Favorite Author

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Mieville is good stuff.

For living authors I'm probably most fond of Haruki Murakami. John Irving novels meant a lot to me in high school and I continue to read him, though he hasn't been able to reproduce the genius of A Prayer for Owen Meanie.

My username may also clue people in to the fact that I am a Dickens fan, Great Expectations remains close to my heart.

I have a scholarly fondness for the libertine and cavalier writers of the Interregnum and Restoration in England: Richard Lovelace, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, George Etherege and William Wycherley. The "metaphysical poets" like John Donne, Andrew Marvell and George Herbert are personal favourites.