Fav author

noeltone
noeltone Member Posts: 878
edited 7. Jun 2010, 15:56 in Community Chit-chat archive
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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  • ninakang
    ninakang Member Posts: 1,367
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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...

    Nx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    sue graphton. dick frances. mathew reilly. to name a few
    val
  • Wonkylegs
    Wonkylegs Member Posts: 3,504
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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.

    sure there are many more!!!!
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,395
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sarah Gruen
    Elizabeth Chadwick (my s-i-l :wink: )
    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 Legs :D
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • angel1
    angel1 Bots Posts: 1,464
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Stieg Larsson.
    Lisa Gardner.
    Stuart Pawson.
    Michael Connolly.
    Harlan Coben.
    Joanne Harris.
    Kate Mosse.
    Val McDermid.

    Absolutely ANYONE who writes a good yarn!
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I forgot Larssen. And Shakespeare's Sonnets. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • angel1
    angel1 Bots Posts: 1,464
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    It's from the one that it's in. I'll find out later. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • noeltone
    noeltone Member Posts: 878
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    what a well read lot we are and such a variety of authors old and modern and many genres
  • gickygawky
    gickygawky Member Posts: 478
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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 :)

    A x
  • angel1
    angel1 Bots Posts: 1,464
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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 :)

    A x[/quote]


    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.
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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!

    Annie
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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 )

    Anything by Alan Bennett
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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,827
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Phinn ..... and Ange introduced me to my latest 'new' find Harlan Coben.

    sure there are many more!!!![/quote]

    He is good eh Wonky :D ?

    I love so many I couldnt even begin .....

    always reading

    Love

    Toni xx
  • snowball
    snowball Member Posts: 3,465
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    As a child Enid Blyton

    Stephenie Meyer ( The Host )

    Stieg Laron

    Dan Brown and many many more :D

    Julie
    ((((hugs)))) n xxxxx to ya all
  • snowball
    snowball Member Posts: 3,465
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Another fav author is P. C. Cast
    Terry Pratchett.

    Julie
    ((((hugs)))) n xxxxx to ya all
  • jaspercat
    jaspercat Member Posts: 1,238
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi,

    Like most other people I like Dickens, Shakespeare, Dan Brown, Jean Plaidy love Jaspercatxx

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