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Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:04 am
by Rainbow
I stole borrowed Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco today. It's wonderful. I know it from a professor with a great beard telling me about his shirt honoring the same, so when I saw the English translation right in front of me, how could I pass it by? But really, it is excellent.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:51 am
by LordRetard
Hmm, I'll probably have to take a look at that one.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:59 am
by Rainbow
It's a french play about how absurd people are. They all are in a trend of becoming rhinoceroses, but one character does not want to be a rhinoceros.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:02 am
by LordRetard
Yeah I read the wiki article. It sounds nice, and I'm really getting into plays lately. I kind of want to try and write one but I have to wait to get a good idea. The last play I wrote was two years ago for an assignment, which featured two acts and two characters named "1" and "2" which had a thoroughly inane conversation. I got a pretty good mark on that assignment. I might post the original. Admittedly it's heavily influenced (read: stolen) from Waiting for Godot, to the point of copying dialogue (and then the other character calling them on the theft).

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:26 pm
by naina
i'm quite fond of Paulo coehlo these days...Ohh what a tremendous job what a writing style.Have u read "Alchemist" ??and if u've gone through "Brida","fifth mountain"....?? :) :)
AM QUITE CRAZY ABOUT THIS WRITER

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:27 pm
by smiley_cow
Never heard of him. What are his books about?

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:24 pm
by Sahan
I've read The Alchemist, and I enjoyed it because I do entertain the thought of spiritual and mystical things have an influence on our lives, but found myself disappointed when I found that outlook on life they boy is encouraged to take involving looking for omens didn't actually improve my lot in life, though it did make me more aware of my own thoughts and feelings.

Also, welcome naina. Please read the rules and introduce yourselves here before we all start getting mad at you.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:39 pm
by Lethal Interjection
My buddy was just telling me about Fforde's new trilogy (just started), and said that, while I wasn't a huge fan of his other stuff (I liked it, great writing style and the like, but it just didn't excite me), this series should be right up my alley. So I'll have to give them a shot.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:11 am
by lamp_abi
I'm a huge fan of Russian authors, particularly Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. I also love to read Camus, Kafka and Garcia Marquez. I think I'm pretty much into the classics and the "magical" literature of Garcia Marquez and Kafka.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:16 am
by Euclidthegreek
lamp_abi wrote:I'm a huge fan of Russian authors, particularly Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. I also love to read Camus, Kafka and Garcia Marquez. I think I'm pretty much into the classics and the "magical" literature of Garcia Marquez and Kafka.
Are you LR? If not, the two of you will get right along.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:49 am
by Sahan
Yeah, but if you are him, you may not be so lucky. LR hates himself.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:12 am
by LordRetard
Sahan wrote:Yeah, but if you are him, you may not be so lucky. LR hates himself.
Between myself and I there is a bit of a love/hate relationship. Anyway I am also a fan of Kafka/Camus/Márquez!

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:32 pm
by Lethal Interjection
Seriously. Ed's spambots are getting really good. They are responding semi-coherently to threads, and now they've even browsed enough to ingratiate themselves among the members. Wow. A few minor upgrades to language and they'll be ready for their roles in the Blogosphere Offensive.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:24 pm
by CorruptUser
Terry Pratchett, though I assume that I'm not the only one who likes his work.

Re: Who's your favorite author?

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:15 am
by Euclidthegreek
CorruptUser wrote:Terry Pratchett, though I assume that I'm not the only one who likes his work.
Yay! Me too.

I dont' want to push too hard on this, since the forum's all bready, but try looking at and posting in the "NEW BAKERS LOOK HERE BEFORE POSTING" subforum. Thanks!