Hey guys. I searched but did not find anything so here goes.
Who is your favorite author/authors and what types of books do you enjoy reading? I basically read books from a bunch of different authors (mostly horror writers though) I guess I don't have a lot of time for reading but when I do Stephen King and Richard Laymon are my first choices.~Silvermist~

william s burroughs
jt leroy
poppy z brite
kurt vonnegut
joyce carol oates
hunter s thompson

i like many more too. i have a hard time picking just one of anything and it's even harder for books with me because i'm a readertard.

James Patterson would definitely be one.
Anne Rice is wonderful too.

no doubt: Og Mandino, and also a bit of Shakespeare
but my favourite one of all times is... Gabriel Garcia Marquez

no doubt: Og Mandino, and also a bit of Shakespeare
but my favourite one of all times is... Gabriel Garcia Marquez

YES! OMFG!
I LOVE Chronicle of a Death Foretold. And One-Hundred Years of Solitude.

Simply brilliant.

Also Pablo Neruda is a favorite. I have so many...

I like to read vampire and fantasy books. horror mostly. my favorite authors are anne rice, bram stoker, and when i was younger i always enjoyed C.S. Lewis. and louis sachar.

My favorite authors would be Stephen King and Jane Yolen...I tend to read more biographies...and essay books. I have a lot of free time.

R.A. Salvatore, James Paterson, Robert Jordan, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, David Eddings, Raymond E. Feist, Michael Stackpole, Clive Cussler, Jack Higgins... hmmm... i guess i have a few... oh well, i like to read...

J. K. Rowling baby! hehee As I said in this thread.
http://evboard.com/showthread.php?t=13830&page=1&pp=10&highlight=author

Am I having a deja vu? I think this is already been asked. http://www.evboard.com/showthread.php?t=13830&highlight=Authors

I really like Lavyrl Spencer and Stephen King. But my favorite type of book would be the true ghost story kind. I loooove those.

I haven't read a novel in a long time. :eek:

The last book that I enjoyed was written by C.S. Lewis.

RR MArtin for A Game Of Thrones and all the sequels..

Tolkien - he's absolutely amazing. I used to like Brian Jaques a lot when I was younger, but i don't really read them that much anymore. Tamora Pierce is really good. A book I just finished reading and really liked was the Kin, by Peter Dickinson, but I havn't read any others of his.

Guess mine would probably be Phillip Pullmann, His Dark Materials is easily one of the best trilogies ever...

Ann Rice is also pretty good, books are WAY better than the films based on them ;)

My fav books are fantasy i guess, but i like horror and cyberpunk stuff is kinda cool, Mona Lisa Overdrive was good...

Hmmmmm.................

hmm....thought id bring up a dead thread.

i just got finished reading 2 really great books, "the da vinchi code" and "angels and demons" both by dan brown...and he is now my favorite author :p

Hmmm favorite authors is a tough one for me... I love reading but hmm...
Anne Rice
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Marion Zimmer Bradley
JRR Tolkien
George Orwell
Kurt Vonnegut
JK Rowling
V.C. Andrews
Madeline L'engle (moreso when I was younger)
and the list just goes on and on and on...

Dean Koontz - the man is great
-Zoey

My fav Author is Garth Nix, His most famous books are:
Sabriel
Lirael Parts of the trilligy.
Abhorsen

Mister Monday
Grim Tuesday Part of a seven parter (one for each day of the week)

He writes fanasty, my fav book has to be Lirael.

Also like Philip Pullman (Northen Lights, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass)

Ok see you later bye.

Dennis Lehane. I absolutely LOVE his books. He wrote Mystic River. His descriptions are something undescribable. (Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone; A Drink Before the War)
My other fav is John Steinbeck. Typical philosophical writer. (East of Eden)
XxAmyxX

karin slaughter, i love her books.

Paul Gallico, he's great :D only know of one of his books though
Edit - i just found out the book i have by him is worth £20 plus lol. wish i had a first edition, coz thats worth £80!

whoever wrote catch-22, im not sure what his name was

Anne McCaffrey. she is fucking awesome, in my opinion, she writes the best Sci-fi/fantasy books.
her most famous books are probably "The Dragonriders Of Pern" books, thats what hooked me onto her writting.
her son Todd McCaffrey is now continuing the series but instead of it being the 1st/6th/9th pass of Pern, hes writting in the 3rd. ;)
my favourite books by her would be either the dragonriders or "The Tower And The Hive"
those 5 books were amazing :)

ooo yeah... he is... I love his work.

