Your favourite author?

[CaptainDave]

This topic was bound to come up sooner or later!

Who's your favourite author?


Mine has to be Chuck Palahniuk, I've read all of his fiction to date and there hasn't been one that I didn't enjoy or couldn't get in to. Favourite of his is Survivor.

[Peace-Phoenix]

Some of my favourite authors include Orwell, Tolkien, Jill Paton Walsh and Zadie Smith. I'm also a big fan of Blake's poetry, and I love a bit of Shakespeare....

[phoenix_indigo]

I have a few. I haven't necessarily read all of their books, but I love them and wouldn't be without having them in my collection.

Kurt Vonnegutt
Hunter S. Thompson
Irvine Welsh
Douglas Adams
James Patterson
Patricia Cornwell

[Lagan]

Kathy Acker

[Peace-Phoenix]

Ooh, how could I forget Douglas Adams, do love a bit of Douglas Adams....

[fountains of nay]

James Clavell
Jeff Noon
Sue Townsend

They're my top authors. James Clavell is a literary genius. I definately recommend you read his Asian saga, it is truly art.

[Justyna]

Thomas Mann
Marcel Proust
Robert Walser
Emile M. Cioran
Leo Tolstoy
Ivan Bunin
J.-J. Rousseau
Ivan Turgieniev
Fernando Pessoa
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Sylvia Plath

[Peace-Phoenix]

Your picture scares me....

[Justyna]

:confused: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare anybody...blame Fernando Botero, he painted that! It's his fault!

[Peace-Phoenix]

Hehehe, I think it's the caption that scares me most!

[Justyna]

I've heard this song in Monty Python's Flying Circus! Very poetic!

[Peace-Phoenix]

Also would have to say William Golding on the strength of 'Lord of the Flies'....

[fountains of nay]

Also would have to say William Golding on the strength of 'Lord of the Flies'....
An epic novel! The only text that kept me interested during GCSE English, apart from Shakespeare.

[Quoth the Raven]

An epic novel! The only text that kept me interested during GCSE English, apart from Shakespeare.
Lucky, we had to do Thomas Hardy.. blech. Way too fond of the adjective, to the exclusion of other key elements of a novel. Like PLOT.
Favourite authors, hmm let's see. In no particular order:
Tolkien
Peter F. Hamilton
Stephen Biko - he only wrote one book but DAMN is it good. Sadly out of print now, it's called "I write what I like". For those who don't know, Biko lived in South Africa under apartheid (he was black, obviously, or he wouldn'tve had a lot to complain about) and it's a series of essays on black liberation, the concept of Black Consciousness and the struggle for freedom. Great book.
Brian Lumley
David Eddings
Terry Pratchett
James Herbert
Anne Rice (also A.N Roquelaure *nudge nudge wink wink*)

[Peace-Phoenix]

An epic novel! The only text that kept me interested during GCSE English, apart from Shakespeare.
Yeah I loved it, I'd really like to have an idea for a fable as powerful and as original as that....

[redyelruc]

Without a doubt, it's gotta be Hermann Hesse. I've read most, not all of his novels and will no doubt read them again and again.
A close second is Aldous Huxley if you ignore his early mainstream novels.

Peace,
Aidan.

[laidback gilb]

my favs have to be lee child, his jack reacher is just a legend of a charater, clive barker has awsome imagaination. thats to name a few

[LittleRedOne]

Terry Pratchett is definitely my favourite for writing style, plot and humour, but I also love the disjointed, rambling sentences in anything by Poe.

[fountains of nay]

Jeff Noon, Jeff Nooooooooooooon, Jeff Noon!:d

[IlUvMuSIc]

Lemony Snicket, (series of unfortunate events)
P.J Tracy, (they're funny!)
Sonya Hartnett,
Marya Hornbacher,

and that other woman - cant remember her name she wrote 'We need to talk about Kevin' oh dammit. What was her name?!
do manga writers count as authors?

[phoenix_indigo]

and that other woman - cant remember her name she wrote 'We need to talk about Kevin' oh dammit. What was her name?!
Lionel Shriver (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Need-Talk-About-Kevin-Paperback/dp/1852424672/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-1580580-1598054?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187806000&sr=8-1) -- don't know if that's a woman though, but that's who wrote that book :) didn't know so looked it up (thus the link)


do manga writers count as authors?yes ... manga/graphic novel writers count as authors in my book *snigger at bad pun*

[IlUvMuSIc]

Yep thats the one!! :) first time i heard it i thought it was a man too but shes not. Unlesss... Bad puns also rock. My dad has a tonne of them. Alot of things rock.

[Quoth the Raven]

Indeed. Like... rocks.
...
Soon medication (SELF medication, that is, by which I mean DRUGS).
yeah, cold turkey's a bitch. Tastes shit. Fuck Thanksgiving, although we don't have it in this country so give thanks! Oh wait.

[glasgow 69]

Stephen King
Irvine Welsh
Anne Rice

Couldn't choose between them. All three can take the unbelievable and make it believable.

[nerthus]

terry pratchett definitely. the guy's a genius! did anyone hear the sad news about his early onset alzheimers? :( ruined my year that.

then oscar wilde, hunter s thompson, oscar zeta acosta... maybe kafka.

[nynysuts]

Michelle Magorian probabaly, her books always make me cry. And quite possibly Monica Dickens, since my Mum gave me a Follyfoot farm collection for Christmas!!!

[razy]

My hero is Dostoevsky.

His psychological portrayal of character is pure genius.

[jamaican_youth]

Wilbur Smith.

[Jaitaiyai]

Woah i remember this thread.. This was ages ago and my lists changed slightly now - take of Lemony Snicket and add Joe Meno.

Lucky, we had to do Thomas Hardy.. blech. Way too fond of the adjective, to the exclusion of other key elements of a novel. Like PLOT.I just gave in my coursework on his stuff on thursday. :D Plus we did both LOTF and about Hardy. :tongue:

[nynysuts]

Eugh, lord of the flies, horrible book!

George Orwell
Jilly Cooper (I'm so sorry that I'm not so intellectually read as some of you and like her books :o )
Jaclyn Moriarty
Nick Hornby!
Charlotte Bronte
Harper Lee (how dare she only write the one amazing book?)
Jodi Piccoult

[BunnySuit]

frank mccourt and oscar wilde.

[Hippie_Girl]

In no particular order at all:

Douglas Adams
Philip Pullman
Roald Dahl
William Shakespear
Stephen King
Nick Hornby