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For those that love to read... Favorite Author and why?

Mine was a tie, Jules Verne because of the adventures and Mark Twain because of the characterizations within his stories.
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Stephen King. I love the way he plays movies in my head.
JRR Tolkien. He's amazing.
traceavery · 70-79, M
@SW-User Like a little scary?
@SW-User Those are favs in my top ten too.
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@DarkHeaven niice!💛
Floridian · 70-79, F
Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm, etc.). ETA: Because she crafts a sentence like no one else. I read a lot, so I read fairly quickly, but not Dillard - I need to concentrate on every word.
Harper Lee, S. E. Hinton, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Three way tie.
@traceavery With the Outsiders and Great Gatzby following. 🦋
traceavery · 70-79, M
@DarkHeaven Excellent Story! @DarkHeaven Liked those as well!
@traceavery My favorite poet is Frost. Although I have many others I enjoy as well.
hunkalove · 61-69, M
Larry McMurtry has been an inspiration to me ever since I read The Last Picture Show in 1972. My fave lately is Daniel Woodrell, who writes Hillbilly Noir.
traceavery · 70-79, M
@hunkalove I loved Lonesome Dove! Terms of Endearment...
I have so many favorite writers:

- Dostoyovski.... so powerful in all his books, specially Crime and Punishment

- Hermann Hesse, for the philosophical views on human's being and his emotions

- Nicos Kasantzakis for the way he appreciates religion but condems what and how religious people use religion as a tool for achieving their goals (you can see this in most of his novels)

- Milan Kundera for his style of writing

Simon De Beauvoir
Bertrand Russel
traceavery · 70-79, M
@Soossie Nice group! Reading is awesome! As a child I'd hide under the covers with a flashlight and read.
@traceavery

Awesome...

I used to read, finishing reading the book without closing it once...
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A threeway tie for me, 1) Emil Cioran, my favorite thinker, a Romanian who mastered French in a decade or so, his thoughts i love, 2) Robert Walser - i think he was Swiss, he knew how to describe mundane things so well, and he could write a short story on something small writing extremely tiny, and 3) Clarice Lispector, Brazil's preeminent modern writer, she's exciting!
Nyloncapes · 61-69, M
Charles dickens,
@Nyloncapes Dickens is wonderful.
traceavery · 70-79, M
@Nyloncapes One of the best!
Nyloncapes · 61-69, M
@traceavery yes and the times he writes about he catches the times so great with his writing and that period
Midnightoker1 · 61-69, M
Jeffery Bernhard. Keith Waterhouse.
jackson55 · M
Mark Greaney, Lee Child, James Paterson. I like the stories and the characters.
traceavery · 70-79, M
@jackson55 When a reader likes the story and especially the characters of a story, then the author did his job and that reader makes the author proud. Thank you for reading!
1pebbles · 56-60, F
The Bible....author, inspired words of God....why? A book of history, love, redemption, forgiveness, instructions to guide your life by.... the greatest story ever recorded and told! People have been persecuted and died and have never backed down.... for what’s waiting on the other side!

 
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