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clintessential
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Re: Who's Your Favorite Author?

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Tough decision. It's a tossup between the tennis player and the fish and chip dude. Hmmmmmmmm. OK! I've decided.
Arthur Ashe is my favorite arthur because I felt the other arthur(Treacher) used too much salt on his fish and chips.
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clintessential wrote:Tough decision. It's a tossup between the tennis player and the fish and chip dude. Hmmmmmmmm. OK! I've decided.
Arthur Ashe is my favorite arthur because I felt the other arthur(Treacher) used too much salt on his fish and chips.
:D :D :D :D :D
You've clearly overlooked Arthur Itis!
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Post by irin123 »

my favorite author is William Shakespeare.i like him for his famous story romeo and Juliet and also hamlet.he is greatest author in the world.
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Post by BooksNJoy »

Sure Shakespeare is the best playright ever!

My favorite author? No way telling only one there're too many.

Oscar Wilde
Emily Brontë
Lord Byron
Paul Auster
John le Carré
Lewis Carroll
Frank Delaney
Michel Faber
Jean Ray
Virginia Woolf

Well that's a quick overview I don't want to make you feel sleepy.
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Leo Tolstoy and William Shakespeare.
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Henry David is my favorite author .
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annaonweb wrote:Henry David is my favorite author .
What did he write?
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Post by bibershally »

I like to love books that motivates you because they provide immense knowledge to tackle any kind of problem..
Shiv Khera is my one of the best author
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Murakami Haruki. (I can't believe I still need to read 1Q84, though!)
I especially love his short stories.
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Post by lady_charlie »

Of course I too read different genres depending on the mood of the day, but Barbara Kingsolver, Hemingway, Thoreau, Tolkien, JK Rowling, (altho A Casual Vacancy was carefully crafted but not on my all time list of favs we have read and seen all the HP)

Twain, Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, Alice Munro, Ayn Rand, Anias Nin, Douglas Adams, Asimov, Anne Lamott, Dickens, Poe, Agatha Christie, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, (1oo Years of Solitude) Borges, Julia Alvarez,

but my all time fav for many years has been Isabel Allende, if you like Latin American magical realism and all that, none of her books are awful but hands down next to Gone WIth The Wind and Anna Karenina and Les Miserables you must have The House of the Spirits
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Post by MsWend2013 »

I have a lot of favorites but they have changed through the years. Way back in the 80s it was Rosemary Rogers, then Jennifer Blake and Cassie Edwards. Back then I was going through my historic romance phase. Can't seem to get into those kind of books nowadays. Now is ones like Martina Cole, Jodi Picoult, Ann Rule (good true crime writer), to name just a few. And my want to read list just seems to grow and grow, I have gotten many books to read from you people here that give great reviews that peak my interest. My to read list include Susan Lewis, Terry Goodkind, Kimberly Chambers, Gillian Flynn etc etc etc. Thanks to those who have gotten me interested in other books .
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Post by LMichinski »

I can't pick just one! Plus my favorites have changed over the years, as a kid I read a lot of CS Lewis, Roger Zelany and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.... and Doyle continues to be one of my all time favorites. As of now, besides Doyle...I like Ian Rankin, Tolkien, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks and Robert Jordan.
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Post by Schonaye242 »

My favorite genres are mysteries and romance. My favorite authors are James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clarke, Jayne Ann Krentz, Patricia Cromwell and Terry Mcmillian just to name a few.
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Post by lady_charlie »

well ok maybe I have more than one favorite, but someone I haven't seen mentioned yet is John Irving.

Someone told me to read A Prayer For Owen Meany, which may be one of the best books of all time

Since then I have read The Ciderhouse Rules and A Widow for one Year and The Hotel New Hampshire. I recently picked up Setting Free the Bears at the library for ten cents.

I never feel richer than when there are half a dozen books sitting on the shelf that I haven't read yet!!!
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My favorite author is Kazi Nazrul Islam. He has written revel poet which inspire the freedom fighter of Bangladesh.
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