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  • Tonberry_Kid
    FFR Player
    • May 2005
    • 3408
    #1

    Favourite Authors and why.

    What are your favourite authors? Why are they your favourite authors? What is your favourite genre of books?

    I'd say my favourite author is probably Sara Douglass because of the awesome saga, The Wayfarer Redemption. Other others I like are any of the authors of the Dragon Lance chronicles. And as for genre, medieval FTW.
    UNLEASH THE DRAGON
    Originally posted by mead1
    My method of making love is quite different than you might expect. I prefer to find a girl taking a nap at the local preschool, and then make love to them as they scream in my large, sound-proofed, white van. I then make love on their face, and throw them in an ice-chest of bleach. For pillow talk, I usually say, "Your parents can't hear you," and keep their teddy bear as a momento. You could call me a hopeless romantic, I guess.
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    • Lightknight924
      FFR Player
      • Jul 2005
      • 1164
      #2
      RE: Favourite Authors and why.

      I'd have to say JRR Tolkien for the creation of The Lord Of The Rings

      I really like epical tales of kingdoms. Hence be why I write Flasion.

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        • esupin
          FFR Player
          • Nov 2003
          • 1756
          #3
          RE: Favourite Authors and why.

          I like Agatha Christie because her detictive stories are better than Doyle's (sorry, Sherlock), and Ray Bradbury because he is a sci fi/short story master. I would recommend the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 if you haven't already read it in school.

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            • Tonberry_Kid
              FFR Player
              • May 2005
              • 3408
              #4
              RE: Favourite Authors and why.

              I've heard Fahrenheit 451 was a good book. I never get around to reading it though.
              UNLEASH THE DRAGON
              Originally posted by mead1
              My method of making love is quite different than you might expect. I prefer to find a girl taking a nap at the local preschool, and then make love to them as they scream in my large, sound-proofed, white van. I then make love on their face, and throw them in an ice-chest of bleach. For pillow talk, I usually say, "Your parents can't hear you," and keep their teddy bear as a momento. You could call me a hopeless romantic, I guess.

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                • ayanepuck
                  FFR Player
                  • May 2004
                  • 110
                  #5
                  First of all....Fahrenheit 451 is probably one of the worst books of all time. Ray Bradbury has written maybe 2 books (or short stories) that I would call somewhat entertaining. Other than that....yikes.

                  As far as favorite authors....I would have to say when it comes to poetry, Charles Bukowski or Sylvia Plath; short stories: Edgar Allan Poe or Kate Chopin, or Jonathan Swift; full-length novels, I would have to say J.K. Rowling, Chuck Palahniuk, Elmore Leonard, Charles Dickens; songs: Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell; Movies: Charlie Kaufman, (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation) Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Roger Avary.
                  That is all, I think. =)
                  \"All the world is the birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.\"

                  \"The Beatles saved the world from boredom.\"
                  --George Harrison

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                    • ImEric12
                      FFR Player
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 1952
                      #6
                      Douglas Adams all the way. Hitchhiker's Guide is amazing.

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                        • MalReynolds
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                          • Sep 2003
                          • 6571
                          #7
                          Stephen King, early Crichton, early Harris...

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                            • FoJaR
                              The Worst
                              • Nov 2005
                              • 2816
                              #8
                              my favorite author/writer is easily hunter s. thompson.

                              frank herbert comes in second, and third goes to donald barthelme, who writes some mean short stories.

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                                • MrGiggles
                                  Senior Member
                                  • Aug 2005
                                  • 2846
                                  #9
                                  Michael Chrichton (sp?)
                                  Douglas Adams, for The Restaraunt (sp? =( again) at the End of the Universe
                                  Jon Stewart. His TV awesomeness leftovers flow into his book.

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                                    • Grandiagod
                                      FFR Player
                                      • Jul 2004
                                      • 6122
                                      #10
                                      Douglas Adams, Chuck Palahnuick, Orson Scott Card and if I'm feeling silly Robert Hamburger.
                                      He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny

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                                        • jewpinthethird
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                                          FFR Music Producer
                                          • Nov 2002
                                          • 11711
                                          #11
                                          Philip K. Dick because I really enjoyed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.


                                          Haruki Murakami because he is the Japanese Philip K. Dick

                                          Ray Bradbury because I enjoyed The Martian Chronicles

                                          J.K. Rowling...come on, the Harry Potter series. However, if she were to write a book that didnt have anything to do with Harry Potter, I probably wouldnt read it.

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                                            • Chromer
                                              Hookers and Blow
                                              • Jul 2003
                                              • 4981
                                              #12
                                              Stephen King solely for It and The Dark Tower series.

                                              Orson Scott Card for Ender's Game.

                                              E.L. Konigsburg for The View From Saturday.

                                              Agatha Christie for And Then There Were None.

                                              J.K. Rowling for the Harry Potter series.

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                                                • Tonberry_Kid
                                                  FFR Player
                                                  • May 2005
                                                  • 3408
                                                  #13
                                                  Oh yea, I completely forgot about J.K. Rowling. She's a good author.

                                                  And I agree with you Jewpin, if she were to right another book, I wouldn't bother.
                                                  UNLEASH THE DRAGON
                                                  Originally posted by mead1
                                                  My method of making love is quite different than you might expect. I prefer to find a girl taking a nap at the local preschool, and then make love to them as they scream in my large, sound-proofed, white van. I then make love on their face, and throw them in an ice-chest of bleach. For pillow talk, I usually say, "Your parents can't hear you," and keep their teddy bear as a momento. You could call me a hopeless romantic, I guess.

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                                                    • xiron
                                                      FFR Player
                                                      • Jan 2004
                                                      • 189
                                                      #14
                                                      Chuch Palahniuk. Fight Club is practicaly required reading for my circle of friends.
                                                      Neil Gaiman. Killer graphic novels. Killer non-grapic novels.
                                                      Ray Bradbury. Cool guy.
                                                      Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash is one of my top 3 books.
                                                      George Orwell. 1984 is the shit.
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                                                        • The_Q
                                                          FFR Player
                                                          • May 2004
                                                          • 4391
                                                          #15
                                                          I'd have to say JRR Tolkien for the creation of The Lord Of The Rings
                                                          I despise him for the same reason. He wrote the damn series. Don't get me wrong, it's a great concept and a wonderful, rich world with an amazing history and spellbinding storyline. He just sucks at writing. Let's face it, only the people who really got sucked in kept reading past Elrond's Council.

                                                          My personal favorites include John Adams and Steven E. Landsburg because they opened my eyes to a whole new world.

                                                          Douglas Adams has an amazing sense of humor and horrible attention span.

                                                          Orson Scott Card for his Homecoming series.

                                                          Q

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