whats your favorite author?
#237704 - 01/11/06 02:48 PM
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Honey mix
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Mine is L.M. Montgomery i absolutly love anne of green gables 
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I have a few favorite authors.
I will always love Laura Ingalls Wilder. I read all the Little House books when I was little, and I got the full set of Little House books for Christmas. I will be reading them all again soon.
I also like Edward Rutherford. He writes big fat historical novels. Sarum is my favorite of his books.
I could go on, but I think I'll stop with just two for now.
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Nicholas Sparks, even before all the books turned into movies. The Notebook, etc.
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a.s. byatt. love love love.
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jaime
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Believe it or not, two of the ones already mentioned! Laura Ingalls Wilder and Nicholas Sparks! Every one of his books is good, but The Notebook is my favorite.
Anne of Green Gables is awesome. I own the 3 part series on VHS tape and do weekend marathons of her...but never read the books. 
Also, I like Elizabeth Berg.
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The two names that pop into my mind first are John Steinbeck and John Irving. Of Mice and Men should be required reading for life, and I also love The Grapes of Wrath (even the dust chapters...hee hee) and East of Eden.
John Irving. I especially loved A Widow for One Year, but The Cider House Rules was really good, too. (So is everything else I've ever ready by him.)
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Oh so many good ones here!
I definitely grew up reading (and re-reading  ) the Little House books and all the Anne of Green Gables Books. They're like "childhood" for me, right there.
A.S. Bayatt and John Irving are both other favourites of mine... rather different from each other admittedly, but both fantastic in their own ways.
I also really love Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale is probably one of my all-time favourites.
Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Life Without Me, etc.), Gabriel Garcia Marquz, and Michael Ondaatje (he wrote the English Patient... In the Skin of the Lion though is I think my favourite of his, or Anil's Ghost is great too) are all favourites too. Oh, and Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway, another all-time favourite).
And a few more Canadians: Jane Urquhart, Alice Munro... OK, I could go on, but I'll stop there. I have so much reading to do for school I hardly get to read much fiction these days (even though I'm an English student! Go figure! haha)
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ah! someone else who loves a.s. byatt!! have you read the virgin in the garden foursome? i read it straight through one summer - soo good.
also, if you love her, you should read margaret drabble. who happens to be her sister. 
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i'm partial to emerson, thoreau and maclean
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wow I didn't know that! i've never read any margaret drabble but she's been on my list of 'authors to check out' for ages now.
of byatt I've only read possession but I loved it. I'd never heard of the virgin in the garden but i just checked it out on amazon and it looks fantastic. i will definitely keep an eye out for it
ooh i just thought of another one: have you ever read any annie proulx?
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