I just read Rainbow six by Tom Clancy who I have always liked due to some of his books that were made into movies.

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My stories
An erotic story
The instructor and student
Secretary learns how to take a dicktation
The story of sister stephanie

Ken Follet

Mercedes Lackey, George R.R. Martin, R.A. Salvatore, Robert Jordon. Those are the authors of the four biggest sets of books I own. I've loved every book/series I've read by them and have recommended each to various people at one point or another.

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"BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes! GIRL: Yes. BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Yes. BOY: I bet you say that to all the boys!" -Meatloaf

I have a lot of favorite series, ones that tend to be written by different authors, as well as favorite authors.

Like Lord Snow, I like George R.R. Martin, R.A. Salvatore, and Robert Jordan (and I'm hoping that the person that is finishing Jordan's last Wheel of Time novel can do as good a job as Jordan did). I also like Dean Koontz, Terry Brooks, and Michael Moorcock (Among MANY others).

Then I like reading Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Battletech, and Shadowrun (there are probably more, but I can't think of them at the moment).

I used to read a lot, and would finish several books a week, and generally retain the better share of it for quite a while. But my pace has slowed down quite a bit, and I've picked up a lot of things that need my time, so I'm lucky if I finish a book a week any more.

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Three of my favourite American writers are: Henry Miller,Ernest Hemmingway,and John Steinbeck.

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Sex is one of nine reasons for reincarnation.The other eight are unimportant...Henry Miller

Zora Neale Hurston and Charles Chestnutt.

Modern writers- Stephen King

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American writers? It's sad when literature becomes parochial.

Asimov, Arthur C, Farmer, Dick and the rest of the Golden Age.

Robert A Henlein, Albert Camus, the list is endless.

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I've always been an Agatha Christie fan. Hercule Poirot, is my favorite.

Others I enjoy immensely include:

Dean Koontz
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jean Paul Sartre
Vincent Bugliosi
J.K. Rowling

Too many to really list I suppose. Osuche got me started on Ayn Rand too. Her character development is absolutely extraordinary.

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It takes a gutless mouse to play only when the cat's away.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac

Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."

An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"

Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus

Looks like we have a lot of fantasy lovers on here. I forgot one, Janet Evanovich. She wrote the Stephanie Plum series where each title involves a number. They were actually quite funny.

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"BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes! GIRL: Yes. BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Yes. BOY: I bet you say that to all the boys!" -Meatloaf

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Tolkien, Orson Scott Card, Stephen R. Donaldson, Spider Robinson... to name a few.

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Clever? Nah, I ran out of that years ago. But if you find this, let me know, k?
"The road goes ever on..." ~ Tolkien

In memory of my friend skip...
Go then, there are other worlds than these

Ann McCaffrey, Christopher Paolini, Terry Brooks and the classic writers Doyle,Kipling many others

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Tough one for me to call, since I seldom read any fiction anymore...time was when anything/everything by Stephen King made my must read list, but alas, my favorite author these days is generally whatever rocker has released his memoirs lately...most recently, Al Kooper's "Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards" made me smile a lot, say "I didn't know that!" or "I knew it!", & in the last chapter, he made me empathize & almost cry for him.

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Check out Neil Gaiman, your list looks a lot like mine so I imagine you're probably an D&D nerd like myself. My Storyteller from a Vampire the Masquerade game I was in turned me on to Gaiman. Neverwhere, and Stardust are awesome books.

I used to love King, in college, and I've read a lot of James Patterson too. I call it bubble gum for the brain. Not necessarily good for you but still fun once in a while.

I tend to like individual books more than authors, Dune, Ender's Game, and Hyperion are all examples of books I loved, but really didn't like or couldn't get through the sequels.

Yep, guilty of being a D&D (among other games) nerd (and have been for 25 years , with a new campaign having started just 2 weekends ago). I've been curious about Gaiman but most of the time anymore, I'm limited to whatever the local Wal-Mart happens to get in (in addition to my personal library, which admittedly is huge, but growing much slower than it used to).

I've read all of the Dune books (except the newest one Paul of Dune ), all of the Ender series (again, except the new one). I still think that Ender's Game is the best of the whole series, and plan on introducing it to my son (once he's done reading all the Dragonlance novels , he's a huge reader like I used to be). Hyperion sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't think it is one I've read yet.

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Damn, forgot Spider Robinson.

Bama, have you read his Heinlein?

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