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06 Mar 2008, 2:59 pm

Mine would be Alice Walker and work The Color Purple. I don't know why I like this book but I've always loved books that were from a different time period and each character has their own idiosyntricity. I also love the colorful descriptions of the old south. It wasn't just because this book dealt with women and race, it was just a good book.



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06 Mar 2008, 3:41 pm

Gail Simone & Anne McCaffrey are two that have at various times made me feel a warm glow in my happy place. J.K. Rowling has also achieved that at some points, even if her writing can often be stronger on plot than on the way it's actually written...


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06 Mar 2008, 3:44 pm

Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.



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06 Mar 2008, 3:46 pm

Mine would be Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams.


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06 Mar 2008, 4:09 pm

I liked Madeleine L'Engle back in the day. If there is a female equivalent to H P Lovecraft out there I would LUV to read her stuff-do tell me if any of you know.



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06 Mar 2008, 4:32 pm

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I liked Madeleine L'Engle back in the day.


Oooh, strongly seconded. I was getting worried there for a second, realizing that all my favorite authors were male...



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06 Mar 2008, 4:38 pm

Sylvia Engdahl
Robin Hobb
Ursula K. Le Guin
J.K. Rowling
Diana Wynne Jones
Patricia A. McKillip
Patricia C. Wrede


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06 Mar 2008, 7:31 pm

Anne Perry
Ursula Le Guin
Anya Seton
Madeline Le Engle
Charlotte Bronte


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06 Mar 2008, 11:41 pm

The write stuff

Alice Munroe
Sylvia Plath
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Weil
Hannah Arendt


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06 Mar 2008, 11:56 pm

Plath, LeGuin, L'Engle seconded (or thirded)
But I'd have to say my favourite is Agatha Christie. I know, I'm a geek. :)



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07 Mar 2008, 1:37 am

Margaret Atwood
Alice Walker
Isabelle Allende
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Carson McCullers



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07 Mar 2008, 5:06 am

Diana Wynne Jones is awesome. I used to always read her books in school.

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07 Mar 2008, 6:56 am

Janet Evanovich
Sarah Stromeyer
when i was younger it was Ann M Martin because i used to love the Babysitters Club series (anyone remember that?)



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07 Mar 2008, 3:36 pm

I'll add another one. OK, I have the guilty pleasure of reading Anne Rice books. I love the way she describes and uses words that draw a picture. There are times however when she gets wordy. I also had a question for men and women. Do you usually care what gender the author is when you set out to buy a book or does is not really matter to you.

The reason I mention this is a lot of the Harry Potter books have always been popular to children. The author, Joanne Rowling said she used her intials after having it published so that boys would also read her book.



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07 Mar 2008, 5:29 pm

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I'll add another one. OK, I have the guilty pleasure of reading Anne Rice books. I love the way she describes and uses words that draw a picture. There are times however when she gets wordy. I also had a question for men and women. Do you usually care what gender the author is when you set out to buy a book or does is not really matter to you.

The reason I mention this is a lot of the Harry Potter books have always been popular to children. The author, Joanne Rowling said she used her intials after having it published so that boys would also read her book.


No, it doesn't matter to me if the author is male or female. But I noticed that I tend to favor the works of a lot of male writers. BTW, I also loved Anne Rice's novels. My favorites were the Taltos series.


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07 Mar 2008, 5:55 pm

Love the Taltos series. My other favorite is the vampire chronicles. I don't know why, but most of my books are from male authors. I don't usually look for the name unless it's a good author I like.