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Books and such | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Here are some of my favorite authors and books as well as books that I am currently reading: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(links are to author's personal page, unless they insist on using that damn FLASH) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Orson Scott Card Deals with many moral issues. The short story versions of Ender's Game and Hatrack River are amazing. I also loved The Lost Boys |
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Poetry Speaks A compilation of (dead) poets writing in English along with a CD of the authors reading their own works. (Obviously recorded before they were dead) |
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Ben Franklin One of our very funny founding fathers. Autobiography Poor Richard's Almanac |
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C. J. Cherryh Science Fiction writer. Some of my favorite books: Downbelow Station Merchanteer's Luck Tripoint Hard Burn Foreigner the series - Foreigner itself feels like she started and dropped 2 books before getting to the story she wanted to tell |
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Anne Rice You gotta love them vampires! Vampire Lestat Interview With a Vampire Queen of the Damned |
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Ursula K. LeGuin Science fiction writer. Some of her best works: Lathe of Heaven Wizard of Earthsea Compass Rose basically anything she's written |
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Isabell Allende Magical realism with political messages House of Dreams |
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Melissa Scott I like her cyber-punk style stuff. She often deals with the topic: "When does Artificial Intelligence become real sentience?" and features characters of all sexual persuasions. Buring Bright, Trouble and Her Friends, Jazz |
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Louise Erdrich Highly recommended stories of generations of native Americans in a community in the Dakotas. Start with Tracks Nanapush is one of my favorite characters, ever. |
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Mark Twain Humorist, social commentator |
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Currently Reading: Dean Koontz - boy is he funny. I wish I would have started reading him earlier! Anne Rice Witching Hour I hope this is more like Vampire Lestat (excellent) than Servant of the Bones (aweful) |
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BOMBS - not recommended at any price Anne Rice, Servant of the Bones - when she's not, she's not Louise Erdrich, Bingo Palace Oh so very disappointing! |
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