If you could erase the works of one author from your memory and get to re-read their books again as if for the first time, who would it be? I don't have an answer as there are so many authors I like for different reasons. You have great, epic stories where you are so invested in the characters you have to keep turning the page, you cry when they die, you miss them when the books are done. Then there are those that are so much fun they have you grinning constantly and laughing, whilst others having you explaiming, Wow, thats so cool. I think Terry Pratchett, Bernard Cornwall and Nicholas Sansbury Smith would have to battle it out for me with an outside shout to Lee Childs and Tom Clancy. I can re-do these books again and again and again (with one or two exceptions from Mr Childs and Clancy) but its never like discovering them for the first time.
Robert Jordan. Except I wouldn't re-read them, I just want the braincells I expended reading them the first time back.
Definitely Nora Roberts. I haven't come close to reading all of her books, but the ones I have? I would give my left arm to fall in love with those characters and have the opportunity to root for their HEA again.
