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[Enjin Archive] Favorite Author? The literature thread, :P
Started by [E] subterainer

Hmm not sure how this thread is going to end up lol but um yea books... <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f600.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":d">:d</object> Love em! I have a few favorite authors like Chuck Palahniuk who wrote Survivor, Lullaby, Choke, Fight Club. Last two you may have seen xD. His works are a bit edgy for most so please do some homework this before running out to get any of his books. I wouldn't recommend any of his works to anyone easily offended.

I absolutely love Hunter S. Thompson! The last true American, and god father of Gonzo Journalism. There is a new book to movie staring Johnny Depp (again) The Rum Diary that is out now. Few of you may have seen Fear in loathing in Las Vegas which IMO is a friggin masterpiece.The movie goes word for word with the book. Which is really unseen in any book to movie transition, but please don't quote me on that because there are probably some out there I have yet to see/read and compare.

There is also Gabriel Garcia Marquez who is the author of One hundred years of solitude. Anyone who hasn't read this should put it at the top of their list and check it out! This is a man who is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was also awared the nobel prize in literature in 1982. There was a book to movie made of his in 1982. Love in the time of Cholera. I have yet to see it as I haven't had the chance to read the book yet.

Last but not least would have to be Haruki Murakami. A Japanese novelist whose works are a mind bending and captivating. So far I've read The wind up bird Chronicles and After Dark and I found it hard to put any of these down. I have currently ordered Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World and Kafka on the Shore. Cannot wait to read em x3!

Please don't expect any summery of any of these books as I am just too damn lazy xD But my reason for making this thread is to find some of you book worms who may share my same interests or have some great authors you would like to share with me and others <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f642.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":)">:)</object>. If this thread is DOA then shame on you all... READ MORE! lol. <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f61b.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":p">:p</object>

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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

*Edit* Son of a #*%& I didn't see the comma in the title lmao
I absolutely adore Darren Shan and his Demonata series. Read the entire set of books about 7 times <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f642.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":)">:)</object>

Such a good read x
<object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f632.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":o">:o</object> I will check this out. I do love horror <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f600.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":d">:d</object>. Also that was one fast reply xD Kudos <3

*edit* Ooo oo Danni speaking of horror and 7 books worth of it xD Stephen Kings Dark Tower Series. I am not really a fan of his (My parents are lol) but I was bored one day a long time ago and picked up Book one and had to read all of them. Its such a strange mix genras but it really is great. Its about this Gunslinger who lives in this kind of Post apocalyptic world that is slowly slipping away. Like reality is losing grip in his realm. it has the multiverse aspect going on as well xD
Oh Stephen Kings books are amazing anyway. 'IT' is extremely good to read, very graphic compared to the film <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f642.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":)">:)</object>
Yeah Darren Shan are by far the best books ive read. They have so many stories going on and 3 main characters to follow. Its so confusing until you read the last book and your like O.M.G o_O *brain explodes*

I love the last book :3

Sadly I have never been a fan of his vampire series <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/2639.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":(">:(</object>

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Either J.R.R. Tolkien ("The Silmarillion," "The Hobbit," and "The Lord of the Rings")

or

Mikhail Bulgakov ("The Master and Margarita")

"The Master and Margarita" is one a lot of people haven't read, especially if you're not Russian...

"An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, 'The Master and Margarita' is regarded as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930's is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960's...

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate, the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to Hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version."

READ IT!!! <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f642.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":)">:)</object>
This is a hard, I like many authors. I suppose the book I'm anticipating most now is Inheritance (I think that's it) by Christopher Paolini.
Cormac McCarthy (No country for old men, the road) and I LOVE the book 'a clockwork orange' but im completely forgetting the author. is it anthony burgess?
H.P. Love craft author of The Call of Cthulu and the Alters of madness.

Brian jacques author of the REDWALL series

WHOEVER wrote EYE of the World. I LOVE THAT BOOK!
I am with Subterainer 110%. Ive been a Stephen King Fan since I first read Needful Things in 10th grade. Since then i have hunted down every work of his and I can say I have read the Complete Stephen King Collection.