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06-30-2006, 12:29 AM
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Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope. Sunday nights find me watching PBS. I also love Rosamund Pilcher. Favorite modern author has to be Francine Rivers. Who do you like? (Beckysharp) __________________________________________________ ____________ Thought it might be good to bring this over to a new thread so the other off topic thread doesn't become too off topic.  Favorite English authors would have to include: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Issac Newton, Daniel Defoe, John Wyclife, Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. I have eclectic taste. Favorite modern author-girl, we are on the same page here! Francine Rivers, hands down. "Redeeming Love" was awesome. I wouldn't read it for the longest time because the title sounded too "girly." Glad that a friend kept insisting. She has some other truly good ones also.(Edit-forgot to include Dickens!) Okay, non-English author favorites? And does anyone else have some favorites they would like to share? Librevore
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06-30-2006, 07:59 AM
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 when free time is more available i enjoy a variety of authors. i always read John Grisham's new book and i enjoy Michael Crichton's books. i like books were i learn something new, even if it is a small fact or concept. i think that is why i like science fiction, i like to look at common things from a different angle or viewpoint.
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06-30-2006, 09:48 AM
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Hands-down favorite is Gene Wolfe (book of the new sun series is awesome). I also like HP Lovecraft, Crichton, Steven King, RA Salvatore (forgotten realms stuff).
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06-30-2006, 07:42 PM
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My husband considers himself a literary snob... The unforturnate, or maybe fortunate (just depends on how you look at it) outcome is that there is a lot of literary fiction available to me on our book shelf. (He is also an Amazonoholic if you ask me!) Some of my favorites are:
Nicholas Christopher - Trip to the Stars Jonathan Carroll Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow (this is a great book, along with its sequel) JD Sallinger - my all time favorite! Richard Russo - Empire Falls I also love Jane Austen Poe is my favorite poet And last but not least, I wouldn't miss a Harry Potter book! Kim
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07-03-2006, 11:47 PM
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St. Augustine's Confessions.
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07-09-2006, 12:39 AM
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My absolute favorite author would be Michael Moorcock (Elric, Corum, The Eternal Champion)
Favorite poet is Archibald MacLeish (The Carrion Crow) Another fabulous poet I enjoy is Pablo Neruda Other notable authors: Gene Wolf (Book of the New Sun series - Severian is cool) Stephen R. Donaldson (The Thomas Covenant series) Tanith Lee (Death's Master) Eric V. Lustbader (Sunset Warrior Series along with other works) Lawrence Watt-Evans (The Lords of Dus series)
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05-24-2007, 03:11 PM
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Well, I'm late in joining this discussion, but I'd have to say that my absolute favorite author is Clive Cussler. I also really like Michael Crichton, Dickens, John Grisham. There may be more, but I don't have time to think right now.
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05-25-2007, 09:16 PM
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I like Tolken, C.S Lewes, Ted dekker, frank perretti, and Edger Allen Poe.
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05-26-2007, 09:23 AM
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Favorite two novelists: G.A. Henty and my brother, hands down!
Non-fiction: James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald Kennedy (The South Was Right!), R.L. Dabney (Life & Campaigns of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson), H. Rondel Rumburg (Stonewall Jackson's Verse), Charles Adams (When In the Course of Human Events), Congressman B.H. Hill (Southern Secession and Northern Coersion)James Beller (America In Crimson Red)---Too many to list!
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05-27-2007, 03:51 AM
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Leo Tolstoy
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I enjoyed the chronicles of napelonic invasion of russia from the book called War and Peace....
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