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Message board > Favourite writer.
Favourite writer.
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spinney
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Thank you, Jayho! Wonderful article. A Merry Christmas to all. I will leave you with this wonderful line from Wodehouse: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.” |
24 Dec 2020
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aftab57
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All, All, All, I read less now but my all time favourite ( again like Spinney I do not know why) is Anne of Green Gables by Lucy, M. Montgomery. I have in my own Urdu language authors like Naseem Hijazi, Ibn e Safi. Love fantasy books...the Sword of Shannara series is my favourite. Idries Shah for his Sufism and Tahir Shah for his Travel literature. |
25 Dec 2020
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cunliffe
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Love that quote, Spinney! I have just quoted it to my family who had a good chuckle. |
25 Dec 2020
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spinney
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@ Lynne: Yep, just wonderful, that. Here�s a couple more that I love. They always make me smile, no matter how many times I read them. “An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.” “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.” “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” “What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What ho!"
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.” “Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you�re back from Moscow, eh?” “Yes, sir,� said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.” |
25 Dec 2020
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savilla
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Another vote for Terry Pratchett! Douglas Adams, Bryce Courtenay, Kerry Green, James Clavell, JK Rowling, Haruki Murakami, Martina Cole. That�ll do for now  |
25 Dec 2020
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douglas
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Robert Heinlein, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., & Robert Silverberg have always been my "go to" writers
and a shout out to George RR Martin for so easily killing-off protagonists... and for creating a world I spend much of my time in as a PARA-RPer.
PARA-RP (I do GoT vs Gorean, but the writing styles are the same):
https://dailygorean.wordpress.com/rp-guides/rp-resourcesexample/
Douglas
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29 Dec 2020
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maryse pey�
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We must not forget Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter... |
29 Dec 2020
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