Favorite Author?

[lozzie]

Terry Goodkind, Matthew Reilly, Robin Hobb, Tamora Pierce, and you can't forget Roald Dahl!

 

[Deana]

Piers Anthony is my favorite author... Love the Xanth Books and Incanations of Immortality the most... some of his books I don' t like at all though

 

[Lizzi4Christ]

My all time favorites are J.R.R. Tolkien and Clive Cusslar.

I also enjoy Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Higgins Clark, C.S. Lewis, and Margret Wies/ Tracy Hickman.

 

[Mr.Cheese]

I've only read one journal of hers, but feral (a member here) rocks.
I mean that. She's that good and belongs on my list.

 

[Empyrean Squire]

George MacDonald, Madeline L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, and Laurens Van der Post.

 

[Rais]

Weis & Hickman

Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan

R.A. Salvatore

Melanie Rawn

and many many more... I'm a major Fantasy Fan ... If you want the favorite.. start at top work down, those are my top five

 

[Kestra]

Terry Goodkind, Matthew Reilly, Robin Hobb, Tamora Pierce, and you can't forget Roald Dahl!

Robin Hobb is one of my favorites too! I also like Matthew Reilly a lot - James Rollins writes similar books that you might like.

Other favorites: Stephen R. Lawhead, Dick Francis, Simon Green, Gordon Dickson, Robert Heinlein.

 

[ps139]

I do not think there is an author better than GK Chesterton. He uses the English language as if he created it. He writes on all sorts of topics, and writes in all sorts of genres. He is verry funny and very profound; his mind is simply brilliant. I think everyone becomes a little bit smarter with each page they read of Chesterton's.

I also like Tolkien, CS Lewis, James Fenimore Cooper, JK Rowling, and Homer, if you can count Homer .

 

[drumairoxtinez]

Hello, Daniel Martinez here. I've read many, many books; but the one that will always stand out in my mind is Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein. I would have to say that, even if only because of that book, Mr. RAH is my favorite author.

- Daniel Martinez,
Novelist

 

[Thithy]

Hmm, I guess I'd have to say Piers Anthony. He's so funny, and I love the Xanth series. But Tamora Peirce is also great, even if she aims for a slightly younger audience (around 12-15). Yet I think every girl would love what she's done.

 

[Athanasius7]

I do not think there is an author better than GK Chesterton. He uses the English language as if he created it. He writes on all sorts of topics, and writes in all sorts of genres. He is verry funny and very profound; his mind is simply brilliant. I think everyone becomes a little bit smarter with each page they read of Chesterton's.

I agree completely. GKC is by far my favorite writer.

 

[elanor]

Re: Ayn Rand -- I loved Fountainhead. I didn't care for Atlas Shrugged. It wasn't so much a work of literature as it was a seemingly endless propaganda piece. But it lends itself to really incredible discussions, and that's enjoyable.

My favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien, Alexander Dumas, Isaac Asimov, Carol Shields (Unless is one of my favorite books!), Barbara Kingsolver (love the essays in Small Wonder!), Pat Conroy (not so much for his plots as the way he mesmerizes you with words), Chaim Potok, and George McDonald. John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy, and Kurt Vonnegut are also wonderful.

 

[TheDandyMan]

Don't have a definite favorite. In no real order:
Dave Eggers
Tom Clancy
Clive Cussler
Neal Stephenson
Agatha Christie
Ray Bradbury
Brian Jacques
Robert Jordan
...along with several others I'm destined to forget and then remember at a latter time.

 

[MissRowboat]

Daphne DuMarier
Any of the Bronte sisters
Sarah Dessen
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina is one of my favs!!)

 

[Axver]

I do not think there is an author better than GK Chesterton. He uses the English language as if he created it. He writes on all sorts of topics, and writes in all sorts of genres. He is verry funny and very profound; his mind is simply brilliant. I think everyone becomes a little bit smarter with each page they read of Chesterton's.

The man's got a point.

I'm also a fan of Shakespeare, Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Tolkien, Matthew Reilly, Douglas Adams, and various others.