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Who's your favorite author/authors?
Me, i'd have to say richard stark, joe r lansdale and lee child.
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My favorite author is G.K. Chesterton. Terry Pratchett was wise when he said that Chesterton "in small doses taken regularly is good for the soul."
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At the moment, after reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After the Quake, I'm pretty big on Haruki Murakami.
Other favorites: Patrick O'Brian (the Aubrey/Maturin series: one novel in 20 volumes). George Saunders. There are lots of authors where I love some of their books, but not others. Michael Ondaatje, for example...loved The English Patient and Anil's Ghost, but was not really affected by Divisadero or The Cat's Table. |
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most of my favorite authors would be totally unfamiliar to most, the most famous one being HP Lovecraft.
Lovecraft BV Larson David Dalglish Tim Curran Brent Weeks Larry Correia Christopher Kellen Jonathan Green they're mainly fantasy/sci-fi/horror authors. |
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Mary Robinette Kowal
Kij Johnson Theodora Goss Kelly Link Aimee Bender Jeffrey Ford Paul Tremblay Peter S. Beagle to name a few... |
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James Lee Burke, Conan Doyle, Pratchett ... oh, this is ridiculous, I'd run out of ink......
Or die of old(er) age .... |
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Have you tried the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series by Robert Crais? Worth a look if not. |
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I definitely will, thanks. Try Rumble Tumble or Savage Season by Lansdale, it's got some rough language but the story flies by.
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Thanks for the heads up. Having read a couple of excerpts they look right up my street, so I'm ordering the first Hap & Leonard right now.
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I guess I would choose, Tolkien, Clarke, Herbert, Asimov, King and Murakami.
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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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Joseph Conrad Fyodor Dostoevsky Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Alan Poe Jules Verne George Orwell H.G. Wells Alexandre Dumas Victor Hugo Franz Kafka Science Fiction: Frank Herbert (Dune series) Isaac Asimov Philip K. Dick Policial: James Ellroy Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) Agatha Christie (Poirot series) Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer) Ian Fleming (007) Fantasy: George G. G. Martin J. R. Tolkien Horror: Stephen King Novel: Cormac McCarthy Antonio Lobo Antunes Sven Hassel (Second World War novels) |
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