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Since you are all such smart, wonderful people, I was wondering who your favorite authors are, what your favorite books are.... etc. (This could go from novels, to poetry, to essays, whatever you want!) Also, discuss the works... lists tend to get old fast.

I'll go ahed and start:

Favorite Book (of the moment): Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Favorite Book (of all time): The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Favorite Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Favorite Poet: William Blake
Favorite Poem(s):
To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
Dream Within A Dream - Edgar Allan Poe
The Human Abstract - William Blake



I also love anything satirical.



I'm sure there are others that I'm just not thinking of right now.


edit: I changed the subject because the original subject (BOOKS! and other things of that nature) sounded too much like Victoria's thread.

My favorite book has to be 'The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter' by Carson McCullers. I plan on reading 'The Symposium' by Plato.. That should be interesting.

My favorite author? Wow, that's a tough one. Maybe Jonah Lehrer, a psycology writer for Seed Magazine.

This is tough.

My favorite book at the moment would probably be either A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. xd I just cant decide.

My favorite book of all time would either be 1984 by George Orwell, The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman, or Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I can't decide there either.

I think Douglas Adams is my favorite author xD I just really love his writing style.

I have a problem remembering poets and poem names sweatdrop

Favorite Book (of the moment) Famous people and their acheivements
Favorite Book (of all time): A clockwork orange
Favorite Author: Jonathan Swift
Favorite Poet: Emily Dickinson ('Tis sad I can't remember how to spell her name)
Favorite Poem(s): My favorite poem.... hmm well considering it's an Epic poem.. The Oddessy By Homer.

Ohhhh A Clockwork Orange is a reeeeeally good book. And, I like Jonathan Swift's essays......... especially "A Modest Proposal"

I tried reading Dune once but got bored. sweatdrop I should probably give it another try.

Well-- and this is kind of embarrassing-- I can actually never remember the author of the books I read unless it's something famous and/or I read it a lot (it's the same with actors; I don't care about them, just the characters). But I do love Tamora Pierce, J. K. Rowling, and Janet Evanovitch. All are great authors, as well as being the only names I can remember. Stephen King is a must (I strongly recommend you all to read "Skeleton Crew (read: 'Survival Type') and "Danse Macabre". In the Fanfiction line, I mostly read Harry Potter and Naruto, although I do dabble in Pirates of the Caribbean, Mulan, and other fandoms. My favorite Fanfiction authors include Sunfreak, who has an extensive array of one-shots (and they come with little quotes at the bottom; I'm making a collection of those and my own), Kilerkki, who is co-writing an amazing Harry Potter/Naruto crossover, and JoIsBishMyoga, who wrote a huge Harry Potter/Yu Yu Hakusho crossover (that has sadly been removed and placed at ForeverFandom) and is working on the sequel, which promises to be just as good. As you can see, Harry Potter is a big thing for me!

I strongly encourage all of you to go and read the things I mentioned!

All Fanfiction authors can be found at Fanfiction.net.