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Who is your favorite author.

GundamitGundamit Member Posts: 268
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What's everyone favorite author?

Mine is Peter David. He has written so many books that I have not even read half. Yet, I have never found one I did not enjoy. His whole Star Trek The New Frontier series, Sir Apropos of Nothing trilogy, One Knight Only, and many more. His web page is www.peterdavid.net . Trust me if you read just one of his books you would love it. I suggest Apropos of Nothing if you do not care for Star Trek. If you like Star Trek read The New Frontier.

Now tell me your favorite author.

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  • SatansDiscipleSatansDisciple Member Posts: 2,782

    anne rice. ive only read the original vampire chronicles, so i can only talk about them.

    she really redoes what everyone thinks about vampires and destroys many of the cliches associated with them. she makes her vampires seem like human, not like monsters. they deal with real problems, and real moral choices. some parts can be genuinely creepy as well. i'd reccomend starting with interview with the vampire, since its the first in the series.

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  • sartoriussartorius Member Posts: 199

    Ambrose Bierce - one of the greatly overlooked authors.  Most folks would "know" one of his works from the television show "Twilight Zone" since they made one (Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge)into an episode.

    I would recommend to anyone to go down to their local library and check out the collection of short stories, I believe none would be disappointed.

     

     

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  • RJCoxRJCox Member Posts: 2,686

    Hmmm...

    Gotta go with the master, Stephen King

    And well, can't go wrong with R.A. Salvatore...

    Mercedes Lackey too, some nice stuff...

    Robert R. McCammon...

    Oh, and can't forget Robert Jordan...

    And for the suspense.crime genre have to go with Nelson Demille...

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  • Clever_GloveClever_Glove Member Posts: 996

    Tolkien
    Niven
    Douglas Adams
    Connie Willis

    just to name a couple, I can keep going. I really don't have a favorite, but I have many I enjoy reading.


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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    i have to go with two everyohne konws

    Tolkein

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    Rowling

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  • sniper021sniper021 Member Posts: 3

    Terry Brooks

    Robert Jordan

    Stephen King

    Tolkien

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  • ZhanghiaZhanghia Member UncommonPosts: 1,312
    Douglas Adams!!

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460
    no one else likes j k rowling?

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  • KoltraneKoltrane Member UncommonPosts: 1,049

    John Kennedy Toole: Wrote my favorite book ever (A Confederacy of Dunces) but killed himself before it was published.

    Charles Bukowski: I love his stuff.

    John Krakauer:  More of a reporter, but he knows how to build to a climax.  Into the Wild was my favorite of his.  I am currently reading Under the Banner of Heaven.

    C.S. Lewis:  This guy was brilliant, period.

    Edwin Arlington Robinson and W.B. Yeats:  My two favorite poets.

    Eugene Ionesco:  Pretty avant garde, but I love Rhinoceros.

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  • TaskyZZTaskyZZ Member Posts: 1,476

    Tough question...

    Weiss and Hickman... Read the first 3 DragonLance novels and then read the DeathGate Cycle...

    Very good stories... All written by that pair of authors...

  • KaelahKaelah Member Posts: 15

    There's no way I could choose a favorite.  I grew up reading Stephen King and Dean Koontz.  But I also love Anne Rice, Shakespeare, Jane Austin, and Michael Crichton.  image

  • GundamitGundamit Member Posts: 268


    Originally posted by MurtBijani
    no one else likes j k rowling?



    I like a good Harry Potter book read them all twice and listened to the cd's about 3 times. But Peter David has over 60 + books to his name plue his writings in the Hulk comic books.

    I'm reading one now call Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan. All because of a game a friend showed me on there webpage http://www.faeriewarsgame.com/game.html  main page http://www.faeriewars.com


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  • ChronicRickChronicRick Member Posts: 569
    Steven Coonts, Patrick Robinson and Tom Clancy. And whoever wrote See Spot Run. No one compares to their writing skillz. I recommend Red Storm Rising, Flight of the Intruder, and H.M.S. UNSEEN.


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  • HieronymousHieronymous Member UncommonPosts: 20

    CS Lewis

    Stephen Crane

    Hunter S Thompson

    "Definition of a scientist - A man who understands nothing till there was nothing left to understand" - Matthias (The Omega Man)

  • DirtyNaleDirtyNale Member Posts: 30
    pshhhh none of that, aldous huxley is the best author/ phylospher who ever walked this earth

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