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runsaway
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I have this book, its the typical African folklore, can't say I am all that impressed.
exactly. it is so good it became THE FOLKLORE |
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yomceluv (f)
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wow, my best novelist is danielle steel. she is awesome,u need to read her books,also nora roberts is very good.
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zukkie4eva (f)
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francine rivers is it for me, she 's simply phenomenal.
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Vitastraka (m)
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One day you people will weep when you realize you were actually discussing with Vitastraka on this board and refused to recognize him
When the world starts broadcasting my collected works, when I start giving CNN interviews, what will you people say?
It will be too late to beg for my forgiveness then,
I ask of you now, what do you think of the Collected Masterpieces of Vitastraka
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teeroy (m)
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TOM CLANCY.always
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BASETSANA (f)
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Virginia Andrews
Danielle Steel
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echelon (m)
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Dan Brown, probably.
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loveoge (f)
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Sidney Sheldon. Would miss him horribly.
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BABEELOVE (f)
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Jeffrey Archer!!!  Or John Jakes!!!!!  |
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ziddy (m)
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Thomas Wolfe. . . . or D.O. Fagunwa (you have to read him in Yoruba though. that lone Soyinka translation is nothing to write home about  ). |
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ziddy (m)
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that guy is in a class by himself. just too good
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spikedcylinder (f)
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Who? Harold?
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ziddy (m)
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yes o. Harold Robbins.
there's a lot of graphic sexual stuff in his books but what really gets me is the ease with which he creates characters from all levels of the social stratum. All his characters are usually well rounded and believable, whether they are dirt-poor farmers, derelicts or Wall street billionaires. The guy is a master.
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spikedcylinder (f)
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Yea, I agree with you. He's real good though I particularly like his books for the sexual pervesiveness of it.  |
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Vitastraka (m)
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I give up on you people reading my books
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ziddy (m)
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where are your books? you've been raving and ranting all over this forum about your stuff, be a man and show us what you can do. or remain silent forever.
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Vitastraka (m)
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@ziddy
YOU!
YOU have struck me to the bone! Do not attack a man over his dreams, how can yo be so cruel? YOU and SMC are trying to finish me,
I have failed to stand up to this open challenge, and I hereby agree to be silenced
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ziddy (m)
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guy you need a shrink
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spikedcylinder (f)
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Why not crawl back into the hole you came from vitastraka? |
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Shaunscot (m)
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Why una dey attack Vitastraka like this now?
VItas no worry.God dey your side.
You can start with stories like Eze goes to school.
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Vitastraka (m)
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@SpikedLiquor
Did I crawl into your hole
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SMC (f)
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@ziddy
YOU!
YOU have struck me to the bone! Do not attack a man over his dreams, how can yo be so cruel? YOU and SMC are trying to finish me,
I have failed to stand up to this open challenge, and I hereby agree to be silenced
No one is trying to finish you. You can refer any of us to your written works, post some online or here on this forum. In the absence of anything, can you please shut the F.You.C.K. up (and I still believe you are that other bloke that's why you have nothing to show as your literary work under this ID). Please forever hold your peace and stop giving people a headache with your jabbering. |
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donjohano (m)
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Vitastraka,
I love your work! Its awesome! Especially your latest novel, "The Nairaland Thread" where, in the form of an internet chat site for Nigerians, you construct an entire free-form narrative composed from a miscellany of different voices talking about their favourite novelists. I also admire the way you interpolate yourself into the list of characters. Such irony.
Can't wait till the end of this groundbreaking work. Of course, I am also one of your characters - incredible imagination!
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chikasmile
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i love ADICHIE CHIMAMANDA 4 her book HALF OF A YELOW SUN and PURPLE HIBICUS
and also CHINUA ACHEBE 4 his books ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNA and THINGS Fall apart.
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donjohano (m)
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Anthills of the Savannah is superb. I'm glad to see some real literature mentioned on this thread as well as the other stuff. Hell, its good to see people taking out time to read any books so I'm not going to be a literary snob. Keep reading y'all! My dad used to buy me comics when I was a kid because he knew that this would encourage me to read books. Wise man. Besides, I also like Grisham and Ludlum as well as Dostoyevsky. Its all good.
I have a learning curve to climb where African literature is concerned. I've read and enjoyed Achebe, Ngugi (very recently), Frantz Fanon. But I need to read recent authors like our own Chimammanda. Who else? Tell me!
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Vitastraka (m)
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@SMC engage your brain before opening your mouth,
Drool
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In the doctor's mind the quavering hand roused images of a broken soul stooped by pain
"Madam can you write you name"
More quavering, it appeared as if the more she tried to steady the pen on the sheet, the more her flesh worked to defeat her. At last she gave in releasing the pen to the doctor as the remaining embers of hope fled her desperate hand.
"Madam let me help you" the doctor said drawing the sheet to his end of the table "what is your name"?
"S M C" she replied with a vacant stare "S M C"
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spikedcylinder (f)
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@SpikedLiquor
Did I crawl into your hole
You are not nearly as "big" enough.  |
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ziddy (m)
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@SMC engage your brain before opening your mouth,
Drool
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In the doctor's mind the quavering hand roused images of a broken soul stooped by pain
"Madam can you write you name"
More quavering, it appeared as if the more she tried to steady the pen on the sheet, the more her flesh worked to defeat her. At last she gave in releasing the pen to the doctor as the remaining embers of hope fled her desperate hand.
"Madam let me help you" the doctor said drawing the sheet to his end of the table "what is your name"?
"S M C" she replied with a vacant stare "S M C"
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i think there might be a considerable measure of creative promise in you afterall, assuming that was original and you did it off-the-cuff. more lyrics, less talk, less whining about the collected masterpieces of vitastraka  |
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SMC (f)
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@SMC engage your brain before opening your mouth,
Drool
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In the doctor's mind the quavering hand roused images of a broken soul stooped by pain
"Madam can you write you name"
More quavering, it appeared as if the more she tried to steady the pen on the sheet, the more her flesh worked to defeat her. At last she gave in releasing the pen to the doctor as the remaining embers of hope fled her desperate hand.
"Madam let me help you" the doctor said drawing the sheet to his end of the table "what is your name"?
"S M C" she replied with a vacant stare "S M C"
You'd do best to take your own advice. Was your sorry short sketch written because I hit the nail on the head or was my point too close for comfort? By the way, why are you drooling?  |
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sweeti14 (f)
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Enid blyton and francine rivers.
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spikedcylinder (f)
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I don't think I mentioned Paulo Coehlo yet. I love his books! I particularly like his Eleven Minutes which is about a prostitute who lived happily ever after. Anyone read any of his books?
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