NOTE: If you want to be my friend but do not accept a note from me, then I will decline!!
A couple of places to see my blogs and my poetry:
myspace.com/uplandpoet (new poem: Looking for Bugs 4/25/09)
or http://www.thewritingforum.net/html/anthony_watkins_pg_1n.html
and if you are really brave, you can go to my short story site:
myspace.com/gibbonisland
If you enjoy watching sausage being made, you can go to myspace.com/awatkinsmayshill and watch me struggle through rewrites on my unpublished novel.
love books, love to write, pretty good poet, but trying to make a dent in fiction, tough going...
As to my favorites:
1 William Faulkner
2 Graham Greene
3 Gloria Naylor
4 Barbara Kingsolver
5 Toni Morrison
6 Alice Hoffman
7 Harper Lee
8 Clyde Edgerton
9 Daphne Du Maurier
10 Mark Twain
11 Dick Francis
12 Erich Maria Remarque
That leaves a lot of good friends left bloody on the cutting room floor!
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here is a little grander list, no particular order:
Henry James (Washington Square)
Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
Elmore Leonard (Pagan Babies)
John MacDonald (Pale Gray for Guilt)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Donn Pearce (Cool Hand Luke)
Kafka (The Trial)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped)
Jules Vernes (Around the World in Eighty Days)
William Faulkner (Go Down Moses)
Graham Greene (The Power and the Glory)
Somerset Maugham (The Razors Edge)
VS Naipaul (A Bend in the River)
Philip K. Dick (The Man in the High Castle)
Herman Wouk (City Boy)
Irwin Shaw (Nightwork)
Walter Mosley (Devil in a Blue Dress)
Eudora Welty (Losing Battles)
Toni Morrison (Paradise)
Gloria Naylor (Baileys Café)
Alice Hoffman (Turtle Moon)
Barbara Kingsolver (Bean Trees)
Clyde Edgerton (Float Plane Notes)
Dick Francis (Bolt)
Martha Grimes (The End of the Pier)
Ruth Rendall (Live Flesh)
Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (A Hundred Years of Solitude)
Robert Parker (Paper Doll)
Amy Tan (Bonesetters Daughter)
Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
Donna Tartt (The Secret History)
Patrick D Smith (A Land Remembered)
Bailey White (Quite a Year for Plums)
Tim Dorsey (Cadillac Beach)
Ace Atkiins (Crossroads)
Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
Marjorie Rawlings (The Yearling)
Edgar Allan Poe (great short stories, no novel, but has to be on list)
John Hersey (A Bell for Adono)
Nevil Shute (Trustee in the Tool Room)
Loius Erdrich (Last Report from Little No Horse)
Willa Cather (Song of the Lark)
Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
Daphne Du Maurier (Rebecca)
Gunter Grass (Tin Drum)
James Joyce (Dubliners)
Mark Twain (Huck Finn)
Now a little bragging:
Anthony Watkins Bio
Published:
Print:
Erosion
Night Heron Anthology
Stellar Showcase Journal (Canada)
Online:
Muse Apprentice Guild
Poetry Super Highway
1066 (Great Britain)
Edited:
Sleeping Bear Press
Abundance
Awards:
The Writing Forum (Poet of the Month, January 2004)
Poetry Super Highway (Poet of the Month, February 2003)
New favorite self-quote (which i stole from a drunk in Hobe Sound, Florida. Circa, 1968)
"so if you wake up dead one morning, don't say i didn't warn you...”
As to my Religious beliefs:
frankly, i am getting tired of small minded people defending small minded people. Jesus drank and socialized with the worldly people, kept the company of a likely prostitute, yet gave us, by far, the best example of how to live a holy life, when you get through healing the sick and raising the dead and clothing the naked and feeding the hungry and visiting those in prison, if you have any time leftover, maybe you can walk on water and then start judging people.
"Jesus saves", is the message, not "Jesus sends everyone to hell".
and for my christian and non christian friends, alike:
i am pretty sure if there is a god, and he/she gave us the brains we have, either through direct creation, or through a complex system of origination, then we are expected to use that brain to life as best as we can, and each of us will be judged, not be what religion we chose, but but what life we chose.
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