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 Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:51 am
Mine are Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, and Orson Scott Card.
Really those are the ones I read the most, it's hard for me to pick favorites from such a vast field.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:23 am
don´t laugh at me, but i REALLY like jane austen. but i don´t read it as the literature students do (like analyzing and that stuff), i simply enjoy it. i like agatha christie too, but don´t think i´m just into classics, i´m currently reading some works of ian mc ewan, cause i just loved atonement (i haven´t seen the movie, but i´m sure it´s just about the love story, like it was with pride and prejudice). i usually stick to one author for some time if i like his style.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:25 am
Masticatius Mine are Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, and Orson Scott Card. Really those are the ones I read the most, it's hard for me to pick favorites from such a vast field. i´ve read some books by terry pratchett too, but it´s so hard to understand the jokes in english, so i gave up after some volumes (i refuse to read books in german if they are available in english)
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:35 pm
He does have a really dry sense of humor. If you can get the references he makes, he's ridiculously funny.
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:39 am
A friend of mine recently introduced me to Orson Scott Card. Good stuff.
Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites as well. Especially the Sandman series.
Others: Chuck Palahnuik, Douglas Adams, Elizabeth Haydon, Robert Jordan, Jhonen Vasquez.
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:22 am
I want to read more of Chuck Palahniuk's stuff. I hope I spelled his name right.
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:30 am
Masticatius He does have a really dry sense of humor. If you can get the references he makes, he's ridiculously funny. yeah, it´s hard to grab all of it, i knew when he made references, but most of the time i didn´t know to what, i was always so happy, when i finally understood something biggrin
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:40 am
I usually go by the book, not by the author. But I reckon I like Daniel Goleman. I'm mostly into non-fiction. heart
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:09 pm
Masticatius I want to read more of Chuck Palahniuk's stuff. I hope I spelled his name right. Yeah, I think you did. It's a tough one. Check out "Lullaby" by him. It's my favorite. Choke's a good one too.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:12 am
I'm a HUGE book nerd. My favourites... let's see. Charles de Lint, Ray Bradbury, Nick Bantock, Roger Zelazny, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Robert James Waller, Jeffrey Eugenides, Poppy Z. Brite, and Chris Lynch. To name a few. sweatdrop
I'm also a poetry nerd! I love war poetry, especially that of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. I also love W. H. Auden and Don Marquis.
I enjoy Chuck Palahniuk, but he's not one of my all-time favourites. My favourite of his is Diary. smile
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:34 pm
Ray Bradbury...
Add one more writer to my list of writers that I need to read more from.
H.P. Lovecraft is also on that list.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:04 pm
Orson Scott Card, I concur...very much so.
Matthew Woodring Stover, sometimes credited as Matthew Stover, I highly recommend Heroes Die and it's sequel.
I am surprised Robert A. Heinlein isn't on here, so I'm putting him up as tops on my list. If I could find a girl who is similar in character to any of the heroines that that man puts in his books, I would date her, marry her, and never leave her...raise many children with her, and I would be happy doing it.
Douglas Adams, if you're in that wild crazy British humor mood. It's a shame he's passed on.
Timothy Zhan...or is it Zahn...anyway, I've only read his contributions to the Star Wars novels, but they are very, very well written.
I know there's more...oh, Frank Herbert, the Dune series was very good as well.
As you can see, I'm mostly into science fiction and science fantasy.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:07 pm
Frank Herbert is/was the man. And I've read quite a few Star Wars books when I was younger, some of them were really awesome. Dark Force Rising was particularly good.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:36 pm
Lovecraft! Lovecraft is so fun. biggrin
And by 'fun' I mean 'creepy'. Pfft, practically the same thing in my world...
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:40 pm
I read a collection of his early short stories. (Pre-Cthulhu) I thought they were alright, but I could tell that his later writing would be a lot better. Mostly by the way that the stories that he wrote later on were better than his really early ones. All powerfully haunting stuff, though.
If I wanted to read some better stuff, where should I start?
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