strangedaze

er, thats DICKENS, i assume?

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Poe Clock

Vladimir Nabokov is my all-time favourite, hands down. I absolutely love his work, especially An Invitation to a Beheading and Lolita. Neil Gaiman and Egdar Allan Poe are definately on my list, they're both brilliant. <3

Aterin™

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dancer_37 mentioned Scott Westerfeld. I think he's pretty good. I also like Christopher Paolini and J.K. Rowling a lot. Tolkien's pretty good. C.S. Lewis was one of my favorites when I was younger. Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series was pretty good. Recently, I've been reading a lot of Sarah Dessen's books. Those are really good. At the moment, I'd have to say she's my all-time favorite author. But you never know when I'll find another author that dazzles me even more. My favorite author is constantly changing.

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Vanest

I guess it depends on the genre. In magic realism, Alejo Carpentier and García Márquez. In contemporary Latin American literature, Mario Vargas Llosa. In poetry, Alfonsina Storni. In 'feminine' literature (although I don't like the idea that any woman wirter should immediately be thrown into this category), María Luisa Bombal. In Canadian literaure, Alice Munro. In American Literature, Jack Kerouac. And children's literature is where my list is longest: L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls, J.K. Rowling, A.A. Milne, Roald Dahl, Kenneth Grahame, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien (although I guess some of his things aren't exactly for children...), and Frank Asch.

Thats a very long list... I hope I haven't bored you

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Now all my days
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Wish I could go back
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I'm going through changes
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stupid_dream

My favorite authors, followed by my favorites from each...

1. Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor, Fight Club)
2. Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes, Fahrenheit 451)
3. John Steinbeck (East of Eden, Of Mice and Men)
4. J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
5. J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Prisoner of Azkaban)


I'm really weird.

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Scott Tuplin

My two most favourite authors, in the order I discovered them:

1. Martina Cole (namely for Dangerous Lady and Maura's Game)
2. Andy McNab (for the Nick Stone series)

I have a feeling Tsunetomo Yamamoto will soon become the third.

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Sir Jorah

Terry Brooks, George R R Martin, David Morrell, and Orson Scott Card.

Incatnito

Jane Austen and Harper Lee. I love their wonderfully wry take on social mores. Robin McKinley is another favorite - fairy tales will never be the same again.

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DaBags311

I feel like a baby here =) so many good authors I'll need to check out now. My library is somewhat limited I'll be the first to admit, although I am working to change that. Authors who's works I have enjoyed include in no particular order:

C.S. Lewis (the narnia series as a pre-teen, screwtape letters as a teen, Mere Christianity, and the Great Divorce most recently)

George R R Martin.

I find his characters truer and his stories more fascinating than most anything else I've read recently. It feels much the same as when I read J R R Tolkien as a pre-teen, yet it's far from the same style-wise. Martin reads like Historical fiction. Primary characters die, the events are unpredictable, yet theres an overwhelming sense of underlying connection hidden from the characters and which we as readers can at times only guess at. I can't recommend this series highly enough, it's my favorite series at the moment.

Dickens

a Tale of Two Cities, I admit I have not read much else by him

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice in particular as well as Sense and Sensibility

Orsen Scott Card

Oddly I found Enders Game to be the better than the more critically acclaimed Speaker for the Dead. Both stretched the willing suspension of disbelief for me, but I thought Enders Game was more consistant whereas Speaker for the dead made too many universal assertions for my taste.

J R R Tolkein

I was a fanboy growing up, but even as an adult I'm continually struck by just how complex of a world this man created in his mind. For a man to have that kind of genius and still be capable of inciting a sense of wonder and intrigue with his words, I call that nothing short of a monumental acheivement

Terry Pratchett

the very definition of the word whimsy

J.K. Rowling.

She's not all her most die hard fans crack her up to be, but she's a damned good writer and her work appeals to an ENORMOUS audience. That alone is worth something.)



While I wouldn't ever say he was one of my favorite authors, I did enjoy Christopher Paolini's Eragon. Call him a plagiarist, unoriginal, predictable, say he writes too much like a mixture of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings with every other cliche in the fantasy world thrown in the mix and I'll agree. Yet at the same time I want to cut the guy a little slack. He wrote Eragon when he was 15, and besides it's a fun read. What the hell's wrong with that? If he's still writing like this at 25 then I'll lose respect for him, but for now I'll keep reading to see where the story goes.

That's what I can remember from recently. And that's my 2 cents.

Lance

A very underrated author is Rodman Philbrick. But I can't help but love J.K Rowling, I love all the books in the Harry Potter series.

macd

Try this favourite books poll
it should be interesting to see what people come up with through the course of time...

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I'm very fond of Poppy Z. Brite. She's very, very good at setting moods. Especially dark ones (of course). I love Wormwood, Exquisite Corpse and of course Lost Souls, as stereotypical as it is it's very nice to read.

I was into Brian Jacques when I was younger because I love animals. The Redwall series is delightful.

And of course my love, Oscar Wilde. I hope he doesn't need an explanation. Hehe.

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Bukowski (his novels, rather than his poetry): Post Office, Women, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Notes of a Dirty Old Man)

Orson Scott Card: Enders Game, Enders Shadow

Kafka: Metamorphosis

Hemmingway: Farewell to Arms, For Whom The Bells Tolls

Anthony Burgess: Clockwork Orange, Wanting Seed

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Rob

Gosh, I don't know. Favourites would have to include, in no particular order:

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Donald Barthelme
- William Trevor
- David Mitchell
- Angela Carter
- Philip K. Dick
- Raymond Carver

Cheers,
Omni