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Today's TeaRoom poll and discussion topic. BEST SELLING NOVELISTS of all time, from this list, are any of these your favorite(s)? Please share your favorite novelist of all time.

Agatha Christie
5
12%
Barbara Cartland
0
No votes
Harold Robbins
0
No votes
Georges Simenon
2
5%
Danielle Steel
0
No votes
Gilbert Patten
0
No votes
Leo Tolstoy
2
5%
J.K. Rowling
2
5%
Jackie Collins
0
No votes
Horatio Alger
0
No votes
Stephen King
2
5%
Dean Koontz
0
No votes
Other
29
69%
 
Total votes: 42
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by Victoria » May 3rd, '09, 18:29

So many good authors listed since I posted. I have enjoyed many of them.

A plentiful tea day for me this is my 4th - some nice Baozhong in my Hagi cup on
my new chataku from Hankook.

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by cherylopal » May 3rd, '09, 18:38

Victoria wrote: A plentiful tea day for me this is my 4th - some nice Baozhong in my Hagi cup on
my new chataku from Hankook.

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Gorgeous photo!! Love your hagi and new chataku :)
cheryl :)
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by Geekgirl » May 3rd, '09, 18:46

Love it, V. I finally split my set up and took one of those hagi cups down to my work office. I drink 1/2 my tea down there, and all I had for my use was cast-offs from home, which just didn't seem right. :) Now I have a nice gaiwan, and my hagi cup, I'm happy.
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by Victoria » May 3rd, '09, 19:00

Thanks for the compliments!
GeekgirlUnveiled wrote:Love it, V. I finally split my set up and took one of those hagi cups down to my work office. I drink 1/2 my tea down there, and all I had for my use was cast-offs from home, which just didn't seem right. :) Now I have a nice gaiwan, and my hagi cup, I'm happy.
Me too. I have one at work and I'm keeping an extra. But I'm considering selling
one or two. ... Maybe. It's hard to let go they are so sweet. I would have to be sure they are going to good homes. hahaha
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by Geekgirl » May 3rd, '09, 19:05

Well, I only have two, so I don't have the difficulties you have... :lol:
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by brlarson » May 3rd, '09, 19:58

omegapd wrote:
brlarson wrote:Will Faulkner.
Bruce, I knew I wasn't the only one. Ten years ago, I would have picked Hemingway over him night and day, now I really can't say that...Amazing stuff.

EW
Hey Eric. I couldn't agree more.

Folks, if you want to `dangle your feet in the water' you might start with Faulkner's ``The Hamlet'', ``The Town'', and ``The Mansion''.

Hmmm... I feel like having some Lin-Tou MiLan dancong.
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by Chip » May 3rd, '09, 20:05

Very late to the TeaTable ... :(

Began the TD with a spectacular Chiran Supreme from O-Cha along with my wife.

Later some fantastic Fukaushi Maki from Den's.

Wishing for more tea ... :(
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by augie » May 3rd, '09, 21:27

Salsero wrote:No favorite novelists ... or many. At the moment I am reading Anna Karenina and The Portrait of a Lady. I just finished Nation by Terry Pratchet, which turns out to be my least fav of his so far, and re-reading Carry On Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse.
Where do you find time to take great pictures?

I went to buy the book for my n'hood book club and found "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop. I started friday night and finished last night at 4:30 a.m. I could not sleep until it was finsihed.

Anyone have a Shelfari page?

http://www.shelfari.com/o1517905655
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by cherylopal » May 4th, '09, 01:17

augie wrote:
Anyone have a Shelfari page?

http://www.shelfari.com/o1517905655
no but it looks cool! a teafari page would be fun too :)
cheryl :)
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by chamekke » May 4th, '09, 01:38

augie wrote:Anyone have a Shelfari page?
Nope, but I've been on LibraryThing since its early days in beta:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/chamekke

I love LT <3
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by Geekgirl » May 4th, '09, 01:42

All these sites. I'm on Goodreads.
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by iannon » May 4th, '09, 01:53

and I am having a late night gyokuro hoshino to end my day!
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by chad » May 4th, '09, 08:13

Other for me!

Patrick O'Brian is a favorite along with W. E. B. Griffin, Harold Coyle, and Clive Cussler.
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by tea fish » May 4th, '09, 08:21

Another belated post, but I have to chime in. Nabokov? Amen! Fitzgerald? Amen! I just reread _The Great Gatsby_ and was struck afresh by its melancholy lyricism. I don't usually go in for melancholy lyricism, but Fitzgerald is so good at it. Otherwise: love Gogol's short stories (especially "The Overcoat") and _Tristram Shandy_. Among contemporary novelists, I think that J. M. Coetzee is first-rate: his fiction really gets under one's skin and raises some difficult questions (especially _Disgrace_, but _Diary of a Bad Year_ is just as good, and it has a sense of humor, which is a relief, given how heavy Coetzee's work can be). Alice Munro is also a master. She just keeps getting better.

There's so much to read out there. Somehow this fact manages to be at once disheartening and heartening.
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by xuancheng » May 4th, '09, 09:13

I can't believe I forgot to post this.

http://www.librivox.org

Free recordings of books in the public domain. I love this site.
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