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Subject: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Race_Bannon on 12/08/02 at 04:05 a.m.
Do you have someone writing works that you enjoy over most others?
My favorite is Tom Robbins, his books are always creative, funny, and thought provoking. I would have to say Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is my favorite novel from him.
A very close second is John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany is a book I couldn't put down until the last page, and regretted that I had finished it so quickly.
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: XenaKat13 on 12/08/02 at 05:37 a.m.
Do I have to limit it to just one author? I don't think I can, then...
I like Ann Rice's stuff. There are one or two of her books I didn't care for, but for the most part I like her writing style.
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Jean Auel
Michael Moorcock
Anne McCaffrey
Donna Barr
Elizabeth Peters
Sue Grafton
Lillian Jackson Braun
Piers Anthony
And this is just off the top of my head. Almost all of these authors I will check out anything and everything they wrote. It's their style of writing I like, not necessarily a continuing character or concept.
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Thursday on 12/08/02 at 07:08 a.m.
William Blake
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Bobo on 12/08/02 at 07:11 a.m.
I couldn't help but notice who wrote this message. Does this mean you're back?
Quoting:
William Blake
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Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Thursday on 12/08/02 at 07:24 a.m.
sure why not
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: dagwood on 12/08/02 at 07:39 a.m.
I can't name just one
Stephen King
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins
Sue Grafton
Joan Hess
Laurien Berensen
Janet Evanovitch
Kathy Reichs
Patricia Cornwell
Lillian Jackson Braun
Just to name a few.
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: TripsMom on 12/08/02 at 08:34 a.m.
Anne Rice
Patricia Cornwell
Stepen King (although not in recent years)
Maeve Binchy
Lots of others.
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: MissInformation on 12/08/02 at 09:01 a.m.
Anne Tyler
Margaret Atwood
Alice Hoffman
Dennis McKiernan
Ray Bradbury
Anne Bishop
Patricia Briggs
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Kurt Vonnegut
Anne Logston
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: L'Etranger on 12/08/02 at 09:03 a.m.
Yukio Mishima
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Anton Chekhov
Vladimir Nabokov
Jean-Paul Sartre
Joseph Conrad
Sadegh Hedayat
William Shakespeare
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The Marquis De Sade
Charles Dickens
Robert Frost
D. H. Lawrence
Charles Darwin (selected chapters from two of his books).
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Tone-Def on 12/08/02 at 11:05 a.m.
terry pratchett = best author ever. Everyone needs to read šjingoš and learn from it especially certain american leaders.
kurt vonnegut is very good too and so is douglas adams
michael chrichton is also good orson scott card too
lets see any non sci-fi authors...jrr tolkein is one
Also some childrens authors are very good such as jk rowling, l frank baum, cs lewis, and roald dahl. i also liked books by someone named gordon korman a lot about 10 years ago
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Alicia. on 12/08/02 at 11:14 a.m.
Any author who writes a Marilyn Monroe book. Also the author who wrote go ask Alice. which wasn't really an author it was a girls Jounal but she wrote it so I guess there for she would be an author.
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/08/02 at 12:36 a.m.
To name just a few (in no order)
William Shakespeare
Robert Frost
Jude Deveraux
Scott Cunningham
I better say:
Marian Champagne (my aunt who wrote three books, now out of print)
Cindy Sabulus (my sister who wrote two doll books-still in print if anyone wants them.)
I could also say my grandmother who wrote a couple of cookbooks and my mother who wrote geneology books. Writing is in my blood.
Cat
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: lebeiw15 on 12/08/02 at 05:21 p.m.
John Grisham. Michael Crichton is okay sometimes but I have a hard time understanding a lot of his books.
I really like to read, but I don't have too many "favorite authors". I like to just read a variety of authors/books (mostly fiction).
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: The_Ghetto_John on 12/08/02 at 06:27 p.m.
John Steinbeck is my favorite author, he is the same person who wrote my favorite book " Of Mice And Men"
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Zella on 12/08/02 at 08:47 p.m.
Just three that immediately come to mind:
Kurt Vonnegut
Don Robertson
Richard Brautigan
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Rice Cube on 12/08/02 at 09:53 p.m.
