Favorite book/author?

[sheselectric]

John Steinbeck's East of Eden. An excellent, quick read that tells a great story. Highly recommend.

 

[WombatWoman]

Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" is one of the best books I've read in a long time.

I also admit to a lowbrow love of Stephen King, who is one of the only authors I still buy in hardback. I think the reason King clicks with me is because we are almost the same age, and many of his books have a boatload of baby boomer nostalgia.

 

[Rainsford]

Tom Clancy. Especially his latest book, the Bear and the Dragon.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Tom Clancy. Especially his latest book, the Bear and the Dragon.

Tom Clancy, all of them.
Raymond E. Feist
Tolkien
Nelson DeMille
Pat Conroy
Erich Seigel

 

[WombatWoman]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Tom Clancy. Especially his latest book, the Bear and the Dragon.

Tom Clancy, all of them.
Raymond E. Feist
Tolkien
Nelson DeMille
Pat Conroy
Erich Seigel

Oooh, Nelson DeMille. Can't wait for the sequel to "The Lion's Game!"

 

[MazerRackham]

William Gibson - Neuromancer
Roger Zelazny - 'Amber' series of books
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (and Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Shadow)
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

 

[ThePresence]

Oooh, Nelson DeMille. Can't wait for the sequel to "The Lion's Game!"

He's got one hell of a sense of humor. You should not read his books on an airplane, unless you want other passengers looking at you strangely each time you burst into fits of laughter.

 

[Johnnie]

Weaveworld

Anything by Jeffery Deaver

Robert Ludlum

 

[CanOWorms]

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (translated by Charles S. Terry)... I like long, epic books

 

[Kelvrick]

Whores, all of you. How could nobody have mentioned the great George R. R. Martin.

 

[Booster]

I like many novels by Hadley Chase and Sydney Sheldon. And other similar stuff .

 

[mkchambers]

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. It's one of those books that changes your entire perspective on life.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (translated by Charles S. Terry)... I like long, epic books

Now that sounds good...how 'bout mailing it to me

 

[Praetor]

My all time favourite is Neverwhere, but here's everything else.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (plus anything else by him, Stardust, American Gods, et al)
Horace Afoot by Frederick Reuss
Death Gate Cycle by Weiss & Hickman
Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card (plus the entire Earth series and Ender series... except for the 3rd book)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Dune series by Frank Herbert
Zahn SW trilogy
Xanth series by Piers Anthony
Lightning by Dean Koontz

These are the books that I could read over and over and be perfectly fine with just that.

 

[ATLien247]

My top five are:

1. George R. R. Martin
2. Neal Stephenson
3. Stephen King
4. J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Algernon Blackwood

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: ATLien247
My top five are:

1. George R. R. Martin
2. Neal Stephenson
3. Stephen King
4. J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Algernon Blackwood

Finally, someone else who voices their appreciation for George R. R. Martin. I can't wait till this fall...

 

[Sophia]

Gabrial Garcia Marquez's -- One Hundred Years of Solitude ("Cien anos de soledad")

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: ATLien247
My top five are:

1. George R. R. Martin
2. Neal Stephenson
3. Stephen King
4. J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Algernon Blackwood

Finally, someone else who voices their appreciation for George R. R. Martin. I can't wait till this fall...

Hey spork off! So I haven't read him yet despite your fanatical assertion that we should whenever a book thread pops up Mail them to me if your really that adamant about it

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: ATLien247
My top five are:

1. George R. R. Martin
2. Neal Stephenson
3. Stephen King
4. J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Algernon Blackwood

Finally, someone else who voices their appreciation for George R. R. Martin. I can't wait till this fall...

Hey spork off! So I haven't read him yet despite your fanatical assertion that we should whenever a book thread pops up Mail them to me if your really that adamant about it

Weren't you on my side? Oh well... Hahah, in your dreams I'll mail them to you. In my book collection, they're the most important to me. Also, I'm a poor colelge student...

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I'm just teasin' ya! I will put them on my must read list! I could use an epic trilogy? to emerse myself in.

 

[bigrash]

Any book by V.S. Naipaul. he's an awesome author. Way better than all your Stephen King, Dean Koontz and all that other crap

 

[LanEvoVI]

1. George R. R. Martin (of course!)

2. Steven Erikson - A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series...

 

[weirdichi]

Sendak - "Where the Wild Things Are"

 

[Kadarin]

Here's some SF that I really, really like:

Dan Simmons - Hyperion novels
Peter F. Hamilton - The Night's Dawn Trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction; The Neutronium Alchemist; The Naked God)
Glen Cook - The Dragon Never Sleeps
Daniel Keyes Moran - The Long Run (and others in the series)
Iain Banks - The Player of Games (and other Culture novels)
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination (from the '50s, but it still reads very well)
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
Robert Heinlein - The Number of the Beast (yeah, it's fluff, but it's enjoyable fluff)

As you can tell, I like hardcore SF, and am not really too much into cyberpunk. While I'm not into high fantasy, I did enjoy the Darkover series, and sometimes like fantasy that's grounded in SF.

 

[yakko]

I don't have just one so here is a list.

Stephen King
Clive Barker
Clive Cussler
Robert R. McCammon
Arthur C. Clarke
J.R.R. Tolkien