Who is your favorite author?

[Lady Mizura]

As the title says:

Who is your favorite author?

Mine is a toughie, but I'd have to say Brian Jacques. His Redwall series is absolutely fantastic.

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[Budo]

J.M. Coetzee. hands down.

[tari101190]

kelley armstrong
- bitten
- stolen
- dime store magic
- industrial magic
- haunted
- broken
- no humans involved

horror/crime/sex ...

best books ever.

werewolves, vampries, angels, demons, half-demons, witches, sorcerors, ghosts etc...

[Poiison]

Hm... I guess this has got to change from each book.
But at the moment, Carol Dines I think her name is.
She wrote the touching 'The Queen's Soprano.'

it's a very beautiful piece.
Libba Bray is also very good ;D
But her last name could also be Brey. D;

[gab00n]

Neal Stephenson and Robert Ludlum.

[Grey1x]

I dont read a lot, but for what I've read, Cristophaner Paolini.

[AnimeFantasyFan]

Mizura, that's an evil question!

Well, I guess for me... it'd have to be Kyra Davis. Her writing style is so amazing (and makes me aspire to be a writer)... she's one of the few authors I've read who's able to have tons and tons of dialog and still make it engaging. :D

[Melodymix]

Nicholas Sparks :love
- The Notebook
- A Walk to Remember
- Message in a Bottle

[Revan1990]

well I read alot, so my fav author changes every few month or weeks^^
so im not really sure...Phillip Pullman is pretty good too(but I think that's just cuz I'm reading a book by him right now)^^ ...and Mark Twain too, a little old but still very good

[Luhy]

I'm my favorite author! ;o hmmm, probably William Shakespeare even though I don't want to admit it... his plays are just too fun and so much meaningful symbolism...

[Volupture]

Kim Harrison, Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, and Kevin J. Anderson are my favorite authors. I'm in love with The Hollows and Dune series, so it is no real surprise.

Barb and J.C. Hendee, and Jacqueline Carey are also very good.

[melboyd~]

i read some books and cant really pick any authors as my favourite, since i did not follow any writings by a particular author rite now. though i do have franz kafka and Anne Rice in mind~

however i did favour R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike when i was little. Horror/thriller genre is my favourite up until now. even though they came up with cliche` plot formulas, their books kept my interest going.

[beautiful_death]

Thomas Harris, especially his Hannibal Lecter series.

[cornflakes]

Anybody else here read Harry Turtledove? His Guns of the South and Timeline-191 metaseries is consistently fascinating. No one writes alternate history like Turtledove does, though I suppose enjoyment of his books are probably proportionate to knowledge of American history, especially late 19th-century American history.

Good stuff.

[SBJ220]

Not sure I will ever ba able to declare a favorite author, but I will certainly say that Orson Scott Card ranks very high on the list. Reading the Ender's Game series is still one of the best experiences I have ever had within the confines of my own mind. Political intrigue, sociological conflicts, and science-fiction/fantasy to boot. If you enjoy stretching personal/moral boundaries you previously believed immovable, I urge you to pick up a copy. Perhaps not a series for everyone, the content is both infinitely enlightening and depressing. What heights and depths will humanity dive between before chaos overtakes and destroys us all? ...Wait, and see.

[Naota]

Victor Hugo, Don Quixote, James Patterson.

[Awakenedgirl86]

Meg Cabot and Jane Austen

[mechaqua]

favorite authors

Douglas Adams, JRR Tolkien, Willam H Golding, Dante, Max Brooks, Hemingway, Frank Herbert, Franz Kafka

Books by these authors

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway

Lord of the Ring Trilogy by JRR Tolkien

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Inferno by Dante Allegory

Lord of the Flies by William H Golding

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

World War Z by Max Brooks

[ch1mera]

Oscar Wilde, Agatha Christie and of course Gabriel García Márquez

Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Grey

Agatha Christie - Curtain

Gabriel Garcia Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude , Love in the time of Cholera

[Elentari]

So far John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Isaac Asimov and Jane Austen

[zero_squad]

I don't read too many books, so, i'd say it's JRR Tolkien, because of his incrediable imagination to create a whole, complex and detailed mythology

[woohooitsbrenda]

Stephenie Meyer and Edgar Allen Poe.

[Ichigo123]

Stephen King, Clive Barker. I like my horror.

