Favorite Author(s)

JesterKing · Post by **JesterKing** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:05 pm

wheel of time would be robert jordan... only read the first one and never relaly ot into it, are they any good?

sparky_kat · Post by **sparky_kat** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:10 pm

bought the books havnt gotten to them yet, had already started the death gayte cycle for 3rd time, lol, but my coworker is on her 2nd time thru ithe wheel of time and she loves it

JesterKing · Post by **JesterKing** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:27 pm

ic... well i will defenitely look into those then. have you read any of the authors i put up earlier? orson scott card is just amazing, but its more sci-fi ish...

sparky_kat · Post by **sparky_kat** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:35 pm

cant say that i have read his work jester, but i have been trying to get my book collection back to order, it sux to go from having about 100-200 books in your collection.... and all gets stolen, been a long process to get the collection back up, i cant even remember over half the books i had let alone the authors, i do remeber a realy good book though, all i remember is the title "the Girl in the window" its a "older" childrens murder type mystery, and one of my all favorite childrens books i had wanted to keep for my children "sign of the beaver" a tale of a fronteer family boy and a family of indians come together and find friendship and survival type book

beornica · Post by **beornica** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:13 am

Jest, I'm a big Orson Scott Card fan, too. I agree, though, some of his works are... not up to card standards. Like his Alvin Journeyman series. What's with tha? Plus every cover I've ever seen on them always makes them look like a steamy romance novel. I was slightly embarrassed to borrow it at the library.

I also love katharine harrison, even though she only has one well known book, and that's Poison. My favorite book in the whole wide world. Oh my goodness I love it, I wish I were reading it right this minute!
I also love Patrick White for writing Voss, such beautiful beautiful prose.
And Anais Nin. How could you not love her writing?
Also, John Steinbeck. I love love love John Steinbeck.
Okay, and I'm a big sucker for the classics. A serious sucker. And for serious classics.
like Thomas Hardy (ahhhh... Return of the Native. Jude the Obscure?)
George Eliot (Silas marner, The Mill on the Floss; read them if you haven't yet, George Eliot is amazing)
Henry Fielding
Charlotte Bronte (I have a soft spot for Jane Eyre)
and about 50 other classic authors that I just can't remember right now, just the books they wrote (Tenant of Wildfell hall, Woman in White... oh my goodness I just love them) But, I should add, I'm the only person I've ever met who loves classic novels as much as I do, if at all. Most people find them excruciatingly dry and boring, especially when they find out I've read canterbury tales and other such "I got cliff notes cause we had to do it at school" books, and have thoroughly enjoyed them.

Actually, it would be a lot easier for me to say authors I HATE than favorites, ya know? There are so many books out there, one person could never hope to read them, so you may not even know what a good book is yet! This thread rocks, though, so I can see what I should read nexxxt.....
(bouncing in chair from excitement)

FireLighter · Post by **FireLighter** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:11 am

Favorite author would have to be Christopher Stasheff... Fav series is "A Wizard in Rhyme" Bout this guy who deciphers this parchment after months of trying, and gets sent to a time where magic works (alternate universe, some things are different in history). He helps a princess take back her kingdom blah blah blah. (First book there out of 7(?)). Very good series.

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:19 pm

[QUOTE=Xandax]I don't have a favorite author.
I have read many authors and it is always the works and not the author himself I hold highest.[/QUOTE]

I'm with Xandax on this one, i like most bernard cornwell novels, but am not a fan of his Sharpe series (i.e his best known works)

Another author who has so far not been mentioned is Jefferey Deaver, If you have seen the film "The bone collector" it is based on onw of his works. Tres Cool

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:06 pm

I like Hobb a lott. She is a great fantasy writer and IMO better then Tolkien. She dives very deeply into characters' mind and emotions. When the character is depressed, so are you.

I also like Feist. He tells a great story, real d&d like. His characters are very well, the story is well thought off and folds open slowly. Very nice.

These books are trilogies at least, so they are nice and long.

