What draws you to an author?
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Re: What draws you to an author?
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I read multiple genres, but there has to be a good story, reasonably believable, with very believable characters and a good or meaningful ending.
I don’t really have many favorite authors, but a lot of them I rank highly and might recommend based on the interest of the person I am talking to. I would probably recommend John Grisham to just about anyone because many of his books delve into legal issues and behind the scenes corruption or loopholes that I never would have been aware of if I hadn’t read his books, and to me that is incredibly valuable for my personal education as an American.
Classic authors at the very top of my list would be Sienkiewicz, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Ibsen. I would have to say Quo Vadis is my all time favorite novel. It forever changed my perspective and encouraged me so much, and so Sienkiewicz has to be on the list.
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On another note, I like reading books by more marginalized people. So I tend to be more likely to read a work by a Black gay woman than a white straight man. I do this because I think white straight men have been listened to a lot more often, and I want some knowledge from a new source!
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