2006-10-04 05:33:12 · 24 answers · asked by Baby 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
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2006-10-04 06:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, dear, I have so many. But for the sheer entertainment aspect, I would choose Stephen King, a master of horror writing. He seems to be able to get into the soul and psyche of the reader, a talent that other writers only hint at. I know I have never been able to sleep with the lights off, if I read a King novel or story before bedtime.
2006-10-04 05:40:53 · answer #2 · answered by gldjns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dickens.
It's magical realism, it's hyper-reality, it's painting with words, it's stories that can be filmed over and over again because there's so much in there.
How can you resist sentences like "She had a long drab face, like a face in a tablespoon." ? Or Mr Wopsle plays Hamlet - ".. on the question whether t'was noble in the mind to suffer, some roared yes, and some no, and some inclining to both opinions said 'toss up for it'; and quite a Debating Society arose."
Or Mr Guppy proposing to Esther and then taking it back and then trying to propose again. Or poor Arthur Clenham being tortured by an appalling tea party at the appalling Mrs Gowan's, or the love story of Mr Swiveller and the Marchioness? Or the murderer Sykes in the inn listening to the peddlar selling cleaning stuff to take out "wine-stains, fruit-stain,water-stain, paint-stain, pitch-stain, mud-stain and blood-stain - " over and over again until it drives him out and back to London and his death.
I finally bought an expensive hardback of Bleak House because I'd read three paperbacks to destruction and am gradually replacing the rest as they fall apart. I own his journalism and am collecting his letters - he can be hilarious while writing to the Water Company.
If you've never read him, if you've been put off by comments here or being forced to read them in class ( I had Northanger Abbey ruined forever by reading in class), try again. Start with Great Expectations, it's shorter than some and damn near perfect.
2006-10-04 06:33:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King
2006-10-04 05:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by Jessie P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Steinbeck
2006-10-04 05:36:10 · answer #5 · answered by Bors 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Gibson
2006-10-04 06:54:54 · answer #6 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Douglas Adams
2006-10-04 05:43:18 · answer #7 · answered by joelawawaw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Margaret Atwood
2006-10-04 05:35:19 · answer #8 · answered by Hummingbird J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain
2006-10-04 06:11:13 · answer #9 · answered by bookseller_01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A second vote for Ayn Rand. Although I prefer "Atlas Shrugged" to "The Fountainhead," read "The Fountainhead" first. I did the reverse and was disappointed.
2006-10-04 16:00:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Munshi Premchand (Hindi Literature)
2006-10-04 07:16:28 · answer #11 · answered by Dawn* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