Mistress
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Favourite AuthorsWho do you like to cosy up with at noght when you needa good read before bed? There are the likes of Anne Perry, Kathy Reichs and other mystery series writers I love reading, but Agatha Christie is my favourite. Her books are absoulute treasures and she was a genius of the whodunit genre. I've read a ton of them and yet I STILL can't get even close to the right answer when I try to guess the ending.
How about you guys? Whta auhtors do you like?
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Tenalto
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Terry Pratchett is all that is amazing. Then we have Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, Robin McKinley.....
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curlyhairedsoprano91
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Arthur Miller.
Chaim Potok.
Oscar Wilde.
Favorite book? "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee.
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Salome
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I too love Agatha Christie for a fun read..i have her whole colection in black leatherbound editions.
I also adore Fitzgerald,Dickens,Harlan Ellison and biograhys.
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jesuiscommejesuis
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David Sedaris
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dcrowley
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Victor Hugo
Agatha Christie
Jean Plaidy
Jackie Susan
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Robinflamingo
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Because "the classics" (TKAM, Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, even Agatha Christie) represent "schoolwork" to me, I don't associate them with pleasure reading. MY pleasure reading is Maupin, King, Grisham, and stuff like that.
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JeffF
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| Robinflamingo wrote: | | MY pleasure reading is Maupin, King, Grisham, and stuff like that. |
Try Peter Abraham. Steven King's favorite suspense writer is very hard to put down.
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musictheatre00
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| Salome wrote: | I too love Agatha Christie for a fun read..i have her whole colection in black leatherbound editions.
I also adore Fitzgerald,Dickens,Harlan Ellison and biograhys. |
I just read The Witness For The Prosecution by Agatha Christie yesterday, a great short story, and definitely a really cool read if you're a thespian.
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mezzo_soprano
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I just read one of her books. It wasn't my favourite of her books, (that would be the ABC Murders for Hercule Periot, and A body in the Library for Miss Marple) but it left you guessing until the very end. It was called Endless Night
For other mysteries I love Sherlock Holmes (Just finished A Study in Scarlet and Starting the Hound of the Baskervilles one more time.), The cat who . . ., and the Mrs. Murphy Mysteries.
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Mistress
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The best Christie mystery by far is Curtain: Poirot's Last Case...an incredible final novel for Poirot.
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mezzo_soprano
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Haven't Read that one yet. I'll add it to my Very Long list. Somewhere after Les Miserables.
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Salome
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| Mistress wrote: | | The best Christie mystery by far is Curtain: Poirot's Last Case...an incredible final novel for Poirot. |
see most people including myself find it very anti climactic and contrived. plus it was written in 1956 and wasnt published till 1975.CHristies best are her earlier innovative cases like "And Then there Were None" "Murder of Roger Ackroyd" 'Murder on terh Orient Express' and "Murder After Hours" although "Sparkiling Cyianide" a novel from the 50s is really strong too.
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bare24601!
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Victor Hugo, Amy Tan, Anne Rice, and Tom Robbins
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LesWickedPhantom
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Jodi Picoult. I've read about 5 or 6 of her novels in the last month and a half. She's not an incredibly ingenious writer, like, there's not too much below the surface, but the stories are wonderfully compelling if you take them as they are. Although after reading a whole slew of them one after the other, the books become really repetitive and predictable. Good books to curl up with at night overall though.
and all time favorite... Arthur Miller.
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NoOneMournsTheWicked
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby is my favourite book of all time)
Ian McEwan (Yes, I've read more than just 'Atonement')
Oscar Wilde
JK Rowling (I <3 Harry Potter. So much. Just finished re-reading the 7th one.)
Agatha Christie
and I nth David Sedaris (His experiences with the French language in 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' are so similar to mine)
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lesmisloony
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Victor Hugo (not just for LM, of course. His poetry and his other "lesser-known" novels are almost equally great.)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles is so much win.)
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Chevstriss
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Graham Greene
Herman Hesse
making my way thru the Gore Vidal books now.
Anne Rice is a guilty pleasure.
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Orestes Fasting
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At the moment I am loving me some Neal Stephenson.
