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Orson Scott Card

Al Franken or Robin Hobb.

Robert Ludlum

oh yeah and you want stated your's too.

Iain Banks

Orson Scott Card

He's excellent but not on my list, yet.

In no particular order:

Christopher Rowley
All the WH40K Authors (particularly Abnett)
Steven Brust
C. J. Cherry (I think that's how it's spelled)
Mercedes Lackey
David Webber

John Keegan

Barbara Truchman

(Treaty of Paris post)

Douglas Adams or Kurt Vonnegut. Couldn't pick for the live of me.

Either George Orwell, JK Rowling, or Stephen King. Notice how two of the three are British? There must be something in their water.

Douglas Adams or Kurt Vonnegut. Couldn't pick for the live of me.
Oh yeah, Adams. How could I forget?

Thomas Harris for Silence of th Lambs, or J. Robert King, for the M:TG invasion block.

I absolutly despise Robert J King for the horrors he inflicted on poor Ixidor :p

He should have just left him DEAD, in my opinion. None of this "Oh, gotta go inside the worm-hey, he's still alive!" crap. Such an awesome charecter, and he was basically raped by that stupid author.

I hate him.




Oh, favorite authors? Murakami, most definatly. And Pratchett.

Douglas Adams, and J.R.R Tolkien

Oscar Wilde.

Do non-fiction writers count?

Do non-fiction writers count?

I hope so, otherwise my two authors listed don't count.

Orson Scott Card
funny
I was just getting ready to leave the computer to read Ender's Game

and now I shall

oh...and I don't really have a favorite author

If non-fiction authors do count, here are some of mine (in no particular order):

1.Antony Sutton
2.Alan Stang
3.Thomas J. DiLorenzo
4.Thomas Fleming

whoops, i forgot Graham Greene in my first post. Love his books too.

Hmmm I have a few:

David Eddings
Terry Brooks
John Grisham
James Patterson
Piers Anthony

I hope so, otherwise my two authors listed don't count.

Who did you have in mind?

Orson Scott Card
Indeed. Don't think he's my favorite, but he is good. Eh, don't really have a fav...I just kinda pick random books from the sci-fi shelf in the library...
The Stars My Destination, by Alphred Bester is pretty good, if the philosophy is a bit skewed (by my opinion anyway).

1. Clive Cussler
2. Fredrick Forsyth
3. Thomas Harris
4. Michael Crichton
5. J.R.R Tolkien
6. Robert Crais

Tom Clancy.

CLIVE CUSSLER LIKE OHMYGAWD HE IS MY IDOL HE IS SOOOO CUTE...

*Ahem*

No, but really. Clive Cussler's books are kickass. They're like a Bond movie but with less shitty sex scenes and more plot and action!

1. Terry Brooks
2. J.R.R. Tlkien
3. Douglas Adams

Darn it! Meant Tolkien...

I feel that Tolkien is overrated

I find it humoruos that you spelled favorite wrong

Tom Clancy.

Harry Turtledove.

H.P. Lovecraft (I've seen some complaints about his writing style, but the man was a literary genius and you can read his stuff free)
Douglas Adams (Need I say more?)
Tolkien (Another genius)
Terry Pratchett (Very nice, not quite Douglas Adams, but he's almost there)
And Salvatorre was good once (The first two Drizzt trilogies kicked ass and the Demon Wars Trilogy had insane battling monks and beserking rangers, but now I think he's just gotten silly.)

Who did you have in mind?

As I posted, John Keegan (The Face of Battle, The Second World War, Six Armies in Normandy, The First World War, The History of Warfare, The Price of Admiralty, The Mask of Command, and various other works) and Barbara Truchman (The Guns of August, The Zimmerman Telegram, Stillwell and the American Experience in China, The March of Folly, The Last Salute, and other works), both of whom are non-fiction writers.

J.R.R Tolkien

Damn straight!!!