Dean Koontz - the man is great
-Zoey

My favorite author is James Clavell (he wrote books like Shogun and King Rat) He is brilliant.

My favorite authors are anne rice and stephen king,I think There books are wonderfull. Just finished Reading Rose Madder by stephen king.

I read fantasy, everything goes! Tolkien is the God.

I like Kathryn Reisse because she wrote "Dreadful Sorry" and Patricia McCormick because she wrote that book called "Cut" which I thought was really good

CHUCK PALAHNIUK. Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Choke, Diary . . . basically every book he's written, I've loved. :3

DARREN SHAN. The Cirque Du Freaks series! Mmmvampires.<3

JKROWLING. Harry Potter series. I'm a huge HP nerd . . . so, yeah.

Fantasy and horror books always appeal to me. Books that are very strange, make you think, and go WTF also do too [Chuck Palahniuk's good for that]. :D

Anne Rice- Vampire Chronicles
<3 Philip Pullman- His Dark Materials series
JK Rowling, of course, HP
Darren Shan- Cirque du Freak series rocks!
Laurie Halse Anderson- Speak, Catalyst
Recently, I've been into Robert Cormier, his stories are really weird...

My favourite author of all time would be a man by the name of David Icke. He is basically about as fringe as one gets conspiracy-theory wise. He argues that the world is controlled by a reptilian race of somesort that passes themselves off as human. If you are at all curious about this, I highly recommend the book Children of the Matrix. But I will warn ya, don't get it if you are not willing to seriously question your own religious beliefs and beliefs about reality itself.

For political, I highly recommend 1984 by George Orwell.

I also enjoy reading books by the old acidtrippers like Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson...they are really "out there" like Icke, but quite fascinating.

Other than the above mentioned authors, I really like Stephen King. He is truely awesome. Insomnia being my favourite book by him. I also like Louis L'amour. (I've read most of his books, i think. i always like a good western every now and then.) and I like a bunch of other stuff too like Harry Potter, Star Trek, etc. lol

[edit] Tolkien as well! *Can't believe I forgot Lord of the Rings!*

I'd say I far prefer books over movies or tv.

--sabbathius

I absolutely love fantasy! My favorite book of all time - The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. This book really is a fantasy classic, and I highly recomend it. The story is beautiful and sad, with a sprinkling of humor and some neat allusions.
I also like humorous fantasy - my favorite in this subgenre would be the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Has anyone else ever heard of him? He writes some funny stuff, and it's even funnier if you live in Florida like I do, because the author himself is from FL and based his magical land on our odd state. Xanth is a fantasy land w/ humans and magical creatures just like many others you will find in books, but the unique idea behind it is that every human has a special power, a "magic talent." Instead of there being just wizards and mortals, everyone has something, which means things a whole lot more interesting. The other distinguishing feature of Xanth is that everything is literal - for example, a nightmare is actually a horse. The series is full of hidden jokes, innuendo, and an endless supply of puns. I reccomend it to those who like humor and fantasy. The two combine suprisingly well in this series, because fantasy allows you to have an unbridled imagination. The neat thing about the author is that he has such a connection w/ his fans, they send him ideas and puns they have thought of and he includes many of them in his stories. One girl (Jenny) who was a big fan was hit by a drunk driver and paralyzed, so Piers Anthony began writing to her and even made her a character in the series.

Laurie Halse Andersen
J.K Rowling
*can't believe no one's mentioned this one*
Lemony Snicket
Darren Shan
Meg Cabot
Patricia McCormick
Jackie French Koller

rory

Stephen King. All the way baby. I'm reading Dolores Claiborne now, and it's fascinating. Horror books = the best. I also like Harry Potter though. But ... then again who doesnt.

J.K. Rowling and Edgar Allan Poe (has no one mentioned him or did I miss it?) are my all time favorite authors. I :heart: them to death. Then, after her are:
Nora Roberts
Anne Rice
Lemony Snicket
Shakespeare

My favorite authors are J.K. Rowling, Phillip Pullman, David Clement-Davies, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz.

