| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["life",""],"appCategory":"life","appTitle":"Who is your all time favourite writer?","appBody":"<p> <strong>It is very hard for me to pin-point an all-time favorite writer</strong>. I love literature, have always been like that all my life. I learned to read when I was 4, through comic books and started to read Greek myths when I was 5 or 6, thus all fantastic literature is great for me (with some pitiful exceptions). From that genre, <strong>J. K. Rowling</strong> is probably the one writer who has done it the best. Her <em><strong>Harry</strong></em> <em><strong>Potter</strong></em> series amount to more pages than the whole life work of many authors. Those books can be read once and again without ever getting you tired or bored. It's fast-paced, well written, light and deep at the same time.</p>\n<p>That being said, I love all kinds of literature and have read all genres, including some experimental writing that makes little sense. From the non-children’s lit genre, I’d say <strong>Gabriel Garcia Marquez</strong> is one of my favorite. <em><strong>100 Years of Solitude</strong></em> is probably the best novel I have ever read. It combines all the formal elements that make fiction worth reading plus it has humor, gore, eroticism, and historical references that can ignite anybody’s curiosity and imagination.</p>\n<p>I love most American authors’ work, which I have studies since my graduate school years. I especially like <strong>Poe</strong>, <strong>Hawthorne</strong>, <strong>Twain,</strong> <strong>Frost</strong>, and <strong>Fitzgerald</strong>. I learned to appreciate good literature from all periods, races, and genres and by doing so I have been able to see that literature makes all human affinities connect. <strong>All good writers have the same vision of an egalitarian and just world where justice and beauty are revered over any ideology or religion</strong>.</p>\n<p>From modern times, I love writers as diverse as <strong>Kurt</strong> <strong>Vonnegut</strong>, <strong>Roberto</strong> <strong>Bolaño</strong>, <strong>Toni Morrison</strong>, <strong>Stephen King</strong>, <strong>Dave</strong> <strong>Barry</strong>, <strong>Julia Ávarez</strong>, <strong>Junot</strong> <strong>Díaz</strong>, and <strong>Sherman</strong> <strong>Alexie</strong>. There is also this one book from Norwegian writer Jostein <strong>Gaarder</strong>, <em>Sophie's World</em>, which I'd recommend to any youth or adult. From my country’s literary tradition, I will always keep in mind Romulo <strong>Gallegos’s</strong> <em>Doña Bárbara</em>, Arturo <strong>Uslar</strong> Pietri’s <em>Lanzas Coloradas.</em> Classic novels that bring the best of Venezuela's history and culture.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f34bz5bzw","appParentAuthor":"ohmygoodness","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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