Who are your favorite authors?

[midgetonadonkey]

My list is as follows:

1. Hunter Thompson
2. Oscar "Zeta" Acosta
3. Charles Bukowski
4. Ernest Hemmingway
5. Pablo Neruda

[ObiwanGinobili]

Robert Salvatore
Ed Greenwood
Terry Brooks
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ed Rutherford
Larry Niven

[T Park]

Michael Connelly
John Grisham
James Patterson

Anything that goes behind the scense of sports, or teams.

Read a great book a long time ago, that followed the season of the Albany Patroons. Swear to god, that was the name of the team. George Karl was the coach, Phil Jackson was a coach on another team. Some players that graduated up, think Darrell Armstrong was one of em. Its been 10 years AT LEAST, since I;ve seen it. Would love to read it again, because being a little more knowledgeable about the game of ball, it would be awesome to read.

[Jekka]

Louise Erdrich
Neil Gaiman
Anchee Min
Sherman Alexie
Alice Walker
Thomas Harris

My list would be pretty damn long since there are so many amazing books out there, but I narrowed it down a bit to these authors whom I have consistently loved through many works each.

[Melmart1]

Wally Lamb
Peter Mayle
Walt Whitman
George Bernard Shaw
Amy Tan
Oscar Wilde

A lot more, but in the interest of keeping it short, those are the ones that come to mind right away.

[timvp]

timvp

[Boulevard1]

F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Stephen W. Sears
Douglas Southall Freeman
Stephen King
Stephen Crane

[Samr]

Dave Barry
David Sedaris

I have yet to find anything as entertaining as reading those two guys.

[1Parker1]

timvp


Never heard of his books. They must suck :smokin

[SpursWoman]

Stephen King & Jackie Collins...sometimes John Grisham. :nerd

[Pistons < Spurs]

Bernard Cornwell
Daniel Silva
Ken Follett
Stephen Coonts
Graham Hancock
Dan Brown

[George W Bush]

Dr. Seuss

[AlamoSpursFan]

Michael Connelly


Hell yes, T Park! Connelly rules!

I also dig everything Tom Clancy did before his last mailed in effort, Clive Cussler, Richard Marcinko, and Stephen Coonts.

[clooneyschick04]

Dan Brown, John Grisham, & David McCullough.

[dougp]

Dale Brown, Michael Chrichton, Douglas Adams ...

Dale Brown is pwnage though :)

[Peter]

James Frey

[desflood]

Taylor Caldwell
Stephen King
F. Paul Wilson

[ShoogarBear]

James Alan MacPherson
Robert B. Parker
Walter Mosely
Donald Barthelme
Arthur Conan Doyle
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
V. S. Naipaul

[Jimcs50]

Hemmingway
F Scott Fitzgerald
Kurt Vonnagut

Contemporary:

Vince Flynn
James Patterson
David Baldacci

[Jimcs50]

James Alan MacPherson
Robert B. Parker
Walter Mosely
Donald Barthelme
Arthur Conan Doyle
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
V. S. Naipaul


Too highbrow for my tastes.

:)

[FromWayDowntown]

Ralph Ellison
Kurt Vonnegut
J.D. Salinger
Virginia Woolf
D.H. Lawrence

I'll always wish that Harper Lee had imparted more wisdom through other books, but since she did so much with one, I guess that will have to do. It's hard to say that an author with only one book is a favorite author, but that one moves me like very few ever have.

[ObiwanGinobili]

Ralph Ellison
Kurt Vonnegut
J.D. Salinger
Virginia Woolf
D.H. Lawrence

I'll always wish that Harper Lee had imparted more wisdom through other books, but since she did so much with one, I guess that will have to do. It's hard to say that an author with only one book is a favorite author, but that one moves me like very few ever have.

damn I forgot to list him too.

oh, and Brian Herbert.

[pache100]

Patricia Cornwell
Robert B. Paker
Sara Paretsky
Sue Grafton
John Grisham
James Patterson
Steve Martini
Stephen White
Jonathan Kellerman
Faye Kellerman
Ann Rivers Siddons
Mary Stewart
Daphne DuMaurier
Sandra Brown

[Peter]

Ralph Ellison
Kurt Vonnegut
J.D. Salinger
Virginia Woolf
D.H. Lawrence

I'll always wish that Harper Lee had imparted more wisdom through other books, but since she did so much with one, I guess that will have to do. It's hard to say that an author with only one book is a favorite author, but that one moves me like very few ever have.

That's assuming that she wrote that one.

[ShoogarBear]

I'll always wish that Harper Lee had imparted more wisdom through other books, but since she did so much with one, I guess that will have to do. It's hard to say that an author with only one book is a favorite author, but that one moves me like very few ever have.

'Course Ralph Ellison wasn't especially prolific either. But if the list was favorite works, Invisible Man would be close to #1 for me.