Phillp pullman, Ian rankin, Tolkein, Harper Lee (well, personally I think that Truman Capote wrote that book and she just took the credit for it. Seems a little odd to me that someone as good as whoever wrote "To kill a mockingbird" only ever wrote one book.)

i love vampires...and i love anne rice for writting the best vampire novels ever...salems lot is also cool,stephan king rocks my socks.

Anne Rice is my favorite author! Damn those vampe books own...lol! :p

Steven King
Edgar Alan Poe
Anne Rice

I agree with the past few posters - I am currently reading three of Anne Rice's books, and they're AWESOME. She really paints a picture in the mind, her work has strong visual components:)

She really is great with the imagery... her writing is just so sensual. I got all sad when I heard blood canticle is the last of the vampire chronicles. I guess it makes sense since Stan Rice died. I wonder if she's sold the house yet. I knew it was up for sale... but I never heard if it got sold. I should go visit her website. I haven't been there in forever. I don't know... of the annie rice fans I know, I'm possibly the ONLY one that doesn't love it only for the cult/vampire aspects of it. I'll love the philosphy and the general themes. Who knows... I'm odd... but I've loved her work since 3rd grade.

I agree with the past few posters - I am currently reading three of Anne Rice's books, and they're AWESOME. She really paints a picture in the mind, her work has strong visual components:)

I like Mary Higgins Clark...and Tara Moss...Cate Tiernan is my favourite though. ;)

J.R.R. Tolkien
J.K. Rowling
Tamora Pierce

J.R.R Tolkien wrote 'The Hobbit' and 'THe Lord of the Rings.' Enough said :D

J.K. Rowling..do I even need to tell you who she is? lol. Her books rule. Especially the 4th and 5th ones. I can't wait for the 6th :) July 16! \m/

Tamora Pierce wrote the Circle of Magic series, and the quartets that take place in Tortall. I absolutely LOVE her style of writing..she can be so witty in a serious situation but it's not out of place. (Plus the girl humor is really funny :D)

cate tiernan
anne rice
lemony snicket
j.k. rowling
marion zimmer bradley
philippa gregory
meg cabot
margaret george

(i love to read...)

J.K Rowling for sure. She is so talented, and she's the one who got me to see Harry Potter in a brand new light.... ;) :p

I can't wait for July 16th either! I just hope they don't push the date back. I don't think they will though. I hope they don't.

J.K. Rowling..do I even need to tell you who she is? lol. Her books rule. Especially the 4th and 5th ones. I can't wait for the 6th :) July 16! \m/

I absolutely love fantasy! My favorite book of all time - The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. This book really is a fantasy classic, and I highly recomend it. The story is beautiful and sad, with a sprinkling of humor and some neat allusions.

That's my favourite book, too.

I also love Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. Demon in my View is one of my other favourite books.

V.C. Andrews, all the way. My sister got me turned on to her books a couple of years ago. I like the stuff that she actually wrote better than the stuff her ghostwriter wrote.

My Sweet Audrina, and the Dawn series are my favorite books by V.C. Andrews... and my favorited books.

That's my favourite book, too.

I also love Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. Demon in my View is one of my other favourite books.

OmG, I love that book! To have written that at such a young age amazes me. She's extremely talented. I knew I was missing an author.

I love her work. And My sweet Audrina and the Dawn series are awesome. I think my favorit is the Dollanganger series and not just because Flowers In The Attic became a movie. I don't know why but I just love it. Either way it makes my parents mad because I have so many books and no place to put them. VC Andrews, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Stephen Kind alone fill up 3 book cases. But I'm happy because now they want to give me a library. So then my manga can go onto shelves too.
V.C. Andrews, all the way. My sister got me turned on to her books a couple of years ago. I like the stuff that she actually wrote better than the stuff her ghostwriter wrote.

My Sweet Audrina, and the Dawn series are my favorite books by V.C. Andrews... and my favorited books.

VC Andrews is great also! I like Flowers in the Attic, but the movie is shocking!

Btw, Cate Tiernan, who I mentioned earlier, wrote a series of books called Wicca, or in the US, it is Sweep. They are about a girl named Morgan, and she's a witch.

Has anyone read these books? They are very good.

