Favourite Writer/Author/Poet of Indibloggers?
So who is ur favourite author/poet/writer Indibloggers??
Oscar Wilde, O Henry, William Blake, William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare, John Keats
After all these years I realised that I still remember my favourite stories 'Happy prince' and 'The last leaf'. However I ended up forgetting many of my favourite poems but I am happy that I dint forget the poets :)
Nice topic! Hope I can get back to the poems now.
That's one good list you got there.
There's a Neil Diamond song, Dry Your Eyes, that goes: 'If you can't recall the singer you can still recall the tune.'
Poems may be of different kind unlike stories that have beginning, middle, and end. Still, some poems stick and never leaves you.
Hey Rajesh, You are so very true!
And some of those lines are 'I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul' from Invictus and 'But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep' :)
And ironically enough, I missed out Robert Frost in my post
Favourite writer: Arundhati Roy. Her writing style is about 100 steps ahead of any other contemporary writer. This is irrespective of whether one agrees with her or not.
Favourite poet: I don't read poems. :D
:O You don't read poems? You're missing an entire half of the thing called "Literature"! Come on!
Not reading poems is like Packing your bags for a holiday, carrying them all the way to the front porch, and coming back inside to continue with a normal day. Or its like going into a party without music. Or its like .... forget it!
@Xeno a good attempt +1
@Sulagna Peoms at times are boring, not bcoz of poems but bcoz of the poet. Bcoz of a few poets who are not at all good (including me) dont stop reading them altogether. 
I'd wager Roy is poetic enough. She truly is. But horizons are there to be expanded.
If you are asking me outside the forum it is Sidney Sheldon, Aurther Hailey, Robin Cook, Sherlock Holmes, Shoba De, R.K.Naryan, Khuswant Singh, Mario Puzo etc.
If you ask me poet Robert Frost, Bernard Shaw in his own way and playwright William Shakespear
Shaw, Shakespeare, RK Narayan... Umesh, hats off to you!
Shaw, Shoba and Shakespeare should have been the combo Lolz Ahimaaz
My bad! I was maybe looking for the author with the initial Q after RKN, RC.
O my! I feel so lost..!
Nobody's there for Champak, Tinkle, Chacha Chowdhary and Archie??? 
Yeah we all have read them but do you know who the authors are?
sorry grammatical sequence error: "we have all"
for Me! 
Catch up with what I think is a list of all-time great writers in English:
http://blog.teega.com/p/my-best-friends.html
English: Mark Twain, Charles ****ens, Tolstoy, Fitzgerald,Shakespeare,James Joyce, Tolkien.Margaret Mitchell, how can I forget her! 1984 is nice too.
Wordsworth, sylvia plath, shelley and many others i cant recall.
Carlos Castenada comes to mind with his distinctive style, although I dont mind the content.If its all a big lie, which I suspect it is, then he has said it beautifully.
Basho is a big favorite but he wrote Japanese, and his haikus coaxed me into start learning Japanese.
Kalidasa (sanskrit) and Kamban (tamil) are great, Valmiki also shows brilliant shades but the whole literary effort is mediocre.
Kabir, Lal Ded(Kashmiri) and Osho win me over.Lal Ded's poetry is especially exquisite.
D!ckens would be turning in his grave right now, hate the way Blogger 'asterifies' his name.Bad coding, thats all.
That's very eclectic. Did you read Kamban in translation and if yes which one is it?
I wish Joyce had a "middle" work between Ulysses and Finnegans Wake like Pynchon has V or The Crying of Lot 49 between Gravity's Rainbow and Against the Day, so that I could read him. I'm not sure one could claim to have read him after reading just Dubliners.
about the translation, i have the one by Sundaram.
I started reading early, leaning over Ruskin and R.K Narayan.At that time I read small works mainly, but I had done reading Ulysess in 9th grade and Gone With The Wind in 10th.Then I devoured shakespeare like hot cake while in junior college, but found Wuthering Heights a thoroughly difficult read that took time to finish.
And then I have been reading all shades of fiction and non-fiction.Nothing to with theme, good writing and I jump for it!
Kambar was read while in school and it was a joy to memorize the verses in the classic tongue.
You are a persistent reader. I remember reading Crime and Punishment and left it at three-fouth and it's still at three-fourth six years past. So is the case with Great Expectations and some more.
Lately, I've learned the knack to pick up thin but dense books but once in a while I order thick ones in hopes I will read them and read them I will.
"crime and punishment*
the one by the russian ? i think there is another one by him called The Brothers Karamazov.Very impressive.
Among the lesser known ones, especially in India, I have read The Rubaiyat of O.K, and Masnavi.If you want to try your patience, try reading "All and Everything" by Gurdjieff.I believe Osho when he says that only two people have read that book completely.
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus is another depressing book.I think I will never understand philosophers.
I've read a chapter from Brothers Karamazov called The Grand Inquisitor. Dostoyevsky has thin works as well like Notes from Underground. He's impressive but his works, both for better and worse, made psychoanalysts take themselves too seriously.
I will look up the Gurdjieff title. If you don't understand philosophers you should check out Derrida. He deconstructs them in his own impenetrable ways. I'm stepping slowly and cautiously into Continental philosophy at the moment.
John KeatsVirginia WoolfJim Morrison
Hi Anukriti - here are some of my favourites:
Authors: George Orwell, Lewis Caroll, Ayn Rand, Jane Austen, P G Wodehouse, Alex Haley, Charles ****ens, Robin Sharma, Arundhati Roy, R K Narayan, Roald Dahl
Poets: Robert Frost, Rabindranath Tagore, TS Eliot, William Wordsworth, John Milton, WB Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christian Rossetti
2 awesome chick lit authors - Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella
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