Totenkopf Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 So, who is/are your favorite author/s, regardless of whether it's based on who you think was actually great or how many of their works you've read (ie maybe they're lightweights, but you enjoy their novels/plays/whatever anyway)? And which of their works do you like best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandalore The Shadow Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Dan Brown for the Robert Langdon series and Edgar Allan Poe. I have a 4 volume set of his complete works its like 103 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litofsky Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Dan Brown for the Robert Langdon series and Edgar Allan Poe. I have a 4 volume set of his complete works its like 103 years old. Dan Brown for the Robert Langdon series and Edgar Allan Poe. Dan Brown for the Robert Langdon series Dan Brown Let the fireworks ensue. My personal favorite authors are still unknown. Much reading has yet to be done, and it's been a while since I've found a book that was truly enjoyable. *waits to steal recommendations from this thread* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkside Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 J.R.R Tolkien Seriously my favourite author is probably Mika Waltari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 I don't read much fiction anymore, but other than the more obvious ones (Tolkein, Puzo, etc) I would probably say George MacDonald Fraser (particularly the Flashman Papers) is one of my favourite authors, with perhaps Alan Mallinson (author of the Matthew Hervey series, sort of like Sharpe on a horse) a close second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverandbacon Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Joseph Conrad and Terry Pratchett. Two very different authors, but I enjoy the work of both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimartin Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Robert Ludlum Favorite work of his: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum and The Osterman Weekend. Least favorite: The Road to Gandolfo and The Road to Omaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tysyacha Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 George Orwell, for 1984 and the highly-underrated COMING UP FOR AIR Fyodor Dostoevsky, for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Philip Roth for AMERICAN PASTORAL Ayn Rand, for ATLAS SHRUGGED, though I'm not much of a fan of her politics Betty Friedan, for THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE Jeff Sharlet, for THE FAMILY Anton Chekhov, for WARD NUMBER SIX, THE DUEL, and THE LADY WITH A DOG A.I. Solzhenitsyn, for ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH Lois Lowry, for THE GIVER Karen Cushman, for CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 I don't really maintain favourite writers as such, but off the top of my head: Haruki Murakami Kurt Vonnegut G.K. Chesteron (though haven't read beyond The Man Who Was Thursday) I also happen to be a fan of Oscar Wilde's wit. And yes, I am a hopeless, outdated postmodernist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 H. P. Lovecraft, for his Dream sequence Garth Nix, for Sabriel Niel Gaiman, for The Sandman series Dostoyevski, for Notes from Underground Albert Camus, for The Fall Robin McKinley, for The Hero And The Crown (I've read it many times) James Joyce, for Ulysses C. S. Lewis, for Till We Have Faces Wittgenstein, for On Certainty Orson Scott Card, for Ender's Game Herman Hesse, for Demian Soren Kierkegaard, for Fear and Trembling Lewis Carroll, for Alice in Wonderland Paul Feyerabend, for Against Method Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis David Brin, for Earth G. K. Chesterton, for pretty much anything (ty Sabre) Nikolai Gogol, for The Nose J. R. R. Tolkien, for LotR and The Silmarillion / The Children of Hurin Frank Herbert, for Dune and Soul Catcher I'm sure there are more. These are just the ones I like best and can remember most easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens, Great Expectations and The Pickwick Papers Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana William Shakespeare, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- I love the Pardoner. So much so that I have him on a t-shirt >_> John Milton, Paradise Lost -- the only word for it is sublime; Satan walking across Chaos and standing on the Sun stand out. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings William Golding, Lord of the Flies Beowulf-poet, Beowulf You may notice a slight bias towards literature of a certain language here >_>. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and their respective series Ayn Rand - Anthem Robert Ludlum - Bourne Series, The Icarus Agenda Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner Usually I don't really bother much who wrote the book, as long as its good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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