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    Question Your favourite author or poet?

    Also reason,why you liked him/her?
    Any favourite Quotes of that author or poet?
    Your favourite book of that author?
    Anything else you want to share about your favourite author.

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    Favorite Author: Victor Hugo
    Reason: I fell in love with both the Notre Dame de Paris and Les Miserables.
    Quote: See my sig.
    Favorite Book: Notre-Dame de Paris

    Favorite Poet: Chaucer
    Reason: Chaucer's a genius. Enough said.
    Quote: N/A
    Favorite Poem: The Canterbury Tales
    com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity

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    Favorite Author: Cao Xueqin
    Reason: He wrote <Dream of The Red Chamber>, a most famous novol in China, very very excellent!
    Oh,,How could I translate them as a quotation?? ....
    Favorite Book: <Dream of The Red Chamber>

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    Favorite author: George R.R. Martin
    Reason: He is the best character builder I've ever read, bar none.
    Quote: N/A
    Favorite book: A Storm of Swords

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    1. Neil Gaiman
    2. He's an awesome writer
    3. n/a
    4. Anansi Boys and Stardust
    Shall these bones live?

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    Favorite authour....Knut Hamsun....Lyrical minimalism at its finest and the first modern celebration of the outsider defined not necessarily in terms of socio-economic status but rather as an inability to fit in anywhere.

    Favorite poet....William Wordsworth....Because all my other favorite poets copied him

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    who can intro some interesting book? this is my first here ,hehe

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    Favorite author: Hermann Hesse
    Reason: He's just great and he has such a brilliant style of writing. I also learned a lot from his books.
    Favorite book: Steppenwolf

    Favorite poet: Poe
    Reason: I believe I don't need to explain.
    Favorite poem: The Raven, Alone...
    Quote: (The Raven of course. I simply love this part!)

    "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!--
    Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
    Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted--
    On this home by Horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore--
    Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"
    Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
    "All that lives must die,
    Passing through nature to eternity. "


    (Shakespeare, Hamlet, ACT I Scene 2 )

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