Dan Brown

Author (Favorite Book) in no particular order
1. Harry Turtledove (HFR-TGW-AE Line)
2. HP Lovecraft (All of them... but only with the lights on)
3. Margaret Weiss and ... that other guy... (Dragonlance)
4. Larry Niven (Ringworld)
5. Phillip Pullman (HDM)
6. JRR Tolkien (LotR)
7. Douglas Adams (H2G2)

Among others who I can't think of at the moment.

literature is dying, even if someones reads it must be sf/fantasy fan :((

my list:
McEwan, Swift, Atwood, Kundera, Fuentes

other than card I think I haven't got any becasue their are no other writers who I like constantly, is that weird :confused: .

I absolutly despise Robert J King for the horrors he inflicted on poor Ixidor :p

He should have just left him DEAD, in my opinion. None of this "Oh, gotta go inside the worm-hey, he's still alive!" crap. Such an awesome charecter, and he was basically raped by that stupid author.

I hate him.




Oh, favorite authors? Murakami, most definatly. And Pratchett.

You've got a point, but I don't think Ixidor was a very good character. Come to think of it, most of the characters in the Onslaught block sucked... especially Akroma. Kamahl was a lot cooler in the Odyssey books.

And as for Dan Brown (nothing to do with the quoted person) I think the Da Vinci code is vastly overrated. It wasn't even that good. The characters were incredibly shallow and lacking in development, and the book moved too quickly; every chapter, they'd reveal the answer to the question I'd been having fun wondering about. They need to give some time for people to think about the mysteries. Rather predictable, too.

Mark Twain, Ian Flemming, Hunter S Thompson, Stroker Ace (hahaha)

Not quite in order:
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Stephen King
Robert Jordan
JRR Tolkien

-Bret Easton Ellis
-Richard Price
-Eddie Bunker
-Iain Banks

Fiction: Katherine Kurtz
History: Barbara Tuchman

Max Barry... now can i please have gameplay battle for NS.... ;)

George Orwell
C.S. Lewis
Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
Douglas Adams
Michael Crichton

Fiction: Katherine Kurtz
History: Barbara Tuchman

You wouldn't happened to have read Tuchman's book The Proud Tower, I was thinking of buying it, just wondering if it as good as her other works.

If anyone says Michael Moore I think I'll puke.

Anyways I don't know if I have a favorite, but I like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

Douglas Adams, Peirs Anthony, Jk Rowling

Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality Series is by far the best! :)

Douglas Adams, Anne Rice, JK Rowling, Aldous Huxley, Tom Holt. I'm sure there are more, but I just can't be bothered thinking. :p

Kurt Vonegan (sp?), John Case, JK Rowling, Oscar Wilde, Richard Preston, that dude that wrote teminal man, can't remmeber his name... same guy that wrote Jurassic Park... freaking name! grr..., etc...

Tom Clancy

Paul Auster
Stanislaw Lem
David Mamet
Keruoac, Burroughs, Ginsberg
Lenny Bruce (How to Talk Dirty and Influence People)
Italo Calvino (I've only read Invisible Cities, but I liked it)

Hat tip to the recently departed-
Arthur Miller and Hunter S. Thompson

Probably some people I'm forgeting

William Shakespeare. All my favorite writers are British, there really is something in the water...lol.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Mark Z. Danielewski
Sylvia Plath
Brian Jacques
Vladimir Nabokov
Philip Pullman

T.A. Barron

Edgar Allan Poe
Frank Herbert
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Douglas Adams

Frank Herbert
George Orwell
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Jon Stewart (he's sort of an author. Well, he's funny.)
Douglas Adams

Rowling's pretty good too, but I'm not much of an HP freak and I'm not sure if whatever she writes afterward is going to measure up to the Potter phenomenon.

And least favorite:
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson (way to ruin Dune)
Virginia Woolf (Write Between the Acts will you? What is going on here? Why did this guy step on a frog? What does anything in this book have to do with anything else in the book? I don't understand...[/whine])

Hmmm... got a large diverse groups of favorites. Novelists: Joseph Heller, Neil Gaiman, Oscar Wilde, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Jane Urquart, J.D Salinger, J.R.R Tolkien, Gabriel Marquez, Mary Renault. Playwrites:Oscar Wilde, Michel Trembley and Tomson Highway. Poets: William Blake and Leonard Cohen and in a catogory of his own (epic poetry?) Homer.

