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Post by gilmorefanalways on Nov 19, 2012 0:00:21 GMT -5
What authors do you love and simply can't wait to read more of their work
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Nov 19, 2012 0:07:19 GMT -5
Some of my favorites are
V.C. Andrews I'm sure many of you know that though
Anita Shreve i love her writing style
Mitch Albom his stories are always moving
F. Scott Fitzgerald im sure i don't need to explain why
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Post by avp60685 on Nov 19, 2012 10:54:05 GMT -5
Michael J. Fox-he writes as if he is talking to you.
Christopher Reeve-he told great stories and kept you well informed.
Lucy M. Montgomery-she tells in great details about what is happening
Laura Ingalls Wilder-she tells so well you don't realize she's telling about her own life
that's just some of my personal favorites and why.
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Nov 19, 2012 19:46:01 GMT -5
Also Lori lansens
She wrote a book called the girls and it is a very movingtale tthe way she writes draws you in and makes you live the story right along with the characters transforming the words on the pages from simply a story to actual memories for the reader very few authors write like that and it is truly a gift a wonderful talent
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Post by avp60685 on Nov 20, 2012 8:55:39 GMT -5
Here are a few more for me:
Carolyn Keene-tells of a lot of action and adventure to keep you in suspense
Louisa May Alcott-makes you want to find out what will happen next
Frances Hodgson Burnett-her stories take you to a magical world and you fee like you are watching it happen in front of you.
Mark Twain-his writing is witty and funny but interesting to keep you glued to your seat.
Alexander Dumas-he has long chapters and each page is full of excitement and adventure
Charles Dickens-keeps you in suspense and you just hope everything turns out better in the end for the main characters like Oliver Twist and David Copperfield.
William Shakespeare-the words are so beautiful that you don't realize that you have heard some of his writings until you read them and go "Oh wow, he wrote that? That was so amazingly good!"
Lois Gladys Leppard-her writing made me feel like I was the main character and I could see and hear these characters and the things that they are seeing and feeling.
I am still trying to remember all of my favorites but this is just a small sample of who else I could think of!
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Nov 21, 2012 0:11:20 GMT -5
It is the same for me I have so many favorites it's hard to write them all down  but I did leave out Edgar Allen Poe simply because all of his works are unusual and unique sometimes disturbing but riveting |
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Post by avp60685 on Nov 21, 2012 6:49:31 GMT -5
Yep, his stuff is very strange to say the least!
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Nov 21, 2012 22:31:19 GMT -5
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Nov 22, 2012 22:33:01 GMT -5
Edgar Allan Poe, without a doubt, for me, too.
Let me add:
1. Flannery O'Connor, one of the best southern writers ever. She manages to bring the grotesque into literature in a way that transcends it into grace. Read her short stories. The novels aren't nearly as powerful.
2. Pat Conroy, my favorite southern novelist alive today. I have devoured each and every one of his books. I got to see him deliver one the most inspiring speeches I've ever seen, in Savannah, GA. It was a work of art. Afterwards I got to meet him, and he graciously autographed my copy of my favorite novel of his, Beach Music. He signed it, "Keep writing. Love, Pat Conroy."
3. Elmore Leonard. There is absolutely no one writing better crime fiction today than him. He created the character Raylan Givens that you see on the show Justified. There is no one who writes dialogue better than him. Quentin Tarentino is maybe a close second.
4. Larry McMurtry. An unbelievable talent. He wrote The Last Picture Show, which was made into a movie deserving of it by Peter Bogdonavich. Likewise his Lonsome Dove series that won the Pulitzer prize in 1985. I dare you to put down one of his books once you start it.
5. Stephen King. What can I say? Maybe the most influential author of the 20th and 21st century. I read The Shining way before the movie was even dreamed of. And I read it at night. With every light on in the house.
6. John Irving. He has probably the closest place in my heart, because he makes me feel for his characters like no one else. Characters I will never forget. From The World According to Garp to A Prayer for Owen Meany, they live on within me, and show me what literature can do.
7. Ernest Hemingway. Although I love his autobiographical roman a clefs like The Sun Also Rises, A Movable Feast, and Death in the Afternoon, it is the short stories where he really shines.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for the novella The Old Man and the Sea. But like the Hollywood oscars, what he really deserved it for was the short story "The Snows of Kilamanjaro", in which he packed a novel's worth of story into something much shorter than that. To me, this is the finest short story ever written.
8. George R. R. Martin. Although I love horror and science fiction, I have never been a fan of fantasy until I got swept up in his Song of Fire and Ice series of novels that began with Game of Thrones. I can't wait for the next one, and I pray for his good health while he completes the series.
9. J.K. Rowling. The Harry Potter books caught up an entire generation of kids in the joy of reading. And I got all of that joy myself as an adult reading them.
10. Ray Bradbury. I can't tell you how much he's inspired me. Perhaps my favorite science fiction writer. Somehow he manages to bring poetry into everything he writes. Each word, each sentence, each image is perfect. And that's hard to do.
And these ten are probably just for starters, as they are right off the top of my head. But what a great group they are.
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Post by avp60685 on Nov 23, 2012 7:03:27 GMT -5
One author I like her writing and she is only known for one special writing and that is Anne Frank, she was a real genius in her writing and I love how she goes into vivid details about her day-to-day routine while being in the attic annex, she tells of her fears, thoughts, dreams and her special experiences as well as her relationships.
I just thought I would mention her before I forgot!
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Post by TheFlashFan on Feb 16, 2013 12:36:30 GMT -5
J.K. Rowling is my fav because of harry potter books that it as I am still a person who just started reading with the harry potter books so far.
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Mar 6, 2013 1:55:49 GMT -5
John Irving
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Post by avp60685 on Jun 26, 2013 8:54:36 GMT -5
I love C.S. Lewis' writings, he goes into so much detail and has such a way with creating worlds, characters, and more I cannot help but love it!
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but I did leave out Edgar Allen Poe simply because all of his works are unusual and unique sometimes disturbing but riveting 
