NationStates Jolt Archive

Who among the many authors that have ever written a book are your favorites?

Mine are the following (in no particular order):

Stephen King
Isaac Asimov
Ayn Rand
Margaret Weis
Harry Turtledove
Robert Jordan
Frank Herbert
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.K. Rowling
Patricia A. McKillip
Anchee Min
Ian McDonald
George Orwell

NOTE: I'm including L. Ron Hubbard as an "honorable mention", not because he was a good writer (which he wasn't) but because he was the most blatant and most successful scam artist of all time.

Reading is for dorks. I'd rather watch reality shows and the movie Jackass 2.

J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
George Orwell
Joseph Konrad
James Joyce

Many others who I only read a book or two of, so I can't really judge them as an author, though those individual books were well written and had good points.

Reading is for dorks. I'd rather watch reality shows and the movie Jackass 2.

The typical Average American... just ancient Rome at the height of it's glory, the entertainments slowly became more important than everything else in the Empire and it became an end into itself.

The typical Average American... just ancient Rome at the height of it's glory, the entertainments slowly became more important than everything else in the Empire and it became an end into itself.
Yeah, go read your books and crap. I'll be out experiencing life by getting drunk and watching Jackass 2 tonight.

Ignoring DCD's opinion.

CJ Cherryh
Howard Zinn
Margaret Atwood
Tracy Hickman
Robin Hobb
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Margeret Weis
Laurell K Hamilton

Yeah, go read your books and crap. I'll be out experiencing life by getting drunk and watching Jackass 2 tonight.

You'll be experiencing life by watching footage of people fail in their attempts to end theirs?

Douglas Adams
George Orwell
Michael Crichton
Robert Penn Warren
Jon Stewart et al (America the Book)

Ignoring DCD's opinion.

CJ Cherryh
Howard Zinn
Margaret Atwood
Tracy Hickman
Robin Hobb
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Margeret Weis
Laurell K Hamilton

Has Laurell K. stopped writing her novels as though they take place in the late 80's? Her novels always bugged me with that whole "then" and "than" thing she always mixes up. Though that's more of a problem with her editor.

My own... Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. If you can be funny on paper I'm your fan.

Reading is for dorks. I'd rather watch reality shows and the movie Jackass 2.

Says the man who has 13,000 posts in a political debate forum ;)

Stephen King
Isaac Asimov
Frank Herbert
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.K. Rowling
Timothy Zhan (naturally for me, being a SW fan, he's got to be on that list)
John Barry (more of a newspaper writer, but his books are damn funny)
Scott F. Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
Douglas Adams
George Orwell
Michael Crichton
Terry Pratchett

EDIT:
Note, none of these authors are in order of preference.

Yeah, go read your books and crap. I'll be out experiencing life by getting drunk and watching Jackass 2 tonight.

I love the irony of a guy experiencing life by watching a movie.

In no order at all:

Isaac Asimov
J.R.R Tolkein
H.P. Lovecraft
Ray Bradbury
Truman Capote
David McCullough
Timothy Zahn
Matthew Stover
Robert Heinlein

OK, I'm not going to watch Jackass 2, and I do read.

Thomas Ligotti
Jorge Luis Borges
Tom Clancy
Steven J Gould's essays
HP Lovecraft
are among my favorites.

Yeah, go read your books and crap. I'll be out experiencing life by getting drunk and watching Jackass 2 tonight.

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OK, I'm not going to watch Jackass 2, and I do read.

Thomas Ligotti
Jorge Luis Borges
Tom Clancy
Steven J Gould's essays
HP Lovecraft
are among my favorites.

:)

I figured not to take you seriously

Virginia Woolf
L.M. Montgomery
as of last week, Jonathan Safran Foer
Jane Austen
Carol Sheilds
Amos Oz
many many others, won't list them all.