Who is Your favorite Author? and why do u Admire or respect them?

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Permalink Reply by Callie Leah on December 31, 2010 at 9:49am

Lol, I love your choices, Betty! Those are all very good authors, but my favorites are a bit different. My absolute favorite author is and always will be Margaret Mitchell. She wrote Gone With the Wind, and I admire her because of the way she writes! When I was reading that book, I could feel the connection that characters had with each other and the passion and hatred between some and the love and care between others!

 

Another USED TO BE Caroline Keene- the known author of the Nancy Drew series. I loved how each book was written so perfectly to where you could always understand everything that was going on. Of course, that changed when I found out that Caroline Keene is not a real person, but a pseudonym for at least 12 different ghost writers that wrote those books.

 

My only other favorite so far is Vivian Vande Velde. I LOVE her books! She has this unique writing style that tells everything from a rather uncommon point of view. I don't know much about her, but I'm guessing she either grew up in or lives in Rochester, NY because a lot of her books take place there :) Actually, I think you might like her too, Betty. My favorite book by her is a Rumplestiltskin book. She says how she didn't understand the story and writes six 'better' versions :)

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Permalink Reply by Betzy Crypt on December 31, 2010 at 10:03pm

ahh....i recongnize he name. Vivian, i know i read one of her books. a vampire one forgot the title though...lol

Thanks for writing! ;) 

I never read gone with the wind. is it THAT good?

lol i never liked mysteries. lol so i was never a fan of nancy drew. 

Callie Leah said:

Lol, I love your choices, Betty! Those are all very good authors, but my favorites are a bit different. My absolute favorite author is and always will be Margaret Mitchell. She wrote Gone With the Wind, and I admire her because of the way she writes! When I was reading that book, I could feel the connection that characters had with each other and the passion and hatred between some and the love and care between others!

 

Another USED TO BE Caroline Keene- the known author of the Nancy Drew series. I loved how each book was written so perfectly to where you could always understand everything that was going on. Of course, that changed when I found out that Caroline Keene is not a real person, but a pseudonym for at least 12 different ghost writers that wrote those books.

 

My only other favorite so far is Vivian Vande Velde. I LOVE her books! She has this unique writing style that tells everything from a rather uncommon point of view. I don't know much about her, but I'm guessing she either grew up in or lives in Rochester, NY because a lot of her books take place there :) Actually, I think you might like her too, Betty. My favorite book by her is a Rumplestiltskin book. She says how she didn't understand the story and writes six 'better' versions :)

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Permalink Reply by scribbler on January 1, 2011 at 1:20am

Speaking of Edgar Allan Poe, Amazon has free downloads of all his works for the Kindle. I don't have one but I use the free Kindle for PC software to download and read the free ebooks on my computer. (You'll see a link for that in the right hand sidebar. It says Get Kindle for PC.)


This is the link to Volume 1. There's 5, I think.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Edgar-Allan-Poe-ebook/dp/B002RKRW5M/

And this is a link to their current top 100 free ebooks. It's updated hourly. I think I have about 50 saved now to be read, and Edgar Allan Poe is among them. I've never read anything but The Raven.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text?ie=UTF8&ref_=...

Favorite author...I can't give up my fondness for Stephen King's older stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Betzy Crypt on January 2, 2011 at 4:49am

thanks for informing me dude. ;)  but i bearly know what a pc thingy is. i rather just buy his works up front, if u know wwhat i mean. ;)

u should read The black Cat. its one of my favorites and preety much read all his poems, they are aLL BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.  

scribbler said:

Speaking of Edgar Allan Poe, Amazon has free downloads of all his works for the Kindle. I don't have one but I use the free Kindle for PC software to download and read the free ebooks on my computer. (You'll see a link for that in the right hand sidebar. It says Get Kindle for PC.)


This is the link to Volume 1. There's 5, I think.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Edgar-Allan-Poe-ebook/dp/B002RKRW5M/

And this is a link to their current top 100 free ebooks. It's updated hourly. I think I have about 50 saved now to be read, and Edgar Allan Poe is among them. I've never read anything but The Raven.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text?ie=UTF8&ref_=...

Favorite author...I can't give up my fondness for Stephen King's older stuff.

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Permalink Reply by scribbler on January 2, 2011 at 5:52am

I have no clue what you meant there LOL. A pc = a computer. All you do is install it then click one button to download the free ebooks. No matter. :) Anyhoo, I shall check out the Black Cat first when I get round to reading that ebook. Thanks for the tip!

