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Monday, November 8, 2010

Authors that Just Totally Do it Man!

So this comes via a recent spate of Facebook forwards...Who are the top 15 authors (poets, and screen-writers included) who've influenced you and who will always stick with you? List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. 

Here's my list...as with all things, I'm desperately wishing it was the top 20 or wait top 25! There are so many more that I want to add in...like, Ken Follet, J.D. Salinger, Jeffrey Archer, Robin Cook, Ayn Rand, John Grisham, Eric Segal, Vikram Seth and the most recent addition, Aravind Adiga hahaha :) 
  1. Khalil Gibran
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Enid Blyton
  4. Virginia Wolf
  5. Fredric Forsyth
  6. Jane Austen
  7. J. K. Rowling
  8. P G Wodehouse
  9. Emily Bronte
  10. Clive Cussler
  11. Khaled Hosseini
  12. Maya Angelou
  13. Edgar Alan Poe
  14. Alexandre Dumas
  15. Stephenie Meyer

Look forward to your thoughts readers!
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7 comments:

  1. SuryeahNovember 8, 2010 at 3:45 PM

    Stephanie Meyer has influenced you? Really??

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  2. OMGNovember 8, 2010 at 4:01 PM

    haha have you read The Host?

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  3. Just BecauseNovember 11, 2010 at 7:44 AM

    Good point about Aravid Adiga. He has totally influenced me!

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  4. Just BecauseNovember 11, 2010 at 7:56 AM

    A little late but better than never. Here goes:

    1. Charles Dickens
    2. Jane Austen
    3. Agatha Christie
    4. Jonathan Swift
    5. Emily Bronte
    6. R.K. Narayan
    7. Ayn Rand
    8. Robert Ludlum
    9. Khaled Hosseini
    10. Robin Cook
    11. Thomas Friedman
    12. Margaret Mitchell
    13. Mark Twain
    14. Louisa May Alcott
    15. Aravind Adiga

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  5. OMGNovember 11, 2010 at 11:27 AM

    Oh, Alcott and Margaret Mitchell are a couple of gems I'd forgotten about completely...sigh!!! Makes me feel ancient now that I'm forgetting some of these classics!

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  6. Just BecauseNovember 16, 2010 at 9:50 AM

    :) Little Women was one of my childhood fav! Anyway, I came back here to say 'OMG, I cannot believe I forgot Paulo Coelho'!

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  7. OMGNovember 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM

    Hmm...I'm kinda glad you left Coelho out :):)

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