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Mine is Niccolo Machiavell. My favorite fiction writer, is ether Alaxander Dumas, or Jack Vance purely because of his Dying Earth series (ESPECIALLY, the Cugel books.)

Anyway, name your favorite author, and name something he/she wrote.

Favourite what?
My favourite author is Stephen Donaldson or Isaac Asimov.

My favorite author is Jonathan Ames. Also Kurt Vonnegut, but he doesn't need as much publicity.

*cringes*
Author. Spell it with me. A-U-T-H-O-R. Author.
Meg Cabot, Michael Crichton, and Alexandre Dumas.

i dont have one i like to many differant books:)

I hate this question, because I've got so many authors whose work I absolutely adore.

I initially read this thread topic as "Your Favorite Arthur," which would have been interesting.

As for the actual intended question - how on earth could I pick just one? :p

I initially read this thread topic as "Your Favorite Arthur," which would have been interesting.

As for the actual intended question - how on earth could I pick just one? :p
Me too, I was going to say the first Arthur, the sequels wheren't as good.

When you get caught between the moon and New York Ci-ty....

Douglas Adams, probably not the best writer in the world, but he makes me laugh.

*cringes*
Author. Spell it with me. A-U-T-H-O-R. Author.
I'm sorry about my typo, but Christ guys, I can't change the title.

Easy ... William Burroughs, with a tie for 2nd between Hunter Thompson and Jack Kerouac. The Dharma Bums is, in fact, one of my very favorite books ever ... but, then, I am a professional slacker.

I'm with the "spell it right" folks, but I'll spare the repetition. Everybody makes mistakes.

I have to say Robert Jordan. I plan to be Moridin when I grow up.

I like a lot of books...however my tastes are more specific elsewhere.

jk rowling jk

probably some russian or french guy.

Terry Pratchett and HG Wells. Closely followed by Douglas Adams.

Dante Alighieri
Miguel de Cervantes
Pablo Neruda
JRR Tolkien
Federico García Lorca
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
Gabriel García Márquez
Harold Pinter
Samuel Beckett
Julio Cortázar
Horacio Quiroga
Schiller
Goethe
Kierkegaard

I can go like forever...

Jorge Luis Borges, H.P. Lovecraft:rolleyes:, Phillip K. Dick, China Mieville, the guy who wrote Ghost Wars, earlier Cornell West before he lost his fuckin' mind, Luis Rodriguez, James Ellroy, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Ligotti.

Jorge Luis Borges, H.P. Lovecraft:rolleyes:, Phillip K. Dick, China Mieville, the guy who wrote Ghost Wars, earlier Cornell West before he lost his fuckin' mind, Luis Rodriguez, James Ellroy, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Ligotti.

See?, I forgot Borges, Lovecraft and Dick...

I knew it!

I always thought lovecraft was a bit bollocks, he always described stuff as 'too horrible for human words to describe' as a kind of irritating cop out.

Anne McCaffery: Dragonriders of Pern
Mercedies Lackey: Heralds of Valdemar, Diana Tregard Investigations
Tanya Huff: Keeper series, Blood Series...
Gail Baudino: Gossimar Axe, Duel of Dragons
David Eddings: Belgariad series

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
*slaps*

William Shakespeare

*grumbles*

I'm not going to make a list, just state the guy I just got into-
Karel Capek, the guy who wrote R.U.R. I just read War With the Newts and it was fucking fantastic.

Phillip K. Dick without a doubt. Always notable for acid trip stories but somehow he makes sense in his own twisted way...

other than that... Asimov, Graham Greene and Terry Pratchet...

Phillip K. Dick without a doubt. Always notable for acid trip stories but somehow he makes sense in his own twisted way...
The one about the drug dealers, with the guy who has to make reports in an invisibility suit.. damnnit cant remember the name, was awesome. And of course blade runner.

Nermid: TWINS!:fluffle:

Old School: Shakespeare

Slightly less old school: Charles Dickens, Bram Stroker

Early twentieth century: J.R.R Tolkien.

Modern: Michael Chrichton

Liasia']The one about the drug dealers, with the guy who has to make reports in an invisibility suit.. damnnit cant remember the name, was awesome. And of course blade runner.

Nermid: TWINS!:fluffle:

I don't know that one... Blade runner is awesome... My favourite has to be Vulcan's Hammer, or Ubik, or Maze of death... I am planning to read a lot more of Dick though soon... I have read about 7 of his novels and I crave more!!! His short stories are great too

See?, I forgot Borges, Lovecraft and Dick...