So many books, so little time! Some of my favorites:

Tokien - Duh!
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Stephen Donaldson - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
Ray Bradbury - Farenheight 451 (no it's not a Michael Moore movie!), Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Stephen King - Dark Tower Series
Steinbeck - East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath
Shakespeare - Pick one

There are more but that's a good start.

Whoever it was the asked - Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22 - a brilliant book.

Is Misery, by Stephen King any good? It was reccomended to me by a friend of mine, he said I might like it.

My fave authors are:

John Marsden (Aussie author - wrote the 'Tomorrow' series)
J.R. Tolkein
Trudi Canavan (Aussie author - wrote 'The Black Magician' trilogy)

I like fantasy and sci-fi and also some war books.

John Marsdon came to my school. I think he went to all the schools back then, don't know why. :rolleyes:

I like that book but it really just depends on you. Assuming your friend knows the style and type of book you like to read I'm sure you'd find it enjoyable.
Is Misery, by Stephen King any good? It was reccomended to me by a friend of mine, he said I might like it.

LOL, well, he said I would like Interview With The Vampire, and I was bored to tears with it, so I hope this one is better!
I have read one Stephen King book...can't remember what it was though, but I know it was about these people that packed up in the night and hit the road for some reason or other...

I have an idea of which one you're talking about... but i'm not sure. He has written alot and I have read a good lot of his work. I think my favorites are Carrie and Firestarter. i don't know... but it's worth a read through and if you don't like it then that's when you take the book and hit your friend over the head with it. LOL :p no I kid.

LOL, well, he said I would like Interview With The Vampire, and I was bored to tears with it, so I hope this one is better!
I have read one Stephen King book...can't remember what it was though, but I know it was about these people that packed up in the night and hit the road for some reason or other...

Btw, Cate Tiernan, who I mentioned earlier, wrote a series of books called Wicca, or in the US, it is Sweep. They are about a girl named Morgan, and she's a witch.

Has anyone read these books? They are very good.


Sure have, i liked them as they actually combined quite a bit of 'fact' in them amongst the fictional story, for example the sabbats. I liked them up until the last one that i read, i think it was 15 or something???? The one with morgan's daughter, i didn't like it. Heh, probably i just didnt like it from not Morgan's perspective and her daughter was a bitch, although i liked the ones from Hunter. wow i forgot those books existed.

I loved the Vampire Chronicles. Actually, i'm still reading them, awesome books. Yay for Anne Rice.

Diana Gabaldon - Cross Stitch (but its called Outlander in some places) is the first in a BRILLIANT series.

Jean Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear and Valley of Horses were wicked, then they slowly got worse in my opinion.

Tolkein (duh)

John Marsden - The Tomorrow Series, plus all the other books he's written Checkers, So Much to Tell You etc. Letters from the Inside was great. Has anyone read the Elle Chronicles? they come after the Tomorrow series, i haven't read any yet.

Anne McCaffrey - i've only read a couple of her books but they were great.

When I was younger i really loved Tamora Pierce, they are great books for maybe 12 - 14 years i think. Really cool storylines, especially the Alanna series.

Dean Koontz - I'm really getting into his books at the moment, more so than Stephen King. I jsut read The Taking and now im reading one called The Face i think...

I am missing heaps i'm sure... but in general they are my favourite authors :D

Oh and i saw the movie of Misery when i was younger, haven't read the book but i heard it was really good.

EDIT: How could i get the Da Vinci Code? it was fantastic. Oh and i once read a book called Sabriel by Garth Nix, i haven't been able to find the sequel. Once a bought a book for a dollar at the Warehouse called 'The Forbidden Game' by L. J. Smith. It was a really good book. hmmm i forgot about that book too. dammit. too many good books in the world. i need to read more.

Oh and biography wise, read Heavier than Heaven, a biography of Kurt Cobain. okay now thats not about an author.. oh well.

Stephen King

J.R.R. Tolkien- because he didnt just write LOTR and The Hobbit, he created an entire world, complete with entire histories and cultures. that trilogy was just the tip of the iceburg for him.

