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12-02-2005, 03:13 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Nowhere, New Mexico
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Stephen King
I'm only sorry if anyone DOESN'T like Stehpen King. I personally can't put the man's books down. Right now I'm on "The Drawing Of The Three" It's Great!!
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12-02-2005, 05:18 PM
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#77
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 122
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Don't worry, you're not the only one who likes King. I read Carrie, Cujo, and Pet Semetary. 
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12-03-2005, 12:52 AM
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#78
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 2
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No way everyone! It's gotta be BJ Worth, The Grace Project. Now there's a seriously badass book! I read it's the first story he's ever written too, but I find that hard to believe
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12-03-2005, 12:57 AM
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#79
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 579
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I've always been a fan of Harlan Ellison. I don't think I read anything of his that I didn't like. And he's always been a cynical asshole and I dig that too
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12-03-2005, 02:51 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 232
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I like some of the old authors, like Steinbeck and Pearl S. Buck. Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking Glass. The Amber Chronicles and the Xanth series. Pet Cemetary, The Shining, The Green Mile, It and The Stand were good. Didn't like Tommyknockers.
The Exorcist 2 was great, (Loved the Carp scene), and our own Cussedness' Dark Brothers of the Light series rocks. Very visceral, dark but there's a lot of hope and love in it.
Ramsey Clark, the old Paul Williams books, a few of Graham Masterson's early books, The first three Necroscope books, Lovecraft- in my wordy moods, Andre Norton, Paul Kane's "Funny Bones", and the new zombie anthology by D.L. Snell and Elijah Hall. It's out by Permuted Press.
Australia's Shadowed Realms ezine has a beautiful collection of flash called Shadow Box. Wonderful art. And I miss the old magazine, Quietus. They only put out three issues, but the stories and artwork were haunting.
Stan Lee has some great stuff. So does Dark Horse. Oh, did anyone ever read the Badger comics? They were out in the eighties.
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12-03-2005, 02:59 AM
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#81
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Wouldn't you like to know...
Posts: 1,632
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Not quite sure if I'd classify her as badass, but Jaqueline Carey just sort of rocks my world. The Kushiel books are just -yummy- *is all excited for the fourth one due out in June of 2006*
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pssst, Morrigan, tokidoki shashin wa ii...
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12-06-2005, 12:18 PM
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#82
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nothing from nowhere, AZ
Posts: 433
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I can't decide. I like so many different ones. It's like trying to pick a favourite song of all songs. For me that is impossible.
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I broke myself, shattered, tied a bow around every piece, you'll love the eyes. Have they always shown so vacantly? The more I show the less you'll want to know. I can't stop the insects that are feeding, pull the needles from beneath my skin.... ~ A Fire Inside ~
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12-06-2005, 12:29 PM
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#83
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 554
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When I was a kid, it was R.L. Stine =)
Now, there are many to choose from.
*Eyes TStone, E_E and Cussedness affectionately*
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12-06-2005, 12:56 PM
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#84
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nothing from nowhere, AZ
Posts: 433
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R.L. Stine was cool! Goosebumps, right? I used to really like the "Scary stories to tell in the Dark" Series... It then graduated to the likes of Poe, Clive Barker, and H.P. Lovecraft.
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I broke myself, shattered, tied a bow around every piece, you'll love the eyes. Have they always shown so vacantly? The more I show the less you'll want to know. I can't stop the insects that are feeding, pull the needles from beneath my skin.... ~ A Fire Inside ~
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12-06-2005, 09:54 PM
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#85
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 61
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I think for the Vampire genre it has to be Nancy Collins. In regards to fantasy it has to be Terry Brooks. Im not sure about erotica. Certainly most popular erotica, like those Penthouse Letters I suspect are fake, and anyway I can certainly write better erotic stories than that. Now horror and erotica? The Hot Blooded series!
For Werewolves it has to be the book Blood and Chocolate.
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12-13-2005, 10:25 PM
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#86
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 69
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William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum
Oscar Wilde... everything.
