Bolano, Rushdie, Robert Anton Wilson, Vonnegut, Danielewski, Tom Robbins, Henry Miller, Tolstoy, Rand, Borges, there are too many....
My favourites are - J.K.Rowling - Yet I have only read the last three books but I have seen all of the films but my girlfriend tells me that the films are so bad compared to the books. However my favourite book is probably The Half Blood Prince. Thomas Asbridge - I am currently reading "The Crusades" a present my girlfriend got me for christmas and I am enjoying it very much. Trevor Royle - "The War Of The Roses" another excellent book and I have just ordered "The Civil War" and I am looking forward to starting that. Terry Pratchett - I find absolutly outstanding, he is very funny and is a great read. I love Rincewind and Twoflower so much . (I have only read the first two books in the Discworld series.)
I have many... Those who inspired me to write include Orwell, Hemingway, P.G Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Victor Hugo, H.G. Wells, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Dickens, Elsa Triolet & Somerset Maugham. I never tire of their work.
Another poetry linked post. I don't know if I would call him a favorite, but I'm really beginning to like John Keats.
James Patterson=Maximan ride series Robert Muchermore=cherub and hendersons boys Garth Nix=sabriel series and the fall series Marcus Heitz= dwarvers series Lian Hearn=otori series J.R.R Tolkien=middle earth series David Gemmel= troy series AND OF COURSE MY ALTIME FAVORITE AS YOU CAN TELL FROM MY PICTURE................................. Cristopher Paolini= the inheritence series
My favorite non-fiction author would be Jacob Habgood. http://www.amazon.com/Jacob-Habgood/e/B002LILAI0 He has a very pleasant and friendly writing style! I love it! He should get around to writing a novel.
tamora pierce tamora pierce tamora pierce tamora pierce oh did I mention tamora pierce? I also am growing fond of Anne Rice.
My favorite author is Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. I also enjoy Tolkien, Ed Greenwood, R.A. Salvatore, and various others.
No such thing in my mind, to name 1 or 100 writers would disrespect the other authors that gave me great joy.
Isaac Asimov. I even named my son after him. He truly is a spectacular science fiction writer. Before I discovered him, the only science fiction I liked, was limited to Star Wars and Start Trek. Now, I have an entire book case dedicated to sci-fi.
I'm split three ways between Evelyn Waugh, Haruki Murakami, and Neil Gaiman. Waugh wrote my all-time favorite novel (Brideshead Revisited), though, so he probably edges the others out just a bit. No matter how brilliant Murakami is and how many times I can re-read Gaiman's short fiction.
I don't really have a favorite author. Though, I do have two favorite historical poets: Edgar Allan Poe - the lovely, dark, and demented poet William Shakespeare - the one who had a beautiful way with words
I feel like I've asked this before but obviously I have forgotten.. I want to start reading some Poe.. What should I start with?
Edgar Allan Poe. I love his twisted, dark way of writing. His stories are shocking and at the same time very thrilling. I was never happier in english class then when we read the cask of amontillado, or the tell tale heart. Absolutely amazing. Made school fun.
Definitely Christopher Paolini. He really gets his works to speak to me, and I've never tired of reading Eldest. Tamora Peirce makes a close second, though.
I'm starting to like Stieg Larsson. I've been reading the Millenium series recently, but the first one (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is my favorite.
She wrote the Vampire Chronicles, five of which are narrated by Lestat, yes. (The others are Interview, Armand, Blood and Gold, Merrick and Blackwood Farms, narrated by Louis, Armand, Marius, David Talbot, and Quinn Blackwood respectively) She also wrote the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, which ties in with the end of The Vampire Chronicles in Blood Canticle. She stopped writing them because Lestat was based on her husband, who passed away in late 2002 and because she was becoming a born again Catholic. (Only to renounce her Catholicism seven years later. I love her so.) Other works include several erotica novels, Ramses the Damned (which gets a passing mention in The Vampire Lestat) and more recently the Jesus trilogy. (Which has naturally sparked the kind of controversy I've come to expect from anything Anne Rice has ever written.) Her sister Alice Borchardt is also a writer and wrote werewolf novels. Er...why, no, I don't know much about her. Why do you ask?