E.L. Doctorow- Billy Bathgate. about a kid who grew up in the prohebition era and dreamed of becoming part of the overly glorified mob scene. he gets himself trusted by a mob boss named Dutch Schultz, which turns out to not be the origional, but still just as dangerous. i thought it was intersting how the book was narrated. Doctorow doesnt have Bathgate describe any emotional reaction to even the more violent scenes. and the lack there of just makes it more shocking because you fall back on your own. after a while you realize the narration is comming from him as an adult, and though it never says outright, its implied that he never actualy got out of the business.

last but not least, Douglas Adams- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy :D. do i need any further explanation?
for those of you with the misfortune of not being familiar with this story, this whole series is like Star Trek on crack. funny as hell. if Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, and Monty Python were to team up and write a sience fiction, this would be the result.

the main characters's stolen ship ran in an 'improbably drive'. it functions on the basis of Murphy's law, rather than the laws of physics. Murphy's law states that whatevers more improbable, will probably happen. so this improbability drive calculates the odds of the ship jumping to the other end of the universe for no apparent reason, and suddenly itll happen. but it also does other stuff.

2 missiles are headed toward the ship. they fire up the improbability drive. one of the missiles turns into a sperm whale, the other into a bowl of petunias. and Adams proceeds to describe the last thoughts of the whale as it tries to comprehend its own existance, including "whats that comming toward me? ill call it 'ground'. i wonder if it would be friends with me.."
but he doenst stop there. he described that the last thoughts of the bowl of petunias were "oh no, not again..". apparently it carried the reincarnated soul of a creature that the main character keeps accidently killing without realizing it.

i could put all that in context for you, but i probably wouldnt make any more sense. its great :)

Sure have, i liked them as they actually combined quite a bit of 'fact' in them amongst the fictional story, for example the sabbats. I liked them up until the last one that i read, i think it was 15 or something???? The one with morgan's daughter, i didn't like it. Heh, probably i just didnt like it from not Morgan's perspective and her daughter was a bitch, although i liked the ones from Hunter. wow i forgot those books existed.



The only one I haven't read in the series is the one about Morgan's daughter...not sure if I will like that one, because like you said, it isn't from Morgan's perspective...but I still want to read it!

Personally I love any mystical magical books, like Harry Potter. My Favorite authors are J.K. Rowling, Anne McCaffrey, C.S. Lewis, and Eoin Colfer. All of them write series on something rather magical based.

Though my favorite book, A Clockwork Orange, was written by Anthony Burgess. Has anybody read that? I loved it, but it was written a little oddly. :)

i love Dean Koontz work, Terry Goodkind, JK Rowling, Stephen King, Tolkien
that's about it

stephen king.I love his work he is so amazing :D

All of the authors you mentioned and the books are amazing. I love A Clockwork Orange. It's among my favorites. It is written oddly, but like other's it's oddities serve a purpose. I remember I used to read that novel over and over and over again. I never tired of it. Now that I'm thinking about it I should reread it, but I'm somewhat afraid to. I've read it so many times that the binding is getting messed up.

Personally I love any mystical magical books, like Harry Potter. My Favorite authors are J.K. Rowling, Anne McCaffrey, C.S. Lewis, and Eoin Colfer. All of them write series on something rather magical based.

Though my favorite book, A Clockwork Orange, was written by Anthony Burgess. Has anybody read that? I loved it, but it was written a little oddly. :)

Scott Westerfeld

Phillip Pullman

J.K Rowling

JRR Tolkien

Holly Black

Edgar Allen Poe


And myself, which is really vain, but who understands what you like to read better than yourself?

Yeah J.K Rowling of courrse but my favorite one ever is Marion Zimmer! She wrote Mists of Avalon and that is like the best book ever! I wanna read it again so bad hehe. It's 1000 pages long but it's addicting and I could barely put it down to do class work my senior year. yay for her!

J K Rowling
J R R Tolkein
Lian Hearn- Read her Tales of the Otori series, it's amazing
Philip Pullman- again, His Dark Materials is great

I can't think of anymore right now, but those authors are definitely among the top authors of all time, seriously.

Am I the only one whose read Tales of the Otori??

Garth Nix, I love the Abhorsen trilogy, and Phillip Pullman, I love His Dark Materials Trilogy and it's being made into a film :cool:

Scott Westerfeld

Phillip Pullman

J.K Rowling

JRR Tolkien

Holly Black

Edgar Allen Poe


And myself, which is really vain, but who understands what you like to read better than yourself?

I understand what you mean. I love going back and rereading what I wrote.

