Favourite Writer/Author/Poet of Indibloggers?
So who is ur favourite author/poet/writer Indibloggers??
2 awesome chick lit authors - Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella
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
John KeatsVirginia WoolfJim Morrison
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.
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
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"
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.
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.
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
You are a reader, Arti!
I like this self help book called "Electrical and Electronics Measurements and Instrumentation" by A K Sawney.. I call it a self help book cos everytime I read it, it helps me to go to sleep 
Jokes apart, I'm not really much of a reader so I only read books which make me wanna turn to the next page - the only two books which I completely finished reading r 'The Godfather' and 'The Da Vinci Code'.. if I can read 'em, I'm sure they're great reads.
Also, I flick a lot of Khalil Gibran's lines for every Valentine's Day too - so his work is also sumthin I dnt think I cn do without
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Currently, I'm reading Shantharam and I still findin it hard to get to the ending - it's been two years now
Thnx Arti..saw the movie Angels n Demons, so I already knw the ending(gud one though!! :)) ..probably will take up Lost Symbol after Shantharam.. believe it or not, I already bought the book some time back, still hvnt touched it yet
Wow, think I'll start thn... btw, I'm watchin Godfather again tonite :)
Raj - I must appreciate you for holding onto a 1000-pager like Shantharam. I never had the courage to pick it up against all the recommendations since it's too long and I have too less time to read. I think Mira Nair is adapting it to big screen. Hoping it gets made well and does justice to the critically acclaimed book.
Hey Ahimaaz, thnx fr ur kind words but I must tell u the truth...u only know half the story... at the risk of puttin down my intellectual capabalities (oxymoron here) , lemme reveal to u the real story ... I bought the book bout two years back whn I heard tht Mira Nair ws makin it into a movie with Amitabh Bachchan n Johny Depp.. the night I bought it, I read a few pages n left it by my bed..today 2 years later, I'm quite sure, it's still under my bed n I'm also very sure tht I will complete reading the remainin few 1998 or so pages one day.. but yes, I did hv the courage to hold it.. did help my biceps perhaps.. so thnku fr ur appreciation..
Raj - The story is believable. I have twice as many unfinished books than finished books. So, it's good to hold onto them so that we will eventually finish reading them one day.
Favorite authors - too many to be listed.
Favorite poet - Pablo Neruda and Robert Frost only.
TX - You totally got to list your favorite authors that are too many. Believe me, it's good for you.
I reckon his list really, really too long now that it's taking days together to lay it out
Author: John Grisham, Shashi Deshpande, Paulo Coelho
Poet: Pablo Neruda, Madhavikutty
Did someone mention Mirza Ghalib? Oh yes, Anukriti! Ghalib is the tops. And my favourite sher is:
"Hazaron khwahishein aisi ki har khwahish pay dum niklay
Bahut niklay mere armaan lekin phir bhi kum niklein"
Khaled Hosseni, JK Rowling, O Henry, Roald Dahl, Ayn Rand are my favorites
Poetry--Well havent read much of it, but love the humourous ones of Ogden Nash, and I do appreciate William Wordsworth. My favorite though is 'IF' by Rudyard Kipling.
My favorite writers are ,
Kazuo IshiguroR K NarayanFyodor DostoevskyJohn IrvingGogol
Here are my favourites:
Dan brown, Jeffery Archer, grisham,Sophie kinsella,Allieson Pearson,
Paolo Coelho, i wish i could read in the language that he writes, i have loved mario puzos fictions, joseph heller's sarcasm..Gawd anukriti you read a hell lot :P
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