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    Posted: 25-Oct-2006 at 17:31
I forgot Jules Verne and  Edgard Allan Poe. The later was a real genious.
 
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It is hard to say.

For fantasy J.R.R. Tolkin.
For Sci-Fi Stanislav Lem.

Now serious literature:
My favourite bulgarian writer is Dimcho Debelyanov.
My favourite foreign author is Alexander Duma.
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Tolkien for ever.
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Have you Tolkien fans tried to read the silmerillion?


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Have you Tolkien fans tried to read the silmerillion?


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I have read silmerillion and i can say that especially the beginning was very strange and complex.
    
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I've read the Silmarillion and the Unfinished Tales and I greatly enjoyed both of them! I even bought them on English (but didn't read them, as I sent them as a gift to one girl in Lithuania). I'll have to buy them for myself one day when I gather some money...

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I tried to read the Silmarillion, but it's such strange and complex english that I got bogged down and never finished the first chapter.
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Historical fiction: Michael Curtis Ford
Plays: William Shakespeare, Anton Chekov
Historical nonfiction: Jack Weatherford
Science fiction: Michael Crichton, Robert J Sawyer
Fantasy-ish: Anne Rice, Tolkien
Other: Stephen King, Gaston Leroux
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Big Anne Rice and Tolkien fan, but more importantly Huge Fan of Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy. However by far my favorite writer is Martin McDonagh, great playwright.
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Originally posted by Omar al Hashim

I tried to read the Silmarillion, but it's such strange and complex english that I got bogged down and never finished the first chapter.


 
I read the silmarillion cover to cover. I loved it.

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Fyodor Dostoevski and William Shakespeare so far.
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Dostoyevski, Oguz Atay, Chekov, Yusuf Atilgan, Jose Saramago, Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Yashar Kemal....
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I havn't clear for novel, but for poetry the spanish Antonio Machado
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I like to read the works by the Marquis de Sade.  My reading tastes also extend to Emmuska Orczy, Clive Barker, and Robert Bloch.  I've noticed that Bloch likes to mention the "Divine Marquis" from time to time in his writings, as well as focus on Jack the Ripper, but that's beside the point. Tongue
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Jose Saramago, I finished Blindness not too long ago. I'm going to start the Gospel According to Jesus Christ as soon as it's returned to the library.
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At the momet Jim Crace. I've just finished The Pest House and have just started Quarentine.  He has an absolutely stunning grasp of language, vivid description with a minimum of words.
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Well, for me, it would have to be Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Turgenev (I don't know his first name!) and lastly George Orwell - those Russians (except George Orwell) really know how to hold a pen!
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Some of my favorites are: Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dumas, Brian Jacques, and Tolkien. (yes I have read the Silmarillion and enjoyed it immensely)
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