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vinnievin777
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:44 AM Original message |
Who is your favorite author ever? |
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WindRavenX
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Zomby Woof
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
73. From that era |
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mikh
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Sat Dec-18-04 11:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
103. Jayne Anne Philips |
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mark414
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. vonnegut |
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Forkboy
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:33 AM Response to Reply #2 |
27. yep,same here |
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The Velveteen Ocelot
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. Kurt Vonnegut. |
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
52. Definitely Vonnegut |
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NNadir
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Sat Dec-18-04 09:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
63. Vonnegut is the greatest. |
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Erika
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
4. It's got to be Emile Zola |
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DeepGreen
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
5. William Blake |
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vinnievin777
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Sun Dec-19-04 12:02 PM Response to Reply #5 |
121. Check out |
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wtmusic
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
6. Gabriel Garcia Marquez n/t |
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progmom
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:16 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. He's definitely on my top 5 |
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enigmatic
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
7. Bukowski |
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RagingInMiami
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
8. Henry Miller was definitely the most inspirational author |
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EstimatedProphet
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
9. Philip K. Dick |
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TransitJohn
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
42. Ditto |
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EstimatedProphet
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Sat Dec-18-04 11:37 AM Response to Reply #42 |
69. Oh, I'm sure we probably did |
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
10. Willa Cather. |
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SarahB
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:38 AM Response to Reply #10 |
60. She's very good. |
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Zomby Woof
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
74. yes |
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meganmonkey
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
11. Tom Robbins |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
12. God.. the Bible |
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JohnKleeb
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:11 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. well you obviously have a better bible then the fundie protestants |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:27 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. God was the inspiration behind those authors |
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JohnKleeb
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:29 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. true |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:33 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I know.. and yes I've heard and read about King James as well |
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leftofthedial
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:28 PM Response to Reply #19 |
75. and you know this how? |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 02:34 PM Response to Reply #75 |
79. I have not asked you to believe this |
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leftofthedial
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Sun Dec-19-04 03:21 AM Response to Reply #79 |
110. sorry! happy holidays! |
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LDS Jock
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Sun Dec-19-04 12:14 PM Response to Reply #110 |
124. I wish I could hand you a viper |
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leftofthedial
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Sun Dec-19-04 12:19 PM Response to Reply #124 |
125. how am I intolerant |
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LDS Jock
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Sun Dec-19-04 04:57 PM Response to Reply #125 |
130. I didn't start the religious debate |
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pres2032
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:33 AM Response to Reply #13 |
28. mine has the Apocrapha and Deutacannonical |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:36 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I've never understood the phobia some have with it |
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pres2032
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Sat Dec-18-04 02:08 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. right |
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laheina
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:27 AM Response to Reply #28 |
55. The book of Wisdom |
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Erika
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. The Bible....But the LDS only Believe in it as far as it is.... |
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Erika
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:20 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Oh I forgot another Mormon Book |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:27 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. its Doctrine AND Covenants |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:31 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Yes, you are correct in that statement. |
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Erika
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:06 AM Response to Reply #24 |
37. The interpretation of the Bible to fit groups needs is common |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:11 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. the church uses the KJV |
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Erika
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:25 AM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Ah, what are you getting at? |
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Nordic
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Sat Dec-18-04 02:42 AM Response to Reply #12 |
34. you seriously think God wrote the Bible? |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:08 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. I do believe God was the force behind the Bible |
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Nordic
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:25 AM Response to Reply #38 |
44. that's like saying "Evolution" wrote most modern biology books |
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Bzzzz
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:33 AM Response to Reply #44 |
56. You've got my nod on that... |
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Erika
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:12 AM Response to Reply #34 |
40. Which Bible? |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:15 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. what is your problem? |
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Erika
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:28 AM Response to Reply #41 |
46. You also might reply as to why Mormons vote almost 99% GOP |
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Erika
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:33 AM Response to Reply #46 |
47. I should be honest. |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:47 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. then you can answer your own questions and stop attacking me |
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mikh
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Sat Dec-18-04 11:17 PM Response to Reply #48 |
104. ...like your attitude... |
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LDS Jock
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:55 AM Response to Reply #46 |
49. attitudes like yours might be responsible |
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mairceridwen
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:15 AM Response to Reply #49 |
120. wow. |
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LDS Jock
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Sun Dec-19-04 12:11 PM Response to Reply #120 |
123. thanks.. I know the majority here are tolerant |
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bicentennial_baby
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
14. Neil Gaiman |
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skygazer
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
77. All over that |
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NervousRex
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
