| Oscar Wilde: Particularly 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' sadly enough as it expresses such sad honesty and pain, however his earlier work is simply divine. |
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| George Martin: Ooo...chilling. The 'Ice and Fire' series of books are just spellbinding. Brilliant characters on a fantasy backdrop of political intrigue and backstabbing, I have never known an author who seems to love torturing his characters as much as he does! Pure evil...and yet that's why we love it. |
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| Oscar Wilde: Although I have already mentioned him above in the poetry section, I think he needs to be in this list too for the truly gothic and enthralling 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. |
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| Stephen Fry: The sheer brilliance and intelligence of this man shines through in his books. So funny, and yet sad and touching in all the right places, he produces books that you can read again and again, and still laugh and ache with them. My favourite is 'The Liar', never has a book made me laugh as much as this one...and yet it is still so clever with twists and turns that are far superior to the supposedly best thriller and mystery writers, mentioning no names... |
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| William Makepeace Thackeray: Anyone with a name like that has to be good, huh? I love 'Vanity Fair', featuring the infamous 'Becky Sharp' as the lead character...the very first of the strong, ruthless female characters...and written so well by a man no less. |
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| J.R.R. Tolkien: Need I say more? 'Lord of the Rings' blew me away. I have never read a book that has included as much as Rings. Love and loyalty in friendship and kin, realistic family relationships, an epic adventure, so many metaphores in the story to express views on real life and attitudes, full and indepth characters, a lush and vivid history of the fantasy world, and just really cracking story writing. Never, in my opinion, has another book managed to capture all of these things so well and with such quality. |
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| Edgar Allan Poe: I have to confess, I do think he had a way of cheating in his poetry, to make things fit, but I don't care, because he did it with skill and not in a clumsy manner (like only Bach can put an unfavoured chord in a Bach chorale, because only he could do it with the needed style...when other people try and cheat, it just sounds bad...hehe). My favourite of his is 'The City In The Sea', and most definitely not the over exposed, over used, over rated bloody Raven. |
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Green O how I love the color green splendor of its glorious sheen Green, green is everywhere green’s my color love affair The blanket color of the fields the color of the harvest yields The color of my lover’s eyes pools reflecting evening skies like a green blanket over a bed Leaves on a tree shades of green smell just the aroma, It feels clean The castle is covered with green ivy so all the colors are green with envy What is my favorite color you ask? My answer is green, an easy task. |
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Elfin Sanctuary Sliding behind the waterfall my arms, my back, cling to the wall A torrent cascades over my head a thunderous sound, o’re the creek bed Hidden access, secret place gate that guards the elfin race An arcanum, for a special few a door that only elves go thru Sanctuary, now secure, stories told of elfin lure Magic comes within these walls haven here, when danger calls Elves were here long before man living in their peaceful clan So the world has passed them by protected from its wicked eye Amera |
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Comments: Lanturne style is a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one. |
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