Who's Your Favorite Author?

[prestalive]

i love Shidney Sheldon. his stories always attract me.

[TLESLIE89]

Steve Perry for sure.

[Leonardo Noto]

Well, other than myself , I'd have to vote for Michael Crichton. The breadth of subjects that he tackled is what impresses me the most; who else can write on technology, history, medicine, and contemporary politics without losing his readers. As far as classical authors go, my favorite is Charles Dickens because of his amazingly astute descriptions of both personalities and personality disorders, not to mention of many physical disorders that medicine hadn't even described yet. For instance, "Pickwickian" is actually a medical term that is used to describe obese and air hungered patient's-- a term derived from Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. Jules Verne is another of the greats that I'm a big fan of. In many ways, Verne was to the 19th century as Crichton was to the 20th, with regard to technological writings anyhow. If you've never written a book before, it's hard to appreciate how incredibly difficult it is to create an entire world like Tolkien did; at least I know that I didn't fully appreciate it until I started really writing.

Leonardo Noto

[pawpoint]

Yes I think Michael Crichton is great. Prey is one of my favourites.
I think my favourite (sorry I`m English) book of all time is Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea.
Talk about a mind blow in a tea cup!

[sreelavanya]

Jane Smiley
Nelson DeMille

[Leonardo Noto]

Pawpoint: If you dig Crichton, you've got to check out some of his earlier works. I've listed a few of his less well known books below that are great reads and that many people are unaware of b/c they were published before he was famous.

The Great Train Robbery
Five Patients
The Terminal Man
A Case of Need
Airframe

Leonardo Noto

[nadiamoqaddas]

My favorite authors:

Charles Dickens

Swift

[Garathnormanmtts]

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Cormac McCarthy

[d3i6amo7nds]

My favourite author is Cash Peters-mainly for the humour and his clever use of language. I also like Bill Bryson,Maya Angelou and Mark Rowlands among many others!

[victoriaaa]

Harlan Coben is becoming one of my favourites! Theres just something about his books that have me hooked at the moment.. My guilty pleasure is Stephanie Meyer - The host is one of my all time favourites now, i dont know whether thats cringy or not but its my honest opinion. Cecelia Ahern is another.

[gladiolus]

Charles Dickens: Dickens was one of the greatest writers to come out of England.. and His characters Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin, Charles Darnay, Oliver Twist, Micawber, Samuel Pickwick, Miss Havisham and Wackford Squeers, among others..

[sandman]

Hi there

fiction
it's got to be cormac mccarthy (american)
and david peace (british)

non fiction
though i don't read that much
bill bryson (american)
richard dawkins (british)

peace and good karma

[ping2richard]

Stephen King, Jeffery Archer and Kathy Reichs these all my favorite writer. Generally I like fiction but sometime just for the change I read romantic novels too.

[Connie_88]

I love Austen, the Bronte's, Poe and Stephen King - Please don't ask me to choose between them, it's like sophie's choice

[WinstonSmith]

not very many people seem to read classic literature?
I only see very few say

Orwell, Dostoevsky, Vonnegut,Huxley,Shakespeare --> my list of 5

and what about philosophers?

Nietzsche , Plato , Schopenhauer, they write great books