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Who are your favorite writers?

Started by WPG, Aug 5, 2016, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    and what are your favorite works by them
     
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    Not much of a reader at all

    But I really love the way Hunter S. Thompson writes, Fear and Loathin in Las Vegas would be my favorite.
     
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    Mraczewsky r.i.p. mac

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    Nabokov, Dostoevsky and Puzo the goats for me. The Defense and Fools Die are my fav from Nabokov and Puzo, cant choose 1 from Dostoevsky
     
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  4. Packman
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    Packman

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    Stephen King

    It
    The Dark Tower series
    The Stand
     
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    Packman

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    The works I mentioned in my posts are must reads for anybody who loves great characters and great stories. Not flawless by any means, but excellent nonetheless
     
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    Lucy #1

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    George Orwell 1984
     
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    TimmyT Self-Taught

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    Hip Hop:

    young thug
    barter 6
    reason: he's one of the best writers in hip hop

    Film:

    quentin tarantiono
    inglorious basterds, pulp fiction
    reason: he's one of the best writers in film

    Novels:

    stephen king
    the shining
    reason: he's one of the best writers in novels
     
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    Patti Mayonnaise

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    You would
     
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    Patti Mayonnaise

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    Favorite writer is David pilkey
     
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    Patti Mayonnaise

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    Captains underpants is a classic and deserves to be
     
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    wow good reasons. You're one of the best writers in posting
     
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    blair

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    You have high hopes thinking people here read lol
     
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    I don't read many big name authors but Larry Correia is a personal favorite.
     
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    lil uzi vert stan

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    Alice Munro
    https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Sto...ooks&ie=UTF8&qid=1470455099&sr=1-9#nav-subnav

    Hemingway
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Short_Stories_of_Ernest_Hemingway

    Andre Dubus
    https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Stories-Andre-Dubus/dp/0679767304

    favorite book in hs was the razors edge
     
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    Packman

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    Are you gonna be my new favorite writer @WPG ? Is that what this is?
     
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  16. theg
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    theg got that pma

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    i dont read much fiction but david ogilvys books are hard to put down
     
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    @WPG when does your book come out?
     
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    Dread or Alive Kamikaze should've been released 3 years ago

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    Eiichiro Oda and Togashi Yoshihiro
    @AnimeSXN
     
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

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    Takehiko Inoue coz he's responsible for my favourite manga of all time Real.

    Probably doesn't fit this thread in terms of 'actual' writers though.
     
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    Translucent I just slapped Dre

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    JD Salinger
     
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