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Originally posted by Radagast It's all about Tolkien, and all the Tolkien-esque writers that model their stories after his. By this I mean that I like anyone who writes fantasy novels today.

I was just wonderin, do you talk to animals just like your namesake?

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Dan Simmons
Phillip K. Dick
William Gibson
Neil Stephenson
James Clavelle
Tom Robbins
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nietzsche, etc are all good read if you're looking for something a bit, well, better.

I like Nick Hornby. About a Boy and High Fidelity were both made into films but the books are way better.

Jack Black played Barry quite well in High Fidelity tho.

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Paradox @ Soundclick

I like books by Stephen King (I'm currently reading Firestarter), have not yet read anything by Dean Koontz but I'm sure I will in the future.

Furthermore I also love books by Tolkien, have read LOTR twice and The Hobbit once, should make some time to read the other books as well.

And I liked reading some Shakespeare (original texts, no translation) as well.

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d&b session 20090519
My take on... (various mixes planned, updated when I can be arsed)

Michael Marshall Smith and Osho

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Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind. Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line. Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in, I feel it move across my skin. I'm reaching up and reaching out, I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me, whatever will be willed on me. And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going.

Irvine Welsh!!!

Michael Marsahll Smith is also very very good!

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Originally posted by TwoPlow Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nietzsche, etc are all good read if you're looking for something a bit, well, better.

The first writer was talented. But those other two not so much. Nietzsche = Didn't get anything out of him. After realizing through his writings that he was just giving tons of recycled information of other writers(of course, with his sadistic style), all interest was lost. But the three are worth reading.

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Originally posted by Nou Its all about the Gabriel Garcia Marquez right here! About to finish One Hundred Years of Solitude for the THIRD TIME Guy is really good, you should all check him out.

It's a good book.

I don't have favorites. But I'm currently exploring the fields of the church through the eyes of Balzac, Stendhal and Zola.