Favorite Authors

[hombre]

I'm new to this site and trying to figure out what everyones into.

[Cassandra]

My fav authors are Tolkien and Dumas. It might help if you looked at people's personal details, lots of people stick down their fav books, authors and hobbies. What are yours, you have to answer you own question. :D

[hombre]

I like Pynchon myself, I haven't really explored the profiles on the site but thanks I check them out.

[nothingman87]

1) Thomas Hardy

2) Thomas Hardy

3) Thomas Hardy

Honorable Mentions: Joyce, Chekov, Hawthorne, and Philip K. Dick

[den]

Aldous Huxley
William Somerset Maugham
Mario Vargas Llosa

oh many more but they're all in the same heap apart from these three :p

[Munro]

James Joyce is almost everything I have to experience in literature and live up to thereafter. ihrocks will be testament to the fact that by "Molly" this is impossible, but I'll keep my hopes til then.

[IWilKikU]

King (yeah thats right... Stephen King)

wow...

I just realized that other than King, I havn't read enough of ONE author to consider him/her one of my favorites :( . Some good ones that I've only read one or two of are:
Dickens
Salinger
Camus

[Robert E Lee]

Originally posted by nothingman87
1) Thomas Hardy

2) Thomas Hardy

3) Thomas Hardy

Honorable Mentions: Joyce, Chekov, Hawthorne, and Philip K. Dick

Amen, brother.

[papayahed]

I don't think I have a favorite. I have read a lot of Stephen King, but I would call him my favorite. Recently I read Blindness by Jose Saramago, which I thought was excellent and now I'm reading The stone Raft, and I'm planning on reading more by him. So I guess I'm on a Saramago kick right now.

[atiguhya padma]

Blindness is an amazing work. If single works ever brought the Nobel Prize to their authors, Blindness would surely have done it for Saramago.

Isagel, you might find this novel interesting, if you haven't read it already.

Papayahed, did you read it in the Portuguese? Another Portuguese writer I want to read sometime is Pessoa. Has anybody read The Book of Disquiet?

[hombre]

I like a large group of writers, joyce,marquez,tibor fischer to name a few, but lately it's been nothing but Pynchon. I seem to be caught up in his work.

[Dyrwen]

Chuck Palahniuk - His writing style has a nice sense of creepiness and darkness that I like in a writer. The stories he does are also quite interesting and thought provoking.

Noam Chomsky - I love this man's work. Just started reading one of his books "Hemogony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" but I've been reading his articles for years. Amazing political literature.

Other than that, I really don't read enough.

[IWilKikU]

yeah... you can add both of those to my list of people I havn't read enough of, but COULD be favs. Also Eco, although I havn't any of his fiction. Chomsky's Understanding Power is a damn fine read. Probably the best political/philosophical book I've ever read. I'm still in the begining of Hegenomy, but it looks really good so far.

[Kiwi Shelf]

I feel so uncultured, for all my reading I am not familiar with anyone so far mentioned besides Stephen King. I read him, but none of the others... And, the only book by Stephen King I ever liked was "The Green Mile."

Authors I like:
Carol Shields
Isabel Allende
Madeleine L'Engle
Robert Jordan
Lesley Choyce
Douglas Coupland

More, but those are all that comes to mind. I am very indecisive, I can't pick one author or one author that I like. I think all books and authors are generally too different to be grouped into the same categories...

[avid_reader]

Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
Ayn Rand
Leo Tolstoy
Someset Maugham
George Eliot
..Gosh .. this the most difficult thing for a reader , to chose a writer over another !!

[Shea]

I'm a big Hugo fan, but I also love Dumas.

I've developed a greater appreciation for Tolkien since take my History of the English Language class. I've even been compelled to begin reading his biography.

[amuse]

ooh! what have you found out? i researched him and found out the most wonderful things. like inventing____when he was 12. or receiving the___from the queen.
if you haven't found those i don't want to spoil things, but i loved his works so much more when i learned those tidbits.

[papayahed]

atiguhya padma - I read Blindness in English, now that i think about it probably is so much better in Portuguese. I'm having a hard time finishing The Stone Raft, I think the problem is that it just doesn't compare to Blindness.

[atiguhya padma]

Papayahed,

Unfortunately, I've only read Blindness. But I certainly will look out for some of his other stuff. Shame that The Stone Raft doesn't match up. But I guess it is a very difficult act to follow.

AP

[Shea]

Originally posted by amuse
ooh! what have you found out? i researched him and found out the most wonderful things. like inventing____when he was 12. or receiving the___from the queen.
if you haven't found those i don't want to spoil things, but i loved his works so much more when i learned those tidbits.

I just started, so I've only gotten as far as him and his brother labeling two men in their town as the White and Black Ogres. They kind of remind me of Merry and Pippin.

Isn't it strange how much more fun it is to read or even re-read a work after you've done a little research?:D It's a new concept for me. I don't know how I enjoyed books so much before.;) :p

[subterranean]

I read Poe's. To me he's the master of mystery, detective and sci-fic stories :)
I also read Guy de Maupassant alot, he's truly a master of short stories. I love short stories more since I have the span of attention of a small puppy :D

[amuse]

George MacDonald, Tolkien, Ursula LeGuin

[Stanislaw]

Stanislaw lem, Isaac Asimov, C.S. Lewis, Karl Marx and Ogden Nash.

[verybaddmom]

oh, my. there are so many
Diana Gabaldon
Stephen King
Geoffrey Chaucer
oh and definitely Margaret Atwood
and for poetry: Leonard Cohen, and John Donne...without a doubt
and the list could go on and on and on.......

[atiguhya padma]

M R James