What Authors/Books are your favorites?
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mudplayerx
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"Grendel" - John Gardner
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams
"D-Day" - Stephen Ambrose
"The Hobbit" - JRR Tolkien
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams
"D-Day" - Stephen Ambrose
"The Hobbit" - JRR Tolkien
fedukeford
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lord of the ring series, series of unfotunate events...
jmick
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Have to throw a few more of my favorites in:
Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van) by Roddy Doyle
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The first 5 books in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (the last 3 or so have been rather boring).
Can’t forget to mention all the great books put out by Tolkien
Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van) by Roddy Doyle
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The first 5 books in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (the last 3 or so have been rather boring).
Can’t forget to mention all the great books put out by Tolkien
nw2sltfsh
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JK Rowlings (all Harry Potter books - anyone that can hook kids and adults with the same book is amazing)
Gregory Maguire (Wicked, Son of a Witch, Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister)
Ann Rice (all Vampire, Witch and Mummy series - some of the others were kind of lame)
Dr Seus - this one is just because - you know this man had to spend most of his life either drunk or high to write this stuff
Gregory Maguire (Wicked, Son of a Witch, Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister)
Ann Rice (all Vampire, Witch and Mummy series - some of the others were kind of lame)
Dr Seus - this one is just because - you know this man had to spend most of his life either drunk or high to write this stuff
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jdragunas
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Originally Posted by keleighr
Anything by Stephen King...
we are truley sisters!!!
I love stephen king! Tommyknockers was great, as well as hearts in atlantis
J.K. Rowling is also another fav. (all of the harry potters)
The green mile was an amazing book
The notebook was another amazing book
Jurassic park
OOHHHHH A book called "youth in revolt" and it's sequel "revolting youth" and another book called "frisco pigeon mambo" all by C. Payne. I love this author. The first two books are actually written in the form of a journal, and it's about a 14-year-old boy going through puberty, but with some really weird twists. The third book is about a group of pigeons that think they're humans... They're friggin hilarious!!!
Also, all of those classics... "dracula", "the painting of dorian grey", "the adventures of huckleberry finn", "the adventures of tom sawyer", "of mice and men", and a whole bunch others that i don't feel like typing.
i like to read...
Anything by Stephen King...
we are truley sisters!!!
I love stephen king! Tommyknockers was great, as well as hearts in atlantis
J.K. Rowling is also another fav. (all of the harry potters)
The green mile was an amazing book
The notebook was another amazing book
Jurassic park
OOHHHHH A book called "youth in revolt" and it's sequel "revolting youth" and another book called "frisco pigeon mambo" all by C. Payne. I love this author. The first two books are actually written in the form of a journal, and it's about a 14-year-old boy going through puberty, but with some really weird twists. The third book is about a group of pigeons that think they're humans... They're friggin hilarious!!!
Also, all of those classics... "dracula", "the painting of dorian grey", "the adventures of huckleberry finn", "the adventures of tom sawyer", "of mice and men", and a whole bunch others that i don't feel like typing.
i like to read...
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tizzo
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Dean Koontz
Jean M. Auel
Walter Farley
That's my fav's...
Jean M. Auel
Walter Farley
That's my fav's...
tangman99
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I have to agree with J.K. Rowling. I love the Harry Potter books.
If you like science fiction/fantasy, you need to read R.A. Salvatore. He is a great author. My favorites are the Dark Elf Trilogy. I've read all the dark elf books though and they are great.
I used to like Jordan's Wheel of Time series, but I'm sick of him not ending the darn series. It's on book ten and no end in sight. The stories were great through the first 3 or 4 books and started getting week from there. I won't read anymore until I hear he has ended the series. Then I'll catch up.
I like Tom Clancy, but I don't have enough time to read to keep up with his story lines. They are so involved, if you don't read them everyday, you get lost.
If you like science fiction/fantasy, you need to read R.A. Salvatore. He is a great author. My favorites are the Dark Elf Trilogy. I've read all the dark elf books though and they are great.
I used to like Jordan's Wheel of Time series, but I'm sick of him not ending the darn series. It's on book ten and no end in sight. The stories were great through the first 3 or 4 books and started getting week from there. I won't read anymore until I hear he has ended the series. Then I'll catch up.
I like Tom Clancy, but I don't have enough time to read to keep up with his story lines. They are so involved, if you don't read them everyday, you get lost.
socal57che
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Roderick Macleish.............Prince Ombra
Also like poetry... I had a poem published this year.
Also like poetry... I had a poem published this year.
socal57che
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I almost forgot.... I read the #1 selling book of all time regularly.
treybom
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Originally Posted by NW2SLTFSH
I agree!! much better then DaVinci Code or Angels and Demons - although both great books Deception Point was the best in my opinion - but Digital Fortress kinda lacked something
im starting to read da vinci code now..... deception point was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree!! much better then DaVinci Code or Angels and Demons - although both great books Deception Point was the best in my opinion - but Digital Fortress kinda lacked something
im starting to read da vinci code now..... deception point was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mimzy
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Orson Scott Card - "Ender's Game" is to DIE for, but his short stories are also absolutely harrowing
Franz Kafka, Shakespeare, Tolkein - I tend to like the "Silmarillion," myself.
"Wreaththu" by Storm Constantine - her only good book, and by Heavens one of the best speculative fictions I've ever read. Well, that and "Mists of Avalon" and pretty much anything else Marion Zimmer Bradley's had anything to do with ("Firebrand," the "Trillium" trilogy...), and all of the works of Ursula K. LeGuin.
And of course theres Piers Anthony when I want a bit of mindless fun, along with Terry Pratchet.
Godfather is an UNBELIEVABLE read as well. Wasn't very impressed with Puzzos other pieces however.
Chuck Palaniuk is always good when u want to be weirded out, and for those days when we all want some miserable company, "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Mrakami fits the bill.
Can't forget the all time best play EVAR - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
And anything by Oscar Wilde.
...I think I got pretty much everything.... :thinking:
Franz Kafka, Shakespeare, Tolkein - I tend to like the "Silmarillion," myself.
"Wreaththu" by Storm Constantine - her only good book, and by Heavens one of the best speculative fictions I've ever read. Well, that and "Mists of Avalon" and pretty much anything else Marion Zimmer Bradley's had anything to do with ("Firebrand," the "Trillium" trilogy...), and all of the works of Ursula K. LeGuin.
And of course theres Piers Anthony when I want a bit of mindless fun, along with Terry Pratchet.
Godfather is an UNBELIEVABLE read as well. Wasn't very impressed with Puzzos other pieces however.
Chuck Palaniuk is always good when u want to be weirded out, and for those days when we all want some miserable company, "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Mrakami fits the bill.
Can't forget the all time best play EVAR - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
And anything by Oscar Wilde.
...I think I got pretty much everything.... :thinking: