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Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: February 27th, 2013, 6:49 pm
by Wanda
You're right about Micro. I'm reading it now and can't put it down! What do u mean his last???

ianbilyaplor wrote:Too bad micro was his last. Kind of sad after i finish reading it.

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: March 12th, 2013, 11:50 am
by ianbilyaplor
Wanda wrote:You're right about Micro. I'm reading it now and can't put it down! What do u mean his last???

ianbilyaplor wrote:Too bad micro was his last. Kind of sad after i finish reading it.



Michael Crichton died in 2008, making MIcro his last novel. He was only halfway through it, so Preston finished it.

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: March 13th, 2013, 8:54 pm
by frei
Oz Zee wrote:A tie between Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy --- just shortly after reading a few lines from their novels, you can feel your primary life slipping away life sand seeping through a punctured sack, and all of a sudden you are in this second life that has turned into a reality. The way they've decribe, not in detail but in experience, the atmosphere of the setting, the feelings of each character in a particular event (let it be a minor character; e.g butler, or a dog), is a wake up call to anyone who's been living in zombie mode.

Simply daily events have turned into something spectacular and exciting, from such scenes as being conscious of having murdered an old lady and having the realization that you may have just gotten away with it, to the short yet thrilling scene before proposing marriage to the woman of your life.

Both writers are almost two centuries old, but they continue to change lives. How infinite must that be?


I haven't read any of Tolstoy's works yet, though Dostoevsky is one of my favorite authors too! So far I've only read two of his works (Crime and Punishment & The Brothers Karamazov), and I don't have words to describe how those two books made me feel, except maybe that they reached into the depths of my soul. Infinite indeed.

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: March 13th, 2013, 9:03 pm
by frei
laila_6045 wrote:Lisa Kleypas - i almost own all of her books...i'm still scouting her earliest ones that are no longer in print i love her historical romance books but lately she's also done some contemporary ones.
Julia Quinn - she is an amazing writer her works are more on historical romance but very witty.
Judith McNaught - her more earlier works are more popular also historical romance but her characters are endearing to me and most of them made me cry!
So these are my top 3 romance writer coz once again i'm a hopeless romantic...

Then for YA there is Julie Kagawa - love her Iron Fey Series and her latest The Immortal Series, she is great at world building. I never care for fey stories before but she made me a fan of her works and introduced me to Cait Sith that darn CAt! hehehe!
Veronica Roth - i just love her first book Divergent..now i have my Insurgent as well!
Cassandra Clare - love her Mortal Instruments Series...never liked any other stories with demon-angel fighting in them till i discovered hers. i really like all the characters but have yet to read City of Fallen Angels and the Infernal Devices Series.

Now I should have read more classics as well with the likes of Jane Austen and Emily Bronte..but i have seen the film adaptations of the ff:
Pride and Prejudice - Kiera Knightly version...woooow i was giggling towards the end of the movie when Elizabeth and Darcy both separately asked her father approval for her hand in marriage. And her sisters were like "we thought she hated or didn't like Mr. Darcy and such" hahaha...i love it!


Emma - with Romola Garai, i really really love her interpretation of Emma compare to the others that i've seen. "Badly done Emma, badly done indeed!".


Love Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn too (esp Julia's Brigerton series)! :D As for YA, I love Libba Bray (Gemma Doyle Trilogy) <3 I love P&P and Emma too! :D Still reserving Persuasion and Mansfield Park for when I have time to really sit and read:)

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: March 15th, 2013, 12:42 am
by goshinmiko
definitely Paulo Coelho! his books are just so inspiring! Still, 'The Alchemist' stays #1 on my fav list.

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: May 21st, 2013, 9:08 am
by endanciles
Francesca Lia Block, Chuck Palanuk and Stephen King (He may be crazy disturbing and morbid, but he is the king of descriptive writing. Once you get past all the blood and guts it's really quite beautiful.)

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: May 21st, 2013, 12:41 pm
by Jane_Austen_Girl
My favorite author is Jane Austen. She is just a classic and all of her books speaks about femininity and the universal language of love, despair, hope and she speaks the mind of a woman . Its also ironic that she has written about marriage and she died a spinster, its like it will leave you wondering . Thats all <3

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: June 10th, 2013, 5:48 am
by Bagamundo
Jane_Austen_Girl wrote:My favorite author is Jane Austen. She is just a classic and all of her books speaks about femininity and the universal language of love, despair, hope and she speaks the mind of a woman . Its also ironic that she has written about marriage and she died a spinster, its like it will leave you wondering . Thats all <3


They say relationships are built on delusions and lies. Maybe that was it :)

Paulo Coelho, his life and work is inspiring.

I've read a lot of Nicholas Nasim Taleb lately. He's like Malcolm Gladwell.

Haruki Murakami. I'm becoming a lazy reader. His short stories are great.

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: June 10th, 2013, 12:42 pm
by bluebartleby
Oz Zee wrote:A tie between Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy --- just shortly after reading a few lines from their novels, you can feel your primary life slipping away life sand seeping through a punctured sack, and all of a sudden you are in this second life that has turned into a reality. The way they've decribe, not in detail but in experience, the atmosphere of the setting, the feelings of each character in a particular event (let it be a minor character; e.g butler, or a dog), is a wake up call to anyone who's been living in zombie mode.

Simply daily events have turned into something spectacular and exciting, from such scenes as being conscious of having murdered an old lady and having the realization that you may have just gotten away with it, to the short yet thrilling scene before proposing marriage to the woman of your life.

Both writers are almost two centuries old, but they continue to change lives. How infinite must that be?


oh yes, how could you not love the russians? what is it about mother russia and her bearded browbeaten supermen? i don't care if the country's a refrigerator, if i will have to brave a throng of idiotic neo-nazis, if russian is a language that refuses to be learned, but i will go visit fedya's grave someday (i call him that kasi close kami ;) ). and solzhenitsyn's too (kailngan ko pa igoogle name nya because of the spelling). it's so funny because i have been reading woody allen's without feathers lately and i kept thinking that the humor's nothing new. the soviet writers were doing that, what, decades before allen. and before them was the god gogol who believed that something could be so tragic it's actually funny.

actually ang fab five ko ay sina:
1. dostoevsky -- oh i'm a sick man. in his universe small talk means ten pages of existential ennui.
2. eugene o'neill -- who was also smoking hot. you think you know family drama? this guy had a patent on it.
3. toni morrison-- please don't die! she actually turned down the offer to write a memoir because she thought her life was "not interesting enough." seriously? the first african-american woman to win a nobel for lit. and the silver dreds are amaaazing.
4. william faulkner-- who actually inspired morrison. my faulkner deflowering was courtesy of as i lay dying.
5. james baldwin -- god couldn't part with him too long he actually had to take him back so soon. brilliant, beautiful man.

kung pwede lang utangin ang talent nila. :ugeek:

Re: Who is your favorite author and why?

PostPosted: June 19th, 2013, 2:33 am
by jemchan_n
Ang hirap naman ng tanong na to. It's like asking a parent who their favorite offspring is. :lol:

I'd have to say that right now my favorite is Neil Gaiman. He always manages to take me away with just a few lines and make me laugh, cringe, hum in contentment and freak out [Coraline T__T].

Oddly enough my ultimate favorite piece of his is a children's picture book.
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He's about the only author that I know of that is capable of making me feel so loved and cherished with a picture book. ;)