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Camilla Send a noteboard - 05/10/2010 11:54:01 PM
Was thinking about the October Book Club and how wonderful Kazuo Ishiguro is, with his deep understanding of humanity and his ability to paint subtle pictures with words. I need to replace the books by him that I left behind in hostels.

Soooo.

Which authors would you unreservedly recommend to people?


I don't unreservedly recommend. I tend to take into account the people I am recommending to. That said, Helen DeWitt and Nick Harkaway are among my most recommended, in part because I assume people have heard of the others I would recommend, and that they have therefore either read them or decided not to. I think Frances A. Yates will also join the list of gushees (or is the gushee the one that is being gushed at?). I also gush about Dumas, Wodehouse, Tolkien, Borges, Eco, Benjamin (I do recommend him a lot) and Calvino. It depends a lot on context, though. Muriel Spark is on my mind a lot lately. And Stephen Fry.

Who do you love to read again and again?


All of the above?

Which authors do you think are consummate artists?


Borges. The others all have traces of it. Borges, and possibly Benjamin (but I have never read him in original) blows me away with it.
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Which authors do you gush over? Rebekah - 05/10/2010 11:07:03 PM 938 Views
Re: Which authors do you gush over? Legolas - 05/10/2010 11:46:07 PM 590 Views
Dahl? Which works in particular? *NM* Ghavrel - 06/10/2010 12:37:41 AM 236 Views
Pretty much all of them? Why, have you had bad experiences with him? *NM* Legolas - 06/10/2010 12:41:58 AM 212 Views
No, the experiences I remember were largely positive. Ghavrel - 06/10/2010 03:10:38 AM 550 Views
Oh, I meant mostly his children's books, haven't read all of his adult stuff either. Legolas - 06/10/2010 10:04:56 AM 525 Views
Re: His short stories are mostly fantastic. And creepy! Danae al'Thor - 06/10/2010 01:54:37 PM 547 Views
ignore this *NM* Bookwyrm - 12/10/2010 04:55:50 PM 351 Views
Camilla - 05/10/2010 11:54:01 PM 611 Views
You like Harkaway? I never saw that coming... Tom - 06/10/2010 12:39:21 AM 592 Views
Re: You like Harkaway? I never saw that coming... Camilla - 06/10/2010 09:19:55 AM 571 Views
Goodkind. And whoever wrote that Hanna Montana "Crush-tastic" book. Tom - 06/10/2010 12:37:39 AM 563 Views
u so sli *NM* Ghavrel - 06/10/2010 12:38:43 AM 261 Views
i lik crossfire *NM* Dan - 07/10/2010 04:04:54 AM 249 Views
Tanith Lee and Catherynne Valente. *NM* Aeryn - 06/10/2010 01:58:47 AM 255 Views
A Theory of Fun, by Raph Koster. lord-of-shadow - 06/10/2010 03:40:28 AM 592 Views
Re: I am not longer a twelve-year old girl, and therefore I do not gush. Danae al'Thor - 06/10/2010 01:53:59 PM 581 Views
Piffle Camilla - 06/10/2010 06:50:59 PM 583 Views
Re: Dude! Danae al'Thor - 06/10/2010 07:59:58 PM 588 Views
Robert Charles Wilson Gher - 06/10/2010 03:47:57 PM 619 Views
Re: Which authors do you gush over? Stephen - 06/10/2010 05:13:12 PM 597 Views
I don't gush Larry - 06/10/2010 11:48:19 PM 669 Views
Re: Which authors do you gush over? Novo - 07/10/2010 12:07:26 AM 596 Views
Robert Anton Wilson, Jung, and I'm getting to be gushy over Steinbeck. Panorphaeon - 07/10/2010 06:22:40 AM 543 Views
Wodehouse, Orwell, and Douglas Adams. I'll never tire of reading and rereading their books. *NM* RandAllThor - 08/10/2010 08:18:03 PM 266 Views
I think Ted Dekker might be my favorite author now. *NM* ranagrande - 10/10/2010 01:36:08 AM 239 Views
R.A. Salvatore. I know it's absurd but his Drizzt novels get me misty, esp when his dwarves grieve. Bookwyrm - 12/10/2010 04:57:38 PM 650 Views
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