2006-09-29 08:01:51 · 23 answers · asked by Jamie Piro 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Paul Bowles right now. I am reading anything I can get my hands on written by him.
I like his story-telling ability. He is a novelist that writes like a journalist, rather than a journalist who writes like a novelist. What I mean is there that everything on the page is there for a reason/ I suppose the opposite would be something pulp like King, who has dozens of characters in each story that don't ever really develop. I know he has many fans and I don't want anyone mad at me. That is just the way I see it.
I like Hemingway before Bowles for the same reason. The writing is a craft and before you know it there are only a few pages so you slow down and ration those out because you don't want the book to end. That is what I like.
2006-09-29 08:43:35 · answer #1 · answered by Yahoo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Madeleine L'Engle!
She is a woman of wisdom.
In my teens and early 20's, reading her youth fiction, I was inspired to expand my vocabulary, to learn new languages, to learn more about science and geography, and to travel..... I have never been inspired in that way by any other works of fiction!
Her writing is so diverse in its genres - over 60 books between 1944 and 2005. This isn't all of them, but it should give you a good idea.....
(A good place to start is with her youth fiction, and also the collection called "Glimpses of Grace" which is a year's worth of daily readings from the author's works up to 1996.)
FICTION FOR YOUTH / TEENS
- A Wrinkle in Time /Many Waters / A Wind in the Door / A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- The Arm of the Starfish
- A Ring of Endless Light
- A House Like A Lotus
- The Young Unicorns
- An Acceptable Time
- Troubling a Star
- And Both Were Young
- Camilla
- Dragons in the Waters
FICTION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
- Meet the Austins
- 24 Days Before Christmas
- A Full House
- The Other Dog
FICTION FOR ADULTS
- A Severed Wasp
- Certain Women
- A Live Coal in the Sea
BIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTIONS
- on marriage (Two-Part Invention)
- on ageing parents (Summer of the Great-Grandmother)
ON FAMILY
- Mothers and Sons
- Mothers and Daughters
ART AND FAITH
- The Glorious Impossible (reflecting on Giotto's frescoes from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua)
- Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
- Everyday Prayers, Prayers for Sunday
- Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols
- Bright Evening Star
- Ladder of Angels (Poems written to accompany artwork drawn by Christian, Jewish and Muslim children from their shared traditions)
- And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings
POETRY and PLAYS
- 18 Washington Square South; A Comedy in One Act
- The journey with Jonah
- The Ordering of Love: New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle
- Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems
ON WRITING
- Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life
2006-09-29 10:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by ladyfraser04 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My all time favourite author is Anne McCaffrey. She is over 90 years old and still writing. She has won tonnes of awards and has been honoured by so many. I love her writing because it is just so entertaining. She transports me to a world away from the one I live in and living amazing and interesting lives alongside the heroes of her books. I feel like she is a member of my family.
2006-09-29 18:09:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say either Michael Crichton or Robert Ludlum. I love Crichton because his novels are so descriptive that I literally can see the world that he creates around me. And Ludlum, his stories are all so complex and the plotlines are so compelling that I just can't put the book down.
2006-09-29 08:56:28 · answer #4 · answered by Literary Lass 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code'. I also like Robert McCammon. Did you know that Stephen King's wife, Tabitha also writes novels? I thought those were pretty decent.
2006-09-29 08:07:55 · answer #5 · answered by trueblue 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Steven King!
He gets you right into the character's lives...the only thing that I didn't like was the way the "Dark Tower" series ended...that was a big let down for me since I had been reading them since # 1 came out.
2006-09-29 08:04:48 · answer #6 · answered by Niffer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My all time prominent author from whilst i became a infant (i will nonetheless %. up her books and luxuriate in them) - Laura Ingalls Wilder. i became a super Roald Dahl fan besides. He wrote some freaky short memories for adults.
2016-10-18 05:10:58 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Pynchon, -- hands down!
Because of his erudition, historical knowledge, labyrinthine inter-connectedness, strange characters with even stranger names ranging from Benny Profane to Frenesi ("free 'n' easy) Gates and an incredible mind-blowing phantasmagoria.
2006-09-29 22:51:17 · answer #8 · answered by jlbackstop 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Margeret Peterson Haddix, and I have no reason. I like a lot of authors, that was the first one that I thought of.
2006-09-29 08:05:30 · answer #9 · answered by girlshadow212 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John Steinbeck.
I really connect with his depictions of struggle and the human condition. Also, I love the settings he chooses -- Salinas/Monterey area. The stories are rich and full of character.
2006-09-29 08:11:00 · answer #10 · answered by truthyness 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