Betty Damil said:

thanks for informing me dude. ;)  but i bearly know what a pc thingy is. i rather just buy his works up front, if u know wwhat i mean. ;)

u should read The black Cat. its one of my favorites and preety much read all his poems, they are aLL BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.  

scribbler said:

Speaking of Edgar Allan Poe, Amazon has free downloads of all his works for the Kindle. I don't have one but I use the free Kindle for PC software to download and read the free ebooks on my computer. (You'll see a link for that in the right hand sidebar. It says Get Kindle for PC.)


This is the link to Volume 1. There's 5, I think.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Edgar-Allan-Poe-ebook/dp/B002RKRW5M/

And this is a link to their current top 100 free ebooks. It's updated hourly. I think I have about 50 saved now to be read, and Edgar Allan Poe is among them. I've never read anything but The Raven.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text?ie=UTF8&ref_=...

Favorite author...I can't give up my fondness for Stephen King's older stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Betzy Crypt on January 3, 2011 at 12:44am

hahaha. a pc is a computer??? lol dang, im such an idiot. Im really really slow in technology dude. thats why i hardley go on the computer. lol 

scribbler said:

I have no clue what you meant there LOL. A pc = a computer. All you do is install it then click one button to download the free ebooks. No matter. :) Anyhoo, I shall check out the Black Cat first when I get round to reading that ebook. Thanks for the tip!

Betty Damil said:

thanks for informing me dude. ;)  but i bearly know what a pc thingy is. i rather just buy his works up front, if u know wwhat i mean. ;)

u should read The black Cat. its one of my favorites and preety much read all his poems, they are aLL BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.  

scribbler said:

Speaking of Edgar Allan Poe, Amazon has free downloads of all his works for the Kindle. I don't have one but I use the free Kindle for PC software to download and read the free ebooks on my computer. (You'll see a link for that in the right hand sidebar. It says Get Kindle for PC.)


This is the link to Volume 1. There's 5, I think.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Edgar-Allan-Poe-ebook/dp/B002RKRW5M/

And this is a link to their current top 100 free ebooks. It's updated hourly. I think I have about 50 saved now to be read, and Edgar Allan Poe is among them. I've never read anything but The Raven.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text?ie=UTF8&ref_=...

Favorite author...I can't give up my fondness for Stephen King's older stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Kay Elizabeth on January 4, 2011 at 12:39am

Well I'm glad you do go on, Betty! :) PC is short for personal computer. It refers to any personal computer. I download the Kindle books too like that and read them on my computer. I won't buy a Kindle for another year probably, only when the price drops far more.

 

If you're ever stuck for ideas on what to read, this list at Project Gutenberg could help. Several of the books are available free at their site because they are now public domain.

 

In 2002, the editors of The Norwegian Book Clubs asked 100 authors to nominate ten books that, in their opinion, are the ten best and most central works in world literature. This list was reprinted in The Guardian in 2002. Here's the list.

 

Betty Damil said:

hahaha. a pc is a computer??? lol dang, im such an idiot. Im really really slow in technology dude. thats why i hardley go on the computer. lol 

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Permalink Reply by Callie Leah on January 8, 2011 at 2:54am

Lol, well, I think it is, but then again, I sort of have a few different styles than most people. I don't think it would be one you would enjoy based on what I already know about you, lol, but I like it. You could try reading it, but I have to admit that it was rather boring in a few chapters, and really hard to read, because it went a bit slow :) But, since I'm one of the most stubborn readers ever, I forced myself to keep reading! Lol :) And I may have read the book you're talking about by Vivian. I don't really know, I mean, she writes a whole lot of books! But hey, all the more for us to read, right? :)

Betty Damil said:

ahh....i recongnize he name. Vivian, i know i read one of her books. a vampire one forgot the title though...lol

Thanks for writing! ;) 

I never read gone with the wind. is it THAT good?

lol i never liked mysteries. lol so i was never a fan of nancy drew. 

Callie Leah said:

Lol, I love your choices, Betty! Those are all very good authors, but my favorites are a bit different. My absolute favorite author is and always will be Margaret Mitchell. She wrote Gone With the Wind, and I admire her because of the way she writes! When I was reading that book, I could feel the connection that characters had with each other and the passion and hatred between some and the love and care between others!

 

Another USED TO BE Caroline Keene- the known author of the Nancy Drew series. I loved how each book was written so perfectly to where you could always understand everything that was going on. Of course, that changed when I found out that Caroline Keene is not a real person, but a pseudonym for at least 12 different ghost writers that wrote those books.

