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Offline Tacolicious

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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #30 on: September 24, 2007, 05:34:18 AM »
The books I like, can't say much for the authors (good writers and good people are two different things and I don't know the authors well enough to say if I love THEM) but I did enjoy the books...

Steven Brust - the Jhereg series (wise cracking-paranoid-assassin-shaman-wizard, how can you go wrong?)

Douglas Copeland - jPod, Microserfs, Generation X

Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Machiavelli -The Prince

Ayn Rand - Fountainhead

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake

LE Modesitt Jr - The Recluse Saga

Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984

I've also been recently reading some Emerson essays and have been enjoying those. Any one who wants to read them can check here where all his writings are available for free.
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Offline Nightloser

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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #31 on: October 02, 2007, 07:51:28 PM »
Impressive list Taco ... George Orwell is simply a genius, as for the book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" ...maan....
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Offline Myroria

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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #32 on: October 15, 2007, 11:08:39 PM »
Jerry Seinfeld - Seinlanguage

George Orwell - 1984

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001, 2010 (After that the rest of the series ust got absurd)

Max Barry - Jennifer Government, Company
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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #33 on: October 16, 2007, 12:18:41 AM »
Quote from: Annexea on September 15, 2007, 03:16:30 AM
Quote from: Collatica on September 14, 2007, 08:25:18 PM
But I find it quite boring and tedious at times, the writing can be over-descriptive and take a long time for anything to actually happen.

Speaking of that, I should mention Robert Jordan (whose books I do enjoy, despite their slowness)

I tried reading one of those, but I couldn't get past the slowness, it just wouldn't move on.
R.A. Salvatore. Very good.
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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #34 on: October 16, 2007, 01:02:00 PM »
I enjoyed Salvatore's Homeland trilogy, but when I tried to read the Icewind Dale books that he wrote first I wanted to bash my head repeatedly against some very hard and unforgiving surface.  Which of his novels have you read?
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Offline Mahasoor

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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #35 on: February 29, 2008, 01:06:14 AM »
Bradbury and Vonnegut are pretty high up on my list.  For fun reading, my favorites are Traviss, Adams, Lackey, Doyle & MacDonald, Brust and Rowling.  The stereotypical classics are top on my list as well, like Dante and Rabelais and Homer and Plato and blah blah blah.  I was an English major so I basically went "squeeeeeeeee" and had a girl crush on every author I came across except for Hemingway and Updike.
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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #36 on: February 29, 2008, 01:18:38 AM »
Twain!!!!!
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Offline Mahasoor

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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #37 on: February 29, 2008, 01:19:47 AM »
lol yes, Twain too but I don't have nearly the swooning crush on him like you do :)  I get all dopey with glee over another author though :D
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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #38 on: February 29, 2008, 01:20:52 AM »
It's not a crush...... :P
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Offline Mahasoor

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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #39 on: February 29, 2008, 01:21:15 AM »
Man-love then, my apologies ):
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« Reply #40 on: February 29, 2008, 01:23:34 AM »
 :-\

It's not man-love either.
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Offline Mahasoor

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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #41 on: February 29, 2008, 01:24:29 AM »
Secretive dead-of-night keep-it-on-the-down-low sexy love?
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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #42 on: February 29, 2008, 01:26:13 AM »
Ewwww, no. He just has alot of insight about life that I agree with.
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Offline Mahasoor

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Re: Best-Loved Authors
« Reply #43 on: February 29, 2008, 01:26:56 AM »
OMG SO YOU AGREE WITH HIM IN THE OPEN?

there are children present you sick pervert! :o
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« Reply #44 on: February 29, 2008, 01:28:31 AM »
LOL! Shush you.  :-P

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