[1Parker1]

Toni Morrison
James Patterson
John Grisham
Nora Roberts
Sophia Kinsella

[Jimcs50]

Toni Morrison
James Patterson
John Grisham
Nora Roberts
Sophia Kinsella


My wife and I both bought Patterson's The 5th Horseman for Valentine's Day for each other :lol (It went on sale Tuesday).
Had to go back to Barnes and Noble today to take one back.

I really like the Lindsey Boxer series, and am lookinh forward to this book.

[FromWayDowntown]

'Course Ralph Ellison wasn't especially prolific either. But if the list was favorite works, Invisible Man would be close to #1 for me.

:tu

[Samr]

James Frey

:lol :lol :lol Best FICTION writter ever! :lmao

[hussker]

Steinbeck
Shakespeare
Jonathan Kellerman
Dickens
Samuel Shem

[Harry Whittington]

HELL...I'D GIVE THESE FELLERS A READ!!!


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[katyon6th]

Dr. Seuss
Chuck Palahniuk
John Scott Sheperd
Mitch Albom
Geoffrey Chaucer

[Spurminator]

Dalton Trumbo
Kurt Vonnegut
J.D. Salinger
Dave Eggers
Bob Dylan

[spurs=bling]

Dean Koontz

John Grisham

Stephen King

Peter Straub

Nicholas Sparks

[ChumpDumper]

Been reading Walter Mosley and Russell Banks lately.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Bill O'Reilly and Frank Herbert

[E20]

R.L Stine

[DieMrBond]

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman.
Raymond Feist.

Between those two, its like over 50 novels - got me covered!

[AndJuDontKnow]

patricia cornwell
anything by Tom Clancy

[Jekka]

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman.
Raymond Feist.

Between those two, its like over 50 novels - got me covered!

:tu I love me some Death Gate Cycle.

[2Blonde]

Jon Stewart
Janet Evanovich
James Patterson
Jesus
and lots more

[danyel]

Cortazar
Sturgeon
AC Clarke

[Jekka]

if poets count:

dante aligheri, robert frost, ts eliot (give ezra pound credit for wasteland too i guess), sassoon, seamus heaney (sp), etc.

:tu for Dante Aligheri - and as poets go, Tennyson and Rilke are up there, too.

[2Blonde]

what did jesus write, pray tell?
His words as told by others. Is that good enough for you? :rolleyes

[George W Bush]

whoever wrote

My Pet Goat.

[Jekka]

i heard an old recording of tennyson reading charge of the light brigade...Edison actually recorded him (tennyson must have been his 80s by then) on a wax cylinder type thing for the early phonograph

tennyson had a deep raspy voice
very cool

That's awesome - sounds almost as great as the recording I have of Rachmaninoff performing his own third piano concerto back in the 1920s :)

[2Blonde]

:angel no.
Too bad, it's good enough for me ! :lol

[MrChug]

Keith Ablow. "Psychopath"

[CharlieMac]

Oh hell........uhm, Pablo, e.e., Faulkner, Americo, Marlowe, Hemingway, Shelly, and more of the older authors. Maybe my grandkids will appreciate a lot of teh junk coming out today, but not I.

[Carie]

Murder, mystery, suspense. Add a really disturbed serial killer and I'm there.

Patricia Cornwell (until the last 2 or 3 books, I swear she has a ghostwriter now!)
Stephen King
Sue Grafton
James Patterson
Jonathan Kellerman
J.K. Rowlings.

[CharlieMac]

But, I am ALWAYS down for a good zombie book.

[ShoogarBear]

when you're reading james joyce, you're reading james joyce.

everything else is piss.Poseur. Nobody actually reads James Joyce. Whydn't you say Thomas Pynchon while you're at it? :)

[CharlieMac]

Portrait is easily one of the worst things I have ever read.

[Arthur]

I would say I am, but then again I'm rather biased, don't you think?

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[CharlieMac]

Arthur 2: On the Rocks didnt get the respect it deserved.

[Arthur]

I say, good show!! Can I buy you a drink young man?

[FromWayDowntown]

Maybe Proust, elpimpo.

[Mr. Blonde]

Tarantino.

[Jimcs50]

Janet Evanovich


My wife loves her books.

[ShoogarBear]

i only read the first book in the series...it was okay--pretty slow

Proust:slow::Methuselah:old

[1Parker1]

R.L Stine

Does he still write? Damn, I used to love his books back in the 6th grade! Goosebumps was the Xbox of my time :nerd

[easjer]

Oh, geez. Off the top of my head:

Jane Austin
CS Lewis
Val McDermid
Stephanie Barton
Agatha Christie
Laurie R. King (for the Mary Russell series)
Jane Green
Jennifer Something or Other (wrote Good in Bed and Little Earthquakes)
There are several historians but they are getting all jumbled, Antonia Fraser, Margaret Something or Other, and David Starkey.

So many more . . .

[ObiwanGinobili]

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman.
Raymond Feist.

Between those two, its like over 50 novels - got me covered!

gosh darn there is another of my favs!

I think my real fav list is liek 400 authors long....