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Favorite Authors?
I wanted to know who your guys' favorite authors are. My favorite author would have to be Robert Cormier(until further notice). Plus I like what I have read of Dean Koontz and Stephen King, but I think everybody does, and I like Robert Louis Stevenson.
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7 years ago
H. P Lovecraft, Darren shan, Michael Grant, Edgar Allan Poe and Dean Koontz
Reply 7 years ago
hi how are you doing
7 years ago
Edgar Allan Poe
7 years ago
Believe it or not, I live in the same village as Roald Dahl, I've seen his house.
Reply 7 years ago
those book are great
Reply 7 years ago
IKR, that was a fast reply!
Reply 7 years ago
with an author like that it has to be said
Reply 7 years ago
Lol, yep.
7 years ago
William Faulkner, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lope de Vega, Miguel de Unamuno, Miguel de Cervantes, Julio Cortazar, Horacio Quiroga, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Carl Sagan, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Carl Jung, Mario Vargas Llosa, Malcolm Gladwell, William Shakespeare, Arthur Conan Doyle and, Federico Garcia Lorca.
7 years ago
Robert Jordan, Anne McCaffrey, Raymond Feist & Brandon Sanderson.
7 years ago
Stephen King, John Marsden, Roald Dahl, Micheal Robotham
8 years ago
JRR Tolkien.
9 years ago
Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket, Avi, and Kate Dicamillo!
Reply 8 years ago
Nice I don't care much for Dahl but I love Snickets book's as well as Rowling (anyone who doesn't probably has not read them or is arguing that kids are going to start shouting sectumsempra at people they disagree with) L'amour, Riordan, the other authors of the 39 clues series, Brandon Mull oh and whoever wrote Rikki Tikki tavi as well as the people that wrote the recipies in the better homes and garden new cookbook.
Reply 8 years ago
Cool! I am also a big cheese for the Fruits Basket manga ^-^
11 years ago
My all time favorite (of course, he is the only author I know of to have written a book in every category of the dewy decimal system of the library) author is Isaac Asimov, hands down. Second only to him would be Lawrence Maxwell Krauss.
Reply 8 years ago
what about sir arthur conan doyal he's pretty epic himself
Reply 8 years ago
Yes he is, but certainly not with the broad range Mr Asimov has (with books in nearly every category in the duey decimal system of the library.
Reply 8 years ago
Sorry i did not notice when our comment was posted.
11 years ago
Chuck Palahniuk Albert Camus William Golding Phillip Pullman J.K. Rowling Neil Gaiman
Reply 8 years ago
I would like to add Stephen King, Joe Hill, Margaret Atwood, and Joe R. Lansdale, but subtract Chuck Palahniuk.
Chuck Palahniuk and I have broken up, his last five books or so have been AWFUL.
Reply 8 years ago
The Stranger is awesome.
Reply 11 years ago
Oh, I forgot Gaiman - American Gods is brilliant.
(Are brilliant?)
Reply 11 years ago
"Is" is correct. American Gods = book. Book is a singular noun. So "is" would work, but not are.
Reply 11 years ago
(It was a small bit of humour - say "American Gods is brilliant" out loud, it doesn't sound so right)
Reply 11 years ago
Especially since they weren't! I didn't like it very much. I don't know that I'm prepared to say it wasn't brilliant, but... Sorta ugly. But I'd actually been to "House on a Rock", which is just as surreal in real life as it is in the book, so that was pretty cool...
Reply 11 years ago
Oh.
Now I feel stupid :P
Reply 11 years ago
This is why you don't correct him when he looks like he's made a mistake. :D
Reply 11 years ago
I've learned my lesson.
Reply 11 years ago
:-)
Reply 11 years ago
I think I liked Good Omens a little bit more, but American Gods was very good.
9 years ago
Shakespear, of course.
10 years ago
Brian Jacques, James Patterson, Rick Riordan.
Reply 9 years ago
Same list as you plus Christopher Paolini.
Reply 10 years ago
Oh Yeah. And Franklin W. Dixon.
9 years ago
i like jenny nimmo.Charlie Bone 1-8.
10 years ago
Aldous Huxley!! yes yes :)
10 years ago
Terry Pratchett Avi Rick Riordan Cornelia Funke Roald Dahl J.K. Rowling George Orwell Anthony Horowitz
11 years ago
Of writers that haven't been mentioned much yet, I'll throw out Lois M Bujuold, Steven Brust, John Brunner, Walter J Williams, Roger Zelazny, and Anne McCaffery. (I'm real surprised that RZ hasn't shown up yet.) So Kiteman - did you mean Niven & Pournelle, only when writing together, or do you like them separately as well? I don't think I care much for P on his own... Alas, authors seem to fall into two groups. Those who don't write enough, and those who write too much.
11 years ago
Brian Jaques (I spelled that wrong). He wrote the redwall series.
Reply 11 years ago
Jacques. :)
Reply 11 years ago
Aha! So I did spell it wrong!
Reply 11 years ago
(to sound a little smart) I might check out some agatha christie later on, I like mysteries.
11 years ago
David McCullough Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Allen Poe John Grisham Michael Chrichton
Reply 11 years ago
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Sherlock, right? And where's Billy??
Reply 11 years ago
Yup-you got it. Lol, I forgot him! I was only thinking in terms of fairly recent works. Revised list: David McCullough Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Allen Poe John Grisham Michael Chrichton William Shakespeare
11 years ago
Gordon Korman Carl Hiaasen Those are probably the top 2.
Reply 11 years ago
Where have I heard of Hiaasen? Name a few of his works for me...
Reply 11 years ago
Striptease Hoot Flush His latest is Nature Girl, I think. He writes young adult and mystery. I'm sorry, I'm answering everyone's questions. I do this for a living, I can't help it. :P
Reply 11 years ago
> I'm sorry, I'm answering everyone's questions. I do this for a living, I can't help it. :P
You should actually be working on the plushie.
Don't go to work until it's done!