Who is your favorite author?
I'm curious as to who is everyone's favorite author? I don't really have a favorite and always looking for different authors to read.
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How about poets..?
Go to the Limits of Your Longing.
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
Go to the Limits of Your Longing.
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
Sidewinder · 36-40, M
I have many favorites, but my topmost favorites are Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J.G. Ballard and William Burroughs.
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@Sidewinder I found Dickens difficult at school. Trollope is much under rated, and a far easier style.
Hemingway took me through the sixth form.
Dostoyevsky I read just before going to Uni. The Brothers Karamazov is a good preparation for University life.
Hemingway took me through the sixth form.
Dostoyevsky I read just before going to Uni. The Brothers Karamazov is a good preparation for University life.
cinsac ·
Right now, Charles Bukowski. I love his writing, and I usually don't care for curmudgeons.
JovialMoose · 51-55, M
I’ve reread books by Tolkien and Douglas Adams so they are probably my favorite authors.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
Historically: Charles Dickens, Emil Zola, Victor Hugo
Contemporary: Donna Tartt, Jonathan Frantzen
Contemporary: Donna Tartt, Jonathan Frantzen
JohnnyNoir · 56-60, M
Fiction? Non fiction? Genre?
AJMoore84 · 36-40, F
@JohnnyNoir Doesn't matter to me. I'm just looking for different authors to read.
BlueSkyKing · M
Take a look at N. K. Jemisin at Wikipedia. Triple Hugo winner. I’ve read her first six books.
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Ian McEwan
Ernest Hemingway
George Simeon
Iris Murdoch
Emile Zola
Ernest Hemingway
George Simeon
Iris Murdoch
Emile Zola
softspokenman · M
Harper Lee ~ To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960 Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel
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I don't have a favorite either, kinda reassessing everything.
thepreposterouspanda · 36-40, M
Roger Zelazny is one of my all-time favorites. :)
GerOttman · 61-69, M
Larry NIven, try Ringworld!
dubkebab · 56-60, M
Kurt Vonnegut jr.
CBarson · 51-55
Anne Rice
Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake was a 1978 Hugo winner for best science fiction.