Favorite Authors

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<p>This is an excuse for me to rant on how much I love Haruki Murakami. :) Seriously: Everybody needs to read at least one of his books before dying. </p>

<p>What are your favorite authors?</p>

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<p>I would love it if you listed some of your favorite books by him.</p>

<p>As a kid, I liked Avi.
Right now, although I don't read very often, I like Chaim Potok, Janet Evanovich, JK Rowling =) , and some others... However, I've been reading more of non-fiction than fiction lately.</p>

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<p>I just got done with "Kafka on the Shore." Really good. My favorite so far would have to be "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," however. But it's only by a close margin with the other books. I reccomend everything, really. </p>

<p>Kudos to Avi! And JK Rowling = who doesn't? :)</p>

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<p>Jean-Louis Kerouaaaaac. We're one in the same, he and I. Minus the drugs and booze, of course. </p>

<p>I also love Ernest Hemingway (who would've guessed?), John Steinbeck, Chaim Potok, W. Somerset Maugham, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Samuel Beckett, and Jean-Paul Sartre. </p>

<p>It seems like a long list, but it's really not, because I've read alot of books.</p>

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<p>Kafka on the Shore is awesome; I'm about 2/3 through it.</p>

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<p>hemingway: haha. Power to Chaim Potok! Such an amazing guy. The Chosen was amazing...I do have to read the rest of that series though.</p>

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<p>JK Rowling and ... no, that's it.</p>

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<p>George Orwell. It doesn't get better than George Orwell.</p>

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<p>Yes it does. His name is Aldous Huxley.</p>

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Yes it does. His name is Aldous Huxley.

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Huxley and Orwell are two sides of the same coin.</p>

<p>Orwell is the superior side ;-)</p>

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<p>Eh. I like Huxley's sutlety. Orwell is fun to read, but he almost bashes you over the head with his ideas. Ultimately I like Huxley more.</p>

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<p>Ayn Rand, J.R.R. Tolkien, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Orson Scott Card, and Oscar Wilde.</p>

<p>Hm, as a matter of fact, I don't like Rowling.</p>

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<p>I think I will always have a soft spot for Edgar Allen Poe...not exactly a novelist or author by definition, but still. A childhood favorite of mine is Edward Eager. Then I also like Francesca Lia Block, Sylvia Plath, J.D. Salinger, Stephen King, Jane Austen...lots of others.</p>

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Eh. I like Huxley's sutlety. Orwell is fun to read, but he almost bashes you over the head with his ideas. Ultimately I like Huxley more.

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Orwell is plenty subtle.
Ever notice how, in 1984 the telescreen hidden in Mr. Charrington's shop is behind the picture of the church? There's Orwell's view on organized religion for you. Subtle enough?</p>

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<p>I was about halfway through "A Wild Sheep Chase" when I lost the book. It was tragic. I never found out how the book ended =(</p>

<p>I'm rereading "1984" now!</p>

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<p>John Irving
Ken Kesey
Larry McMurtry
David McCulloch (sp?)</p>

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<p>Tom Clancy, Ayn Rand, & Paul Ormerod.</p>

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<p>Just so you guys know...
<a href="http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_contests_index%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_contests_index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>A scholarship where you write an essay after reading an Ayn Rand novel. Just because a couple of you are putting her as a favorite.</p>

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<p>yeah I did that contest...that was actually the only reason I read "The Fountainhead" - first time I've read Rand. Turned out that she's my favorite.</p>

<p>I also like Mary Stewart, among others.</p>

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<p>Salman Rushdie 'Midnight's Children'</p>

<p>Dammit, he's lecturing 10 minutes form my house and i am sitting here preparing for that Bloody SAT:mad:</p>