Your favorite writer

[ThatIndividual]

I just added that signature coincidentally. I surely don't mean that to be directed at anyone. I think now that I've seen it in print again I'll remove it! Sorry if anyone was offended.

[ThatIndividual]

Oh, good it's been removed!! (It was some lyrics to a song by a writer that I adore. I realized that given the context of one of these very recent discussions that it was likely to offend, and likely to offend more than a little.)
Anyway, cheers!

[Massalex]

What's with the anti-Joyce? I realize he is hard but I thought the people in these forums, were I don't know, intellectuals? I like to believe there is an art in what Joyce threw down, even if he was a jerk. Look at Hemingway.

[Annamariah]

Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, L. M. Montgomery, J. K. Rowling

[amalia1985]

Ian McEwan, Bernard Cornwell, Emily Bronte, and many others...

[Bakiryu]

Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Shakespeare, Terry Pratchett, Geoffrey Eugenides, Anne Rice, and a whole roomful more.

[NickAdams]

I enjoy Jorge Luis Borges for his wonderful worlds.

I enjoy Ernest Hemingway for his masterful control of details: the iceberg principle.

I enjoy William Faulkner for his suspense and emotional impact.

I enjoy Samuel Beckett for his humor and clarity of medium.

[higley]

Ah, cool.

Ray Bradbury, Robert Louis Stevenson, HG Wells, Michael Chabon, Dean Koontz, Michael and Jeff Shaara(s), Erik Larson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Shakespeare, Agatha Christie and CS Lewis.

[Reccura]

Louisa May Alcott (yeah yeah, I know, many people think I'm childish), Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, William Golding

[Nico87]

And for poetry, Wilfred Owen is by far one of the best i have had the pleasure of reading. His war poems are tremendous and go into great detail the life during and after the War.

Ooh, very much agree with this comment. I've read every poem of Owen and Sassoon. You should take a look at Sassoon's 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' and 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'.

'Parable of the Old Men and the Young' by Wilfred Owen is by far the greatest poem I've ever read. It's included in Regeneration, the movie, where you can also see Owens, Sassoon and Robert Graves. At the end of the movie Dr. William Rivers recieves a letter from Sassoon, I believe, where it says that Owen has been killed in France. Sassoon included 'Parable of the Old Men and the Young' in the letter and you can see Dr. Rivers dropping a tear or two. That scene always makes me want to cry.

For those who have read about WW1 and know what the men in the trenches went through, what kind of massacre WW1 really was, this poem will make a lot of sense to you.

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son....
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Oh, and I also like 'Spring Offensive' and 'The Sentry' by Owen.

[applepie]

Shakespeare, H.G. Wells, Orwell, Dante... I'm sure there are a few more, but those are the ones off the top of my head.

[NathanFisher]

Melville, purely for Moby Dick, Dostoyevsky, Pratchett and Orwell.

[Oniw17]

Plato, Pearl S. Buck, Steven Pressfield, and Roger Zelazny.Also, maybe Keith Taylor, so far I've liked the Bard series.

[Granny5]

I enjoy Hemingway, Orwell, Wells, Buck, Bradbury, early King, Capote, Joyce, Faulkner,Kafka, Tolkien....way too many to list. I think I read Hemingway more than anyone else.

[PVachon]

Victor Hugo, Melville, Dumas, Camus, Ken Bruen, Roddy Doyle, Dan Simmons, Anna Gavalda, Fred Vargas, Daniel Pennac, Arthur Conan Doyle (not just Sherlock Holmes folks!), George Pelecanos, Philip K. Dick, Jasper Fforde, Maupassant, Michel Houellebecq and Vladimir Nabokov!