Who Is Your Favourite Author, And Why Should He/she Be Mine?

Who is one of your favourite authors that you can recommend to anyone? Don't tell us why they're your favorite, but why they should be ours! Convince us why this author is a must read, and some of his/her best works.
(This can include fiction/nonfiction)
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I will edit mine shortly when I can write on a computer.

David Sedaris is a must-read author, with a unique witty sense of humor written in a unique short-story essay like style that makes for an easy, comical read. Great works include, Me Talk Pretty One Day, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Naked, Let's Go Explore Diabetes With Owls, and more. I laugh the entire time reading each of these books, and so I reccomend them to anyone, because it's an interesting pick me up

 

Dean Koontz, and I am too lazy to state anything more than this. If you want to read his books, read them. If you do not, then do not.

 

Lol that was your 420th post, couldn't be more perfect

 

I don't have a favourite author.

Let's explore diabetes with owls sounded interesting so I looked it up and bought the ebook

 

I really never read anything outside of instructions, Manuals, Build spec's, State codes, Law books etc IMO knowledgeable reading material. Even in HS and college, Got the book on tape if there was not a movie. Just cant seem to keep interested in them for more than a few minutes. Id rather watch the movie based on or don't read it other than the news and country events.

The only book I have ever read, Cover to cover and could not read enough, Larenzo Carrcaterra sp?. His style and the way he relayed it, The neighborhood and friends, All meshed together that I couldn't wait for the next page. The book did actually get made into a movie and it too is great, But leaves out a lot stuff. Like most book/movie combos.
He was the only author to actually catch and keep my attention and if I had time to read something other than listed above, Ill grab one of his books and read it.

 

as with many things, i can't really pick just one. kieth laumer and r.a. lafferty are somewhere near the top of my list. many many many others though. who also, like anyone else, i don't see eye to eye with on everything. cherreh and hienline both write/wrote a good schtic, as did gordy dickenson, the list includes at leas one for every letter of the alphabet, even poul anderson and douglas adams. asamov and clark, i have to respect their science, but could never get into their style. leguinne, oddly, though her science was anthro, more then any of the 'hard' sciences. barry longyear, deserves more then an honorable mention, as does george martins many other worlds besides game of thrones. schmitz, who wrote the telzey amberdon stories, and his universe. besically his universe and that of cherreh's chenur series.

chenure series has pretty much everything, well most of it.
there are others though, taneth lee, and elizabeth a lynn.
combining mystery with science fiction.

ellison i liked better his editiing and antologising, though a respectable author also. same can be said of ben bova.
i also liked ellison as a person, though i only met him a few times.

there was a guy who wrote a couple of novellas that really stand out in my mind, though i could never figure out his real identity.
he wrote under the by line of verge foray some times, and at other the name myers myers.

van voigt, and phillip k dick. well i wouldn't call either of the favorites exactly, but created very interesting and believable settings.
harry harrison, wrote, among other things, make room make room, which most people know better as soylent green.
dick of course wrote do androids dream of electric sheep, and we can remember it for you wholesale,
better known as blade runner and total recall, respectively.

tak halus, another psudonym for i have no idea who, wrote something called minitalent, a short story that stands out in my mind.
i do, generally remember the stories and the universes they're set in, usually better then the names of who wrote them.
zozzle said the zozzle mind, zozzle zozzle, is a case in point.

oh did i mention r.a. lafferty? the anthologies strange doings, and 900 grandmothers. the story reefs of earth, and several others.

 

I don't really have a favorite author where I own all their books. I like different types of authors and my genre changes dramatically from book to book.

I always loved reading Neil Gaiman's tales though. I always thought he created quite a dark and gloomy setting in some of his tales. They always read slow, depressive and cold to me, but I liked them that way. No other author has really done that to me.

 

Hemingway.

 

My favorite Frank Herbert

Besides masterminding the greatest Sci-fi series off all-time; The Dune Saga, he’s written other great novels as The White Plague, The Lazarus Effect, The Godmakers, The Dosadi Experiment, and the Eyes of Heisenberg.

My sentimental favorite: Stephen King

Hotwater

 

I don't have a favorite but Paulo Coelho is good.

 

Castaneda

 

vixxy fox and little napolion. a couple of furs you probably wouldn't know. and while i'm there e.o. costello. who's also on spontoon.

castaneda is ok. i've read him. which reminds me of another indiginous writer who's name i can't remember atm. guy who wrote flapping eagle. and also a mystery thing i don't recall the name of.

there are mystery writers and a few other assorted on my list too.

i used to read a lot more, especially in the 70s and 80s. i still do. still keep up my subscription to analog. i just spend way more time on line then reading any more now.