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:56 pm

My Favorites are definetly:

Frank Herbert
Orson Scott Card
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett
Tolkien (I only likes his stories, not his writing)
Theodore Sturgeon
Michael Crichton (only untill I figured that all his books had the same plot)
John Grisham (I've only just started with him, but he seems promising)
Hans Fredrik Follestad.
He is a Norwegian writer who has only published one book, but that must be like the funniest book ever written. In english it would probably be called something like "The Four, and He Who Makes Matters Worse" I don't know if it has been translated, but if you ever see it, you should definetly read it. It'll be worth it, trust me

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:22 pm

Anatole France
Voltaire
James Branch Cabell
Rafael Sabbatini
Robert Benchley
James Thurber
Fernand Braudel (doesn't have to be fiction, does it?)
Simon Schama
Aristophanes
Herodotus
Alduous Huxley
ER Eddison (sheer style)
Dic!ens
John Le Carre
Aguilera-Malta
Dostoevsky
Gorky

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:56 am

Alas, I have read so much that I reel at the thought of coming up with a list of favorites. One of my favorite authors might be passe to some, since he has been hugely successful commerically - and that is Stephen King. He is his own worst critic, strange quite often, and full of surprises should you decide to read some of his "non-horror" material, such as the Dark Tower series. In my opinion, King is in truth a writer of fantasy and science fiction, and is in his element when not caged by his agent, desire for money, etc. There's volumes of stuff out there he has written that he confesses he doesn't like very much, and was shocked that they produced such big royalties for him. I appreciate his candor in his introductory pages, and it is there that you begin to discover some things about Stephen King you might have never known before. One of his greatest works was The Stand, which along with the Dark Tower story are what I admire him the most for. His most glaring fault: endings. Stephen King can't end a story properly no matter how hard he tries, and you get the impression that the story never ends to him.

Others: Douglas Adams, the brothers Grimm, George MacDonald (his abridged works

), C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, an excellent read), Robert Silverberg, Clive Cussler (simply because of his commendable imagination), J.R.R. Tolkien, George Lucas (his filmmaking has eclipsed his writing), Alex Haley....

XazaX · Post by **XazaX** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:49 am

Raymond E. Feist, all of his books!

JazzyAnna · Post by **JazzyAnna** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:31 pm

[QUOTE=JesterKing]wheel of time would be robert jordan... only read the first one and never relaly ot into it, are they any good?[/QUOTE]

I've only read 6 of them I think... so many... so slow... Anyway, if you've read any of them, read the extremely short version here:

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/sff.shtml

It's funny.
-anna

Beldin · Post by **Beldin** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:02 am

My favourites !

No worries,

Beldin

LightSideMaster · Post by **LightSideMaster** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:40 pm

Robert Jordan(Wheel of Time series)-He just puts so much detail into his story- there's civil wars, famine, treachery, invasions, intrigue, political goings on, people on the same side working against each other, big battles, romance and to many other things to mention. His story also has an underlying sense of mystery, there's numeruos mentions of old kingdoms, artifacts from previous ages and there's his take on "magic" known as the One Power and unlike most stories the present wielders do not use it to it's full potential. There's so much more I could say about the series but I've never been good at book reports

but this was meant to be about authors, well my excuse is that a good book is the product of a good author and I'm sticking to it

Krusader · Post by **Krusader** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:03 pm

H. P. Lovecraft
George R. R. Martin
Tolkien
Robert Jordan
Isaac Asimov

sparky_kat · Post by **sparky_kat** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:19 pm

@jazzyanna
LMAO, ichecked that site for the 1 minute books, LOL, the terry brooks were basically right on the money

Blacktears · Post by **Blacktears** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 6:43 pm

i love almaost everybody metioned on this post and i have a few new to check out but maybe some should try the dragonlance series by Hickman and Weis and always go for Steven Brust's books about Vlad Taltos and try Laurell K. Hamilton she really can't write well but her story is a great one