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Offline gashmo

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« on: November 23, 2004, 05:24:26 AM »
Okie here r my favourite authors

Tanith lee (death's master & etc)
Sheri S Tepper
Julian May (Sage of the Exiles - wow this is such a great series)
Stephen Donaldson
Douglas Adam (HHGTTG series)
David Eddings (Belgariad)
Lots and lots of ghost stories (Victorian ones)
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Rice Burroughs
PC Wren (really gr8 adventure writer)
Arthur Conan Doyle...
Mark Twain
edit: David Gemmell (Drenai Saga-Waylander series)


oh wow what a lot of good writers... i deleted a few also

which are your favourite writers/novels?
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Offline Elessar Telrunya

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« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2004, 07:44:21 AM »
jk rowling
jrr tolkien
lemony snicket
sir arthur conan doyle
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yeah i think thats it


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« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2004, 12:50:25 PM »
David Eddings
Leigh Eddings
Dave Duncan
Robert Jordan
Brian Jaques
Sir Raymon Lull
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« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2004, 03:00:21 PM »
stevhen king

*i dont think i spelt his name right*

weird but a good wrighter and great films that hollywood produces from his books
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« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2004, 03:19:00 PM »
Tom Clancey
Edger Poe
Bill Shakespear
C.S. Lewis
Tolkein
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« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2004, 05:39:32 PM »
Tom Robbins
John Steakley
Robert Heinlein
Poul Anderson
Isaac Asimov
H.P. Lovecraft
Peirs Anthony
Ayn Rand
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
Hemmingway
Gary Gygax (hehehehe)

No particular order
Armor by Steakley is probably my favorite book with 1984 by Orwell close behind.  Lots more.
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« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2004, 06:05:42 PM »
:( i hated 1984
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« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2004, 07:55:19 PM »
my fav author is R.A. Salvatore
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« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2004, 11:01:53 PM »
Douglas Adams
David Sedaris
Ray Bradbury
Edgar Allen Poe
Orsan Scott Card
Arthur Conan Doyle

Probably some others i can't think of right now
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« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2004, 08:36:51 AM »
Steven Erikson
George R R Martin
Robert Jordan
Terry Pratchett
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« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2004, 09:49:50 AM »
well I haven't gotten too much into litterature, but I'll prolly have to :(

my favorite so far is Stephen King for The Shawshank Redemption. Secret Window, Secret Garden is good too, but he put a too easy escape on a well built up story.... skizo, why did he have to make the lead char a skizo, it's so common.
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« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2004, 10:03:28 AM »
Blood?

Have you taken a look at the way authors like Tolkien or David Eddings write? The more fantasy oriented ones, which are more from Europe than the US?

I was thinking you might find them too fantastic to be believable because S King has a very different style.

My preference is for authors like PC Wren and Conan Doyle or E R Burroughs and Robert E Howard, instead of S King...

If u have a moment sometime, take a glance inside their books and see if you can offer an opinion on your preferences about  their writing style?
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« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2004, 11:44:49 AM »
Well yes, I can do that, but it'll be a long time till I get my homework done. I've been stacking up on essays :(

But, yes I love the imagination that many writers have, I have yet to read Tolkien's books, but I know I'm going to :)

I like Stephen King's shawshank because was very well written and it's so easily read. Best book I've ever enterpreted.
Never the less I don't like the way he builds up a facinating story and then blasts it away with some secret thing he's hidden for last. Luckily in Shawshank it wasn't so predictable, in secret window... pfft
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"Some birds aren't meant to be caged,
their feathers are just too bright.
And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoyce.
But still,
the place you live in is that more drab an empty that they're gone.
I guess I just miss my friend."
-The Shawshank Redemption

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Offline Elessar Telrunya

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« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2004, 12:49:03 PM »
i read the hobbit fairly easily and i struggled through the fellowship, and now im having trouble getting into the two towers...


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« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2004, 02:34:19 PM »
i did find 2 towers tough to get through
it picks up in the 3rd volume
but i wouldnt say lotr is my most favourite story ever (or book)

let me see- a nicer story would be: The Phanto Tollbooth or Pilgrim's progress too.
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« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2004, 04:26:53 PM »
I don't read.. i hyave not read a book in the past 3 years or somthing.. heck i hate reading, there's no point in reading stuff you don't like, i can never find a book i like
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