Who is your favorite author?

Im sure that there are those of you who read books on this site. My authors are Robin Cook, James Reese(new author) Robert Frost(great poetry), Some John Grisham, and Tom Clancy. would anyone else like to add to these?

My favourite authors, or the ones I read, (in no particular order):

Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris, Clive Cussler, the real Tom Clancy books, Matthew Reilly, & if i ever want really old simple books Captain W.E. Johns.

sarujin

Sue Townsend, Tom Clancy and R. Scott Fitzgerald

Originally posted by Jimster
R. Scott Fitzgerald

You mean F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Daniel Silva...author of the Kill Artist...and The English Assassin. If you like spy books and undercover missions he does a really good job of them. Tom Clancy is good. And The various authors of the james bond series are amazing writers.

There are so many really good ones but it is a toss up between these few:

Jules Verne, Edgar Allen Poe, and H. G. Wells

My absolute favourite authors would have to be J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ray Bradbury.

JRR Tolkien, Tom Clancy, George Orwell, Philip K Dick, Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson, Chuck Palahnhiuk, Robert Heinlein

Originally posted by ILike2DriveCars


You mean F. Scott Fitzgerald?



doh! Blame it on the sleep withdrawls :o

Originally posted by Jimster




doh! Blame it on the sleep withdrawls :o

Or the sheep withdrawls :finger:

j/fa man ;)

For novels, it's a toss up between Elmore Leonard, and Martin Cruz Smith.

JRR Tolkein, Tom Clancy, Micheal Ondaatje...and i know there's others, but i can't think of them. oh yeah! Marion Zimmer Bradley is pretty damn good, and also Jack Whyte.

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace good book.

Stephen King, Ian Fleming and Tom Clancy.

Wilbur Smith, JRR Tolkien, John Grisham, Jean.M.Auel, Bernard Cornwell and I also like autobiographies.....

Ray

Fav authors: Robert R. McCammon, Franz Kafka, Henry David Thoreau, JD Salinger, Tolstoy.

Fav poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ee cummings.

George MacDonald Fraser

Trevanian

Robert Heinlein

I am not much of a reader, but 2 series I did enjoy reading in the past were:


Little House on the Prairie (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis


Ok go ahead and laugh now :)

Defaulting to last book I read: H. G. Wells.

Ayn Rand ( Atlas Shrugged )

Neal Stephenson:
Zodiac, The Diamond Age, The Cryptonomicon, etc. Most famous for writing Snow Crash, also credited with coining the term "Avatar" as it relates to the internet.

Michael Crichton, Michael A. Stackpole, John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Clancy, and some others, but I only liked a couple of their books.

Best book I've read though, All Quiet on the Western Front

Originally posted by KatWoman
I am not much of a reader, but 2 series I did enjoy reading in the past were:
Little House on the Prairie (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewia
Ok go ahead and laugh now :)

I'm not. Those were good.

In addition to those, my favs are Dave Barry, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury.

H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft. :D Also- Most of the authors that write for White Wolf (Vampire, Mage, etc.) and Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, etc.), particularly Dan Abnett for his excellent "Eisenhorn Trilogy" series. Also, props to Dean Koontz (when I was younger, I used to read ANYTHING by him that I could get my hands on) same for Stephen King and Micheal Crichton. Further, I LOVE the poetry of Dante Alighieri ("Divine Comedy") and the haiku of Basho. I could go on... I'm building quite a collection.

ci5ic- I don't know if you've heard of him, but I HIGHLY suggest William Gibson- "Neuromancer" is an amazing book (really techno/cyberpunk, think "Blade Runner") and it is incredibly prophetic in respect to what has become today's internet, considering it was written in '84.

Originally posted by boingo82


I'm not. Those were good.

In addition to those, my favs are Dave Barry, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury.

WORD! How could I forget good ol' Kurt?!

I've read 6 of his books and loved every one of them.

Also, I like R. Heinlen too

Robert Frost is my favorite poet. EVER. I'm addicted to "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, but sadly my school's lousy library doesn't the the rest of the series. I love Erma Bombeck (easy reading, but all-too-true life stories) and her antics. I don't read as much as I'd like, but I'm picky on what I read. For example: The Hobbit has to be the SINGLE worst book I've ever read. Chapter 3 is the max for me. Not ripping on anyone else's taste, but I can't read it.

*puts on flame-retardant suit anyway*

Books. Tom Clancy, Chris Ryan or Andy McNab

Poetry. Tennyson

Clive Cussler without a doubt. But also read Jack Higgins a fair bit.

"How could I forget..."

Emerson

Originally posted by saturntangerine
Robert Frost is my favorite poet. EVER....

W3rd Tangie:smoka: Frost was my inspiration to begin writing:D

Anyone hired by Hugh Hefner j/k, seriously...I like the attitude of Ernest Hemingway, but hav'nt read his stuff much :)

Originally posted by tenguzero
H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft. :D Also- Most of the authors that write for White Wolf (Vampire, Mage, etc.) and Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, etc.), particularly Dan Abnett for his excellent "Eisenhorn Trilogy" series. Also, props to Dean Koontz (when I was younger, I used to read ANYTHING by him that I could get my hands on) same for Stephen King and Micheal Crichton. Further, I LOVE the poetry of Dante Alighieri ("Divine Comedy") and the haiku of Basho. I could go on... I'm building quite a collection.

I am with him I love a good tale of the macabre :alien:

J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, Tom Clancy, Terry Brooks. I really like alot of R.A salvators stuff. if you like computer and future stuff Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is awesome but I dont know about his other stuff. and if you like Clancy you may like Robert Ludlum, he wrote The Bourne Identity and its nothing like the movie which sucked after reading the book, and The Prometheus Deception by him is highly recommended to anyone who likes conspiracy books

Novels: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Plays: Bernard Shaw
Theology: Leo Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, Henri J. M. Nouwen

Dean Koontz













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The few books I read are those by Tom Clancy, and a few different Mystery Writers. Can't remember my favorite mystery writer's name though. I just recognize the books cause they all look the same.