Who's your favorite author?

[Antonius]

For fiction. Fredrick Forsyth (English)
John Graham (USA)

For factual, Antonia Fraser (Historian)

[Heinrich]

Poet: Willie S.
Novelist: Charlie Dickens
Essayist: Pat Buchanan
Historian: E Michael Jones

[Michael Wilson]

Charlie Dickens,
only read two of his works: "Hard Times" and "The Picwick Papers"; the first is one of his fictional accounts of two wealthy children being brought up under the auspices of their private tutor: "Mr. McChoakumchild Child"; with a name like that, one can imagine the terrible effect he has upon the unhappy pupils that fall under his care.
"The Pickwick Papers" is a farce about this private men's club that dedicate themselves to exploring the English country and delving into all kinds of interesting facets of what was then English life; except that they are incredibly inept and keep getting themselves into all kinds of jambs. 

[Bernadette]

Charlie Dickens,
only read two of his works: "Hard Times" and "The Picwick Papers"; the first is one of his fictional accounts of two wealthy children being brought up under the auspices of their private tutor: "Mr. McChoakumchild Child"; with a name like that, one can imagine the terrible effect he has upon the unhappy pupils that fall under his care.
"The Pickwick Papers" is a farce about this private men's club that dedicate themselves to exploring the English country and delving into all kinds of interesting facets of what was then English life; except that they are incredibly inept and keep getting themselves into all kinds of jambs. 

I hate Hard Times. So much. Love all of his other novels. One thing I look forward to in Heaven is finding out how The Mystery of Edwin Drood ends.

[Heinrich]

I am reading Christmas Carol in Spanish. Slow going. The depth of character in relation to setting is imagination artistry.

[drummerboy]

I am reading Christmas Carol in Spanish. Slow going. The depth of character in relation to setting is imagination artistry.

I'm shocked and scandalized you're not reading it in Deutsche.

[Heinrich]

I am reading Christmas Carol in Spanish. Slow going. The depth of character in relation to setting is imagination artistry.

I'm shocked and scandalized you're not reading it in Deutsche.

Ruhe, bitte. Next project. Thinking Macbeth auf deutsch.

[Bernadette]

My favorite poet is Walt Whitman. Still remember reading his Leaves of Grass for the first time in high school.

[Antonius]

It has been suggested, at some point during his lifetime. Charles Dickens, visited the part of England of my birth, and still reside. What was, the industrial part of England. And Dickens is rumoured to have based Hard Times on his visit. Despite that, I must admit, it is not particularly my favourite Charles Dickens book either. 

[Antonius]

Just learnt how to edit my own post. Technology, I will grasp and overcome.

[james03]

Non fiction:

Hard to pick.  Hillaire Belloc, Warren Carroll for Church history, Josef Pieper for Philosophy.  St. Augustine, though he is very deep and it is a slog.  Very profitable.

Umberto Echo, Foucault's Pendulum, was excellent for fiction.  I'd have to go with Tolkien due to his originality and lacing his story with Catholicism in a subtle way, for an overall fiction author pick.  Nick Cole's Control-Alt-Revolt was very entertaining and original for Sci Fi, especially considering it was my first foray into SciFi.  For comedy, The Missionaries by pen-name Owen Stanley was hilarious.

[Michael Wilson]

Ayn Rand's "Anthem": about a future distopia where the Communist government's efforts of making all of its citizens equal in misery is a pre-view of what is happening to us here in the West.

[Bernadette]

Non fiction:

Hard to pick.  Hillaire Belloc, Warren Carroll for Church history, Josef Pieper for Philosophy.  St. Augustine, though he is very deep and it is a slog.  Very profitable.

Some day Warren Carroll's books will be available as ebooks. I can dream, right?

I have the Confessions as an audiobook (read by a Scot. Yum.), but haven't finished it yet. I usually listen before I fall asleep, and it doesn't lend itself to bedtime reading.

[james03]

(read by a Scot. Yum.),

Chicks and foreign accents.

Euro/UK-Caths, ship your sons over here and they'll be married in a week.

[drummerboy]

Ayn Rand's "Anthem": about a future distopia where the Communist government's efforts of making all of its citizens equal in misery is a pre-view of what is happening to us here in the West.

Sounds like Harris' "opportunity economy"