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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:08 pm

Margaret Weis has one "s".
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:18 pm

You know, for as long as I've been reading her work, you'd think that I'd remember that just once. I always get it wrong! sweatdrop

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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:40 pm

I'm going to go with Thorne Smith, simply because everything he writes is so deliciously off topic. Also, I'm the only person under 60 who even know who he is- I stumbled upon one of his books at a library book sale.

A particularly good book of his is "Night Life of the Gods".

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:52 pm

I'd say J.K. Rowling is up on the top five...I adored Stephen King's On Writing, and everyone tells me to read his fiction, but I don't want to....Robert Heinlein is among the greatest.

I guess I fail at who I like best...

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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:03 pm

elvenjewl

I'm going to go with Thorne Smith, simply because everything he writes is so deliciously off topic. Also, I'm the only person under 60 who even know who he is- I stumbled upon one of his books at a library book sale.

A particularly good book of his is "Night Life of the Gods".

Sounds good. Is it at all like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:28 pm

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elvenjewl

I'm going to go with Thorne Smith, simply because everything he writes is so deliciously off topic. Also, I'm the only person under 60 who even know who he is- I stumbled upon one of his books at a library book sale.

A particularly good book of his is "Night Life of the Gods".

Sounds good. Is it at all like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?
-LD

Not really. It was written in 1931. It's about this scientist, Hunter Hawk, who has made a ring that turns people to stone and back. Him and his girlfriend, Megora, a pixie with the power to turn stone things human and back, go to New York, find a mueseum of roman gods and goddesses and turn them all to life. Of course, awsomeness follows. Neptune gets in a fight over a large fish, Venus gets some arms, Mercury turns out to be a thief and him and Meg steal a cow, and their all completley smashed the whole time. Things like that.

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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:54 pm

I MUST read that book!
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:04 pm

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I'll stick to Stephen King...and a buncha' others. 3nodding

YES!!! Stephen King is a GOD! And Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan aren't bad either.....

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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:06 pm

changingvamp

I'd say J.K. Rowling is up on the top five...I adored Stephen King's On Writing, and everyone tells me to read his fiction, but I don't want to....Robert Heinlein is among the greatest.

I guess I fail at who I like best...

That's okay dear. It's better to have a lot of writers you like than nothing to read, right?

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:56 pm

It's C.S. Lewis for Out of the silent planet, Narnia and most of all : Till we have faces.
And Alexandre Dumas.

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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:44 am

I'd have to say my favourite living author is Niel Gaiman, and my favourite deceased one is Vladimir Nabokov. :nod: I can't really pick one.

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:28 pm

Hi, I'm new to this guild, but I'll have my say. My favourite author is Tamora Pierce, I've read nearly everything written by her that can be found in the community library near my house.....I'm just short of the lioness quartet...