Q: Who is your favorite author?

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KarenMarie

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Terry Prachett discworld novels.

Older Stephen King. But he jumped shark around the RedRose era.

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EDIT: there were SIX books... by Stephen R. Donaldson...
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"
"The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"

read them about 25 yrs ago.
AWESOME
 
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Brule

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Ayn Rand :)

F. Scott Fitzgerald was the most skilled IMO
Michael Crichton best publishing today
Tolkien for best environment created
 
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Gurck

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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Older Stephen King. But he jumped shark around the RedRose era.
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He's had his ups & downs... have you read Hearts in Atlantis or From a Buick 8? Both (imo) good newer works.
 
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Originally posted by: Gurck
Stephen King

*dons flamesuit*
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Ugh... he, Robert Ludlum, and *shudders* Bill Shatner are probably the worst authors I have ever read. How they have sold so many copies I have absolutely no clue.
Originally posted by: Kanalua
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Mormon, eh? No biggie to me, good as any other and better than some.


My favorite fiction author of all time is Robert Heinlein. I have read everything he has ever written, no matter how small or minor. Probably the only book of his I didn't like was Number of the Beast.

I'm currently reading Asimov (re-reading entire Foundation series, it's better the 2nd time). He's bittersweet for me. The writing is highly intelligent, but his endings always fall short.
Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) is good, of course. Excellent as a political theorist, although the writing style is a bit dry. Shock value is huge though (and usually true).
Ayn Rand would be better if not for her unbelievable pompousness. Still great reading in spite of herself.
Tom Robbins is great as the king of the metaphor. His work is a bit mixed but Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas is one of my favs.
 
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boatillo

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Originally posted by: TBone48
Roger Zelazny, old school, Neal Stephenson for new stuff.
Neil Gaman is pretty awesome, too.
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Zelazny is good, I read his 'This Immortal' the other day at work and it was very quick and fresh
 
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boatillo

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ooo I'm reading his trilogy now, man it is pretty darn good!



(Ummm this was in regards to George RR Martin)
 
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Boze

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Fiction, or Non-fiction?...

As far as non-fiction goes, anyone who writes anything that helps me build up my miniscule real estate empire into a vast real estate empire...

As far as fiction... man, what a toughie... I guess William Faulkner probably, with R. A. Salvatore a second place winner.
 
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boatillo

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Here's one I bet few have heard of or read: Jack Williamson

One of the original scifi writers, he helped open the genre
 
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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Gurck
Stephen King

*dons flamesuit*
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Ugh... he, Robert Ludlum, and *shudders* Bill Shatner are probably the worst authors I have ever read. How they have sold so many copies I have absolutely no clue.
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Because people want the stories... a great storyline can suffer through occasionally boring points, obtuse points, or anything else in a story. Its the same for a movie... The Blair Witch Project is one of the shittest shot films in history, but it a great and engaging story that fueled the American populus and thus people were willing to overlook the shaky-camera bullshit that those fools claimed was 'art' but was really 'we only have $60,000 for this flick, so we better figure something out'.
 
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