My number one author would be...
Tom Clancy
And anyone else who writes about war, because I love WAR!!!

Posted by the Satanic Priest, Lord Medivh

You wouldn't happened to have read Tuchman's book The Proud Tower, I was thinking of buying it, just wondering if it as good as her other works.


No.

Guns of August, A Distant Mirror, The March of Folly........are the ones I have in my library.

Let me know if Proud Tower is worth getting..

I honestly can not choose a favourite.
Top Authors:
JRR Tolkien
JK Rowling
Robert Jordan
RA Salvator

Notice a little trend? lol :p

... All the WH40K Authors (particularly Abnett) ....


w00t! 40K!

My favorite author is Robertson Davies.

I feel that Tolkien is overrated

TOKIEN OVERRATED!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!! :mad: :sniper: well, if you don't like fantasy much then that's understandable, however i've heard of few people that can't enjoy a good fantasy, and Tolkien is probably one of the best fantasy.

Just realized i forgot 2 on my top authors list, Margaret Atwood and Shakespeare

Stephen King, Douglas Adams, and JRR Tolkien. Stereotyped, I know, but they are my top three. You can throw Grisham and Mario Puzo in there as well...

Any suggestions for worst book/author?

George Orwell is Brilliant.
Aldous Huxley is Fantastic.
Douglas Adams is hillarious.
Shakespeare is beyond the sum of all of them.

You ask the impossible.

Tom Clancy

I normally don't like fantasy at all, but The Lord of the Rings is my favorite book. Go figure...lol.

My least favorite writer is Charles Dickens, though i love the story of A Christmas Carol. I'm not even sure why i don't like him, something about him just bugs me. I know his work is among the classics of literature, so i will probably get flack for it, but i can't help him, i just don't like him.

Hermann Hesse
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Kurt Vonnegut
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kyril Bonfiglioli

nonfiction specifically:
John Keegan
Winston Churchill
Barbara Tuchman
Jared Diamond.

Robert A. Heinlein's my favorite (as a writer) author
Theodore Sturgeon wrote my the stories (I consider) best
Eve Golden is the writer I enjoy watching talk the most.



To all the Card-lovers...
I suggest E.E. "doc" Smith. If you're gonna do Camp, at least do something so old it doesn't have a chance of aging any more poorly.
Or maybe Edgar Rice Burroughs. You have no idea how many SF references you're missing if you don't read the Princess of Mars original Trilogy.

Dan Abnett (Tanith First and Only books)
Howard Philips (HP) Lovecraft (my lil Carl Cthulu doll is on the shelf)
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Michael Moorcock (ESPECIALLY the Elric Saga)
David Drak & Eric Flint (the Belisarius series)
Eric Flint (the 1632 series)
Frank Herbert (just the original Dune)
Louis L'amour
Niccolo Machiavelli (the Prince & the Art of War)
Stephen Pressfield (the book on Thermopalye)
Orwell (mainly 1984)
Raymond E. Feist (the Riftwar Sage)
Clive Barker (his old stuff)
Gav Thorpe (the Last Chancers books)

Ok, that's all I can think of right now. I read WAY too many books for my own good.

George R. R. Martin is the be all and end all of great fiction.

I loathe Orson Scott Card. His writings seem to be purely an outlet for his own thinly veiled egotism and sexism. Talk about a narcissitic personality disorder.

EBH, whilst I can agree with your reasoning, learn how to spell...

no particular order
1. J.R.R. Tolkein
2. Bernerd Cornwall
3. John Marsden
4. Robert Ludlam
5. Raymond E Feist

Isaac Asimov, both the Foundation series and his robot stories. His writing style is magnificent, the dialogue alone can keep me mesmerized for hours.