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    Who is the best short story writer?

    As a character?! Wow! I'll have to look into that. I read Moorcock's Oswald Bastable series as well as The Final Programme, but I put him off for several years because his collection of works was so vast.
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    Who is the best short story writer?

    I'm a big fan of Rudyard Kipling, even though he is (unjustly) maligned today. H. G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote some excellent short stories.
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    Professionally Published "Fan Fiction"

    "Fan Fiction", briefly, is fiction in which the author takes characters from the public domain or popular culture and continues their adventures- examples include any of the myriad Sherlock Holmes pastiches and most post-Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos tales. "Fan Fiction" gets a lot of bad press...
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    Who is your favourite author, and why?

    Ah, the Lovecraft is strong in this one, I see. I have different authors for different moods. Terry Pratchett to cheer me up, Arthur Conan Doyle when I'm in the mood for crime-solving, Edgar Allan Poe when I'm in one of my gloomy phases. I usually find when I've had a gruelling session with...
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    Comedic / Funny Non-FIction

    So- correct me if I'm wrong- but you're discussing books which aren't humorous historical fiction written around historical figures and historical events (i.e. Flashman, Blackadder etc.) but instead are talking about factual things in a comedic manner (like autobiographies or children's history...
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    "The Siege of Gibraltar"

    Maybe- A history of the siege of Gibraltar: With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods by John Drinkwater Published by T. Nelson, 1839 A history of the siege of Gibraltar: With a description and account of that ... - John Drinkwater - Google Books (Although as...
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    Tic-tac-toe- I prefer a game of strategy to a guessing game. (Incidentally, 3D tic-tac-toe is great fun, while 3D hangman is more macabre). Best brand of chocolate- Cadbury? Lindt? Thorntons? Nestle?
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    Turn of the Century Literature

    Fiction Charles Dickens wrote a lot about people's adversity (Hard Times, The Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby etc.), though you did say you wanted to get away from the classics. H. G. Wells, as well as writing science fiction, also wrote social novels, such as Kipps, which is a...
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    I think it can get annoying when you see the author "speaking" through the mouth of one of the characters, but I sometimes find it interesting to research some of the context behind the book/film. For example, Ian Fleming was involved in the Secret Service during the war, and used this...
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    John Buchan is probably my favourite author- although I actually preferred The Three Hostages and John Macnab to The 39 Steps. Either way, it looks like you have some quality reading ahead of you.
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    What book is this .... ? Guess the work from the words!

    I have an audio cassette of Three Men In A Boat read by Hugh Laurie, of all people! It's the closest thing to perfection I know. (Sorry about the segue from Robert Heinlein)
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    Books Nobody Else Reads

    I'm slightly unsure about the digital format- I can't really read novel-length works on the computer, as it tends to give me migraines. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned! I agree with direstraits' point, but there are a lot of books by famous authors which are very obscure. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
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    Books Nobody Else Reads

    From that list, I've read Pratchett, Fleming and Dr Syn, but the rest had me scrambling for a wiki page. My passion is late-nineteenth-century-and-early-twentieth-century books (all one word), which means that finding someone else who reads those books is nothing short of a miracle! My list...
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    Looking for Multi-Genre recommendations...

    For Sci-Fi, I would recommend John Wyndham- he wrote The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos and The Stepford Wives, all of which seem to follow the alien invasion "Body Snatchers" trend. Detectives in supernatural genre: Yes, these certainly do exist, although they were most popular in...
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    Hello, Everybody!

    Hello. (Ah- the agonies of the introduction! "Good morning" seems a little too posh and upper class, while "hi" is too informal. And how should I describe myself? Should I list my favourite books, or simply mention that I'd like to look around the forums? Maybe a little self-deprecating humour...
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    The one on your profile picture :), definitely. Best Bond? Connery? Craig? Brosnan? Moore?
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    What's the deal with vampires anyway?

    "Listen to zem, ze Children of the Night. What vonderful salad zey make!"
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    A Quiz - Guess the name of this book

    This reminds me of a book called "The Secret of Platform 13", by Eva Ibbotson, about a platform in King's Cross Station, London, that leads to a secret magical world. This book was written in 1994, three years before the original Harry Potter. My main problem with the Harry Potter series is...
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    The True and Unabridged Events Of Last Night

    Have you sold the film rights yet? I'm picturing Clint Eastwood as the gecko ;).
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    Best book to movie?

    Dracula is notorious for having unfaithful adaptations, and I think the Coppola film was the one closest to the original- it even made Dracula's character quite tragic, rather than evil. I think other Dracula films, of course, deserve a mention- the original Nosferatu (haven't seen the remake)...
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