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Favourite author ?

Mine hands down Charles Dickens

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What's your favourite story? I think A Christmas Carol is mine.

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David copperflied

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Fiction: John Le Carre or William Gibson depending on the decade.
Non-fiction: Daniel Dennett.

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So hard to pick.
Michael Cricton
Daniel Suarez
William Hertling
Ramez Naam
Douglas Preston
Lincoln Child
Frank Peretti
Tom Clancy
James Rollins
George R. R. Martin
C.S. Lewis
J.K. Rowling


All excellent

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Mental midget

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Why you acting like you read lol

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I’ve been reading from a very young age infant I excelled in English language


I’m a very Good reader I’ve read loads and loads of books I couldn’t even begin to list it’s too long

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So has everyone else on this planet lol

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No they haven’t some people are stupid like really stupid

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And I’m currently reading the first judgement by Wendy Alec

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Rita Balducci

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Abdul Alhazred

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Did you actually read him or just enjoy the movies?

I ask because he was paid by the word and you could get thirty pages describing furniture. That ruined the stories for me.

However, I love movies based on his stuff because the messages are very good.

My favorite author is the Scottish Iain Banks who died suddenly of cancer.

His books would always come out on my birthday. They were a huge treat.

I used to read a book a week for many many years and when he died I stopped reading novels.

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No never watched the movies actually just read the book

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Most movies of Dickens are good for the reasons I've mentioned. They get to the point about his social comments without filler.

I will almost always watch a Dicken movie.

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I tried to get into the culture series. I wanted to like it really badly. I forced myself through Consider Phlebas but couldn't get all the way through The Player of Games.

The Wasp Factory is one of my favourite novels of all time. I read it every few years now.

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You must not like the premise or don't get what the Culture novels are about.

They are about how a country like America will totally destroy another country through something like music, videogames, cellphones, etc.

The Player of Games is a great story.

This excellent game playing human lives in the culture.

The culture secretly wants to destroy this alien race. The race uses a complex game to decide which one of them will lead.

The gameplayer Humans asked to play their game to see how he does. Unknown to him, the Culture asked him to do it to destroy this society.

He wins the game and the aliens become demoralized and it sets the tone for their society falling apart. If that takes a thousand years, it doesn't matter to the Culture.

All of his books are about the same thing. The Culture plays vast games with the lives of other people so they can dominate them. The question is, is the domination good or not.

Like I've said, it's all a clever way to talk about what western society does in reality.

On top of that, there's tons of fun dialogue.

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Great. Thanks for the spoilers.

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Haha!

I have read it a couple of times.

It's about the ride and it's easy to figure out.

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Dostoevsky

James Baldwin

John Rechy

Herman Hesse

My favorite book though is A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay.

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Might download it then if it’s good

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It's a great book. You'll like it. The author is Scottish. It's a fantasy set on other planets.

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The Scottish book sounds good.

If you like that, you might love Voltaire.

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You'd love A Voyage to Arcturus. If it were written now it would be sci-fi. But it was published in 1920 so it's better categorized as fantasy. It's about shapeshifting planets and aliens. It's great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Arcturus

I read some Voltaire in college. I should re-explore him.

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I will look at that wiki page.

I LOVE philosophical SF.

Voltaire is fun and interesting.

He was a massive force in the American and French Revolution and he did it all with words and humor.

I learned a lot from him.

He was super brave in that he used money from business to self publish all kinds of books against royalty and Catholics. He wrote about how ridiculous jews are and challenged EVERYBODY.

The French wanted to kill him so he had to hide and run away. However, he never published stuff ordering people to kill. He was always funny and pro human.

Fredrick the Great who was the King of Prussia thought he was great. The king was super gay and didn't mind if people made fun of him. He was all about free speech.

He made friends with Voltaire and helped him out. Voltaire invented the idea of Freedom of Religion for the king in order to stop religious power.

The idea is that if all religions are equal, they are meaningless. The king loved it and used it in Prussia.

Later Ben Franklin went to meet Voltaire about how to stop religion in the US and that's where we get Freedom of Religion from.

He was a hugely nonviolent revolutionary.

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Yes, Voltaire was a great man. You did a good outline of his history and accomplishments.

But you and this anti-Jew thing. Lol. That's not what he's known for and he wouldn't be held in such high esteem if he was an anti-Semite. Voltaire rejected all religion.

I sampled him in college.

What would you recommend by Voltaire?

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Read what he wrote about them and say it again.

He got it from Spinoza, who he admired, but lived long before him. Spinoza was jews and wrote extensively about what horrible people they are.

It's the same as putting down Nazi, who were imitating jews, or the KKK.

You just don't know enough about the subject to understand. If you did, you would also find them sinister.

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Also, I don't bring up jews much, others do, and I explain.

Jews love to bring up jews constantly.

What other ultra minority religion gets talked about that much?

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Herman Hesse is one of my all time favorites.

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I like Allison weir too


and Anne rice is also another fav of mine

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Voltaire.

This dude was a 1700s Frenchman who drank coffee all day while trying to avoid getting his head chopped off.

He was very witty and comical when writing about ultra serious stuff.

He wrote fictional and science fiction stories to make points about philosophy. He wrote what I think was the model of Tarzan called Ingenuous.

He also wrote about science, religion, etc.

All of it is amusing.

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What kind of serious stuff?

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What are you asking?

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You said Voltaire had some great witty writing when it came to serious issues and I'm just asking what they were so that I can find them.

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Oh man, I mean everything he wrote is funny.

He wrote many stories to illustrate ideas. He has essays, a book on the world where he talks about everything from bees to what is thinking about.

It all holds up today.

His observations about many things crack me up.

I would love to have met him.

There's also no one like him now.

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Anne Rule

If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

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She was a friend of ted bundy

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Yes, they worked on a suicide hotline

If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

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imagine being alone in the call center at night just the two of you, like they were

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Yep! But, he only killed strangers

If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

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Robert Louis Stevenson.
Victor Hugo.
Neil Gaiman.
Ursula K. Le Guin.
May Sarton.
Henry James.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
W.E.B. Du Bois.
Edith Wharton.
Kate Chopin.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Ernest Hemingway (begrudgingly).
James Joyce.

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