Who is your favourite author?

Iain M Banks is my favourite by a wide margin. The Culture books are the most absorbing thing i've ever read.

 

Dear, have you tried Anne Mccaffrey's works? Quite good, actually, and easy to get into to.

My favorite author. Recently, Tolstoy. Some Anne Rice and Stephen King. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Francesca Lia Block. Creative writing styles, both of them. Oh, and Ellen Hopkins!

 

Emily Bronte

 

Kate Chopin - The Awakening, beautiful peice of work.

 

Heh. My favorite authors all write silly stories.

Terry Pratchet, Douglas Adams, and Neil Gaiman.

 

My favorite author has to be Ernest Hemingway. His endings can be a little depressing at times, but what matters to me is the way he tells the story. I haven't read all of his work yet, but I'm working on it.

 

Ernest Hemingway is great. I've read A Farewell to Arms, which is one of my favorite books, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, part of For Whom the Bell Tolls and some of his short stories.

My favorite writers are F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut and Cormac McCarthy.

I also enjoy Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner.

 

I just purchased Flappers and Philosophers by Fitzgerald and I wish I could start reading it, but school duty calls before hobby reading. I read This Side of Paradise not that long ago. He is also the origin of some of my favorite quotes.

 

This Side of Paradise is really good. I also liked The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned. The Love of the Last Tycoon wasn't so great, but that's probably because it wasn't finished before he died.

 

Stephen King- need I say more?

 

I'm a big fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephenie Meyer, and Edger Allen Poe.

 

I really should read more of Doyle's work. Its never a dull moment when old Sherlock is around.

 

That's what I think too. The Hound of the Baskerville was really good too.

 

Agreed, The Hound of the Baserkville was a great read.

 

K.A. Applegate was one of mine, though I haven't read any works past Animorphs.

Robert Patterson is good, though he has a habit of unesseccarily killing off one of the good characters to create a bittersweet ending sometimes.

 

I love Poe! He's my favorite poet. What's his favorite story and poem from him? I adore A dream within a dream.

My favorite author has to be Walter Moers, I go absolutely nuts over his stuff.

 

Terry Pratchett

Written loads of brilliant books. He's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I almost cried when I heard. He said this about it.

'I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it's too soon to tell.'"

 

I like his detective story. I can't recall the name, but it was the one that had the orangatang killing the lady and Raven.

 

I don't remember any orangatans, but I do remember "Quote the raven...evermore."

 

The Murders in the Rue Morgue I couldn't remember before, but I remember.

 

I would say either J.R.R. Tolkien, or C.S. Lewis. I will and will always love fantasy.

-Thomas

 

Orson Scott Card
-- Ender's Game
-- Empire

 

Robert Browning...I love his writing, his poems. His work always puts me in a nostalgic mood.

 

Tough one!

Toss up between A.C. Clark and Octavia Butler

 

Don't have one, never had an author where I've been continuously happy with his or her work.