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05-10-2012, 15:45
Strike For The South

Favoite Author

Kurt Vonnegut
05-10-2012, 16:11
Greyblades

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Terry Pratchett
05-10-2012, 16:13
drone

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Kurt Vonnegut

So it goes.

I've gone through lots of different stages with fiction authors as I've aged. King, Clancy, Harris, Gibson, the other Harris, Stephenson. I can't really say any are my favorite, they all eventually write something that turns me off of them a little.
05-10-2012, 16:25
Montmorency

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Bakker, why not?
05-10-2012, 16:33
Vuk

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Strike, you read? ~;)
Seriously though, Howard Pyle for me.
05-10-2012, 17:11
Fragony

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Edgar Allan Poe probably, such excellent writing.
05-10-2012, 17:37
Lemur

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Charles Stross. Who also maintains one of the better blogs on the interent tubes.

If you've never read anything by him, I would start with The Atrocity Archives, which is immense Cthulhu-themed fun.
05-10-2012, 17:40
Fragony

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Read this Lovecraft had a son http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
05-10-2012, 18:27
Hooahguy

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Bernard Cornwell.

Need to finish the Sharpe series before I head to his other works.
05-10-2012, 18:59
Kralizec

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Probably Isaac Asimov.
05-11-2012, 07:00
Sasaki Kojiro

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hmm I really don't know. Hemingway and Dostoevsky are the only two I've read multiple books of in the past year or so, but I've liked others.

Arthur Ransome, C.S. Forester, and R.L. Stevenson were my favorites growing up...I'm sure I'll pick them up again sometime.
05-11-2012, 11:27
Peasant Phill

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I quite like Neil Gaiman.
05-11-2012, 13:03
edyzmedieval

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Don't really have a favourite, I like a lot of writing styles. I could go for Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Eiji Yoshikawa, along Clive Cussler.
05-11-2012, 13:28
Kagemusha

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Mika Waltari.
05-11-2012, 14:29
Fragony

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Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Don't really have a favourite, I like a lot of writing styles. I could go for Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Eiji Yoshikawa, along Clive Cussler.

Marguez is also one of my favorites, 100 year's of solitude (translation?) is simply fantastic. Soooooooooo tragic
05-11-2012, 21:26
Lemur

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Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Don't really have a favourite, I like a lot of writing styles.

Sure, of course, if you love literature you are probably a slut when it comes to your affections, telling each writer in turn that you love them. Hussy!

I just picked one of my favorites and plopped him down for the thread. Iv'e also been frisky with Lois Bujold and Garth Ennis lately. And no, I don't use protection.
05-11-2012, 23:18
Mouzafphaerre

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No favourite. :no: I re-read LotR and Silmarillion at least once a year but that doesn't make Tolkien my favourite over -say- Dostoyevski, whom I haven't read in years. Else? Poe is named above... I'll thump whoever says cliché when I name Shakespeare... Spencer Holst is interesting. Caesar if it's in Latin... and many many others. :book2:
05-12-2012, 01:06
GeneralHankerchief

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Originally Posted by Kagemusha

Mika Waltari.

Out of curiosity, do you have a copy of The Dark Angel? I've been looking for an English translation of that one for ages.
05-12-2012, 01:25
SwordsMaster

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Bulgakov, Arturo Perez-Reverte. Oh so many others
05-12-2012, 10:04
Fragony

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Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre

No favourite. :no: I re-read LotR and Silmarillion at least once a year but that doesn't make Tolkien my favourite over -say- Dostoyevski, whom I haven't read in years. Else? Poe is named above... I'll thump whoever says cliché when I name Shakespeare... Spencer Holst is interesting. Caesar if it's in Latin... and many many others. :book2:

You are simply wrong for liking Shakespear it is unreadable crap. I prefer losing an arm over having to read it. I had to at school and I have never forgiven them.

Kudos for liking Poe though, he is the real master of the English language
05-12-2012, 11:36
SwordsMaster

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Originally Posted by Fragony

You are simply wrong for liking Shakespear it is unreadable crap. I prefer losing an arm over having to read it. I had to at school and I have never forgiven them.

Kudos for liking Poe though, he is the real master of the English language

If you want mastery of language - to me it is indisputably Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.
05-12-2012, 11:58
Fragony

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Originally Posted by SwordsMaster

If you want mastery of language - to me it is indisputably Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

Poe's 'The Raven' is the absolute hight imho. Wilson's 'Futility' is a great second best
05-13-2012, 11:47
Kagemusha

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Out of curiosity, do you have a copy of The Dark Angel? I've been looking for an English translation of that one for ages.

All my Waltari books are in Finnish. It is a real shame that the english translations are so rare.:shrug:
05-15-2012, 02:30
Mouzafphaerre

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Originally Posted by Fragony

You are simply wrong for liking Shakespear it is unreadable crap. I prefer losing an arm over having to read it. I had to at school and I have never forgiven them.

:laugh4: I'll sacrifice you on an altar for a single verse of his Sonnets sir! :duel:
05-17-2012, 02:10
a completely inoffensive name

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Nora Roberts.
05-17-2012, 10:56
The Stranger

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J.K. Rowling