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06-12-2009, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Nashville
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Favorite Author
Who is everybody's favorite author?
Mine would have to be John Steinbeck. He can tell a story better than anyone and makes me want to move to Salinas.
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" ~ Leo Tolstoy
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06-12-2009, 03:34 PM
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Postmodern Sophist
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Florida
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Leo Tolstoy, but only because I agree with a lot of his beliefs and I have a fetish for 19th century Europe. I enjoy when he describes the beliefs of the characters and how/where they live.
Same reason I like Dostoevsky.
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"No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes...It is not the love of truth, but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes parish desire the downfall of parish. Each seeks peace of mind and subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and exaltation of virtue-- But these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water" - Orlando: A Biography
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06-12-2009, 05:52 PM
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Captain America
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oceanside, CA
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06-12-2009, 09:39 PM
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Valar Morghulis
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Ilium, NY
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Lovecraft
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
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06-15-2009, 05:34 PM
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Hate Train
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Bonesaw, GA
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Tucker Max
Really, I'm a fan of Donald Miller, Bill Bryson, A.J. Jacobs, Chuck Klosterman and Christopher Moore.
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Run for the hills, the South's gonna take you!!!
Last edited by K-Saw : 09-28-2009 at 12:54 AM.
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06-16-2009, 01:33 AM
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By popular demand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dana Point, CA
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I don't really have one for actual books, but my favorites for comics and graphic novels are Daniel Clowes and Chester Brown.
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Great Job!
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06-25-2009, 02:55 PM
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icwutudidthar
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Norman, OK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twss
Mine would have to be John Steinbeck. He can tell a story better than anyone and makes me want to move to Salinas.
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I've read a couple of his novels, they're not bad. They just tend to drag on a lot, at least to me.
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US Army Soma is Gray
"Originally posted by nflvikings: Because gays are responsible for teenage pregnancy. DONT YOU SEE!?"
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07-14-2009, 01:59 PM
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Invulnerable
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Fitchburg, MA
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Jim Butcher. There's a few others I enjoy but Butcher is my favorite easily just for The Dresden Files series.
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ST:F:Bodybuilding...Thank God for pure natural strength.
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07-14-2009, 02:45 PM
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Veritas Vos Liberabit
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: British Columbia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twss
Who is everybody's favorite author?
Mine would have to be John Steinbeck. He can tell a story better than anyone and makes me want to move to Salinas.
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Have you read America and Americans? I want to read that book...
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"It's better to be aware of one's ignorance than to go on believing dubious and unjustified ideas." - Socrates
"Upstream, small redirectons of flow, downstream everything shifts."
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07-14-2009, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Hell
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Chuck Palahnuik
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07-17-2009, 01:26 PM
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Mind Erasure
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Lost...In a Lost World
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Aldous Huxley or Thomas Pynchon
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It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it
O you who believe! Be mindful of God and give up what remains of riba if you are believers. If you do not do so, then receive a declaration of war from God and his Messenger. But if you repent, you shall have your capital sums. You do not deal unjustly and you are not dealt with unjustly
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07-17-2009, 09:10 PM
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Very Varenyam
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Edmonton
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I would say either Chuck Palahniuk or Steven Erikson. Only because those are the two authors who rarely disappoint me with a book. Now that I think about it, I've not come across one Erikson book that has.
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07-21-2009, 04:46 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Texas
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Jon Krakauer
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07-23-2009, 11:21 PM
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IH
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: 610/814
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnMarshall12
Jon Krakauer
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He wrote into the wild right? I just saw the movie, and now I want to read the book. |
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07-23-2009, 11:53 PM
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Destroyer of Threads
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Bat Country
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Originally Posted by StellarKnight
Aldous Huxley or Thomas Pynchon
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Chrome Yellow was a fine book.
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.” - Henry David Thoreu
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08-24-2009, 03:02 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: San Diego
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Ken Follet for sure
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09-14-2009, 05:52 PM
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Oatmeal makes you healthy
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Ohio, close to Sames
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I love Dan Brown
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09-14-2009, 06:30 PM
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It would be hard to pick one from "the classics", so outside that I would say Dave Bidini.
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09-15-2009, 06:34 PM
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Historian at large
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I find myself partial to Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for fiction.
Bart D. Erhman writes interesting history.
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09-15-2009, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: La Crosse, WI
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Malcome Gladwell
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