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Which Author?

Poll ended at Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:04 am

C.S. Lewis
7
47%
Harper Lee
3
20%
Roald Dahl
5
33%
 
Total votes : 15


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Wow... I have so many

The Silver Hand by Stephen Lawhead
Tahn by LA Kelly
Out of the Red Shadow by Anne DeGraaf
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
Afton of Margate Castle by Angela Hunt (and pretty much anything else by her except for the two sequels to this book)
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

Oh, there are so many others, but they just aren't coming to mind...
Right now I'm reading Crusade of Tears by CD Baker and I'm not sure what I think of it yet...
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I can't believe I'm the only person so far who voted for Harper Lee.




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Roahld Dahl excellent stuff: The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, that short story involving the leg of lamb 'A Lamb to the Slaughter'.

Harper Lee and her 'To Kill A Mockingbird', as much as I don't willingly love these kinds of novels, not bad, I'll read, willingly or (in this case forcibly) anything, as long as I'm able to continue.

C.S. Lewis most wonderful: The Chronicles of Narnia, excellent series! An allegorical masterpiece! Ok, thats going a little too far, but twas very good, I got the allegorical part near the end of the series, and confirmed my suspicions.

But come now! I see no Poe! Nor Tolkien!?!
Tolkien is number one on my list for authors, and his mythology as a whole! Excellent stuff!




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Fool wrote:Why do you like Terry Pratchet out of interest? I cant get on with his books, so, why do you like him?


Particularly because he caters to my personality with his writing. Its somewhat random, really weird stuff. Reaper Man involves DEATH getting fired, and these things called Auditors are reviewing the earth, and trying to learn everything that possibly can be learned, which involves learning why humans act the way they do. You have to read it to understand.
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Some more favs:

Silverfin
Alex Rider series
The Vision (This was a really good book. Anyone read it? Sorry, i'll try and find out the author's name later.)
My Story series

To kill a mockingbird is an awesome book. I've never heard of any other books by Harper, but yeah, maybe she only wrote the one. I've seen the movie too-black and white but excellent anyway.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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yeah that's the only book she wrote




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I LOVE MATILDA! by Roald Dahl...;)
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Hm....I suppose these threads can co-exist in piece.
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