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Re: Who's Your Favorite Author?

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Deciding on a favourite author is just as hard as deciding on a favourite book. Mine has changed over time. At one time it was John Fowles, later it was John Irving, then perhaps it was Tolkien. Of course, it's hard to go past a classic like Dickens, and more recently I fell in love with D H Lawrence. But one that crosses a significant boundary is Arudhati Roy. Her one and only piece of fiction, The God of Small Things is one of my very favourite novels. And yet her stunning social commentary in her book The Algebra of Infinite Justice ranks as one of the best pieces of non-fiction I have read.
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My Favorite Author is William Shakespeare.
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At any given day, my favorite authors are Ernest Hemingway and JK Rowling because the characters in their writings just come to life while we are reading.
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brad786 wrote:At any given day, my favorite authors are Ernest Hemingway and JK Rowling because the characters in their writings just come to life while we are reading.
I read The Paris Wife a narrative from the point of view of his first wife and reading about him made me want to read something of his work. I am curious which Hemingway would you recommend to a first time reader of Hemingway?
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i have so many favorite author. i like William Shakespeare for his famous story romeo and Juliet. i like hamlet.
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Joyce Carol Oates. I could read her if I was blind. She has been with me since adolescence. So many intense female characters, and such working class angst. I feel like I am underwater when I am reading her prose and surface for air when done. The underwater experience being the real one, the surfacing being the less real world.

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To Huu he is a poet. I like him because he write very good
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It's got to be Cormac McCarthy. His words take me to a different world.
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ardinlalui wrote:It's got to be Cormac McCarthy. His words take me to a different world.
That's a pretty good choice - I never read a Cormac McCarthy book I didn't like. :D
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A few of my many favorites, Jennifer Johnson, Rose Tremain and Jane Gardam.
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I really enjoy reading books by Jude Deveraux.
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I have never read a Jude Deveraux novel, I have often seen her on the book shelves, however not long ago I purchased one of her novels "The Mulberry Tree" the title, cover and story line decided my purchase. It is nestling in with my many other TBRS'.
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hazelk wrote:A few of my many favorites, Jennifer Johnson, Rose Tremain and Jane Gardam.
I do quite like Rose Tremain. The Road Home was an excellent novel.
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Colleen McCulloch - I actually felt like I was on Drogheda as I read The Thorn Birds, and she tells her characters' stories so masterfully;

Robert K. Massie, who wrote a phenomenal biography of Peter the Great;

Taylor Caldwell (Great Lion of God);

Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White)
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KatieD wrote:Colleen McCulloch - I actually felt like I was on Drogheda as I read The Thorn Birds, and she tells her characters' stories so masterfully;

Robert K. Massie, who wrote a phenomenal biography of Peter the Great;

Taylor Caldwell (Great Lion of God);

Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White)
I agree totally with your choices KatieD .... Massie wrote a superb biography of Catherine the Great also, well worth a read if your interested in historical greats.
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