Mew_Riles

Carolyn Mackler, Lewis Carrol, Iris Johanson, Shannon Drake, (I'm a nerd but...) The author of the Wayside Stories ^ ^, Ameilia Attwater ( I look up to here because she was like sixteen or fifteen when she had her first book published) that's prety much it. I read a lot, but usually it's sotries I've already read and loved. Each of these authors I've read their books at least twice.

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SeattleGhostWriter

Oh I forgot some other authors I have read. R.C. Sproul, James Stuart Russell (these two are non fiction authors), C.S. Lewis, Frank Peretti, Ed McBain, Tolkien, Tolstoy, Iris Johanson, Lisa Jackson.

Right now I am reading the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Waxwings by Jonathan Raban.

Timothy

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mswietek

Tim O'Brien, Martin Amis, Christopher Logue (poet), George RR Martin. Although I am not a big fan of Chrichton, I thought his Eaters of the Dead was very well done.

Michael

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whitt45

My current top 5 are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Chabon, Elmore Leonard, Edgar Allen Poe, and Robert Parker. Not necessarily in that order.

Graff

1 - Stephen King

2 - Michael Crichton

3 - David Morrell

As you can see, I'm a fan of the more modern authors. Stephen King being lightyears beyond the second two of course.

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InChains

George R.R. Martin and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Whende

To put it simply: Gail Carson Levine Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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VinrAlfakyn

Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Tamora Pierce, Cornelia Funke, Hans Christian Anderson, Madeleine L'Engle, Mark Helprin, Stephen R. Lawhead, Howard Pyle, Ted Dekker, Randy Alcorn, and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

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Saponification

Will Christopher Baer, Craig Clevenger, Douglas Coupland, (early) Chuck Palahniuk.

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StaringGirl

Roald Dahl, Philippa Gregory, Michelle Magorian, Daphne Du Maurier

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Julian_Gallo

Julio Cortazar
Henry Miller
Juan Goytisolo
Jack Kerouac
Ernest Hemingway
Pier Poalo Pasolini
Federico Garcia Lorca
Milan Kundera
George Orwell
Juan Carlos Onetti
Mario Benedetti
Herman Hesse

to name a few. There are a million others...

white-wolf

Top 5 (in random order):

J.R.R. Tolkien;
James Rollins;
Stephen King;
Douglas Adams;
Shakespeare.

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Stephen King's great and all but recently I've been thinking he gets a little long winded. I can skim through pages and still nail the story down.

David Eddings writes cleanly and with a dry, english humor I like - although he tends to stick to a formula (which works very well for him, but, well, it's still a formula).

Been getting into Tolkien again, after a long hiatus, and I am well pleased. Beautiful, descriptive, and his love of language shines through.

I recently read Wuthering Heights and thought it brilliant. So I'll include Emily Bronte, even though she only has the one book.

And most recently, Richard Marcinko - ex Navy Seal and ex-commander of quite possibly the world's most highly trained counter-terrorism force. He writes about his real life experiences. Not the most skilled wordsmith in the world, but his content is very interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcinko

Wilderness

Harlan Coben, Nicci French, Michael Connelly, Andrew Rosenheim.

Lani

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Hellknight

Roughly: Faulkner, Joyce and Guimarães Rosa for their work with language; Camus, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky for their philosophical content; Machado de Assis and Herman Melville for the humorous, sarcastic, yet extremely realistic prose; Álvaro de Campos for his iconoclast poetry; and Carlos Drummond de Andrade for his well crafted poems. Honorable mention goes to Ranier Maria Rilke and Dylan Marlais Thomas, whom I have read few of their works, yet was entranced by it, and Pablo Neruda, for when I'm in a more romantic (lower case 'r') mood.

Bear in mind that the qualities I highlighted are neither exclusive nor exhaustive; that is, I only highlighted the qualities which stand out the most, for me, but that doesn't mean the writer doesn't ave other qualities. For example, Faulkner also engages in a very realistic prose, and Machado de Assis also does his bit of experiments with language. Yet, those are not the characteristics which first come to my mind when I think about them.

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