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Captain Patrick
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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 Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:20 pm Who's your favorite author? |
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Am just wondering which author do you like the best?
My personal favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe... Why? Cause of his remarkable insight into the dark recesses of the mind, And i love how is stories and poems are filled with nightmarish images of death, corruption, and instanity.
Mods i looked and did a search and never found another topic like this so yeah i started one, if thier is another like this one then yeah you know what to do...
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Arellia
The Quiet One
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Posts: 4425
Location: Dallas, TX
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| Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:45 pm |
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I really love Richard Bach. He's a magnificent relativist that I happen to agree with, and though he goes way out in books like Illusions, he identifies himself as a true romantic in Bridge Across Forever (the most fantastic love story EVER). Besides him I like Anne Bishop a lot. She mirrors my writing in many ways... character-driven, high detail in description, and the idea that one person or a minority can change a world (or worlds, in her case). She mixes darkness, humor, and true love in ways that appeal greatly to me.
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Sam Kenobi
Not a Duke
Joined: 13 Jun 2003
Posts: 10373
Location: The 'Verse
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| Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:55 pm |
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I've got a lot, but the one that's always stuck with me is Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisenwood Bible, Prodigal Summer). She's just really good at making everyday things and lives into journeys. All the dots connect in everything... complex story lines become simple, yet all the simple things are so complex. Great writing like that.
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John Luck Pickard
Lieutenant
Joined: 18 Sep 2006
Posts: 150
Location: Orange Co., NY
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| Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:29 pm |
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Tom Clancy...and my favorite book of his is Rainbow Six, a masterpiece that never ends. I reccomend everyone read it.
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Hitchhiker
Rear Admiral
Joined: 11 Aug 2004
Posts: 3514
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Theresa
Lux Mihi Deus
Joined: 17 Jun 2001
Posts: 27256
Location: United States of America
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| Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:27 am |
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The Gears. They usually write collaboratively, but even independent of one another, they're good. Everything is so alive.
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Defiant
Fleet Admiral
Joined: 04 Jul 2001
Posts: 15946
Location: Oregon City, OR
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| Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:57 pm |
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Robert Heinlein.
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Sevenofninenz
Commodore
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Posts: 2441
Location: New Zealand Penal Colony
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| Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:32 pm |
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Hmmm, that's quite a hard question. Elizabeth Kostova is really cool. I love The Historian. I also love Bram Stoker, Dracula is classic. But I love anyone who write in the Gothic Horror genre.
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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
Joined: 31 Aug 2002
Posts: 19074
Location: Centre Bell
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| Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:51 pm |
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J.R.R. Tolkien. Enough said.
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LightningBoy
Commodore
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 1446
Location: Minnesota, U.S.A.
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| Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:58 am |
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Ayn Rand.
Usually I read non-fiction, but i've found myself absorbed by her great novels a few times.
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Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 14823
Location: Classified
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| Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:16 am |
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I can't think of a fiction author off the top of my head, but for non-fiction, which is what I've been reading mostly now, I'd have to say Bill O'Reilly, even though he's not a conservative. I have four of his books now and I enjoyed all but the Factor for Kids (because it wasn't political in the least and too geared towards, well, issues teens face  ). They are well-written and thought-provoking, no matter what the issue and his stance on it.
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Defiant
Fleet Admiral
Joined: 04 Jul 2001
Posts: 15946
Location: Oregon City, OR
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| Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:01 am |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | I can't think of a fiction author off the top of my head, but for non-fiction, which is what I've been reading mostly now, I'd have to say Bill O'Reilly, even though he's not a conservative. I have four of his books now and I enjoyed all but the Factor for Kids (because it wasn't political in the least and too geared towards, well, issues teens face ). They are well-written and thought-provoking, no matter what the issue and his stance on it. |
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Starbuck
faster...
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 8715
Location: between chaos and melody
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| Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:40 am |
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I have a lot of them, but I'm going to go with Stalinger for now.
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
Posts: 7871
Location: North East England
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| Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:48 am |
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Douglas Adams and Max Barry.
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IntrepidIsMe
Pimp Handed
Joined: 14 Jun 2002
Posts: 13057
Location: New York
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| Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:13 pm |
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Rita Mae Brown or Jeffery Eugenides.
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Untitled
Commander
Joined: 02 Jul 2006
Posts: 396
Location: abandoned
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| Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:56 pm |
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I rarely read books, only from popular fandoms that I happen to really really like. I do however read tons of fanfiction. So I'll post my fav. fanfiction authors.
Fanfiction
SVU: Broem, 007, Novak, Duck
Sound of Music: Imnotacommitte, Galan, Emartin
CSI: Ercila, Starjourneying, Gomes
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5thhouse
Rear Admiral
Joined: 05 May 2002
Posts: 3842
Location: Santa Barbara, California
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| Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:23 pm |
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Well I like Dostoevsky and Shakespeare probably best. As far as a modern author I do like Kingsolver (mentioned above)...not really sure. If I hear/see a name I usually know.
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StarfleetCommand74656
Captain
Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 653
Location: On STV
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| Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:42 pm |
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I do love both Dostoevsky and Shakespeare. Crime and Punishment! George Orwell is fantastic, and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe- and anything Star Trek except books by Greg Cox
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Cathexis
The Angel of Avalon
Joined: 26 Dec 2001
Posts: 5901
Location: ~~ Where Dreams Have No End�
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| Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:30 pm |
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Here are my favorite authors....and some of their works....not in any particular order....
Isaac Asimov (I, Robot series, Foundation series, Nightfall)
Stephen King (The Tommyknockers, Dreamcatcher, It, etc)
Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles)
Christie Golden (Mosaic, Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming/The Farther Shore, etc)
Thomas Harris (Hannibal, etc)
Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, East of Eden, Lunar Park, etc)
Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake series, etc)
Jon McCregor (If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, etc)
W. L. King--My Dad (Jewn River, etc)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter, etc)
Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, The Violent Bear It Away, etc)
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Richard III, MacBeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, etc)
William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, etc)
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Ziona
Fleet Admiral
Joined: 22 Aug 2001
Posts: 12821
Location: Michigan... for now
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| Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:37 pm |
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Jane Austen.... I don't know why, but I just really like her books.
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Solitary Poet
Captain
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
Posts: 805
Location: Lancaster (Dallas), Texas
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