who is the best writer u can think of? opinions,please! Thank u !!!!!!

Isis, this is a very difficult question to answer. I love so many of them. I think it has to do with each persons own choice of style of writing. Do you have a favorite? I read so many different types of novels that I couldn't say that there was one that I like best. I do however, enjoy Sue Grafton for PI books. I think I like her so much because she writes aobut the area that I live in.

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thats a hard question because i love so many writers for different reasons. but if i had a gun to my head and had to answer-

Fiction-Kurt Vonnegut & Charles Bukowski

poetry- Edgar Allen Poe & Sylvia Plath & Charles Bukowski

thats sounds good to me

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mine go as follows: Anne Rice, Edgar Allen Poe, Victoria Holt, Rosalind Laker, Del James and whole lot of others.......yes, it was a difficult question, but, it helps u find out others interests.............

Anne Rice
Poppy Z Brite
Steven King
Dean Koontz
Edgar Allen Poe
The Scarpetta books (can't remember the author!)
Sue Grafton
Lillian Jackson Braun

err and too many others to remember right now!!

Blessings

MeKare

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The power of a pure and good soul is in every
person's heart and will grow as a seed as you
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Charmaine White Face of the Oglala Larota

love the name, mekare!!!!!!!! sounds familiar.......hehe

Patricia Cornwell, Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine (but I probably like the books she writes as Barbara Vine more), John Grisham and Bill Bryson (who just cracks me up).

For science fiction, Isaac Asimov.
For normal fiction, Cynthia Voigt, I think.
For humor, Douglas Adams.
That's a tough one. I also enjoy Poe and Willa Cather.

I don't know that they are the best writers, but I am a big fan of Susan Issacs (I loved Compromising Positions ) and Anne Tyler (I thought Breathing Lessons was great). They both have an oddball sense of humor and I can really identify with their characters.As soon as either of them comes out with a new book I run for it.

Not in a million years!!

I've been an avid reader since I was a young girl. I have pleasant memories of books throughout my lifetime...
From Nancy Drew to Hannibal...
From Cat in the Hat to Shakespeare...
From teen romance to drugstore-dime novels

It has always been different depending on my mood, age, and mindset. Sometimes it depends on how much time I have or where I'll be reading.

When I sit in the woods hunting I can't take a big hardcover...I take a medium sized paperback. (Nothing to involved, I have to watch for deer!) When I'm commuting a lot I like a book on tape. I like to get the "classics", something I wouldn't have the pacience(ugh..sp!) for otherwise.

Please Don't Make Me Decide!!

Definitely Anne Rice for modern writers, more so for her eloquent writing style than for the topics she chooses to write about (although I love those too! )

As far as Sci-Fi goes, I like Isaac Asimov alot....Horrors: Sthephen King of course... and Drama would be John Grisham...in Spanish,
Gabriel García Marquez (he´s soooo good).
Number 1 feminist~ Virginia Woolf

I love poetry as well, above all Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson....

...feel like I´m forgetting someone...Shakespeare!!! tee hee

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I can't help but notice the lack of classic authors. Dante, Chaucer...

Two of my favorites of the really really old are sophocles and aristophanes.

AS for modern, no list is complete with out the thought provoking orson scott card.

I hate na,ing who is great cause it is impossible to not forget some. oh well.

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When life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemos of your own. -Calvin(Bill Watterson)

Anne Tyler
P.G. Wodehouse
Toni Morrison
Dashiell Hammett
Ring Lardner (Sr.) - "Shut Up He Explained" is a 20th Century classic in my opinion
Sue Grafton
Joan Hess (Maggoddy books, NOT Claire Molloy books)
Maeve Binchy

I'll be back to add more names, I'm sure!!!