02-24-2002, 03:18 PM | #21 |
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Personally I like:
JRR Tolkien Terry Pratchett Jules Verne |
02-24-2002, 03:52 PM | #22 |
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Has no one mentioned Louisa May Alcott yet? She's a pretty good writer.
I also like C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, some of Frank Herbert's books (although his books aren't really classics), Frank Peretti (his books aren't classics either), and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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02-24-2002, 04:24 PM | #23 |
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Some of my favorite authors and favored work. Mere echoes of what has already been listed:
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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02-26-2002, 09:31 PM | #24 |
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Tolkien, of course.
Gilbert Morris Lori Wick Jane Austen Catherine Marshall There's more. |
02-28-2002, 06:05 PM | #25 |
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Jane Austen Evelyn Waugh Shakespeare C.S. Lewis J.K. Rowling I can't think of any more right now. Last edited by sun-star : 09-05-2002 at 01:50 PM. |
02-28-2002, 08:36 PM | #26 |
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Shakespeare Han Nolan - She wrote two books that really caught my attention. Dancing on the Edge is really eerie and sad, and If I Should Die Before I Wake is the story of a neo-nazi and how she gets 'transported' back in time after a nasty motorcycle accident. It sounds corny, but ti's not, and that's why she's such a good author. Diana Gabaldon Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
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04-03-2002, 07:40 AM | #28 |
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To me it is impossible to determine the best writers of all time for they vary in time period and genre so differently.Some might like fantasy but hate crime. Some might like crime but hate sci-fi. Everyone has different tastes and I think a book is very good if a person who tends to dislike one particular book type, reads a book from that type and enjoys it.
Personally my favourite book(s) are the complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle-they're great!!
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04-03-2002, 11:19 PM | #29 | |
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04-03-2002, 11:25 PM | #30 |
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anyway... some of my favorite authors are...
JRR Tolkien (obviously) Brian Jacques Charles Dickens Jane Austen Ann Rinaldi C.S. Lewis Louisa May Alcott Roald Dahl Harper Lee Louis Sacher Eloise Jarvis McGraw and bunches and bunches more!! |
04-05-2002, 12:41 AM | #31 | |
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04-05-2002, 01:46 AM | #32 |
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1. JRRT (of course!)
2. Lewis Carrol 3. C.S Lewis 4 Frank Herbert 5 Philip K. Dick. (Oh, how could I have forgotten Douglas Adams?? 6. Douglas Adams.)
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04-05-2002, 02:11 PM | #33 |
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well I have two writers that I like the most:
R. Zealazny JRR Tolkien |
04-10-2002, 12:59 AM | #34 |
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Not included on my earlier list, but definitely among my all-time favourites: Douglas Adams, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut. The gods of twentieth-century satire.
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04-10-2002, 09:31 PM | #35 |
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Jane Austin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Douglas Adams,C.S. Lewis, L.M. Montgomery, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Charlotte Bronte.
There's a good fanasy series by Susan Cooper called The Dark is Rising. The first book is called Over Sea, Under Stone. Also, John Belliars has a couple of good fantasy books. |
04-11-2002, 12:28 PM | #36 |
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I repeat my earlier reply but anyway..
A.C. Doyle (esp Sherlock Holmes) Terry Pratchett Wilkie Collins (esp The Moonstone) John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Ment-the only book that's ever made me cry). Agatha Christie-later books when Doyle isn't being imitated. J.K. Rowling ( she may write childrens' books but they're still good) Joseph Heller (who can argue with Catch 22?) Those and many many, more I have enjoyed.
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04-11-2002, 03:01 PM | #37 |
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Oh, how could I forget T.H. White, who wrote one of my fave books of all time, The Once and Future King?
I'm also a James Thurber fan. |
09-03-2002, 06:51 PM | #38 |
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oh my gosh i love so much russian literature!
dostoyevsky is great, i love crime and punishment, though it is one of few books that literally scare me. i love tolstoy. i have read anna karenina and some christian short stories and a lot of his philosophy as well. those two i think are literary geniouses. i loved dr zhivago (pasternak) and one day in the life or ivan denisovich (solzenitsyn) as well. i guess most of my favourites are russian. and of course tolkien. duh. |
09-03-2002, 07:50 PM | #39 |
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This is an impossible task -- but the writers I go back to over and over are (and what a terrifyingly motley group!)
Tolkien Shakespeare James Joyce Philip K Dick Isaac Asimov Italo Calvino Anthony Trollope Dorothy Sayers Bruce Chatwin Paul Theroux |
09-07-2002, 09:44 PM | #40 | |
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I would venture to say that Tale of Two Cities is by far his best, though I enjoyed Our Mutual Friend, and laughed out loud in public while i was reading The Pickwick Papers. Les Miserables is absolutely gorgeous, though I don't agree with Hugo's worldview. The Christ-figure displayed by the Bishop of Digne to Jean Val Jean, and Val Jean's later portrayal in turn to those around him is incredible. The characterizations that Jane Austen gives makes Pride and Prejudice her best work in my book. Even Emma doesn't compare. There are so many more...
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