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Old 05-02-2007, 11:22 AM   #46
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I find John Grisham decidedly mediocre.

One to add to the list; James Joyce.
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Old 05-03-2007, 07:33 PM   #47
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I would say the best writer is Dostoyevsky. Vonnegut is my favorite writer of all time, and Bret Easton Ellis is my favorite living author. Chris Genoa is the young author I'm most interested in.
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Old 05-03-2007, 10:35 PM   #48
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My favorite author is, by far, Scott Westerfeld. I love his style of writing and the sarcastic tone he uses in all of his writing. And all of his ideas seem very original, unlike most authors who write for young adults(I know he's written books for adults, but I haven't read any of them). I also love Stephen King, Madeline L'Engle(I think I spelled that wrong), Lemony Snicket, and a few others.
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Old 05-05-2007, 09:58 PM   #49
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George R.R. Martin, Steven Erikson, Steven Pressfield and the late David Gemmel to name a few. But there are so many that have caught my imagination.
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I love time travel too, but practically all my books that I read are historical fiction. I read fantasy sometimes too.
As for authors, Jim Butcher writes amazingly! He writes in the exact style I want to write in.
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Old 05-21-2007, 04:20 AM   #51
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I'd have to say... Douglas Adams and Ben Elton. Their writing might not be the most techinically brilliant, but it definetely makes me laugh.

Others would be Steven Erikson, Robert Jordan (hey, the Wheel of Time is well written and interesting, even if it does drag on a bit...) and Dan Abnett.
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Old 05-21-2007, 09:44 AM   #52
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Chris Genoa is the young author I'm most interested in.
has he done anything since FOOP! ? those self-labeled 'bizarros' can kind of be a turnoff, since most of them revel in being weird for weirds sake, or what have u. chris is pretty decent, tho.
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I love Douglas Adams too!

But not as much as the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell && Jane Austen. I have no idea why, but it seems like I'm going through a romantic period piece thing right now. It used to be Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, I need to inject myself w/ fantasy... type of mindset.
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Right now:

1. S.E. Hinton (I love The Outsiders)
2. George Orwell (Currently reading 1984)
3. Edgar Allen Poe (Great short stories and poems)
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Most of them are dead.

R.A. Lafferty
Theodore Sturgeon
Robert A. Heinlein
Manly Wade Wellman
Roger Zelazny
Clifford D. Simak
John Brunner


Some, thankfully, are still kickin':

Joe R. Lansdale
Kelly Link
Robert Reed
Dave Marusek
Ted Chiang
Neal Gaiman
Neal Stephenson


Many many more.
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Tolkien, King, Straub...
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In no particular order. . .

Stephen King - haven't really enjoyed much of his stuff after Bag of Bones, but I still love a lot of his earlier stuff. The Shining forever changed my view of bathrooms.

Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files are just lots of good fun. Haven't tried his other series, but a friend of mine loves it.

John Fowles - The Magus and The Collector. Need I say more?

Dean Koontz - Watchers, Night Chills, Strangers, Mr. Murder. . the list goes on and on.

J. K. Rowling - It took me forever to actually try one of her books, but once I did I loved it.

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 is good, but it's really his short stories that I love most.
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Oh I love this topic...

Jacqueline Carey
Sara Douglass
Laura K Hamilton
J R R Tolkien
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Bishop
Mercedes Lackey
Anne Rice
Susan Wright
Francesca Lia Block
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I have a list so big, I don't have time to write it all down. Here are a couple:

Roger Zelazny
Robert E Howard
Ursula La Guinn
Kim Stanley Robinson
Philip K Dick
James Harriot
Arthur C Clarke
Ann Rice
Eric Van Lustbader
Michael Moorcock
H. P. Lovecraft
Charles Dickens
Heinrich Heine
Goethe
Robert Ludlum
Noah Gordon
Steven Pressfield
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Karl Edward Wagner

and so many more
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