[Sapphire Star]

Hmm. J.K. Rowling, Katie MacAlister, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jodi Picoult, Holly Black, and Dinah McCall

[memopanda]

Oh man, I used to love Brian Jacques! Like crazy. Don't read him much anymore though... I should. :) My favourite author currently is probably David Mitchell, his novels are fascinating to read. It's like... he's squished nine or ten novels into every one his books. :love

[Zadus]

Robert Jordan.

[Luciαnα]

Edgar A. Poe and B. Stoker

[TrueSalvation]

Oh man my favorite author all time will always be Micheal Crichton. I love his action packed intellectual thrillers. It's like watching a movie as the plot is so fast moving and captivating, while your still dealing with important issues such as genetic engineering, global warming, corporate greed, and other various subjects.

I've read all his books and loved everyone of them. My favorites being Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Prey, Rising Sun, and State of Fear. It's like watching an educational video, yet your actually enjoying it as you turn the pages and cannot stop. Definitely not something you should read late at night when you have work/class in the morning XD

[ninhoic]

Douglas Adams. He wrote the greatest series of books I have ever completely read. The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Don't Panic!

[Trinity1001]

Oh hmm... I'd have to say Tami Hoag. First book i read of hers was A Thin Dark Line, and it was amazing. Her work is so descriptive and believable, and the storylines are so entriguing.

[Cara]

OMG

David Sedaris FTW

He the rock star of the writing world. he has GROUPIES.

His stories can make me laugh ad cry on the same page.

[MidgetJas]

Robert Jordan and Karen Traviss :)

[directX07]

I'm a big fan of thrillers and mysteries. So I'm for Sidney Sheldon, Robert Ludlum and Anne Perry (for classics). I love JK Rowling and Lemony Snicket for fiction tales. Judith McNaught for romances. For horror, I guess Bram Stoker's Dracula will do. And the book entitled Carmilla, though I forgot who the author was. But I'll remember. Hopefully.

[Hiraeth]

I'm more into fantasy, especially high fantasy, and I tend to really love Aussie fantasy writers. That said I find it hard to pick a favourite because all of them go through good and bad phases, where their stuff is either brilliant or incredibly boring. That said, there's only one author who as far as I'm concerned continually comes up with interesting and unusual premises, and is able to make me laugh, cry and gasp in surprise in 99% of her novels. That wonderful lady is Aussie author Sara Douglass. If you like fantasy novels then find hers, she is really that good.

[directX07]

I've read one of her books

[MiraofAzureSky]

Margaret Weis :wha

But I also love Nisioisin, Tracy Hickman, and Jean Rabe

[xtremedark]

for now anne mccaffrey and Mary janice Davidson.
crap. I really need to read more sci fi books.

[Reira]

Jane Austen. <3. I'm a romantic u.u

[Ayu-chan]

I like: Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling, and Jacqueline Wilson. and Nicholas Sparks :wha

[Fyrefox]

Jonathan Stroud, Philip Reeve, Chistopher Paolini, and Lian Hearn.

[xxSannie]

Hmmm...
I'll have to say, Stephenie Myer. She's the twilight author duh.:p I'm a fan of that series and she's a great author.^_^

[Syn]

*points to sig*

Georges R. R. Martin is the only author I fangirl and I look up to, like really woah. His fantasy serie A Song of Ice and Fire is awesome, but really, everything that I read from him is excellent.
Other than him, there are a lot of authors that I like, like Pratchett, Agatha Christie, Ellis Peter, Isaac Asimov, Tolkien, Shakespeare, and some French authors (no, not Victor Hugo - he actually bores me to death :D).

[Carrotsandroses]

Right now, I'd say Sophie Kinsella, because her stories are rather light-hearted, and put the well needed comedic twist into any romance :laugh

[jinxie]

I'm a Chuck Palahniuk fan, Invisible Monsters is one of my favourites but Fight Club is awesome, too. I used to love Nick Hornby. Ted Hughes is excellent.

[tifa]

T. Gerritsen, S. King & S. van der Vlugt at the moment :D

[tartelette]

Terry Pratchett for all his humour and satire. :) Can't go without his discworld books.

[ashido fan]

Edgar Allan Poe :D

[Abigail]

Charlaine Harris and Sidney Sheldon....

[femaleshiro_16]

Stephenie Myer
C.S. Lewis and
j.k. Rowling

[Ichuki Kuchigo]

Lemony Snicket ,C.S. Lewis ,William Shakespeare ,and Edgar Allan Poe

[GIN_ofTheFunk]

Mario Puzo
Duglas Addams
P.G. Wodehouse
Dean Kunz
H. P. Lovecraft
Stephen King