dale.)
I am looking forward to reading The Casual Vacancy as soon as I have some time.
As for classics: Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Edgar Allan Poe
Michael Ende
Enid Blyton
Alexandre Dumas
Stephen King
Charles Dickens
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Astrid Lindgren
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Agatha Christie
First ones I can think of :smiley:
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I'm really into The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher at the moment.
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It's hard to answer this question because I believe there are several talented writers and not one! :azn:
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My all time favorite writer is Haruki Murakami.
I also enjoy Lawrence Wright, Mark Bowden, Umberto Eco, Masha Gessen, F Scott Fitzgerald, John Lee Anderson, H.G. Wells, Toni Morrison, and Claire Watkins
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I have read a few books from Eoin Colfer i highly recommend him
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J.K. Rowling ? :)
(ok, not very original ...)
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I have read a few books from Eoin Colfer i highly recommend him
Yeah, he's the one behind the Artemis Fowl books, right ?
Those were pretty fun to read !
Has he wrote anything else as good ?
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J.K. Rowling ? :)
(ok, not very original ...)
@wildneutrino for sure mate !! :wink:
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William Gibson hands down. He even has a little bit of a naturist idea in one of his books, an orbital hotel with pool where's it normal not to wear clothes.
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Giovanni Guareschi, the author of "Don Camillo and Peppone".
He has also some naturist scenes in his books, for example when Don Camillo bathes nude (as it would be normal in this days) in the river nearby the village and someone is pinching his robe.
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Gabriel García Márquez
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poetic: Edgar Allan Poe
contemporary: Cody McFadyen
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I agree, Stephen king is one of the best!
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I picked up Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. I think I've also picked up a new favorite saying from it: "The lost glove is happy" :rotfl2:
I can see why he is considered one of the greats.
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It is not easy to answer this question; I read a lot, especially thriller books and the writing styles are very different but all engaging.
I love Scandinavian literature, especially Arne Dahl, but I also like some French writers like J.C. Grangè or Ian Manook.
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Probably James S.A Corey or Cixin Liu
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Adding Andy Weir to the list.
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Adding Andy Weir to the list.
Ooh, have you read Project Hail Mary? It's brilliant
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Adding Andy Weir to the list.
Ooh, have you read Project Hail Mary? It's brilliant
In fact I must restrain myself not to spoil it here, even if only several lines. :cool:
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Adding Andy Weir to the list.
Ooh, have you read Project Hail Mary? It's brilliant
In fact I must restrain myself not to spoil it here, even if only several lines. :cool:
I love how much actual science he puts into his novels
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As a kid it was R.L. Stine. Read many of the Goosebumps series and then Fear Street. As I got older, Robert Jordan became my favorite with a dash of Michael Crichton.
I was super sad that Robert Jordan never was able to finish the Wheel of Time series, but liked that Brandon Sanderson completed it. I don't really like Sanderson's style of writing, but it was using Jordan's notes and gave the stories closure.
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Darian Leader read almost all his books.
Also fan of Andrzej Sapkowski (writer of the witcher)