New Orleans discussion

Hello Everyone!

I just joined this group, but I see that it's kinda fizzling away. So, in hopes of starting some kind of discussion, I pose this question: What is your favorite book and/or who is your favorite author?

I'll go first, it's only fair.

My two favorite authors are Philip Reeve and Walter Moers. Philip Reeve writes fantastic kid's/YA science fiction/alternate history. Walter Moers writes fantasy and his stories are heavily illustrated with his own drawings.

My favorite books are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. The Book of Lost Things is a combination of various elements of fairy tales rearranged in a very dark and twisted way.

So what are yours?

Hello Amanda,
Welcome-Happy Mardi Gras - Happy Saints Super Bowl win
I don't really have a favorite author although I'm on a Dennis Lehane kick right now.
Books which I find myself going back to time and time again are Lolita by Nabokov for the beauty of its prose and To Kill a Mockingbird because it touches me on several levels. Hope to hear from you and any others in the New Orleans group.

For authors, I like John Sandford, although his last few Prey mysteries have been a little blah. I'm a big Hemingway fan, but generally read mysteries, thrillers, anything with a murder or serial killer.

My favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces. I find it is so true to New Orleans, from the sometimes crazy police department to the description of the Lucky Dog cart. You can't make that stuff up. It's a tragedy the writer killed himself before the novel was published.

Holli Castillo
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