Amy Tan (everything by her..even her memoir!)..Dean Koontz (most stuff)..Anchee Minn ("Empress Orchid," especially, but also "Wild Ginger"...I haven't read "Red Azalea" or "Becoming Madame Mao" yet). I also love stuff by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allen Poe although, admittedly, I don't really read their stuff that much lately. Oh and I also read some really good books from some Tales of the Otori series by Liam Hearn (I THINK that's his name) about feudal Japan (well, they are really in a fictitious setting that just CLOSELY resembles feudal Japan haha). I haven't read for pleasure in QUITE some time b/c I'm in graduate school and always busy reading my (in general) 1,000+ pages of homework per week (that's just the reading part of the homework..not the research for and writing of papers and everything else..blah)..ahem..but I'm on vacation now for 2 more weeks so I want to buy some new books to read for pleasure. I just finished reading Jung Chang's memoir/historical account of China around the time of the Cultural Revolution called "Wild Swans" which was reaaaally good and fascinating and sad.

Adeline Yen Mah-her books chinese cinderella and falling leaves. What makes them so sad and gripping is that you can't say to yourself "oh it's only a book it's not real" because every word of it is real and it must have been so hard for her growing up.

Charlotte Bronte (yeah old fashioned I know)- Jane Eyre is probably the best book I've ever read.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Her "Simple Abundance" series is one for those who are seeking to grow from the inside. :)

Charles de Lint.
He is the best author ever. If you have never heard of him, GO CHECK HIM OUT NOW! He won the World Fantasy Award, and has out a bunch of collections out including "Waifs and Strays". Also, he recently wrote a book called "The Blue Girl". He has also written books like "The Riddle of the Wren". That was a good book. It reminded me a lot of LOTR.


www.charlesdelint.com

Jack London...definately ;)

JK Rowling
Eoin Colfer

etc. :P

I'm surprised I havent seen his name in here yet.

Neil Gaiman- he puts out absolutely awesome stuff. The Sandman, American Gods, Stardust, etc.

I'd also rank Orson Scott Card among my favorites.

I love her work. And My sweet Audrina and the Dawn series are awesome. I think my favorit is the Dollanganger series and not just because Flowers In The Attic became a movie. I don't know why but I just love it. Either way it makes my parents mad because I have so many books and no place to put them. VC Andrews, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Stephen Kind alone fill up 3 book cases. But I'm happy because now they want to give me a library. So then my manga can go onto shelves too.


Flowers In The Attic was a horrible movie compared to the book. It was all wrong. I don't have that many books, but I have a library very close to mah house and a friend who owns pretty much every book I've ever wanted to read...

I think manga is fun...

I Know! They completely screwed up the book. Which is why I don't like people thinking I like the book just because of the movie. Anyway, I love your avatar. My Sweet Audrina is possibly my favorite of the VC Andrew's novels even if it doesn't have a series. I wish I had friends like yours but mine generally don't like to read all that much. And the library here is of no use.

Flowers In The Attic was a horrible movie compared to the book. It was all wrong. I don't have that many books, but I have a library very close to mah house and a friend who owns pretty much every book I've ever wanted to read...

I think manga is fun...

Anne Rice. No more Vampire Chronicles: how can I survive? :(

I know!!! I've been wonderring the same thing about myself... but it's still said that blood canticle is the last.. :(

Anne Rice. No more Vampire Chronicles: how can I survive? :(

Anne Rice. No more Vampire Chronicles: how can I survive? :(

shes not gunna write any more????
what will i do without my beloved lestat and louis?
are you sure blackwood farms the last?
well i guess she has been writin the chronicles for at least 20 years now
i hope there is more

i like many authors... but i think the most i like are

JRR TOLKIEN
JK ROWLING
Edgar Allan POE

My two favorite are Anne Rice and V.C. Andrews. I know most of you know who Anne Rice is. (duh) But if you're not familiar with V.C. Andrews, she wrote Flowers In The Attic. It was turned into a movie sometime in the 80's I believe. She also has a book called My Sweet Audrina.

The type of books I like to read are horror stories and murder stories. ;)

Hum, my favorite autors would be Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha Christie, Anne Rice, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Ende and sir Arthur Conan Doyle (loves Sherlock Holmes forever :P).

