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By Godstud
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Samurai! by Saburo Sakai, Fred Saito, Martin Caiden
Written by Martin Caidin from Saburo Sakai's own memoirs and journalist Fred Saito's extensive interviews with the fighter pilot, Samurai! vividly documents the chivalry and valor of Saburo Sakai, the combat aviator who time after time fought American fighter pilots and, with 64 kills, would survive the war as Japan's greatest living ace.

Here are the harrowing experiences of one of Japan's greatest aces: from fighter pilot school where the harsh training expelled over half of his class to the thrilling early Japanese victories; from his incredible six hundred mile fight for life from Guadalcanal to his base in Rabaul, to the poignant story of the now-handicapped veteran's return to the air during the final desperate months of World War II.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/693350.Samurai_


Also...

Mote in God's Eye - by Poul Anderson and Larry Niven. Great sci-fi!
By anasawad
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I actually have heard of hem. Read a few of his articles however never read a book of his.
He's a novel writer. So not my type of things.
@godstud.
Never heard of either but m interested in knowing what the second book is about. Will get it soon.

for me i dont personally have a favourite writer. I like many. But for now. M liking patrick seale.
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By Godstud
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I like many, as well. I am just picking out two of my favourites.
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By anarchist23
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Godstud wrote:I like many, as well.

Same with me...



Vladimir Nabokov is considered one of the best prose writers in the English language, although he is Russian.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.





Here is an extract of Vladimir Nabokov from his book....The Eye..

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By anarchist23
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As I said earlier. I have a few favourite writers. My grandfather, George Baker wrote several books and many short stories that were published in the twenties. His autobiography is my favourite book..

First page of grandads autobiography..

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By Pants-of-dog
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All time? That is difficult.

Greatest living English language novelist is Neal Stephenson, in my opinion.
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By Ganeshas Rat
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My favorite author is Philip Dick. Despite his literature. He is definitely not the best author ever. Actually, he wrote poorly. He maybe didn't know how to create worlds. However, he knew how to destroy them. And the feeling of existing in his crumbling universes is unique, at least for me, that's what puts him over all others who have their own value too, of course.
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By anarchist23
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Heathcote Williams is unique...

Whale Nation
The first sound a whale calf hears
Is Singing
The mother lifts her new-born calf to the surface,
And then rolls on her side,
Expressing her milk into its mouth with muscles deep inside her breasts:
Twice as rich in protein as human milk,
Richer than clotted cream.
The songs of their escorts
Filter through the water,
The element of baptism,
In which the whale calf is to be perennially immersed.
Should anything untimely happen to it,
Its mother will support her calf upon her back
Until it disintegrates.
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By Noelnada
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My favorite author is Philip Dick.


He is one of my favourite writers too.

I couldn't name one favourite though, i've read so many different books from so many different authors and enjoyed all of them.

Last i've read was really entertaining, some kind of parody of detective story set in the 80's revolving around the fictious murder of Roland Barthes and involving many famous intellectuals from that time. I learned a bit about semiology and smiled a lot while reading it.

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By anarchist23
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Shame that RhetoricThug is not about. I miss him a lot.

My favorite author is Philip Dick.

He is unique..and brilliant..







Again.. Heathcote Williams

From AC/DC by Heathcote Williams. (1970)

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By noemon
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100 years of Loneliness by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my favourite novel of all time.
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By anarchist23
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noemon wrote:100 years of Loneliness by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my favourite novel of all time.

Another brilliant writer...I have that book and read it a few times.
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By AFAIK
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Haruki Murakami is the only author whom I've read extensively. I like his short stories best of all and Sputnik Sweetheart is probably my favourite novel of his. He's a contemporary Japanese author and very popular around the world.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov.
By pugsville
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cannot name just one

margret attwood, Ursula leGiun , jeanette winterson , glen cook, frederick nieztche, hunter s thompson, umberto ecco, ian m banks, william gibson, john ralston saul, JRR Tolkien, oscar wilde, lorraine petre, douglas adams.
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By Godstud
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AH yes, Douglas Adams.

Brilliant comedy.
“So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
"Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
"What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
"No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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By Drlee
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Patrick O'Brian.

@Neoman

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Love in the Time of Cholera"

A special book.

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