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Who's your Carax?
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Wow... hard question.... I do tend to read everything an author has written if I love it, though. Current faves are Jodi Picoult, Christopher Moore, and if Harper Lee had ever written another book after To Kill a Mockingbird, she'd be one, too!
Jane Austen! since most of her "juicier" letters were burned... reminds me of Carax's books being burned.
Tolkien, J. R. R. fan all the way through. :) Although current favorites are Carlow Ruiz Zafon, Philippa Gregory, Maria V. Snyder, Robin McKiney, Patricia McKillip, and Kristen Britain, oh and Terry Brooks to name a few haha!
Alethea wrote: "My close second is Neil Gaiman."
Oh that's a very good choice. He's got the whole "writer with a cause and a black leather jacket" thing going on. I love his blog. I love what he stands for too. He's a champion for anti-sensorship and freedom of speech. Pretty darn cool.
Errr... this is a hard question.
My favorite contemporary author is Kristin Cashore! I just love her 1st novel Graceling and I'm eagerly waiting her prequel Fire. I just love her independent nature and everything that she stands for. She rocks!
It's hard to say. At the moment it's Carlos Ruiz Zafón, before him it was Maria V. Snyder, before her... well you get the idea. It depends on my mood at the moment. After I have read an author's backlist or feel the need to take a break from the same style, I move on to something else.
Mindy wrote: "I don't think I could narrow it down to just one. But my most resent Carax would have to be Patrick Rothfuss."He needs to get cracking!! Looks like he's going to be very prolific, from the size of The Name of the Wind. I'm dying for a day off so I can shut everyone out except for Kote (if that is his real name) and co. I'm only on p. 26.
I know, so hard to narrow it down. I have to say mine is Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and it's killing me that I can't read Spanish well enough to comprehend a YA novel! (make that, a YA novel dust-jacket)
My close second is Neil Gaiman.
I don't think I could narrow it down to just one. But my most resent Carax would have to be Patrick Rothfuss.
In The Shadow of the Wind, Daniel Sempere stumbles on a novel by Julian Carax, reads it, loves it, and craves more. If you're a book lover, you know that obsession. So who's your Julian Carax?
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