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There are some whom I like but no one beats Arthur Conan Doyle.

thanks for the recommendation. I will try to get my hands on it.

I like or should I say simply love literature, so ignoring Dumas was impossible. 'The Three Musketeers' is an enchanting tale of romance and adventure. The language is crisp and one is not bogged down by its complexity( which instantly made me like Dumas). While reading it my imagination...

You are quite a logician, I must say. But then you should have found a likable companion in Poe, who himself was driven by logic( though it was unfortunately punctuated by fits of madness ).

I agree with dele here. I too never had a liking for dissecting a work. All I want is to enjoy the piece and grasp the writer's idea. As to college, they teach you nothing but conformity with their set of ideas regarding what is creative and what is not. As O' Henry wrote, 'colleges are...

Its a Wordsworth Classics book and doesn't give the name of the translator. Just finished 'The Three Musketeers". I thoroughly enjoyed it. No piece of work had me glued to it as this one did( this may partly be because of my penchant for romance and adventure). 'The Count of Monte Cristo' will...

Frederick Forsyth is a brilliant author when it comes to thrillers. He does his research meticulously(he was once a journalist) and presents it in an interesting way. I read 'The Day of the Jackal', 'The Devil's Alternative' and 'The Negotiator'. In many ways his thrillers are even better than...

yes i agree some of her plots are ingenious while many are trash

I am currently reading 'The Three Musketeers' and have already bought 'The Count of Monte Cristo' which I plan to read next. Dumas is indeed a writer of great caliber. I seem to have acquired HermioneWeasley's penchant for Alexandre Dumas

Poe is one of my favourite authors and 'The Raven' one of my favourite poems. He was the father of detective fiction and was much influenced by logic which forms the foundation of many of his stories. He was brought up surrounded by death( his mother, brother and wife all died of consumption(...

For too long I have deferred reading Thomas Pynchon, thinking of him to be a creator of complex and difficult to understand themes( I quote the critics). Thank you warm_enema and others, for to you I owe the cognizance of what I was really missing. It's time to hit the couch, With Pynchon...

I haven't read '1984' but I did read 'Animal Farm' and much of the scenario described there was actually true( at least historians tell us it was so), especially the propaganda and blaming west even for delayed rains...

'The Raven' by Poe 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Coleridge 'Written in Early Spring' by Wordsworth 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost 'A Nation's Strength' by Emerson