 

My only other favorite so far is Vivian Vande Velde. I LOVE her books! She has this unique writing style that tells everything from a rather uncommon point of view. I don't know much about her, but I'm guessing she either grew up in or lives in Rochester, NY because a lot of her books take place there :) Actually, I think you might like her too, Betty. My favorite book by her is a Rumplestiltskin book. She says how she didn't understand the story and writes six 'better' versions :)

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Permalink Reply by Betzy Crypt on January 8, 2011 at 11:09pm

thats what makes a good writer, 

never running out of ideas.

keeping in touch with her fans by never letting them wait for the next release. lol

If i ever do see the book Ill read it, or try. lol when i was young i tried to read Harry potter, just to fall asleep in the first chapter. 

hopefully I could read this one. lol 
vivian is a good writer i must say, that book i read of hers was very interesting. ;)

Callie Leah said:

Lol, well, I think it is, but then again, I sort of have a few different styles than most people. I don't think it would be one you would enjoy based on what I already know about you, lol, but I like it. You could try reading it, but I have to admit that it was rather boring in a few chapters, and really hard to read, because it went a bit slow :) But, since I'm one of the most stubborn readers ever, I forced myself to keep reading! Lol :) And I may have read the book you're talking about by Vivian. I don't really know, I mean, she writes a whole lot of books! But hey, all the more for us to read, right? :)

Betty Damil said:

ahh....i recongnize he name. Vivian, i know i read one of her books. a vampire one forgot the title though...lol

Thanks for writing! ;) 

I never read gone with the wind. is it THAT good?

lol i never liked mysteries. lol so i was never a fan of nancy drew. 

Callie Leah said:

Lol, I love your choices, Betty! Those are all very good authors, but my favorites are a bit different. My absolute favorite author is and always will be Margaret Mitchell. She wrote Gone With the Wind, and I admire her because of the way she writes! When I was reading that book, I could feel the connection that characters had with each other and the passion and hatred between some and the love and care between others!

 

Another USED TO BE Caroline Keene- the known author of the Nancy Drew series. I loved how each book was written so perfectly to where you could always understand everything that was going on. Of course, that changed when I found out that Caroline Keene is not a real person, but a pseudonym for at least 12 different ghost writers that wrote those books.

 

My only other favorite so far is Vivian Vande Velde. I LOVE her books! She has this unique writing style that tells everything from a rather uncommon point of view. I don't know much about her, but I'm guessing she either grew up in or lives in Rochester, NY because a lot of her books take place there :) Actually, I think you might like her too, Betty. My favorite book by her is a Rumplestiltskin book. She says how she didn't understand the story and writes six 'better' versions :)

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Permalink Reply by Callie Leah on January 23, 2011 at 2:35am

Yeah, I love her! She writes a lot differently than most writers I've read! She has a really odd perspective on some things.

Betty Damil said:

thats what makes a good writer, 

never running out of ideas.

keeping in touch with her fans by never letting them wait for the next release. lol

If i ever do see the book Ill read it, or try. lol when i was young i tried to read Harry potter, just to fall asleep in the first chapter. 

hopefully I could read this one. lol 
vivian is a good writer i must say, that book i read of hers was very interesting. ;)

Callie Leah said:

Lol, well, I think it is, but then again, I sort of have a few different styles than most people. I don't think it would be one you would enjoy based on what I already know about you, lol, but I like it. You could try reading it, but I have to admit that it was rather boring in a few chapters, and really hard to read, because it went a bit slow :) But, since I'm one of the most stubborn readers ever, I forced myself to keep reading! Lol :) And I may have read the book you're talking about by Vivian. I don't really know, I mean, she writes a whole lot of books! But hey, all the more for us to read, right? :)

Betty Damil said:

ahh....i recongnize he name. Vivian, i know i read one of her books. a vampire one forgot the title though...lol

Thanks for writing! ;) 

I never read gone with the wind. is it THAT good?

lol i never liked mysteries. lol so i was never a fan of nancy drew. 

Callie Leah said:

Lol, I love your choices, Betty! Those are all very good authors, but my favorites are a bit different. My absolute favorite author is and always will be Margaret Mitchell. She wrote Gone With the Wind, and I admire her because of the way she writes! When I was reading that book, I could feel the connection that characters had with each other and the passion and hatred between some and the love and care between others!

 

Another USED TO BE Caroline Keene- the known author of the Nancy Drew series. I loved how each book was written so perfectly to where you could always understand everything that was going on. Of course, that changed when I found out that Caroline Keene is not a real person, but a pseudonym for at least 12 different ghost writers that wrote those books.

 

My only other favorite so far is Vivian Vande Velde. I LOVE her books! She has this unique writing style that tells everything from a rather uncommon point of view. I don't know much about her, but I'm guessing she either grew up in or lives in Rochester, NY because a lot of her books take place there :) Actually, I think you might like her too, Betty. My favorite book by her is a Rumplestiltskin book. She says how she didn't understand the story and writes six 'better' versions :)

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