15. The trucker that inked... |
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
21. Thomas Wolfe |
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
92. Black Shiny Shoes... |
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Historic NY
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
23. Ernest Hemingway......he liked to have a few or so like me....n/t |
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Nordic
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
26. Margaret Atwood is up there |
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Dirk39
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Sat Dec-18-04 01:42 AM Response to Original message |
30. Kafka |
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FreedomFry
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Sat Dec-18-04 02:11 AM Response to Original message |
32. Just about any British writer of the 19th century... |
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timtom
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Sat Dec-18-04 02:25 AM Response to Original message |
33. Vonnegut and Booth Tarkington |
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Sat Dec-18-04 02:43 AM Response to Original message |
35. Oscar Wilde n/t |
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ReadTomPaine
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Sat Dec-18-04 02:44 AM Response to Original message |
36. Not mentioned yet - Rainer Maria Rilke. n/t |
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LeighAnn
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:25 AM Response to Original message |
45. P. G. Wodehouse |
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:46 PM Response to Reply #45 |
82. he did so much more than Jeeves |
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tcfrogs
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:40 AM Response to Original message |
50. Bill James |
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TyeDye75
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:06 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. George Orwell and Homer (technically a poet but you know...) |
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:24 AM Response to Original message |
53. It's almost impossible for me to pick just one! |
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:26 AM Response to Original message |
54. Fydor Dostoyevsky |
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Sat Dec-18-04 07:16 PM Response to Reply #54 |
87. Ooh, seconded |
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:19 AM Response to Original message |
57. Gore Vidal |
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:23 AM Response to Original message |
58. If I had to choose, probably Jane Austen |
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
59. Dickens n/t |
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SarahB
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
61. John Irving. |
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:22 PM Response to Reply #61 |
71. i like him too. |
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
62. William Shakespeare |
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Sat Dec-18-04 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
64. O. Henry, then Dickens...both looked at Social problems and brought |
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Sat Dec-18-04 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
65. Lawrence Sanders |
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vinnievin777
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Sat Dec-18-04 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
66. Good ones |
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Sat Dec-18-04 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
67. Flannery O'Connor |
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Sat Dec-18-04 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
68. Isaac Asimov |
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Sun Dec-19-04 09:10 AM Response to Reply #68 |
117. Asimov and Sagan are sorely needed today. |
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Sun Dec-19-04 04:03 PM Response to Reply #117 |
127. Yeah, CPD. What happened to people with brains? |
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
70. Cervantes |
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
72. Armistead Maupin |
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
76. I have many favorites because I love to read. |
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Sat Dec-18-04 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
78. Marguerite Duras--The Lover--Mesmerizing |
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
80. Dostoevsky I've probably read more than any other author... |
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
81. Asimov |
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:05 PM Response to Reply #81 |
83. I will second |
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Sat Dec-18-04 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
84. Do you know who he is??? |
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Sat Dec-18-04 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
85. James Michener. |
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Sat Dec-18-04 11:21 PM Response to Reply #85 |
105. ...yes but... |
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Sun Dec-19-04 09:12 AM Response to Reply #105 |
118. My favorite would be 'Texas' |
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Sun Dec-19-04 04:47 PM Response to Reply #105 |
129. Centennial and the Source are my Michener faves |
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Sat Dec-18-04 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
86. thoreau and tolstoy (couldn't pick one) |
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Sat Dec-18-04 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
88. Fitzgerald... |
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Lizzie Borden
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Sat Dec-18-04 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
89. Dostoyevsky. |
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
90. Philip K. Dick |
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
91. John Irving nt |
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
93. Authors Du Jour....I love non-fiction n/t |
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
94. The author everyone has been bashing since F-911 |
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Sat Dec-18-04 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
95. Mark Twain |
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Sat Dec-18-04 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
96. Not one of you mentioned... |
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Sat Dec-18-04 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
97. I like Patricia Cornwell. |
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Sat Dec-18-04 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
98. Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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Sat Dec-18-04 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
99. J Heller, K. Vonnegut, G. Orwell, F.A. Hayek.... |
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Sat Dec-18-04 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
100. George Orwell |
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Sat Dec-18-04 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
101. George R.R. Martin. |
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Sat Dec-18-04 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
102. Robert Anton WIlson, Tom Robbins, Robert Heinlein-- |
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Sun Dec-19-04 01:39 AM Response to Reply #102 |
108. Robert Anton Wilson! |
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Sun Dec-19-04 09:04 AM Response to Reply #108 |
116. I just got "Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything" |
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vinnievin777
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Sun Dec-19-04 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
106. Don't Forget |
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Sun Dec-19-04 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
107. Gustave Flaubert |
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Sun Dec-19-04 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
109. Dorothy Dunnett, George R R Martin, Twain , James Clavell, |
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Sun Dec-19-04 03:41 AM Response to Original message |
111. Right now, Michael Chibon and Philip Roth... |
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Sun Dec-19-04 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
112. Garcia Marquez. Romain Rolland, Maurice Druon, Asimov |
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Sun Dec-19-04 04:00 AM Response to Original message |
113. Edmund Spenser. |
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Sun Dec-19-04 04:12 AM Response to Original message |
114. Orwell or Richard Wright n/t |
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Sun Dec-19-04 05:50 AM Response to Original message |
115. J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
119. Vladimir Nabokov |
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Sun Dec-19-04 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
122. Jack Kerouac |
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Sun Dec-19-04 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
126. Arundhati Roy is my hero! |
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Sun Dec-19-04 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
128. Camus, Vonnegut, Sagan and Loren Eiseley |
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