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Who is your fave author mine has been Charles Dickens I did Great Expectations for my disseration I like his social concern writing travel wise I like Bill Bryson my word that is 2 authors?//
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Hi Toni
I like Dickens, great writing... My favourite authors are:
Lesley Pearse
Ben Elton
Virginia Andrews
Sohie Kinsella
I don't like books that are too heavy going...
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Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Ngaio Marsh, Georgette Heyer, Margery Allingham, Bill Bryson, Lee Child, Spike Milligan, Dick Francis (the proper stuff), Stella Gibbons (for one novel) and the woman who wrote Hens Dancing, Rafaella someone. I think there are more, but I'm tired. DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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sue graphton. dick frances. mathew reilly. to name a fewval0
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glad i am not the only one who can't pick just one!!
big favourites of mine are RUth Rendell, Patricia Cornwell, P.D.James, J.D.RObb aka Nora Roberts, Christine Marion Fraser, Dan Brown, Gervase Phinn ..... and Ange introduced me to my latest 'new' find Harlan Coben.
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Sarah Gruen
Elizabeth Chadwick (my s-i-l )
Joanne Harris
Diane Gabaldon
Phillippa Gregory (some books)
Ken Follett
Sebastian Faulks
....just read 'Don't Tell Alfred' by Nancy Mitford :roll: I won't be reading anymore by her
Luv LegsLove, Legs x
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Stieg Larsson.
Lisa Gardner.
Stuart Pawson.
Michael Connolly.
Harlan Coben.
Joanne Harris.
Kate Mosse.
Val McDermid.
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I forgot Larssen. And Shakespeare's Sonnets. DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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And Shakespeare's Sonnets. DD[/quote]
Me too DD. I really like "love is not love that alters, when it alteration finds"........Which of his sonnets is this from?.......Ange.0 -
It's from the one that it's in. I'll find out later. DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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what a well read lot we are and such a variety of authors old and modern and many genres0
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angel1 wrote:And Shakespeare's Sonnets. DD
Me too DD. I really like "love is not love that alters, when it alteration finds"........Which of his sonnets is this from?.......Ange.[/quote]
I just googled this one Ange,isn't it lovely and how true it is.
Would sonnet 116 make sense? Sorry I am not big on Shakespeare
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gickygawky wrote:angel1 wrote:And Shakespeare's Sonnets. DD
Me too DD. I really like "love is not love that alters, when it alteration finds"........Which of his sonnets is this from?.......Ange.
I just googled this one Ange,isn't it lovely and how true it is.
Would sonnet 116 make sense? Sorry I am not big on Shakespeare
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Clever girl Arna! Why didn`t I do that. I have a whole notebook of bits of poems, and sayings that I`ve collected over the years. Stuff that impacted on me, at any particular time.0 -
I've really got so many that the list will fall off the edge of the page:
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Charlotte Macleod
All the golden age classic detective novelists, Dorothy L Sayers, Nagio Marsh, Agatha Christie, Carter Dickson, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Michael Innes, Michael Gilbert etc. etc.
Catherine Aird
Dorothy Simpson
Jane Austen
Lady Fortescue
Angela Thirkell
Monica Dickens
Madeleine Brent
Ellis Peters
Isabelle Holland
............the memory ran out there, but there are loads of others!
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D H Lawrence ( Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Rainbow )
Thomas Hardy ( Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure )
Khaled Hosseini ( The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns )
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Phinn ..... and Ange introduced me to my latest 'new' find Harlan Coben.
sure there are many more!!!![/quote]
He is good eh Wonky ?
I love so many I couldnt even begin .....
always reading
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As a child Enid Blyton
Stephenie Meyer ( The Host )
Stieg Laron
Dan Brown and many many more
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Another fav author is P. C. Cast
Terry Pratchett.
Julie((((hugs)))) n xxxxx to ya all0 -
Hi,
Like most other people I like Dickens, Shakespeare, Dan Brown, Jean Plaidy love Jaspercatxx0
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