Alright then, I'll start. My all time favorite books and authors are Shannon Hale, author of "The Goose Girl" "Enna Burning"
"River Secrets" and "Book of a Thousand Days" Which I actually haven't read yet, but am planning on buying. There's also Dianna
Wynne Jones, author of a whole bunch of Chrestomanci novels. Rather short, and well, kiddish, but they're really quite good. She has also written
Howl's Moving Castle, which is not only a movie, but yes, a book. I also like "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho (did i spell that right?) and
"The Little Prince." Awesome books!!!
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Posts: 2870 (03/07/08 02:01:12) |
Favourite authors:
David Levithan, J K Rowling, Douglas Coupland, Lisa Jewell, Mike Gayle, Matt Beaumont, Audrey Niffenegger ... Favourite books: Don't even go there, there's just too many. But definately put "Boy Meets Boy" and "The Time Traveller's Wife" up there. Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highway or side streets, kiss her or keep her, we make
choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness, it's the best anyone can do.
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Posts: 87 (03/07/08 11:58:09) |
George R R Martin, Steven King, Dean Koontz, HP Lovecraft, and many, many more.
As for books, Um, Lots. I could fill quite a bit of shelves with 'em. Gem Sealed Signature:
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Posts: 162 (03/07/08 14:52:49) |
I dunno much about favourites - the system is vaguely foreign to me, since my memory doesn't really work in a comparative way unless I force it to. I just
read 'em. Some are good, some are bad, but I never really thought too hard about rankings. Whenever I answer a question like this I end up talking about
the last few books I've read recently, even though there may be others in the past I liked better but can't recall.
The Count of Monte Cristo was good, though, and Gormenghast gets an honourary mention just for the premise, even though I haven't actually read it.  I'm with you on Wynne Jones, too, Nym - I lived and breathed her work as a young'un, along with Ursula K. Le Guin and Lloyd
Alexander and Susan Cooper. Ever read Dark Lord of Derkholm? That pretty much shaped my views on the absurdity of classic high fantasy conventions.
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Posts: 20 (03/07/08 15:18:48) |
Ursula K. Le Guin? She's one of my favorite authors too, I just forgot to mention her... I'm actually reading one of her books now. Have you ever read
her book "Gifts"? I think that it's relatively new, and her sequel "Voices" has just come out too. I can't wait till it's a
cheap paper back and i can actually afford it.
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Posts: 163 (03/07/08 15:22:06) |
Can't say I have - I read the Earthsea cycle back in the day, five or six years ago, and had no idea she'd written anything else. That was the last
time I heard anything about her, but it's good to know she's writing more.
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Posts: 406 (03/07/08 16:41:12) |
Authors: some people.
Books: some books. I don't play favs too well, I like a LOT of books. |
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Posts: 873 (03/07/08 19:43:06) |
My favorite book of all time? One Hundred Years of Solitude.
My favorite author? That's a lot harder to say. Ummm, Borges, maybe? Douglas Adams? Arthur C. Clarke's a tremendous inspiration for me. I remember 2001 was the first book I read in 2001, and I can remember being absolutely fascinated by that TV show he did, 'Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe' or whatever when I was younger0. I remember the episodes on the Mayan Crystal Skulls, the Cottingley Fairies, and the Voynich Manuscript in particular. I also like Lovecraft, although the only things he wrote that I found actually scary were a couple of his Dreamlands stories. Poe's always good, and I like Steinbeck, and G.K. Chesterton, and C.S. Lewis when he isn't trying to be subtle, and Phillip Pullman (though, admittedly, I've only read His Dark Materials). Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore are also brilliant myth-makers the both of them. I remember being really impressed with Last and First Men, but I don't think I ever got my hands on any more of Stapledon's stuff. Terry Pratchett. Also, Robert Anton Wilson and Malaclypse the Younger. I ought to mention Tolkien, but that's a sort of special case. He's a tremendous influence on me, but not so much for his writing, per se. I'm not really a Lord of the Rings fan- rather, I'm more of, I guess, a fan of Middle Earth as a whole. LotR, by itself, wouldn't be enough to endear me to the man's work; it's the fact that he created an entire world, history, myths, religion, language, culture- the man was an absolute genius, and he's done a lot to inspire my love of world-building and linguistics. Xirataacab apkixámuab nok muabxáki nok urtilab nok hkatilab tilabuvyotilab nok tilabaotsulunuo palabanki nok tsaazibigoai, amuacabanki palabankabxiramuab. Nok tsaazibigoaitsababormuab. Nok tsaazibigoaináabnóxiraoztaab |
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Posts: 14 (03/23/08 11:20:52) |
Im a big fan of Robin Cook, his books really creep me out lol.. and yes, JK Rowling- shes the one the inspired me to finish my book.. I wanna pick her brain ya
know? lol..
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Posts: 507 (03/23/08 14:41:46) |
Authors.... Rowling, Adams, and Asimov of course, but probably the one which had the strongest effect on me growing up was John Wyndham's Rebirth (or as it
was outside the USA 'the Chrysalids'). I never read anything else he wrote, he was responsible for the Day of the Triffids also. I also really loved
the City of Gold and Lead (series) and tried to go back to it later when I learned there was another one written as a prequel, but it was really, really
juvenile (well it was FOR teens, so I suppose....). And myself, of course... I'm my biggest/only fan lol.
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Posts: 106 (03/24/08 17:43:00) |
I'm too eclectic for lists...
Authors: Borges, Dumas, Phillip Pullman, Herodotus, Wilde, Tolkien... and about a hundred others Poets: Homer, Catullus, Pablo Neruda, Keats, Coleridge, Rilke, Sylvia Plath... and too many others Favourite books is just a little hard. I think that Count of Monte Cristo has to be about the most perfect book ever written in terms of internal coherence and complexities that actually work. Lord of the Rings is probably the most impressive writing project ever attempted, although I will not say that it is exceptional in terms of being readable. My favourite Borges story is probably 'House of Asterion.' |
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