Conquer Club

salvadevinemasse wrote:

Iliad wrote:

salvadevinemasse wrote:

0ojakeo0 wrote:

Iliad wrote:

salvadevinemasse wrote:Cate Tiernan is my favorite one so far. Only because she makes you relate to her main people and get attached BEFORE you get into anything.. They start off normal then they mutate into witches with abilitys and her writing is so descriptive and alluring that it sucks you in because you feel like YOUR that person in the book! I actually cried during some of that book!

well let's just say the last part didn't surprise me

qft

Okay I'll bite... Whats QFT stand for? I never did understand that.. Maybe VT will tell me..that is if he knows..

Quoted For Truth

meaning they are with you on it?

Pretty much. It means you agree with the quote.

I dont have one, cause i consider myself too young to have read enough books to form a proper opinion.

but........

These two books i read, Fire Bringer and Sight were pretty wierd, but good.

I think the author was David Clement Davis.

Also, i hate DJ Machale. I started reading Pendragon in 3rd grade. Now im goin into 9th grade, waiting for his 9th book to come out. Hes so slow....

Kaplowitz wrote:I dont have one, cause i consider myself too young to have read enough books to form a proper opinion.

but........

These two books i read, Fire Bringer and Sight were pretty wierd, but good.

I think the author was David Clement Davis.

Also, i hate DJ Machale. I started reading Perndragon in 3rd grade. Now im goin into 9th grade, waiting for his 9th book to come out. Hes so slow....

der so good tho i live em hobey-ho lol

All things considered, I'd say my two favorites are Jose Marti and Jorge Luis Borges, ever so different as they are.

I also really like Pedro Salinas, but I'd call him rather more strictly a POET than an AUTHOR.

Skittles! wrote:

lord twiggy1 wrote:sorry, did i spell it wrong

What, whose, and who's are all totally different words. So yes, you spelt them wrong, via far.

Whose is not correct. You are wrong Skittles.

who's your fav author kid_a

at the moment, Charles Bukowski

muy_thaiguy wrote:Okay, back on topic, my favorite author would have to be Robert Jordan who wrote the Wheel of Time series.

You sir, have good taste in books.

I still have to read Crossroads of Twilight though...

Michael Crichton no explanation needed

boogiesadda wrote:Michael Crichton no explanation needed

Who's that?

salvadevinemasse wrote:

boogiesadda wrote:Michael Crichton no explanation needed

Who's that?

HE sAID NO EPLANATION!

0ojakeo0 wrote:

salvadevinemasse wrote:

boogiesadda wrote:Michael Crichton no explanation needed

Who's that?

HE sAID NO EPLANATION!

(explanation... isnt there an i in that word?) Wow you butchered that word.. and no.. he was talking about WHY he liked that author.. he didnt say he wasn't willing to explain what kind of books they write or any of that fun stuff..

J.D Salinger.

(oh, and michael crichton wrote a number of books, including jurassic park)

Syzygy wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:Okay, back on topic, my favorite author would have to be Robert Jordan who wrote the Wheel of Time series.

You sir, have good taste in books.

I still have to read Crossroads of Twilight though...

these are good books. i read 1-4, but after 4,000 pages of wizards and dragons i had to stop.

my favorite would have to be Michael Moorcock

depends what genre - i like Kamov, Kafka (process, metamorphosis), Coelho (alchemist), Hemingway (for whom the bells toll, old man and the sea), when was kid especially liked Jules Verne, Exupery's little prince etc...

also like many sf novels but don't remember the authors, from horror genre i liked Clive Barker's Hellraiser and his short stories and Lovecraft isn't bad also.

Tolkien is good also when it was rather unknown before the films and the hysteria - read 3 tower in one day - just made breaks to eat
but i think his work now gets somewhat blown out of proportions

there are many good books out there to read i just don't have the time lately. stupid faculty, i read only biochemistry and physiology books now...

Kid_A wrote:

Syzygy wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:Okay, back on topic, my favorite author would have to be Robert Jordan who wrote the Wheel of Time series.

You sir, have good taste in books.

I still have to read Crossroads of Twilight though...

these are good books. i read 1-4, but after 4,000 pages of wizards and dragons i had to stop.

So far I have read all of the books, 4 times a peice, but the last one won't come out until 2008 sometime. It turns out, and this really sucks, that the author has a terminal illness, though I'm not sure how bad it is at the moment.

Simonov wrote:here are many good books out there to read i just don't have the time lately. stupid faculty, i read only biochemistry and physiology books now...

For real. I had about 40 pages left of Crime and Punishment when classes started last week. I haven't read a word of it since, and I don't know when I will. And it's not like I can take time away from CC to do something like... READ.

Either Dean Koontz or Clive Cussler

jurassic park, lost world, timeline, congo, sphere, andromeda strain, a case of need....and many many more but i am hungover and will add on later. any of those sound familiar?

boogiesadda wrote:jurassic park, lost world, timeline, congo, sphere, andromeda strain, a case of need....and many many more but i am hungover and will add on later

authors?

<<< Sven Hassel

George Orwell for Down and Out in Paris and London.

Isaac Asimov for practically inventing his genre (as well as modern day robotics).

I've started reading Salman Rushdie recently, and I have to say he's up there.

Dostoyevsky, mainly for Brothers Karamazov,

and Umberto Eco is by far the greatest author of historical fiction. Baudolino is a brilliant tale which captures the essence of medieval fable/reality perfectly and The Name of the Rose is wonderful in its subtle detail and mystery.

Heheh, even if I haven't read any of his books yet, I'm going to have to say Charles Darwin.

Palahniuk recently - especially Diary and Invisible Monsters