Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett and Neal Stephenson are definitely at the top for me.
I also have a special place for Alexandre Dumas since he is single-handedly responsible for my love of reading with the 3 musketeers series. They were the first books I ever read, and I was only 5-6 years old. (I probably didn't understand more than half of what I read back then, being so young, but those were still the coolest stories ever for me that made me want to read more and more.)
Edit: Forgot to add H. P. Lovecraft, silly me.
Last edited by ekster; 02-15-2012 at 09:00 AM.
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