Fav Author?
 

So i was wondering what everyone's fav author is?

Mine's is Terry Pratchett.

I love James Patterson most :)

Depends on the context: Stan Lynde, Joseph Finder, or Bill Watterson.

Ayn Rand

James Patterson, Michael Crichton, James Rollins and many others but if I had to pick one I'd say Steve Berry.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

Pattersonis great, i also like Brown

Hunter Thompson

F. D.

You actually read ALL of the Fountainhead? You're a trooper... :1orglaugh

I'm liking Hermann Hesse right now...

There are several.

It depends, to keep it short:

From more of the classical guys it sure is Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevskij, Cechov later on it would be George Orwell.

I also always enjoyed reading Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet.

From the more like modern authors I actually enjoyed Hubert Selby Jr. and some works of W.S.Borroughs, then I sure am a Rollins fan, liked also Lydia Lunch and read a lot about music. Not to forget my teen years were connected with Bukowski too..

I don't want to get into favorites of the super intellectuals such as Kafka, Sartre or Camus, although I did read them too, my assumption is, that they are so popular among intellectuals especially because anything they touched is open for a LOT and sometimes even pretty wild interpretations..

Bukowski, The Beats, Hunter S. Thompson, William T Vollmann...to name a few off the top of my head.

Dean R Koontz is by far the best in his genre.

Harlan Ellison. William T. Vollmann. Barry N. Malzberg. Hunter S. Thompson. Thomas Pynchon. Franz Kafka. Bruce Sterling. Ayn Rand. Ernest Hemingway. Howard Waldrop. Joe R. Lansdale.

I like Stephen King!

Warren Buffet and Stephen Colbert :)

Ivan Turgenev, Yasunari Kawabata, Joseph Heller, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Albert Camus, J.M. Coetzee, Jane Austen, Michel Houellebecq

sidney sheldon, and tracy chevalier

hunter s thompson
tom robbins
christopher moore

Almost yearly since I was 15... One of my all time favorites.

I spent the flights and down time to and from Phoenix refreshing myself on Atlas Shrugged this time around.

Cormac McCarthy, Henry Miller, John Irving, Tom Robbins - in no particular order of preference.

Charles Bukowski

:thumbsup:thumbsup

Charles Bukowski. William S. Burroughs. Joseph Campbell. Bill Pronzini. Joyce Carol Oates. Lewis Shiner. Shirley Jackson. James P. Blaylock. Norman Spinrad. K.W. Jeter. Dave Eggars. Jonathan Lethem.

Edgar Allen Poe

Philip K Dick and Kurt Vonnegut.

Frederick Forsyth!

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Ed McBain. William Gibson. James Joyce. Donald Barthelme. John Barth. Dan Simmons. Neil Gaiman. Jeff Vandermeer. Clive Barker. Mark Dery. Rudy Rucker. Steve Rasnic Tem. T. Coraghessan Boyle. Ramsey Campbell. Poppy Z. Brite.

Mary Gaitskill

Anyone still read H.P. Lovecraft?

Robert Greene. 48 Laws of Power. 33 Strategies of War.

would it be juvenile of me to say Roald Dahl? heh

My favorite "real" author is Cormac McCarthy and my favorite "fun" author is John Sandford