Your favourite author?

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  1. phoenix_indigo

    phoenix_indigo dreadfully real

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    Lionel Shriver
    -- don't know if that's a woman though, but that's who wrote that book :) didn't know so looked it up (thus the link)

    yes ... manga/graphic novel writers count as authors in my book *snigger at bad pun*
     
  2. IlUvMuSIc

    IlUvMuSIc Senior Member

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    Yep thats the one!! :) first time i heard it i thought it was a man too but shes not. Unlesss... Bad puns also rock. My dad has a tonne of them. Alot of things rock.
     
  3. Quoth the Raven

    Quoth the Raven RaveIan

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    Indeed. Like... rocks.
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    Soon medication (SELF medication, that is, by which I mean DRUGS).
    yeah, cold turkey's a bitch. Tastes shit. Fuck Thanksgiving, although we don't have it in this country so give thanks! Oh wait.
     
  4. glasgow 69

    glasgow 69 Member

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    Stephen King
    Irvine Welsh
    Anne Rice

    Couldn't choose between them. All three can take the unbelievable and make it believable.
     
  5. nerthus

    nerthus Member

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    terry pratchett definitely. the guy's a genius! did anyone hear the sad news about his early onset alzheimers? :( ruined my year that.

    then oscar wilde, hunter s thompson, oscar zeta acosta... maybe kafka.
     
  6. nynysuts

    nynysuts No Gods, No Masters

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    Michelle Magorian probabaly, her books always make me cry. And quite possibly Monica Dickens, since my Mum gave me a Follyfoot farm collection for Christmas!!!
     
  7. razy

    razy Fazed and Contused

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    My hero is Dostoevsky.

    His psychological portrayal of character is pure genius.
     
  8. jamaican_youth

    jamaican_youth Senior Member

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    Wilbur Smith.
     
  9. Jaitaiyai

    Jaitaiyai Cianpo di tutti capi

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    Woah i remember this thread.. This was ages ago and my lists changed slightly now - take of Lemony Snicket and add Joe Meno.

    I just gave in my coursework on his stuff on thursday. :D Plus we did both LOTF and about Hardy. :tongue:
     
  10. nynysuts

    nynysuts No Gods, No Masters

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    Eugh, lord of the flies, horrible book!

    George Orwell
    Jilly Cooper (I'm so sorry that I'm not so intellectually read as some of you and like her books :eek: )
    Jaclyn Moriarty
    Nick Hornby!
    Charlotte Bronte
    Harper Lee (how dare she only write the one amazing book?)
    Jodi Piccoult
     
  11. BunnySuit

    BunnySuit Senior Member

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    frank mccourt and oscar wilde.
     
  12. Hippie_Girl

    Hippie_Girl Innit!

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    In no particular order at all:

    Douglas Adams
    Philip Pullman
    Roald Dahl
    William Shakespear
    Stephen King
    Nick Hornby
     
  13. ObjetdArte

    ObjetdArte Member

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    Oscar Wilde
    Douglas Adams
    Lisa Mason (wrote Summer of Love)
    Francesca Lia Block (wrote Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books)
    Johnen Vasquez (wrote graphic novel Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)
    Virginia Woolf
     

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