I knew it!
Dig, if you have not dug. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=490486)

Anne McCaffery: Dragonriders of Pern

Alright for you aging yourself ;)

I read that series in high school. Great stuff!

Alright for you aging yourself ;)

I read that series in high school. Great stuff!
Also guilty.

Bill Bryson, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut

Patric O'Brian, definately. If you don't agree, then read Master & Commander. "and if [your bookseller] doesn't carry it, then beat the wretched fellow."

J.R.R. Tolkien... had maybe the greatest contemporary impact on fantasy literature

Douglas Adams; hands down the funniest author I've ever had the pleasure to read

(Wow, they're all British at this point)

Mark Twain; the author of THE Great American Novel (Huckleberry Finn)

Mine is Niccolo Machiavell. My favorite fiction writer, is ether Alaxander Dumas, or Jack Vance purely because of his Dying Earth series (ESPECIALLY, the Cugel books.)

Anyway, name your favorite author, and name something he/she wrote.

Machiavelli is my favorite as well. For fiction, I love J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter series more than anything else. Audulous Huxley wrote a fantastic one with Brave New World and I always must give credit to James Joyce.

I don't know who my favourite author is. What I do know is that it won't be an anglo. For some reason they never seem to provoke any reactions.

Liasia']
Nermid: TWINS!:fluffle:

Indeed. Fluffles ahoy! :fluffle:

Kurt Vonnegut
Ernest Hemingway
Philip K. Dick
Albert Camus
Alan Moore
Robert Heinlein
Garth Ennis
Anthony Burgess
Leo Tolstoy
Jean-Paul Sartre
Grant Morrison
Neal Stephenson
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frank Miller
Charles Dickens

I included comic writers in my list.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - none better :)

The Brothers Karamazov

If I had to mention one that I read and re-read, it would be Jorge Luis Borges.

Malcolm Bosse (wrote my most favorite book called "Warlord")
Lothar-Günther Buchheim (wrote one of my favorite books called "Das Boot")
J.R.R. Tolkien (self-explanatory ;) )
Tobias O. Meißner (a very good german fantasy author)
Stephen King (a very good author, not only in horror)

EDIT: And Don Rosa, the best Scrooge McDuck comic artist ever.

If I had to mention one that I read and re-read, it would be Jorge Luis Borges.

His fourth book of poetry, "El Otro, el mismo", is one I advise everyone have in their collection. “Funes, the Memorius” is also an incredible study of language.

¡Saludo tu opción!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Truly, his works contain some of the most moving and brutal accounts of human suffering that can be found in literature.

Liasia']The one about the drug dealers, with the guy who has to make reports in an invisibility suit.. damnnit cant remember the name, was awesome.

A Scanner Darkly, dude. Recently filmed using Rotoscope.

Liasia']The one about the drug dealers, with the guy who has to make reports in an invisibility suit.. damnnit cant remember the name, was awesome. And of course blade runner.

A Scanner Darkly.

Now a movie! Hopefully, a good one.

Caution: Stars Keanu Reeves:(

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Truly, his works contain some of the most moving and brutal accounts of human suffering that can be found in literature.


Yes. Notes From Underground. A wrist-hacking suicidal-fest if there ever was one. Damn.

Ann Coulter

Kapow! :mp5:

Alan Moore
Garth Ennis
Grant Morrison
Frank Miller
I included comic writers in my list.

Hey, no fair!

Morrison, truly. The Filth blew my fuckin' mind.

Obviously, The Invisibles did, too.

Ennis is rad, also. Though I think his down-home stuff like "Heartland" will hold up better over time.

Ann Coulter

Kapow!

Yes, she's also my favorite pick for shooting straight in the eye-socket with an assault weapon at close range.

Bravo, a bold statement. Glad we're in agreement:D

asimov, but most of the books i actually own that have not been purloined from my dad are ian rankin or terry pratchett books.

Yes, she's also my favorite pick for shooting straight in the eye-socket with an assault weapon at close range.

Bravo, a bold statement. Glad we're in agreement:D
How dare you? She's a great visionary. But what's to expect from libral traitors.

How dare you? She's a great visionary. But what's to expect from libral traitors.

Fuck off, troll. Or at least learn how to spell "liberal".

And stop threadsurfing just so you can shotgun one-sentence 'tard-isms all over the forums to feel important.

Bye-yi.

Fuck off, troll. Or at least learn how to spell "liberal".

