Your favorite writer

Russian: Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Czekhov, Gogol
British: Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Roald Dahl, Graham Greene
American: Poe, James, Wharton
Crime: A. C. Doyle, A. Christie

George Orwell....i think he deserves the credit

Pynchon

Guy De Maupassant, followed by Franz Kafka.

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Originally Posted by Phoenix_Tears

My favourite writer would definitely be J.K.Rowling. She has her faults to be sure, but i cannot help losing myself for hours immersed in the Harry Potter realms. Stephen Kking criticized her work saying that she used many expressions in how her charactours talked, expressions that were not supposed to be used in the way she used them. 'he spoke angrily' for example. you do not speak angrily, you speak in an angry tone. But i am a big fan of J.K.Rowling.

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Stephen King criticized J.K.Rowling? I would like to criticize Stephen King. He really likes the word "damn". Literature is art, is the highest form of human civilization. How can he indulge himself to use that stupid word so frequently. A masterpiece of literature is a feast. It consists of many different dishes, of which some are made of cheap materials and some are made of expensive ones, but they are all elegantly and delicately cooked, and whille the guests are appreciating the favors of these food, they can still tell the raw material from which they are made. The words like "damn" really can not be presented to the guests because it is bad cooked and made the whole feast disgraced. I don't know whether other American writers also incline to this word or not, if so I will not touch American literature any more, I have got peevish of this word very much.

Shakespeare,Harold Pinter,George R R Martin,Robert Holdstock,Daniel Woodrell and Kelly Link.

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Originally Posted by WymanChanning

Stephen King criticized J.K.Rowling? I would like to criticize Stephen King. He really likes the word "damn". Literature is art, is the highest form of human civilization. How can he indulge himself to use that stupid word so frequently. A masterpiece of literature is a feast. It consists of many different dishes, of which some are made of cheap materials and some are made of expensive ones, but they are all elegantly and delicately cooked, and whille the guests are appreciating the favors of these food, they can still tell the raw material from which they are made. The words like "damn" really can not be presented to the guests because it is bad cooked and made the whole feast disgraced. I don't know whether other American writers also incline to this word or not, if so I will not touch American literature any more, I have got peevish of this word very much.

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As good as both Stephen King and J.K.Rowling are... I'd definitely admit that King has a bit of an ego.

My favorite write has to be GK Chesterton. He wrote about everything, and I think he wrote it better than anyone else.

Nabokov, Kafka, Munro, Lowry, Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson, and my guilty pleasure Lord Dunsany

I bet you all enjoy a nice piece of stilton too while I make do with cheap cheddar....Agatha Christie, Chaucer, Enid Blyton and - Whizzer & Chips comics

William Faulkner for prose, as well as my all time favorite

John Milton for poetry

Samuel Beckett for playwright

Faulkner and Nabokov for their complex skill and unique prose

I would have to say :

Guy de Maupassant
Charles Dickens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
P.G. Wodehouse (can never resist one of his:smile5:)
Jane Austen

But there are such a huge amount of authors out there that I want to read that I'm sure my list will never be complete!

I´m young and have not read that much yet but from what I´ve read so far I´ll have to say Tolkien. Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece.

It's a tie between James Joyce and Murasaki Shikibu