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Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope. Sunday nights find me watching PBS. I also love Rosamund Pilcher. Favorite modern author has to be Francine Rivers.

Who do you like? (Beckysharp)

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Thought it might be good to bring this over to a new thread so the other off topic thread doesn't become too off topic.

Favorite English authors would have to include: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Issac Newton, Daniel Defoe, John Wyclife, Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. I have eclectic taste. Favorite modern author-girl, we are on the same page here! Francine Rivers, hands down. "Redeeming Love" was awesome. I wouldn't read it for the longest time because the title sounded too "girly." Glad that a friend kept insisting. She has some other truly good ones also.(Edit-forgot to include Dickens!)

Okay, non-English author favorites? And does anyone else have some favorites they would like to share?

Librevore

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Kate
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BS Psychology

right now i only have time for my favorite author, Steve Gloer and team. I'm making my way through all his works. soon i will start one of his more popular ones - statistics. i hear it's highly rated and i can't wait to begin. i'm so lucky to have discovered his teachings.

when free time is more available i enjoy a variety of authors. i always read John Grisham's new book and i enjoy Michael Crichton's books. i like books were i learn something new, even if it is a small fact or concept. i think that is why i like science fiction, i like to look at common things from a different angle or viewpoint.

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Dawn
Taking the Road Less Traveled
The Journey of A Thousand Miles Starts with The First CLEP
BS-Psychology - Excelsior College
Enrolled in the School of Business, BS in Accounting
After MIS I'll be halfway there!
72 CLEP Credits, 21 DSST Credits, 25 ECE Credits (Including Inf Lit), 6 TESC Credits, 2 FEMA Credits = 126 Total
Withholding 6 Credits for Accounting = 120 for Psychology
12 credits completed toward my accounting degree

Hands-down favorite is Gene Wolfe (book of the new sun series is awesome). I also like HP Lovecraft, Crichton, Steven King, RA Salvatore (forgotten realms stuff).

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CLEPS:
Social Sciences and History
College Math
English Composition (no essay)

DANTES:
World Religions
Civil War and Reconstruction
Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Management Information Systems

Excelsior:
Organizational Behavior
Ethics: Theory and Practice
World Conflicts since 1900
World Population

All done! 42 credits by exam

My husband considers himself a literary snob... The unforturnate, or maybe fortunate (just depends on how you look at it) outcome is that there is a lot of literary fiction available to me on our book shelf. (He is also an Amazonoholic if you ask me!) Some of my favorites are:

Nicholas Christopher - Trip to the Stars
Jonathan Carroll
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow (this is a great book, along with its sequel)
JD Sallinger - my all time favorite!
Richard Russo - Empire Falls

I also love Jane Austen
Poe is my favorite poet

And last but not least, I wouldn't miss a Harry Potter book!

Kim

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Kim Clark
Student at TESC
BA in Art

Hoping to obtain most of my credits from testing:

Took:

Humanities 4/06
A & I Lit 5/06
Intro to Sociology 5/06
American Government 6/06
Psychology of Women 7/06 (TESC)

Planned:

Human Growth & Dev., 9/06
Intro to Psych 9/06
Ed. Psych. 9/06

St. Augustine's Confessions.

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Dan
Douglasville, Georgia
Finished my degree 6-15-06
56 previous college credits (from 1987)
9 Dantes (Statistics, Ethics, World Religions)
9 CLEP (Socialogy, Prin of Management, American Gov.)
67 credits for my A&P license (Airframe and Powerplant)
TESC - BSAST- Aviation Maintenance Technology

My absolute favorite author would be Michael Moorcock (Elric, Corum, The Eternal Champion)

Favorite poet is Archibald MacLeish (The Carrion Crow)
Another fabulous poet I enjoy is Pablo Neruda

Other notable authors:

Gene Wolf (Book of the New Sun series - Severian is cool)
Stephen R. Donaldson (The Thomas Covenant series)
Tanith Lee (Death's Master)
Eric V. Lustbader (Sunset Warrior Series along with other works)
Lawrence Watt-Evans (The Lords of Dus series)

Well, I'm late in joining this discussion, but I'd have to say that my absolute favorite author is Clive Cussler. I also really like Michael Crichton, Dickens, John Grisham. There may be more, but I don't have time to think right now.

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Matymus Prime
Lincoln, NE
Excelsior College
B.S. General Business


~105 Credits down - 15 to go~

I like Tolken, C.S Lewes, Ted dekker, frank perretti, and Edger Allen Poe.

Favorite two novelists: G.A. Henty and my brother, hands down!

Non-fiction:

James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald Kennedy (The South Was Right!), R.L. Dabney (Life & Campaigns of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson), H. Rondel Rumburg (Stonewall Jackson's Verse), Charles Adams (When In the Course of Human Events), Congressman B.H. Hill (Southern Secession and Northern Coersion)James Beller (America In Crimson Red)---Too many to list!

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Southron Boy

CLEP: English Comp w/ essay, English Comp w/o essay, American Gov't, U.S. History I, A & I Lit, Humanities, Intro Sociology, Intro to Psyc, Human Growth & Development, Intro to Ed Psyc, Prin of Management, Prin of Marketing, Business Law

DSST: Technical Writing

I enjoyed the chronicles of napelonic invasion of russia from the book called War and Peace....

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CLEP

Intro to Psychology- 50
Natural Sciences - 53
Western Civilization II- 57
Humanities - 61
History of US I - 59
Social Sciences & History - 54
Western Civilization I - 67
Principles of Mgmt- 53
Intro to Sociology -64


DANTES

Rise and Fall of Soviet Union - 54
Intro to Middle East- 56
Intro to World Religions- 74
Intro to Computing - 53
Principles of Supervision- 51
Mgmt Info Sys- 53
Intro to Buisness- 59
American Ethics-51