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2007-01-15 16:35:08 · 15 answers · asked by lancenelson 3 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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Charles Dickens. Great Expectations

He may have wrote his booking thinking of the money, his book may seem like a soap opera on paper, BUT, me being a cynical, atheist guy who imagines ways in which people die all the time, and who considers myself a megalomaniac openly... It's the only book that really got to me. When I saw myself as an over-ambitious bastard who thinks himself better than the rest... It hit hard. I never thought I was, I always had different intentions in my mind, but I realized many things about life in his novel, It is by far the best novel ever written, and he is the best novelist.

2007-01-15 16:50:01 · answer #1 · answered by snakker2k 2 · 1 0

Leo Tolstoy

He understood so many different sides of humanity and had an amazing way of revealing human truths through mundane situations. Despite having written from an aristocratic vantage-point in nineteenth century Russia, his books are still strikingly relevant today. There is not a problem you can have that he doesn't address. Besides this, he was a radical Christian anarchist, who shunned his tremendous wealth, giving most of it to the poor and oppressed, while he reaped the land with his peasants and lived mainly on black bread and water. He desired in his later years to be a perfect Christian, but he could never conquer his own desires, and this tension is apparent in many of his best stories.

2007-01-16 00:59:12 · answer #2 · answered by Suzanne 2 · 0 0

Jane Austen
I think she is one of the greatest novelist because , her novels although they are written in certain era, but she dealed with human emotions and attitudes which goes with human forever

2007-01-16 03:44:50 · answer #3 · answered by xoxo m 1 · 0 0

Tie Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky
suprising to me that two Russians could have such an immense understanding of humanity and morality.
Tolstoy because he knew just how huge of an impact the small occurances in life could have, and Dostoevsky because Crime and Punishment was a kick *** novel!

2007-01-16 01:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by DONNA Q 1 · 0 0

There are many great authors, But I have been reliably entertained many times by Kurt Vonnegut. He had a wonderful knowledge and understanding of the Human condition. Secondly, I would choose Tony Hillerman.

2007-01-16 00:42:09 · answer #5 · answered by Big hands Big feet 7 · 0 0

Can't answer that, all are great in their own ways and to try and put them in a catagory is just wrong. I may like them because of what their books were about, or a passage that I relate too in the book, or maybe the books dealt with something that people are afraid of.

2007-01-16 00:58:20 · answer #6 · answered by amazon 4 · 0 0

There is no question John Steinbeck is the greatest of all time.His grasp of southern California, his sense of history,and his understanding of family makes him the best.He takes all of these concepts and weaves them into a story makes him unmatched in the literary world.

2007-01-16 01:02:22 · answer #7 · answered by sultanofbaseball 2 · 0 0

Nora Roberts

2007-01-16 00:39:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

VS Naipaul - because he wrote 'A house for Mr Biswas'
Mark Twain - because he wrote ' The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'.

2007-01-16 05:19:19 · answer #9 · answered by Sherona B 4 · 0 0

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

He had the wit, the vocabulary and the smarts to hook you in to his novels from the first page. I most recommend Cat's Cradle

2007-01-16 00:41:09 · answer #10 · answered by taylor 2 · 0 0

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