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Recommend one to the world!

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Wabbit

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If you had to recommend just one author to the world then what author would that be and for what reasons? :)

I'm sure most regulars here know that my favourite author is Gabriel Garcia Marquez and I have waxed lyrical about his greatness many times over! That in mind, I will choose another author to recommend. He is a very great favourite of mine!

I recommend to you Ernest Hemingway!

He is a wonderful writer. He was a man that lived life. He LIVED life rather than just exist in it. He lived his life with a passion, lived to the fullest and to the edge and sometimes even over the edge. His passion is reflected in his writing. His books are filled with beauty and passion.

His prose itself is also very beautiful. I'm not sure there is a writer around that is quite so adept at capturing the essence of a thing, place, or persons beauty. His words are poetry in motion to me. Lastly, his stories are very entertaining and have a surprising complexity that you might miss on first glance. Hemingway is truly one of the best writers I have ever read and I admire him immensely!

Who would you recommend and why? :)
 
I'd recommend Robert A. Heinlein because of the rational view of individual liberty that can be found in many of his books.

I've only read "Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway and I can't say that it gave me very high opinions of the man. I have nothing against the prose but I couldn't stand the goose of a woman that the romantic interest in the book is (I hate her so much). Hemingway probably wasn't a misogynist, I'm sure he loved women, especially if they let him wipe his shoes on them.
 
I think I would recommend C.S. Lewis because of the range of books from fantasy to his religious writing.
 
I'd recommend Salman Rushdie. The controversy that surrounds Satanic Verses detract from that the fact that it is a brilliant book that gets attention for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to recommend Seth (An Equal Music just blew my mind away), but with only 2 prose works published, I didn't know if he counted.

Wolhay said:
I have nothing against the prose but I couldn't stand the goose of a woman that the romantic interest in the book is (I hate her so much). Hemingway probably wasn't a misogynist, I'm sure he loved women, especially if they let him wipe his shoes on them.
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That's how I feel about D. H. Lawrence; similar, anyhow. If this was an "un-recommend one to the world" thread, he'd be my number one, undefeated nomination (Lady Chatterlay's Lover is so alienating in its inaccuracies of the female psyche). But since this isn't, then I can't. :(
 
Scratchy said:
I wanted to recommend Seth (An Equal Music just blew my mind away), but with only 2 prose works published, I didn't know if he counted.
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Really? "An Equal Music", certantly didn't blow my mind away.
 
Maya said:
Really? "An Equal Music", certantly didn't blow my mind away.
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Not really surprised you feel that way; I know a lot of people who didn't think much of it. My view is, its a book whose enjoyment is greatly enhanced with the reader's own experience / background / what the reader brings to the story. An Equal Music was the only book that described what I was going through and as sappy as it may sound, it made me see the poetry in my lifestyle, my descisions, and the sacrifices I had to make in order to live the way I chose to live. Seth's stylistic devices may not be unique, but it captivates with its sincerity and determination; without which, An Equal Music would have been just another book belonging to blah-dom.
 
Joseph Conrad. His use of the adventure genre to explore deeper pschycological themes is simply breathtaking.
 
Since Authour has beaten me to Conrad, I'll have to go with Jorge Luis Borges, mainly on the strength of his ability to capture very arcane and esoteric, though not unimportant, distinctions within his fiction. Plenty of his stories work, both as stories, and as philosophical "thought experiments".
 
I've only just started to read Wabbit's favourite so I can't really give a proper verdict, so far so good, is all. I like historical and description so fits the bill so far. I should have like Hemmingway, I've only read a couple 'Lat Light ' is it? and 'Across the River....'

Anyway, my candidate, especially my favourite for description is one I haven't come across in the Forum and he is Jame Lee Burke. In 'City of Angel's' (loved that film mmm) he is fascinated with the taste and the texture of a pear 'as Hemmingway would have described it = he should have said Burke... He writes as he thinks and feels - the sunlight upon a bejewelled leaf, a drop of rain echoing over a placid pool. He looks into men's hearts.

His books about the Confederal wars ae some of his best 'In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead', yeah! long title, and 'White Doves at Morning'. Are two of my favourites. He's no great classic it seems, but he should be.
My other recommendation is 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks It may seem I have a tendancy towards war and volence but perhaps it is because in these books men, and women, are faced with extremes both physical and emotional so their sense are hightened.

Although Birdsong is about the First World I, the terrible trenches it is also the sexiest book I have ever read. Ladies, put this guy in your pocket, he can raise the hair on the back of your head!!! It is also a book of sad, powerful friendship of comrades in arms. Brilliant. Well, That's it Enough too....

:rolleyes:
 
nighthawk said:
I've only just started to read Wabbit's favourite so I can't really give a proper verdict, so far so good, is all. I like historical and description so fits the bill so far. I should have like Hemmingway, I've only read a couple 'Lat Light ' is it? and 'Across the River....'

Anyway, my candidate, especially my favourite for description is one I haven't come across in the Forum and he is Jame Lee Burke. In 'City of Angel's' (loved that film mmm) he is fascinated with the taste and the texture of a pear 'as Hemmingway would have described it = he should have said Burke... He writes as he thinks and feels - the sunlight upon a bejewelled leaf, a drop of rain echoing over a placid pool. He looks into men's hearts.
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City of Angels would have to be in my top 3 all time movies. I really love it! I will have to check Jame Lee Burke. Sounds wonderful! Thanks for the recommendation. I hope you enjoy Love and other demons :)
 
I would echo Authour and funes and say Joseph Conrad would be my all time favourite. I think he was the first author to break out from linear story-telling and chop things about. Also I am a fan of Thomas Hardy, and Conrad takes fate and the flaws of characters like Hardy specialised in to a different level ( and away from gap-toothed country folk ).
 
If I could only recommend one author, it would be Isaac Asimov. He wrote in so many different genres, and did it so well, that you would get a very wide selection of exceptional novels, treatises and dissertations!
 
To Wabbit..Burke has several types so if you want titles other than Con.ed war. Could give you a smal list.. I have all his books.
Greetings :)
 
Mouse said:
I think he [Joseph Conrad] was the first author to break out from linear story-telling and chop things about.
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The Bible springs to mind. It's supposed to be a chronology but experts dispute the order and time periods of the gospels.
 
For nonfiction, check out Jared Diamond. His book Guns, Germs and Steel was great. I learned a lot about how our world has come to be in its present state. I've just started his book The Third Chimpanzee, and so far I like it too.
 
Neal Stephenson - very cleverly written fiction which will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Douglas Adams - you will laugh until you cry. Enough said.

Kurt Vonnegut - razorsharp satire wrapped in beautiful prose.

Yeah, so I recommended three authors - sue me.

Cheers
 
For fiction - Margaret Atwood. She has such a great writing style, that just draws you in.

For non-fiction - hmmmm, probably Carl Sagan, if you have an interest in all things science.

RitalinKid, I loved The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond! :D Still have yet to read Guns, Germs and Steel, even though it has sat on my bookshelf for ages (ever since it came out). :rolleyes:
 
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