I was absolutely influenced by Roald Dahl, both his works for the younger crowd and for the more...mature readers. :) I also loved James Thurbur, an American writer who was subtle, funny, and very very good at capturing human nature at its most real and absurd. I am also a writer, and I can only hope that my name might be added to this list someday, as I have a book coming out in December from Chipmunka Publishers in London. The book is called Every Little Thing and here is what it says on the cover flap: Once upon a time, a girl child was born. In most cases, girls grow up fine. THIS girl grew up…interesting. By incredible happenstance, she became a share-holder of a castle; a petty thief; a performance art critic; a victim of guerrilla warfare and organic farming. She did all this, before she got married and had the five kids. Add into the mix a kleptomaniac English Mastiff and the stories only grow exponentially in FUN! More remarkable yet, our heroine threw caution to the North wind and moved to Iceland where she encountered a real Viking, an unreal date (or two), went insane, and fell in love with the most beautiful island nation in the world. Read these short-short true-life stories, and prepare to laugh out loud. Most importantly, be so very thankful they didn’t happen to YOU.
Yeah, I love Roald Dahl as well. He's written loads of great stories: The Witches, Danny Champion of the World, George's Marvelous Medicine, Matilda, The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are some of them. I was very tempted to vote for him, it was a tough choice!
Read "My Uncle Oswald"... It is a more "adult" book that he wrote. Think "charlie and the chocolate factory" except instead of oompa loompas think the greatest minds of the 1920s, and instead of chocolate think aphrodisiacs, and instead of Willie Wonka, think a nubile young lady who has an insatiable need for sex, and a business deal which involves unwitting sperm donorship.
Roald Dahl. He was a hip dude. Wrote many wonderful books, but I read them all SO long ago that I can't even remember most of them.James and the Giant Peach was great.He also wrote something called Boy I think.Whatelse did Dahl write? I'm drawing a blank right now.
Move over Shakespeare J.K is in the house! but then again they all have a unique style in their writing; all their books are a good read.
Hard to pick - they're all AWESOME!!!!
I love Roald Dahl's books. I've read them as long as I can remember! "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "The Witches", "Matilda"...
I was absolutely influenced by Roald Dahl, both his works for the younger crowd and for the more...mature readers. :) I also loved James Thurbur, an American writer who was subtle, funny, and very very good at capturing human nature at its most real and absurd. I am also a writer, and I can only hope that my name might be added to this list someday, as I have a book coming out in December from Chipmunka Publishers in London. The book is called Every Little Thing and here is what it says on the cover flap: Once upon a time, a girl child was born. In most cases, girls grow up fine. THIS girl grew up…interesting. By incredible happenstance, she became a share-holder of a castle; a petty thief; a performance art critic; a victim of guerrilla warfare and organic farming. She did all this, before she got married and had the five kids. Add into the mix a kleptomaniac English Mastiff and the stories only grow exponentially in FUN! More remarkable yet, our heroine threw caution to the North wind and moved to Iceland where she encountered a real Viking, an unreal date (or two), went insane, and fell in love with the most beautiful island nation in the world. Read these short-short true-life stories, and prepare to laugh out loud. Most importantly, be so very thankful they didn’t happen to YOU.
Yeah, I love Roald Dahl as well. He's written loads of great stories: The Witches, Danny Champion of the World, George's Marvelous Medicine, Matilda, The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are some of them. I was very tempted to vote for him, it was a tough choice!
Read "My Uncle Oswald"... It is a more "adult" book that he wrote. Think "charlie and the chocolate factory" except instead of oompa loompas think the greatest minds of the 1920s, and instead of chocolate think aphrodisiacs, and instead of Willie Wonka, think a nubile young lady who has an insatiable need for sex, and a business deal which involves unwitting sperm donorship.
Roald Dahl. He was a hip dude. Wrote many wonderful books, but I read them all SO long ago that I can't even remember most of them.James and the Giant Peach was great.He also wrote something called Boy I think.Whatelse did Dahl write? I'm drawing a blank right now.
Where the hell is Jackie Collins???
I´d prefer Stephenie MEYER !!! yeah !!!