Who's Your Favorite Author?

ChrisSamsDad · Post by **ChrisSamsDad** » 14 Oct 2009, 05:16

Terry Pratchett
Ian M Banks
Kurt Vonnegut

kitty5495 · Post by **kitty5495** » 15 Oct 2009, 17:33

I love John Green, Ellen Hopkins, and Nick Bantock.
Along with a bunch other, probably, but whatever. Haha.

scrambled eggs · Post by **scrambled eggs** » 17 Oct 2009, 11:07

I like reading motivational and self improvement books , one of my favourite author is Anthony Robin, his ''Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement and Awaken The Giant Within'' is classic.

tinyViolin · Post by **tinyViolin** » 22 Oct 2009, 22:09

It's so cool to see the range of favorite authors in here. And to see some are favorites that I haven't heard of! Hmmm...must check out.

As for me, I think I have read everything by Virginia Woolf. For some reason, I just click with her writing. Orlando has to be among my favorite books.

Yoko Tawada~Her stuff is bizarre. I <3 bizarre.
Marcel Proust
Milan Kundera

Hmmm, drawing a blank now! I wish I knew more American authors. I heard early Philip Roth is good. So maybe I'll try him?

frger · Post by **frger** » 28 Oct 2009, 11:16

Ben Carson

LauraH · Post by **LauraH** » 30 Oct 2009, 07:51

kitty5495 wrote:I love John Green, Ellen Hopkins, and Nick Bantock.
Along with a bunch other, probably, but whatever. Haha.

I've read a lot of Green and Hopkins too. I'm not familiar with Bantock, but have you read Katherine Marple yet? I just found her a few months ago. Also Will Leitch's book "Catch" was very very very good.

alimena · Post by **alimena** » 30 Oct 2009, 12:55

I love latin america and peruvian writers.

My favourite one is Julio Ramón Ribeyro, "La Palabra del Mudo" is a master piece for me, every story has something different on it but at the same time they all present the contrasts between the different social classes in Lima. i specially love it cause many writers always write about poor or rich people, but he talks about "normal" people from an avarage class.

Second will be Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel Niezen Matos and Jaime Bayly maybe

axisage · Post by **axisage** » 31 Oct 2009, 20:15

tinyViolin wrote: Marcel Proust
Milan Kundera

Hmmm, drawing a blank now! I wish I knew more American authors. I heard early Philip Roth is good. So maybe I'll try him?

Nuts4aYarn · Post by **Nuts4aYarn** » 06 Nov 2009, 00:43

I'm a Military History Buff so a few of of my favorites are Patrick O'Brian,Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow, Harold Coyle and W.E.B. Griffin.

J.Seishu · Post by **J.Seishu** » 23 Nov 2009, 07:22

If i had to choose only one favorite author it would definatly be Stephen King. I love allmost everything he has ever written. Except for a few ones like Rose Madder, from a buick 8 etc.

Other authors i really like are: Dean Koontz, Michael chrichton and Erich Maria remarque.

jason82 · Post by **jason82** » 23 Nov 2009, 08:57

Scott Hughes wrote:Who's your favorite author? Why?

My favorite author is Henry David Thereau. I love Civil Disobedience. My favorite quotes are as follows:

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have.

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Well my favourite author is Paulo cohelo his novels shows the reality

avidreader · Post by **avidreader** » 24 Nov 2009, 13:37

My best Author is John Grisham. I loved reading The Firm and The Rainmaker. I think I've read The Firm, twice.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 24 Nov 2009, 23:44

Nuts4aYarn wrote:I'm a Military History Buff so a few of of my favorites are Patrick O'Brian,Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow, Harold Coyle and W.E.B. Griffin.

I am also a military history buff and love all the authors you have mentioned. Ancient Rome is my favourite. I love Colleen McCullough, Alan Massie, David Wishart, Lindsey Davis. Just recently I have read the two Rome books( mainly about Cicero) "Imperium" and "Lustrum" by Robert Harris. I love Simon Scarrow's Eagle series and his Revolution books about Napoleon and Wellington are great as well.