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Annie
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Virginia Woolf
E. L. Doctorow
J. D. Salinger
Michael Cunningham
Louisa May Alcott (*sigh*...teehee)
Alice Walker
...TONS more! I'm a bookworm dork.
nonfiction:
Antony Sher (READ YEAR OF THE KING!!!)
Uta Hagen
Craig Kielburger
David Ball (Backwards and Forwards is genius)
Currently reading The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Not sure if I'm liking it. I'm trying, I am! Like a good Eastern Canadian. But I'm just not sure.
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Brock07
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JK Rowling
David McCullough
Dan Brown
Tim Lahaye
Jerry B. Jenkins
James McBride
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Salome
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| Annie wrote: |
nonfiction:
Antony Sher (READ YEAR OF THE KING!!!)
Uta Hagen
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Two geniuses of theatre eeducation.
i saw Sher in Richard III years ago..what brilliance!
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Mistress
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| Salome wrote: | | Mistress wrote: | | The best Christie mystery by far is Curtain: Poirot's Last Case...an incredible final novel for Poirot. |
see most people including myself find it very anti climactic and contrived. plus it was written in 1956 and wasnt published till 1975.CHristies best are her earlier innovative cases like "And Then there Were None" "Murder of Roger Ackroyd" 'Murder on terh Orient Express' and "Murder After Hours" although "Sparkiling Cyianide" a novel from the 50s is really strong too. |
I loved the big twist at the end of Roger Ackroyd! That being said, I still love Poirot's Last Case because it still leaves you wondering whether Poirot was really the killer's final victim...and I'm sucker for Chritie-style hook-ups, which is probably why I love the film versions (The original Joan Hickson version and the more recent Geraldine McEwan version) of the Moving Finger...I haven't read it yet, but the Gerry-Megan thing gets me squeeling everytime I watch one of the films. Elephants Can Remember is also a good one...but before I part from this post, I must sing the praises of the BBC for having givien David Suchet the role of Poirot...that man is INCREDIBLE (I want to see his verion of Murder on the Orient Exoress...it's should be out or coming out very very soon) and Joan Hickson was a Godsend as Marple (can someone please run Margeret Rutherford's stupid fencing word tthrpough her head?-I haven't seen her moives but already I want to kill her for the travesty that is her Miss Marple series) I also really like the lastest Marple, Geraldine McEwan, although, on IMDB at least, I' one of the few who do. I like that she so cute and unassuming...she's EXACTLY like I've pictured Miss Marple to be...like Joan Hickson, only cuter, which is why I guess so many dislike her...she's to cute, too much sweet old lady, not enough shrewd detective.
Anyways, I'm currently ready The Mystery of the Blue Train, which is quite good so far so I'll update once I'm done.
I"ll stop my yacking now XD
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Annie
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| Salome wrote: | | Annie wrote: |
nonfiction:
Antony Sher (READ YEAR OF THE KING!!!)
Uta Hagen
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Two geniuses of theatre eeducation.
i saw Sher in Richard III years ago..what brilliance! |
drooooooooooooooool
oh my goodness. What I wouldn't give for a time machine back to his run in that show!!
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mezzo_soprano
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To Salome - I <333333 "And then there were none" The movie is amazing too.
To Leswickedphantom,
I love Jodi Picoult books too. Which Ones have you read?
I recommend:
A change of Heart
Plain Truth (my favorite)
My sisters Keeper (My other favourite)
The tenth circle
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LesWickedPhantom
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| mezzo_soprano wrote: |
To Leswickedphantom,
I love Jodi Picoult books too. Which Ones have you read?
I recommend:
A change of Heart
Plain Truth (my favorite)
My sisters Keeper (My other favourite)
The tenth circle |
I've read:
Plain Truth (my favorite as well... maybe because it was the first one I was introduced to..)
Nineteen Minutes (highly reccomend)
The Pact (my other favorite)
Tenth Circle (least favorite...)
Vanishing Acts (it was all right...)
I'm borrowing Salem Falls from someone soon, as soon as she finds where she lost it...
I started My Sister's Keeper a few years ago, but couldn't get through it... all of the medical details made me a little sick. But I might pick it up again and give it another shot sometime.
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