Your favourite author?

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.

 

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....

 

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

 

Kathy Acker

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Your picture scares me....

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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*)

 

Yeah I loved it, I'd really like to have an idea for a fable as powerful and as original as that....

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

Jeff Noon, Jeff Nooooooooooooon, Jeff Noon!:d

 

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?