Who's Your Favorite Author?
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Re: Who's Your Favorite Author?
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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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?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.
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Margaret Atwood
Sylvia Plath
Jamaica Kincaid
Flannery OConner
Tolstoy
Jonathan Franzen
Mary Gaitskill
Jeffrey Eudenides
Junot Diaz
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That's a pretty good choice - I never read a Cormac McCarthy book I didn't like.ardinlalui wrote:It's got to be Cormac McCarthy. His words take me to a different world.
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I do quite like Rose Tremain. The Road Home was an excellent novel.hazelk wrote:A few of my many favorites, Jennifer Johnson, Rose Tremain and Jane Gardam.
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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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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.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)
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