Favourite Author and Favourite Book (Page 4)

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getinalife
getinalife: Dean Koontz! His story lines are the best.
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DanCaumo
DanCaumo: how can I choose just one author or just one book... Can I choose my favorite library?
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deirdrealexandra
deirdrealexandra: BRAD MELTZER...HEROES FOR MY DAUGHTER ...and ...HEROES FOR MY SON
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Serabi
Serabi: White Fang by Jack London. I can read each sentence over and over just for the beautiful English.

Sheer entertainment - nobody beats Terry Pratchett!
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Likeitornot
Likeitornot: I don’t think I have a favourite author or a book but I do enjoy books by these authors.

Fredrick Nietzsche, Amos Oz , Ayn Rand, Manly Palmer Hall, Richard Dawkins, just to name a few.
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Silverdiamond
Silverdiamond: Favourite authors: Sydney Sheldon, Jackie Collins fav books: If Tomorrow Comes and Lucky and Lady Boss and i like to Kill a Mockingbird
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X3NO
X3NO: Has to be William Styron, The Confessions Of Nat Turner. An excellent story of a black preacher who felt divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region, set in South Eastern Virginia. A truly remarkable book concerning the inhumanity of slavery in the 1800's.
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Black Dog Rising
Black Dog Rising: Black Dog Rising: How I Murdered My Girlfriend and Got Away With It.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Dog-Rising-Girlfriend-ebook/dp/B005ZNJGWU
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JennyKay
JennyKay: The best book i'v eread so far is the Book Theif by Markus Zusak. I cry everytime i read it. I just love how its narrated from death's point of view.
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MrzTamara
MrzTamara: Columbine by Dave Cullen-Investigative, Stoner and Spaz-love story, Mighty Max-anti bullying, Professional Idiot-good for people in rehab
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HereWeGo120
HereWeGo120: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
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Viks1996
Viks1996: my fav author is Stephen King - and all of his books are just great, they give me a chill.
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uglybetty1
uglybetty1: MY favouriteis V.S. Naipaul who hails from Trinidad & Tobago in the West Indies. He is a Pulitzer prize winner and has written multiple nooks about his native land....which he hates with a passion.!!!! Figure that one out.! I will still give him props for his wonderfil, descriptive style of writing. My favourite of his books are: A House for Mr. Biswas& Miguel Street...both set in the West Indies.
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zackdark58
zackdark58: This is easy. James A. Michener. The first novel he published, "Tales of the South Pacific", won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948 and he was already 40 years old! Nobody (except maybe Leon Uris and Ken Follett) has even come close to the scope and accuracy of historic detail that he brought to every one of his sweeping epics, most of which ran 1000 or more pages. More currently, books by Tom Wolfe ("The Right Stuff", "The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test" and Thom Hartmann ("Screwed, the Un-declared War on the Middle Class" have been been in my backpack a lot.

And all you young people remember one thing: READERS... ARE LEADERS!
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uglybetty1
uglybetty1: "Screwed" , sounds like a book that I might want to read, Right now I am taking a course that requires me to read 30 short stories...and to analyze them. The most bizarre one was Hemingway's, "Hills Like White Elephants" I had no clue as to wht it was about,,,,until I read the critical reviews.What a stretch!!!!!
By the way Zack, nice pooch... and I love the sating, "Readers are leaders"
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chronology
chronology: John Dos Passos 'USA'. Dos Passos chronicled American Society at it's most critical period, the 1920s and 1930s, would America become a Fascist country or a Liberal Country? as it turned out Americans chose Liberal FDR. The Book is like Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath' but without the sentimentality, and goes into far more detail presenting the arguments and conflicts of American workers, religious and business interests. Dashiell Hammett's 'Maltese Falcon' is also a easy read of life in 1940s San Francisco, Hammett brought a lot of first hand knowledge to the Private Investigator genre, unlike Raymond Chandler who was actually an English Educated upper class Canadian. Hammett also had a classic exchange with Joe McCarthy's Red Baiting friends that landed him in Rikers Island Prison for two years for refusing to answer the 'are you or have you ever been a communist'.
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B e a
B e a: My toplist:
1. Paulo Coehlo: 11 minutes
2. Antoine de Saint Exupérie: Le petit Prince
3. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
4. Murakami Haruki: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi: The Flow
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Steve02
Steve02: Stephen King : IT
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thirstysoul5
thirstysoul5: My fave book is Here On Earth by Alice Hoffman. And she and Sheri Reynolds are my fave authors.
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valcav20
valcav20: Asking me that is like asking witch is my favorite child. I can not chuse so I will keep them all.
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devilfighter
devilfighter: Hinds Feet on High Places - Hannah Hudnard http://www.amazon.ca/Hinds-Feet-Places-Hannah-Hurdard/dp/1470184540
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jeremyjal
jeremyjal: Stephen King: The Dark Tower Series.. though I kinda hated the ending but it's still my fav.
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Fav non-fiction Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences : Thomas Szasz
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