Writer's Block

Writer's Block

One of the highlights of going to a literary festival is hearing authors read from their own works. What author, living or dead, would you most like to hear read?

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[info]thelotusqueen Writer's Block: Reading Aloud


Hands down Alexandre Dumas. Provided that I could also magically understand French ;-)
 
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[info]mercymyqueen
Hmmmm.... Lewis Carroll =D or William Wordsworth. Andersen's too much of a crabby bitch to read properly (I'm sorry; I love you) Garcia-Marquez aka GABO would be awesome to hear, too, though he's old
 
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[info]quoting_mungo Writer's Block: Reading Aloud

I have a tape somewhere, or I used to, with Astrid Lindgren reading one of her books. It's absolutely the best audiobook EVER, with the Tove Jansson books (the old ones, with the Finnish-Swedish femal
 
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[info]rosethorne Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Poe, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Ginsburg, and many others.

I've heard Sherman Alexie, Steve Almond, David Baker, Charles Baxter, Adam Braver, David Anthony Durham, Amy Tan,
 
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[info]lil_muddles Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
I would LOVE to have Chaucer read his Canterbury Tales. They are soooo amazing and hilarious! The man is a genius. Nuff said! :D
 
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[info]ljswritersblock Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
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[info]captainculinary Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
The top two authors who I would love to hear read their own work aloud would be HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe.
Imagine how epic it would be to have a way to sit, just for one night and hear the drun
 
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[info]kellylala Writer's Block: Reading Aloud

L. Frank Baum, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell... any of my favs really :)
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Carolyn Keene hahahaaaa ilovenancydrew:)
 
[info]johnoswords Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
I would get mosus you know the dude who asked god to open the red sea.... yea I'd get him to read the 10 commandments and then he could tell everyone why he wrote that crock of shit! lol...
 
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[info]conductor37 Writer's Block: Reading Aloud


I'd like to hear Shakespeare read Midsummer Night's Dream.
 
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[info]______feverplay Writer's Block: Reading Aloud

1. Leo Tolstoy. There are so many things I want him to explain to me.

2. Sylvia Plath. I love that such beautiful words came from someone so sad.. I identify with her so much. I think it would be good
 
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[info]nursesaide Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
I would like to hear Mr. Patterson read his last novel out loud. What a thrill that would be. I've loved and bought his books for a long time.
Thank you, Ginger
 
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[info]1981muse Writer's Block: Reading Aloud


Would Love to be the innocent soul sitting on the couch In between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
as the spit and slam some words they have commited to memory!

Would adore hearing Charles Bukowski read!!

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[info]arshes_nei_2005 Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
I read a lot; this is thus a rather difficult question for me to answer.  I'll just give you the first thing that popped into my head.

I would love to hear Hermann Hesse read -- either Demia
 
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[info]tdwbrittany Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
I'd love to hear Ellen Hopkins read one of her books Glass or Impulse. I feel that the way she writes the books is amazing because i can actually feel what is happening in the book. I want to hea
 
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[info]missbliss1955 Writer's Block: Reading Aloud
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I would love to hear any of his works read in the original language.
Shakespeare

 

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