My favourite contemporary author is Michael Morpurgo. I have learned much from him.
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Oh dear Jimmy what a slip to make, one of my problems is just barging in without thought lol. not to worry I will make many more gaffs like that one in my posts.
Marge Piercy - as far as I know - isn't. I've only read one book by her that I was disappointed by (having expected the very best), compared to 12 that I wasn't. And she wrote Woman On The Edge Of Time, in my opinion the best utopian novel of all time, the best (though not perfect) blueprint for a future society, and - tied with Carroll's 2 Alice books - my number 1 in ANY genre.
Thomas Pynchon wrote: "Here is somebody with the guts to go into the deepest core of herself, her time, her history, and risk far more than anybody else has so far, just out of a love of the truth and a need to tell it."
I used to think that WOTEOT was the better book, but that One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest painted the more realistic, more horrifying portrayal of what it's like to be committed to a mental institution... until I read the former a 2nd time. It knocks Cuckoo's Nest into a cocked hat.
Oh dear Jimmy what a slip to make, one of my problems is just barging in without thought lol. not to worry I will make many more gaffs like that one in my posts.
Paul G
I know it's difficult to choose, but I was inspired by Morpurgo's, Arthur High King of the Britons.
I admire his style of writing.
If I had to pick a traditional author it would be Jane Austen.
You don't accidently stumble onto perfection six times - Professor Walter Allen.
Sorry Paul, but both of those are dead.
Marge Piercy - as far as I know - isn't. I've only read one book by her that I was disappointed by (having expected the very best), compared to 12 that I wasn't. And she wrote Woman On The Edge Of Time, in my opinion the best utopian novel of all time, the best (though not perfect) blueprint for a future society, and - tied with Carroll's 2 Alice books - my number 1 in ANY genre.
Thomas Pynchon wrote: "Here is somebody with the guts to go into the deepest core of herself, her time, her history, and risk far more than anybody else has so far, just out of a love of the truth and a need to tell it."
I used to think that WOTEOT was the better book, but that One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest painted the more realistic, more horrifying portrayal of what it's like to be committed to a mental institution... until I read the former a 2nd time. It knocks Cuckoo's Nest into a cocked hat.