Who is Your Favourite Author?

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By MrsJ
Belews Creek, North Carolina
March 15, 2019 12:06pm CST
This morning I finished the eighth book in the Anne of Green Gables series. It started over the Christmas holidays. My daughters and I watched the movie based on the first book in the series (the made-for-TV mini-series starring Megan Follows). The movie was faithful to the original novel. We watched the first half of the second mini-series that was made a couple of years later and my oldest daughter and I had a lengthy discussion on the liberties that the scriptwriter had taken with the original material. I have never watched the third mini-series (Anne of Green Gables the Continuing Story) because the trailer that I saw was virtually unrecognizable as the story as written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I didn’t re-read the first book in the series. I’ve read it more times than I can remember over the years but since the first of the year, I have re-read the rest of the series. It was a pleasant surprise to enjoy the last half of the series (beginning with Anne’s House of Dreams) far more now than I did when I originally read them many, many years ago. And the final book, Rilla of Ingleside, that I just finished this morning has secured L. M. Montgomery as my all-time favourite author. Unlike the other books in the series. Rilla is a true historical novel documenting the Canadian Homefront during World War I. In all honesty, I probably cried harder reading parts of it than I did when I first read Anne as a child (Anne of Green Gables was the first novel I ever read that moved me to tears). I’m a little sad to say goodbye to the Anne saga. But I am looking forward to reading some of her other novels (Emily of New Moon is next on my list) and there is always her vast treasure trove of short stories if I want something short and sweet. Favourite authors are much like old friends with the added benefit that they can keep us company at anytime day or night. Do you have a favourite author?
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@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Mar 19
That would be F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
15 Mar 19
I've enjoyed his stuff. Which is your favourite? (I'm having entirely too much fun annoying Grammarly with British spelling )
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@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
15 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros I always use British spelling. I learnt it at school and stick to it.
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
15 Mar 19
@MALUSE I'm Canadian. American spelling looks wrong to me. Grammarly argues with me about it daily.
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@WiseGhots (14607)
15 Mar 19
I don't have a THE favorite, but I like Stephen King.
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@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Mar 19
King used to be good but has been mediocre to bad the last couple decades.
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
15 Mar 19
I've enjoyed some of Stephen King's stuff. But most of it is a bit too dark and creepy for me.
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@WiseGhots (14607)
15 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros Haha... That's why I like his books!
@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
15 Mar 19
I've read so many books in my life that I can't answer this. I don't re-read books. So many books, so little time!
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
15 Mar 19
I'll never read everything that interests me and there are a lot of books that I would not reread. However, there are some that I reread as part of education my children that I enjoyed more and got more out of than when I originally read them myself as a child.
@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
15 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros I can understand this. An adult reads a book for children or teens differently.
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
16 Mar 19
I really can't choose a favorite author. I enjoy so many from Barbara Bradford Taylor, Pat Conroy, Brad Meltzer, Bella Polle, Edgar Allen Poe, even Walt Whitman.
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
16 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros I hear you! I am about to start a new book right now. I don't even care who wrote it. I feel like reading and relaxing. Enjoy your Saturday!!!!
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
16 Mar 19
There are a lot of fantastic authors and I don't read one to the exclusion of all others. However, I do find myself regularly circling back to Montgomery and I have never had reason to regret that.
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
16 Mar 19
Thanks! You too!
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@db20747 (43406)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
16 Mar 19
My favorite auther was of young adult writer Walter Dean Myers!!
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
16 Mar 19
Fallen Angels was really good!
@CarolDM (203478)
• Nashville, Tennessee
15 Mar 19
I don't have a favorite one. But I love the daffodils in the photo.
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@CarolDM (203478)
• Nashville, Tennessee
15 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros I have some around one tree in the back, I need to plant more.
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
15 Mar 19
Thanks you. My yard is full of daffodils at the moment.
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@TheHorse (203760)
• Walnut Creek, California
21 Mar 19
Richard Hughes, John Fowles, Mark Twain, Tony Hillerman...
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@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
21 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros I've read books by Fowles, Twain and Hillerman. Only Hughes is a name which means nothing to me.
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Mar 19
Of that list, I'm only familiar with Twain. I suddenly feel grossly illiterate.
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Mar 19
@MALUSE ...and now I feel even MORE illiterate.
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@JudyEv (323706)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Mar 19
I don't think I do really but I do have a few books which are strong favourites.
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@JudyEv (323706)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros True. A couple at a time is usually enough.
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Mar 19
Usually I get tired of an author after I've read a couple of their books back to back. I'm on book 9 of my L. M. Montgomery run and still going strong. She also has an awesome assortment of short stories.
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@Hannihar (129111)
• Israel
25 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros I saw Anne of Green Gables on Netflix and liked it very much. It has not come back again. I hope it will. I like Fay Kellerman books. I like others as well.
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@Hannihar (129111)
• Israel
26 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros Yes that is what I was referring to. I have never heard of it before I saw it on Netflix.
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
25 Mar 19
I've heard that the Netflix version of Anne of Green Gables, Anne with an E, is only loosely based on the original book (if that is what you are referring to). I have not watched it.
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@LowRiderX (22912)
• Serbia
17 Mar 19
I would single out as a favorite - Clive Cussler
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Mar 19
I've only read his kid's book :Vin Fizz
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• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Mar 19
@LowRiderX time to practice your English skills, perhaps?
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@LowRiderX (22912)
• Serbia
21 Mar 19
@SophiaMorros I did not hear for that his book. He has a lot of books, but most of them do not have a translation into the Serbian language and they are not available for sale here. His book 'Raise the Titanic' I could not find it here, and then one acquaintance sent me from the United States, so I have that book, but it's in English language
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