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Posted: 2/21/05 at 12:59pm

Who's everyone's favorite author?

I think that Dan Brown is amazing. I've read Deception Point and The Da Vinci Code and I will eventually read Angels and Demons! His books are amazing!

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:00pm

Philip K. Dick.

Political/social science fiction at its best.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:02pm

Agatha Christie

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:02pm

Mine is F. Scott Fitzgerald...and Oscar Wilde comes in a close second.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:03pm

Arthur Golden is one.

I've read Memoirs of a Geisha at least seven times, and I pick it up once a year.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:03pm

F. Scott Fitzgerald...he wrote The Great Gatsby in the place where I used to live!

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:04pm

Paul Monette. The man was a genius.

JOHN LITHGOW I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:09pm

I also like Chris Rice for a more contemporary author..and Anne Rice's old stuff is good.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:09pm

Stephen King
Anne Tyler
Barbara Vine
Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:15pm

Harper Lee is the author of my favorite book.

Jasper Fforde is my favorite author of the moment.

'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:16pm

Wally Lamb, his preceptation of the human mind is amazing.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:43pm

John Sandford's Prey series is my absolute favorite.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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Where do I start?

Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald,Thomas Hardy, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte...however, I guess Emily Bronte stands out in my mind. Her WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a masterpiece of Victorian Literature. No other work is so multi-layered and the "forbidden love" doesn't achieve its fuition until the second generation.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:17pm

Wally Lamb needs to write more. Who does he think he is, Donna Tartt?

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:20pm

JD Salinger and Stephen King

"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:40pm

Toni Morrison
William Burroughs
Philip Roth
John Updike
Ralph Ellison
Cynthia Ozick
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
Raymond Carver

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:50pm

I love Wally Lamb and John Irving. Wally Lamb needs to write something soon.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:52pm

Wally Lamb is great, although it took me forever to finish "I Know This Much Is True".

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:53pm

Why "although"? I Know This Much Is Trus is getting on for 1000 pages, it would take anyone a fair while to finish it.

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:55pm

My wife read it in two weeks.

Re: Donna Tartt. I hated "The Little Friend". I can't believe that took 7 years to write. It was so sloppy and choppy.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:56pm

Jacqueline Susann....what Broadway fan doesnt love " Valley Of The Dolls"....especially Neely Ohara and Helen Lawson?

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:56pm

I have weird tastes. I personally think some of our more colonial authors in America were wonderful (Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Dickinson for poetry)...I also love, love, love Tolkien as well as Ursula K. LeGuin.
And, for my money, Brett Easton Ellis is one very talented author. He certainly captures the mindset of the "Age of Entitlement" so well.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:59pm

I cannot stand Thoreau. I hated him in high school, in college, and then, two years ago, I tried to re-read him. Still hate him.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 3:00pm

The Secret History is so great too, it's a shame that Little Friend sucked so bad. And it was actually almost 11 years it took her to write. She did a reading/Q&A/signing when it came out in hardback over in London and I was so tempted to go and ask her "so, Donna, 10 years and it sucks. Why is that?"

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

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Posted: 2/21/05 at 3:19pm

I was so sad that it really did suck. It was about 400 pages too long. "The Secret History" really was brilliant, too.

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