book Who Are Your Favorite Authors? Favorite Books?

[greatscott]

chuck palahniuk

[Bitoy]

Dan Brown and Tolkien

[Lord Superb]

JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings trilogy

 

Stephen King - The Stand, Shawshank Redemption

 

John Le Carre - The Little Drummer Girl

 

David Morrell - Brotherhood of the Rose, Fraternity of the Stone

 

John Steinbeck - Travels With Charley

 

Dean Koontz - One Door Away from Heaven, Watchers, Dragon Tears, Odd Thomas, Intensity

 

Anne Rice - Memnoch the Devil

 

Umberto Eco - In the Name of the Rose

 

Carlos Castaneda - all of his books :thumbsupsmiley:

 

Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes

 

Peter Straub - Shadowland

 

T.E.D. Klein - The Ceremonies

 

Elwyn Chamberlain - Gates of Fire

 

Joseph Hewyood - The Berkut

 

George Orwell - 1984

 

...and many others.

[Lord Superb]

Damn, how can i forget?

 

Loup Durand - Daddy

 

This book stands tall among its counterparts. Once you've read it, you will not be easily swept away by all the hype surrounding most, not all, Robert Ludlum's books.

[TheSmilingBandit]

I'm more into Sci-Fi and Fantasy:

 

1. Andre Norton
   
2. Anne McCaffrey
   
3. David Drake
   
4. David Eddings
   
5. David Gemmel
   
6. David Weber
   
7. Elizabeth Moon
   
8. Eric Flint
   
9. George R.R. Martin
   
10. Glenn Cook
    
11. Harold Coyle
    
12. Harry Harrison
    
13. Harry Turtledove
    
14. J. R. R. Tolkien
    
15. James Hogan
    
16. John Ringo
    
17. Katherine Kurtz
    
18. Mercedes Lackey
    
19. Patricia McKillip
    
20. Piers Anthony
    
21. Poul Anderson
    
22. Raymond Feist
    
23. Robert Adams
    
24. Robert Asprin
    
25. Robert Heinlein
    
26. W. E. B. Griffin
    

Oh there are just too many to mention.

[imn]

Dan Brown

John Grisham

JK Rowling

[oropesa]

Margaret Atwood -- kuhang-kuha niya talaga paano mag-isip ang isang babae.

[annanicole19]

the BIBLE...

[Guest biancaanne]

Authors:

Joyce Carol Oates

Raymond Carver

Anne Rice

CS Lewis

Orson Scott Card

 

Books:

The "Ender" series

Screwtape Letters

Blonde

Tales of Transgression

The Vampire Chronicles

[Sigmundo]

I'm more into Sci-Fi and Fantasy:

 

 

Pareho kami

 

1. Andre Norton
   
2. Anne McCaffrey
   
3. David Drake favorite
   
4. David Eddings not yet read
   
5. David Gemmel
   
6. David Weber favorite
   
7. Elizabeth Moon
   
8. Eric Flint favorite
   
9. George R.R. Martin
   
10. Glenn Cook
    
11. Harold Coyle
    
12. Harry Harrison
    
13. Harry Turtledove yeah
    
14. J. R. R. Tolkien yeah yeah
    
15. James Hogan
    
16. John Ringo favorite
    
17. Katherine Kurtz
    
18. Mercedes Lackey
    
19. Patricia McKillip
    
20. Piers Anthony not so
    
21. Poul Anderson
    
22. Raymond Feist
    
23. Robert Adams
    
24. Robert Asprin funny
    
25. Robert Heinlein deep
    
26. W. E. B. Griffin
    

Oh there are just too many to mention.

[maniaclara]

before jk rowling and stephenie meyer, there was and will always be christopher pike for me

[orionquest]

sterling seagrave - the lords of the rim

 

stephen ambrose - band of brothers

Edited March 6, 2010 by orionquest

[wizardman]

Neuromancer by William Gibson

[ForeverSummer]

Only Paulo Coelho, Neil Gaiman, and Haruki Murakami can satisfy my literature cravings. My library is teeming with their works (I have all of their books save for Gaiman's Sandman series and a couple of Murakami's novels). My favorite Coelho is Veronika Decides to Die. Every woman is bound to like this one. I believe it's the story of my life although I've never been committed to a mental institution. Well, at least, not yet. The movie adaptation is a FAIL though. Coelho once said that he wouldn't let anyone make a film out his books, I wish he kept his word. Next on my Coelho list are By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, 11 Minutes, and Like the Flowing River. As for Gaiman, I can't really decide which one I like best. He's a genius. I'd be his Paduan any time of the day. All hail the master! Then, we have Murakami. His style is undeniably weird. But I like him that way. He forces his readers to think and imagine.

 

Anyway, I also love Robert Fulghum, Roald Dahl, Anne Rice, Robert Greene, Audrey Niffenegger, and Gregory Maguire. Other books I like include The Mermaid Chair, The Historian, The Virgin Suicides, Water for Elephants, Like Water for Chocolate, So I am Glad, all of Mitch Albom's books, poetry by Pablo Neruda, to name a few. I read Rowling and Brown and they're okay. They deserve the fame they're getting.

[SeymourGlass]

Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, Woody Allen, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henrik Ibsen, Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf, Chinua Achebe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carlos Castaneda, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, William Shakespeare, Paul Auster, Kurt Vonnegut, Franz Kafka etc. etc.

[friedkamote]

During my highschool and college days i was a voracious reader of books written by Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickmann. Some of my favorites books where; The Hunt For Red October, A Time To k*ll, and the Dragonlance Chronicles.

[skykaLabaw]

I will forever be a fan of Anne Rice.

 

Hearts for Mitch Albom, Neil Gaiman, and Jostein Gaarder.

[TracerOne]

I liked the books of Erich Von Daniken. His books are non-fiction. Some of the books that I read by him was Gold of the Gods and Chariots of the Gods Was God an Astronaut?

 

Ei don't get me wrong I do believe that there is God and definitely he's not an astronaut. It's just that when I was younger I liked to read these kinds of books. So there it goes... 

 

 

[miyong76]

Dan Brown, Michael Crichton & Anne Rice

 

Dan Brown, Michael Crichton & Anne Rice

[Gunnerside]

Steven Pinker

[dungeonbaby]

Thank you to the poster who said it took him 2 months to get to page 12 of Foucault's Pendulum. That was completely funny and totally relatable. I once tried to read that alongside Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and a concise history of the crusades which was by no means concise.

 

Though I do like reading Umberto Eco, if I had to name just one author it would have to be Tolkien.

[TheSmilingBandit]

W.E.B. Griffin, Eric Flint, David Weber, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Moon, David Drake

[CerebralScorpion]

I started reading Anne Rice - the first five books of her vampire articles is such a sensual read. Unfortunately, it started going down hill from there. Went on to read Clancy, then Tolkien and Robert Jordan. Tried reading the blockbusters of the last couple of years (Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer, and Rowling), and unfortunately, found them far behind the talent of those earlier authors - except for Rowling who I must admit wasn't that completely bad.

 

Looking forward to read a work by a new writer who can hold a candle to the oldies when it comes to story-telling.

[rebeck]

favorite fiction author: jrr tolkien!

 

favorite non-fiction authors: david chandler (expert on the napoleonic wars), adrian goldsworthy (expert on rome) and john keegan (all-around military historian)

[erato]

So many. But now Erich Segal and his work The Class comes to mind.