I like Kurt Vonnegut's roommate...Dr. Seuss, aka Theodore Geisel ;D
I also like Shakespeare, in case you haven't been paying attention. Douglas Adams, John Grisham and Michael Crichton are prominent in my bookshelves, and J.R.R. Tolkien too.
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: FunkyFresh on 12/08/02 at 09:58 p.m.
David Halberstam
Ernest Hemingway
Jack Kerouac
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Gecko on 12/09/02 at 01:56 a.m.
I can't limit my answer to just one author,but my favourite would have to be Jonathan Kellerman as I have read all of his books. Others include Bryce Courtney (if you haven't read The Power of One, Four Fires and April Fool's Day, you really should give them a go as they are very powerful books), Patricia Cornwell, Nelson Demille, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver and Nicholas Evans.
I do have to admit that I used to read a lot more books before I got my computer ::)
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: philbo_baggins on 12/09/02 at 06:12 a.m.
Too many....
Authors I've bought pretty much everything they've written:
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Harry Harrison
Brian Aldiss
Leslie Charteris (well, every Saint book I've found)
Ian Fleming
Frederick Forsythe
Alistair Maclean
Desmond Bagley
E.E. 'Doc' Smith
Others where I'm getting there:
Tad Williams
JRR Tolkein
David Gemmell
David Eddings
Tom Sharpe
Neil Gaiman
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C Clarke
Piers Anthony
...my sci-fi fantasy collection was just under two thousand books when last I counted: it's probably *nearly* there now (a couple more business trips away, and I should be there)
Phil
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: ChrisSquire on 12/09/02 at 06:17 a.m.
I read so much i do not have a fave author. However ones i am enjoying reading at the moment are:
Grant Naylor (Red Dwarf Novels are soooooooooooo funny)
Douglas Adams
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Kay. on 12/09/02 at 06:58 a.m.
Stephen King (No question)
But I also like Patricia Cornwell a lot, and Dean Koontz.... and James Herbert..... ok ok....I'll stop now!
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: philbo_baggins on 12/09/02 at 07:27 a.m.
Quoting:
Grant Naylor (Red Dwarf Novels are soooooooooooo funny)
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Yes, they are rather good, aren't they... but you do realize that "Grant Naylor" is actually two authors?
Phil
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: Syanne on 12/09/02 at 09:24 a.m.
At the top of my list - two Canadian authors - Margaret Atwood and the late Margaret Laurence. However, Stephen King is right up there, too! In fact, I'm rereading the Gunslinger series at the moment, in preparation for the fifth installment which will hopefully be out sometime in 2003 - I can't wait ;D
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: cs on 12/09/02 at 09:51 a.m.
Coincidentally, mine is the same as George Costanza: Art Vandolay
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: langdon_hughes on 12/09/02 at 11:09 a.m.
Wow. Well, one more vote for Terry Pratchett. And Neil Giaman. And Piers Anthony, but only a long time ago.
I shall add Diana Wynne Jones and Tom Holt.
(And I prefer Jitterbug Perfume and Still Life With Woodpecker but yes, he's fab too.)
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: goldie on 12/09/02 at 03:39 p.m.
Here is my list:
Patricia Cornwell
Tami Hoag
Iris Johansen
Nora Roberts
There are several more but I try not to miss a book that any of these authors have written! ;D
Subject: Re: Who's your favorite author?
Written By: shazzaah on 12/09/02 at 03:50 p.m.
Quoting:
Do you have someone writing works that you enjoy over most others?
My favorite is Tom Robbins, his books are always creative, funny, and thought provoking. I would have to say Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is my favorite novel from him.
A very close second is John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany is a book I couldn't put down until the last page, and regretted that I had finished it so quickly.
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I loved Prayer for Owen Meany!! It is an excellent book and much better than the movie they came out with! But...I have far too many favorites:
newer:
Richard Adams (Watership Down, Maia, Shardik)
Stephen King (self explanatory)
Fannie Flagg
Erma Bombeck
older:
Shakespeares Sonnets is my fav poetry book
Jane Austen
Henry James
the Bronte sisters
Dickens (anything Dickens)
I guess I am not up as much on the new as the old lol. These are just the ones I can think of right now ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D