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who\'s ur favorite author???

hi all....
i have joined this forum recently.i wana ask you people that who's your favorite author? which author do u like most and your opinion about author??

thanks for whatever you are going to post here.....
 
jeffsays said:
hi all....
i have joined this forum recently.i wana ask you people that who's your favorite author? which author do u like most and your opinion about author??

thanks for whatever you are going to post here.....
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Got to be Joshua Slocum I think,you can't beat the way he nonchalantly sprinkled carpet tacks on the decks to ward off cannibals & there was one time he was sailing away & he made a comment that had me splitting my sides though I can't think of it for now.What a character!
 
I read a lot of Biographies from Pilots and figures who's accomplishments played a great role in the WWII and afterwards such as : Chuck Yeager and Bud Anderson, Gunther Rall, and the great man Sir James Martin, the ejector seat pioneer. and many more.
Some very very good reads !!!
 
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I read a lot of Biographies from Pilots and figures who's accomplishments played a great role in the WWII and afterwards such as : Chuck Yeager and Bud Anderson, Gunther Rall, and the great man Sir James Martin, the ejector seat pioneer. and many more.
Some very very good reads !!!
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Have you read Guy Gibson "Enemy coast ahead"?Fantastic.
 
kristifercolumnbus said:
Have you read Guy Gibson "Enemy coast ahead"?Fantastic.
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Fabulous Book !!!

Best Reads ! Sir James Martin by Sarah Sharman
Yeager by General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos
To Fly and Fight , memoirs of a triple ace Bud Anderson
Eagles Wings By Hajo Hermann
Storm command by General Peter De La Billiere
Gunther Rall by Jill Amadio ( Biography)
The Right of the Line by John Terraine
 
Best auther

Joseph Conrad.. some of its kack, but i like 'the mirror of the sea' - kind of a series of recollections and impressions about his life at sea. Its probably what got me into sailing in the first place.
 
Got to agree with the others - Tilman. Learned, sharp, modest, funny and always entertaining.
George Millar is also good. Isabel and The Sea, is his best, I think.
 
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Lewis Caroll, for exciting My formative years
H G Wells and Charles Dickens for improving them.
Jeremy Clarkson for realising that a lot of 'modern' scribes/authors are trash/not to the standard required!
Oh and Mario Puzo.
 
Gussie Finknottle is a contender for best name.I love Eukridge.I agree that Lord Emsworth and the Empress are absolutely wonderful.
 
In the fiction department, for the Joseph Conrad fan’s I much preferred his brief ditty called “Youth” to the overworked “Heart of Darkness”. A simple and bright short story:totally a classic on my ratings! Likewise, Herman Melville has a brilliant writing style?

Really though, these guys did some real sea-time and were both writing from their hearts and/or experience? I am almost loathed to say Mary Shelley did almost as good a job in the nautical scenes in Frankenstein. Don’t get me wrong as I am not being sexist. It is more about how the young lady captured my imagination without being a seasoned mariner?

In the non-fiction department I have become a bit addicted to the philosophy of Lin and Larry Pardey.

Opps, excluding the maritime themes my favourite overall author is H P Lovecraft.
 
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I find Charles Dickens the author I can return to and re-read more than any other. All his longer works are good. Also anything by Jane Austen, much better to read than watch as a TV dramatisation. For shrewd observations and pithy prose, Mark Twain and Joshua Slocum, very similar styles though different subject matter.
 
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