Stefan Gagne... *swoons at the badassedness*
And for a fantasy that's not online, Hugh Cook. So badass he writes awful fantasy, just so that he can take the piss. (Translation of Australian: He deliberately writes poorly to embellish his parodies of cliches in fantasy) Read the Walrus and the Warwolf if curious. But be warned, it's pretty awful.
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12-15-2005, 05:33 PM
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#87
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 122
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Originally Posted by Alain
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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tsk tsk tsk...
They always have eat the fat kids don't they?
Sorry that ruined the book for some you.
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12-15-2005, 06:11 PM
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#88
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,761
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Yeah, and so does Nicole Richie.
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12-18-2005, 11:35 AM
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#89
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 122
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I think that book should have been in supermarket where the toilette paper section is because the only use it probably has is to wipe ass. I incluse that Paris Hilton chick as well.
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12-26-2005, 07:18 PM
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#90
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 19
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H.p. Lovecraft
Is anyone else here a fan of Lovecraft?
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12-26-2005, 07:19 PM
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#91
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: My room...
Posts: 191
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No... Not me, sorry.
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Dreams are just dreams,
but some of us wish...
Wish that those dreams,
could come true some day soon...
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12-28-2005, 07:46 AM
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#92
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 197
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I read the book on Paris Hilton. Um, i will warn everyone else: Don't waste your time reading this. But you probably already knew that. My favorite authors would have to be Stephen King and Anne Rice. King, moreso, I remember when I read my first book by him. I was in the 4th grade, and it was Misery. One of my favorites!
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12-28-2005, 05:06 PM
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#93
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston,Texas
Posts: 60
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I read ALL the old V.C Andrew's series something like thirty.
My favorite of them is Flowers In the Attic.
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12-29-2005, 02:21 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 182
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I don't know if I have a single favourite author. As far as fantasists go (sorry, Cuss!) it'd have to be Roger Zelazny (especially Damnation Alley, Jack of Shadows and Lord of Light) and Michael Moorcock. I don't know if Mervyn Peake's stuff could really be classed as fantasy; it's more imaginative than fantastic. Terry Pratchett never fails to entertain me. Occasionally I like a bit of H.P. Lovecraft or Clark Ashton Smith.
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01-05-2006, 05:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 7
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John Irving. He wrote the greatest American novel ever written: A Prayer for Owen Meany. He was protege to Kurt Vonnegut as a student.
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01-09-2006, 05:58 AM
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#96
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 43
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Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses is funny as hell!
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01-09-2006, 09:24 AM
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#97
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Tampa Bay
Posts: 491
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I have a lot of them but the first one that popped into my head was Haruki Murakami. First book I read by him was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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01-09-2006, 09:29 AM
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#98
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 43
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Originally Posted by Xnguela
Can I call you buttfear for short?
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I've been called far worse things, but it does make it sound as though I have a dibilitating fear of arses/asses. Hell, call me whatever
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01-09-2006, 03:28 PM
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#99
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Anyone knows about Dan Simmons?
He writes science fiction, but not like star wars; he does have a degree in physics and astronomy, so he does know what he's talking about 
His Hyperion saga has such a mythology behind it. When you end the books, there's still so many questions you will never know, but that only increases its beauty.
He changed my life. If you like sci-fi, I reccomend with all my heart the Hyperion saga. If you only want to read another book, read The Hollow Man. If you like terror, read Song of Kali or Summer of Night. If you like Greek mythology, read Ilium and its sequel Olympos
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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01-26-2006, 10:22 AM
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#100
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: In some desolate wooded area with the rest of the trailer trash.
Posts: 105
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I have many favorites, so it's really hard to choose from, but I've really come to enjoy Elizabeth Wurtzel. She's very real, and very raw. She brings you straight into her world, and that's what I like about her. You feel like her her experience is your experience.
I have finished Bitch, but I have yet to finish Prozac Nation. All in all, I think she's the best author that I've actually read in quite some time.
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