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Topic: Your favourite authors
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Ariesrocks!
Knowflake Posts: 628
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Registered: Dec 2003
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posted January 30, 2004 09:25 AM
 
tell me what authors you like to read? I read the Beatniks and poetry!
give me some good reading tips!IP: Logged |
LMB
Knowflake Posts: 785
From: Cooltown, USA
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted January 30, 2004 03:00 PM
I'm a poet and I love Sharon Olds, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Maureen Seaton, Denise Duhamel....you may see I have a love of womens poetry. Hope you don't mind. I love the work of SARK, the always colorful and inspirational author and artist.
And the Conversations with God series has helped me a lot - the first three books, anyway... the rest I think are just gimmicky books. and I LOVE Shirley MacLaine's books - her spiriutal autobiographies like "Out on a Limb" all the way to "The Camino". What are some other peoples' fav's? LMB IP: Logged |
Aphrodite
Knowflake Posts: 4992
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Registered: Feb 2002
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posted January 30, 2004 03:11 PM
Ovid
Sappho
Linda GoodmanIP: Logged |
Everlong
Knowflake Posts: 931
From: Southeast Florida
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted January 30, 2004 04:12 PM
Douglas Adams
JK Rowling
Tolkien
Donna Tartt
Mark Twain
George Orwell
James Hilton
Guy who wrote Catcher in the Rye- forgot his name completely...Can't think of the rest of them right now =). ------------------
"Out of your depth or not, it's up to you whether you sink or swim." IP: Logged |
Aphrodite
Knowflake Posts: 4992
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Registered: Feb 2002
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posted January 30, 2004 04:15 PM
J.D. Salinger, Everlong.IP: Logged |
silverbells
Knowflake Posts: 1506
From: The second star to the right (which shines in the night for'eer)
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted January 30, 2004 04:44 PM
Everlong, I really like your signature.  ------------------
"Get some Love in your groove, just get hip to Forgive"-Michael Franks IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted January 30, 2004 06:20 PM
Edgar Allen PoeZacharia Sitchin
Mary Summer Rain And sshhh, Stephen King ------------------
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted January 30, 2004 06:34 PM
Hmmm, reading Everlongs list w/ Douglas Adams reminds me of someone. Aphrodite, did you finish the trilogy yet?  juniperb  ------------------
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Everlong
Knowflake Posts: 931
From: Southeast Florida
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted January 30, 2004 11:04 PM
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J.D. Salinger
Yep, was at the tip of my tongue. Thanks  . quote:
Everlong, I really like your signature.
Fanks =D. One of my favorite quotes since it pretty much reflects my outlook on life. Douglas Adams had the best sense of humor ever, man. He's a classic. ------------------
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Nephthys
Moderator Posts: 3800
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted January 30, 2004 11:24 PM
Harper LeeLydia Hiby Mary Summer Rain John O'Donohue Doreen Virtue Joan Ocean Shirley MacLaine .....to name a few  IP: Logged |
tahariel
Knowflake Posts: 165
From: south wales
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted January 31, 2004 08:17 PM
Gill Edwards !IP: Logged |
TINK
Knowflake Posts: 3831
From: New England
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted January 31, 2004 09:16 PM
John Fowles everythingThomas Hardy everything Dickens' Great Expectations, Pasternak's Dr Zhivago, Byatt's Possesion. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - can't remember the author. The Lorax. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parzival. Anne Sexton - Riding the Elevator Into the Sky, The Awful Rowing Towards God
when I'm in a sad mood  Walt Whitman - A Noiseless Patient Spider, The Last Invocation, Leaves of Grass
when I'm in a glad mood  IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted February 01, 2004 02:01 PM
Ohmigosh!!! Where do I start?  I have read quite a few books pertaining to metaphysics...but often, I love to get into a good book FOR PURE ENTERTAINMENT!!!! It's an escape into other worlds, and other times....(almost like going into "other dimensions")... I guess I'll start with some of my very favorite... Charles Dickens......David Copperfield, Great Expectations (I have not read all his works...plan to some day)....but I have read both those books several times...He's one of MY VERY FAVORITES! Emily Bronte......Wuthering Heights
...another amazing book I've returned to more than once... Charlotte Bronte......Jane Eyer...loved her book but like her sister's Wuthering Heights better...*sigh*..(just me)... Jane Austen......Pride and Prejudice...(at least a couple readings)... George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Sanders)......Silas Marner They are all English authors with the story lines taking place in England...(I believe I lived there in another life)....and my interest in England and her authors may also have something to do with my Mom having descended from English stock...*sigh* *** *** *** *** *** *** An American author whom I love, used to be an actor in the movies....and a VERY HANDSOME ONE! His name is... Thomas Tryon......and I've read his All that Glitters, Lady, and The Wings of the Morning...great entertainment all... The Flowers in the Attic series was pretty good (can't remember the author).... ....but besides Linda's GOOBERZ...a book that really moved me, entertained me no end,
and took into an entirely different world/dimension was by Austen Tappen Wright.....called Islandia....I've read it three times...always entertained...and always in awe of the great work... It's about as big as GOOBERZ..... So I guess maybe I'm getting carried away, but sheese, you asked....  Love,
Rainbow~
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juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted February 01, 2004 02:21 PM
Thats a diverse list . V.C. Andrews is the author for Flowers in the Attic . I loved her whole series and have kept every book  juniperb ------------------
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted February 01, 2004 02:52 PM
Junie....I have a THIRD HOUSE..SUN, MERCURY AND JUPITER.......That's probably what sparked my interest in reading...I've loved to read since I was a child... Oh! I have all THE FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC books too...I hate to loan my books out (lost a few that way)....and would never throw any away... Someone once said,"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one." ....an J.D. salinger said (yes, I read Catcher in the Rye too) "I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot..." I think I like this saying the best...
"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy: it lasts when all other pleasures fade." (and you can do it when the electricity goes off too... ) Love,
Yer neighbor Rainbow
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Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted February 01, 2004 05:31 PM
I'm back again....Just wanted to mention that I did read three of shirley Maclaine's books.... DON'T FALL OFF THE MOUNTAIN
OUT ON A LIMB ...and.... DANCING IN THE LIGHT I believe DON'T FALL OF THE MOUNTAIN was her first...and after reading it, I had a new appreciation of Shirley...not so much as a metaphysically, spiritually, oriented person (she didn't get into any of that in this book), but just as a very daring woman full of courage and adventure! I had no idea this cutsey little actress was anything like that...  (don't judge a book by it's cover, huh?) Anyway....just wanted to mention Shirley... Love,
Rainbow~
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grayheart
Knowflake Posts: 215
From: Land O Love
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted February 01, 2004 11:37 PM
Personally, I tend to be more of an adventure/sci-fi reader myself. I like all books by Tara K Harper, the Destroyer series by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, Almost anything by Piers Anthony. W. Michael Gear wrote one of the best trilogies I have ever read, the Spider trilogy, It was mainly a sci-fi book, but it touched on some deep theological issues, I read that trilogy before I read any of Linda's books, and the fictional belief system of the warriors of spider is aclose a depiction to my own in so far as the nature of god as I have ever read. IP: Logged |
grayheart
Knowflake Posts: 215
From: Land O Love
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted February 01, 2004 11:37 PM
Deborah Chester is really good too, especially "The Sword", "The Ring", and "The Chalice", and Dave Duncan is usually good. Most of those are pretty much Sci-Fi/fantasy, but they are some of my favorites. There are many more, but those are the most memorable.IP: Logged |
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