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Pfft...he had the audacity to die before finishing the series....

Yeah...I'm kidding...

Seriously though, I did a little background checking on the guy who's going to finish it, he looks promising.

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Guest Ashley C.

Digging up topics from years past, I see...:P. I'm a huge literature nerd though.

I don't so much have favorite authors as I do works: Dune and Dracula are the first two books that come to mind. I also love pretty much anything Shakespeare, and most of Hawthorne's and Twain's stuff.

Favorite poets: Eliot, H.D., Poe, and Frost. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock will forever be my favorite poem, but it's pretty hard to top Poe when you're eagerly seeking out the macabre :).

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Guest NatashaJade

I have a number...

Gotta start with Shakespeare. I direct his plays and have Hamlet tattooed on my arm.

But more recently, I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Virginia Woolf, H.P. Lovecraft, Dan Simmons, Umberto Eco, Jose Marti, Agatha Christie, James Ellroy, O.S. Card, Larry Niven and just for fun , J.K. Rowling.

At least the thread isn't about favorite books...

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Guest Carden

Joseph Conrad. Genius.

Dorothy Parker. She is my biggest influence. Swear to goodness.

Mary Shelley. Ultimate rebel, hecks yeah.

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Joseph Conrad. Genius.

Dorothy Parker. She is my biggest influence. Swear to goodness.

Mary Shelley. Ultimate rebel, hecks yeah.

I haven't read Parker, but Conrad and Shelley are fantastic. :) Every time I read Heart of Darkness, I'm always amazed at how much story he managed to pack into such a small novel.

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Great topic, Emily. Oh, my, so many good choices I've already seen. Here are just a few of mine.

Robert Frost

Larry McMurtry

Tom Clancy

Joseph Wambaugh

Isaac Asimov

Ray Bradbury

Phillip K. Di ck (word filter)

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Raymond Chandler

Robert Heinlein

H.P. Lovecraft

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

John Steinbeck

Carolyn Marie

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Guest Ashley C.

And how could I forget Hemingway...The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises are two wonderful stories.

Thanks for reminding me, Carolyn, lol...

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Guest ohhlaala

My favorite author of recent times is Khaled Hosseini. He wrote the kite runner and also A thousand splendid suns, which is the best book I have read in ages. I mourned the end of that book. It had a load of hype here in the UK and most people I know have read it but just incase you haven't heard about it......... Its a story of two women who against all odds develop the most amazing friendship and overcome horrendous situations in their life.

It is set in Afghanistan and at first i wasnt sure if the subject matter would appeal to me...but although it is about their life in war torn Afghanistan its more about their friendship. It made me laugh and cry, books rarely do that to me but most of all it was utterly inspiring. Id recommend anyone to read it. I bought it for two friends at Christmas and they both read it in a day as they couldn't put it down.

I also love Terry Pratchet :D Id love to be able to view the world through his eyes for a day, he makes me laugh.

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Guest Melanie Dawn

wow! all these fantasy/sci fi fans and I only like Michael Moorcock? One of the best, yet most overlooked authors (by Americans) ever!

Melanie Dawn

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