And stop threadsurfing just so you can shotgun one-sentence 'tard-isms all over the forums to feel important.

Bye-yi.
You're talking about killing people and I'm a troll? Please :rolleyes:

You're talking about killing people and I'm a troll? Please :rolleyes:

Yes, you're right. I humbly withdraw my fake death-threat against Ann Coulter.

If you'll withdraw your contention that I'm a traitor.

Deal?

Yes, you're right. I humbly withdraw my fake death-threat against Ann Coulter.

If you'll withdraw your contention that I'm a traitor.

Deal?
Sure :)

Sure :)
Cool.

Any other authors that you care to endorse? There must be more than one. Nobody who has shown up to this thread actually has only one fave author.

T.H. White for his "Once and Future King," Or Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for their philisophical ideologies.

Machiavelli is my favorite as well. For fiction, I love J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter series more than anything else. Audulous Huxley wrote a fantastic one with Brave New World and I always must give credit to James Joyce.
Got to love those Harry Potter books. I wonder when the next one will come out...

Hey, no fair!

Morrison, truly. The Filth blew my fuckin' mind.

Obviously, The Invisibles did, too.

Ennis is rad, also. Though I think his down-home stuff like "Heartland" will hold up better over time.

With Ennis, I've only read his work on Preacher and The Punisher, both I've enjoyed very much. And Morrison is just straight up genius.

William Shakespeare
Fyodor Dostoevsky
F. Scott Fitzgerald
J.D. Salinger
Chuck Palahniuk

Alright for you aging yourself ;)

I read that series in high school. Great stuff!
ha!, that's not marking my age... this is.

Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising Series.

better than Harry Potter. :D

damn, now I got that dam poem stuck in my head again... :headbang:

When the Dark comes rising, Six shall turn it back
three from the circle, three from the track
Wood, Bronze, Iron, Water, Fire, Stone
Five will return, one goes alone

Iron for the Birthday, Bronze carried long
Wood from the burning, Stone out of song
Fire from the candle ring, Water from the thaw
Six Signs the circle and the grail gone before

Fire on the mountain will find the harp of gold
played to wake the sleepers, oldest of the old.
Power of the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea
All shall fing the light at last, Silver on the Tree.



On the day of the dead, when the year too dies,
Must the youngest open the oldest hills
Through the door of the birds, where the breeze breaks.
There fire shall fly from the raven boy,
And the silver eyes that see the wind,
And the light shall have the harp of gold.

By the pleasant lake the Sleepers lie,
On Cadfan’s Way where the kestrels call;
Though grim from the Grey King shadows fall,
Yet singing the golden harp shall guide
To break their sleep and bid them ride.

When light from the lost land shall return,
Six Sleepers shall ride, six Signs shall burn,
And where the midsummer tree grows tall
By Pendragon’s sword the Dark shall fall.

Y maent yr mynyddoedd yn canu,
ac y mae’r arglwyddes yn dod.

Jorge Luis Borges, H.P. Lovecraft:rolleyes:, Phillip K. Dick, China Mieville, the guy who wrote Ghost Wars, earlier Cornell West before he lost his fuckin' mind, Luis Rodriguez, James Ellroy, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Ligotti.
Holy Shit!

1) You've named my favorite authors. Borges, Lovecraft, Dick, and Ligotti kick ass. I haven't read the others you've mentioned, but I think I've seen one or two films based on James Ellroy books (Wasn't LA confidential his?).

2) Someone else on this forum knows Thomas Ligotti? Are you on the TLO message board?

Yoshimoto Banana, and my favourite book she's written is TSUGUMI.

I read "arthur" as well!

my fav author: antoine de saint-exupery for the little prince

My favorite Arthur is the little alcoholic millionaire from the movie.

Susan: A real woman could stop you from drinking.
Arthur: It'd have to be a real BIG woman.

My fave is Terry Pratchett, hands down - I think i've read just about all of his books, none of the collaborations though....if I have to name some they'd be:
Moving Pictures
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Reaper Man
Weird Sisters
Carpe Jugulum
Men At Arms
The Fifth Elephant
The Last Continent
Masquerade


etc etc

Other Authors

Matthew Riely - Ice Station, Area 47, Scarecrow
Tom Holt - Only Human, Little People
I do have all 4 Dan Browns - but he's a bit predictable
James Herbert - The Dark
Stephen King (in his early years) 4 past midnight
Michael Crichton - Prey
Ben Elton - Pop Corn, Past Mortem, Inconceivable

note to self - read more stuff by female writers.