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madamesilverspurs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 02:36 PM Original message |
Favorite fiction authors? |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. R.A. Salvatore, Paul S. Kemp, Weis and Hickman. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. The ONLY thing I've ever read by Weis and Hickman |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 08:09 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. The Legends trilogy was also great. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 08:13 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. You mean the one with Raist and Cam in the past? |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 08:32 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Yeah. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 08:34 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. I like Raist... |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 09:33 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. He's 99.9% evil. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 10:24 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. It's not about being nice to one gully dwarf |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I second your list! I would also add |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I agree! |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. I've been enjoying a fairly new writer in hard Sci-Fi, Alistair Reynolds. |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. And of course, Hemingway, Asimov, Eddings, Tolkien, Neal Stephenson, Twain |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. concur re: Michener |
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seaglass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Did you know John Irving has a new book coming out in October? |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 04:09 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Yeah |
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Broken_Hero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. A few |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. Melville, Kim Stanley Robinson, Sherman Alexie, Flaubert, Conrad |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
9. I left out Walter M Miller Jr |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
11. There's so many to pick from |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
12. Sharyn McCrumb |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
13. Ayn Rand. |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. You are so BAD! |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Ginsberg's pretty good, but his stuff doesn't hold up too well I find. |
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InternalDialogue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
14. Neal Stephenson, David Mitchell, Richard Powers. |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. John D. MacDonald |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
17. Dan Simmons, Stephen King |
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Twillig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
19. Don Delillo |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #19 |
32. White Noise is great. |
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_dynamicdems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
21. John Connolly |
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cyberswede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. Raymond Chandler n/t |
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Graybeard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
24. E.L. Doctorow |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
25. Anne Bishop |
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theNotoriousP.I.G. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
27. A.M. Homes |
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EndersDame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
28. I have just discovered TERRY PRATCHETT & TOM ROBINSON |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
29. Diana Gabaldon, Sharyn McCrumb, Charlaine Harris. nt |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Mom just sent along a Charlaine Harris today |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. McCrumb is a born storyteller. She's someone I read as slowly as |
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wain (803 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
30. Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
31. I forgot: Margaret Atwood and JM Coetzee |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
33. China Mieville, |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
34. Kim Stanley Robinson, Philip Kerr, Ed McBain, Kurt Vonnegut. |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
42. Donna Tartt, John Iriving, Julia Glass, Ian McEwan |
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vixengrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
44. For having read just two books--and I think there only is two-- |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
45. My mind just went blank, but I can list at least a few: |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
46. Favorite current authors are probably... |
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