And as you can tell.. my favourite books are the detective ones,along with the terror and some fantastic ones.

Hmm, my favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, George R.R. Martin, R.A. Salvatore, and many others that I can't remember. I'm a big fan of fantasy and horror, as you could probably tell. :D :D :D

Well, it used to be Jk Rowling until I realized harry potter sucks. no offense to any fan out there. I tried to be into Anne Rice but it didn't work out, the books aren't even scary or enough disgusting/gory for me. My fave book is The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler. So Carolyn Mackler I guess. And Poe of course.

She said Blood Canticle will be the last... but that's kinds disappointing because it just makes all of it anti-climatic... but I think I', the only one that holds that opinion.

shes not gunna write any more????
what will i do without my beloved lestat and louis?
are you sure blackwood farms the last?
well i guess she has been writin the chronicles for at least 20 years now
i hope there is more

I love both Anne Rice and V.C. Andrews. I've loved them since I can remember. I love My Sweet Audrina. I didn't use to... I used to have to just stop reading it and put it away... but it's now my favorite of her books. And the Dollangager series. I didn't like the movie based on Flowers In The Attic. It was too disappointing.


My two favorite are Anne Rice and V.C. Andrews. I know most of you know who Anne Rice is. (duh) But if you're not familiar with V.C. Andrews, she wrote Flowers In The Attic. It was turned into a movie sometime in the 80's I believe. She also has a book called My Sweet Audrina.

The type of books I like to read are horror stories and murder stories. ;)

My favorite author is William Gibson. (see sig)


I've posted about him a bunch of times here before. Lemme recap ...

He invented the word "Cyberspace", and forsaw the internet.
He's considered a forefather of much of what is common in Scifi today (The Matrix, etc.)
I collect hardback copies of his books, some in 1st editions.
I got to meet him at a signing about 2 years ago, and he signed my copies of "Pattern Recognition" and "Burning Chrome" (which is very rare in hardback).


Oh yeah ... I'm a big scifi geek.

For a long time, it has only been JK Rowling (:p), but now I love all of Kelley Armstrong's work. :)

Darren Shan
Bram Stoker
JK Rowling
Tolkein
Garth Nix

I'm reading "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden right now and I just about can't put it down. I'm having to force myself to stop reading so I can save some for later instead of reading it all at one sitting.hahaha

I like John Francome his books always end with a twist and all his characters link in a way. It is quiet unique how he does it.

"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden \

Sounds interesting, i have to have alook. I love books that wont let you put them down. Its like that with J.K Rowling's books, but the only problem i get is getting into the book takes me ages to get into the book and when i dont i usually end up not finishing it or forgetting about it. A problem i have... grr

I really like a woman named Nancy Taylor Rosenburg. She writes about lawyers, she is really very good!

Phillip Pullman, I love His Dark Materials Trilogy and it's being made into a film :cool:

Really?? when/where did you learn that? It will be so awesome if his books became movies... especially if they are GOOD movies (like LotR or something) and not poorly made ones that flop at the boxoffice.

I like Tamora Pierce (Anyone read her new books about Alianne?? They're awesome... nearly halfway done with the 2nd one... don't spoil it please), Philip Pullman, Lynne Ewing (Daughters of the Moon series) as well as a bunch of other fantasy books I can't think of right now. Oh yeah, and JK Rowling. How could I forget her??? And J.R.R. Tolkien, too, even tho I've only seen the movies. Don't have time to read the books right now even though everyone says I should.

I also like other authors too, of other random books that aren't fantasy. I'm always into trying new books at people's recommendations. One that sticks out in my mind is Gone With the Wind, which is TOTALLY different from the movie. Can't think of the author's name right now, but that book was cool. So was a lot of other American Literature. As well as the author S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders) and Lois Lowry (The Giver).

I like John Francome his books always end with a twist and all his characters link in a way. It is quiet unique how he does it.

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Sounds interesting, i have to have alook. I love books that wont let you put them down. Its like that with J.K Rowling's books, but the only problem i get is getting into the book takes me ages to get into the book and when i dont i usually end up not finishing it or forgetting about it. A problem i have... grr

Hey..another good reason to read it is there's going to be a movie based on the book coming out next December I think...Starring Zhang Ziyi from Crouching Tiger, Hero, and House of the Flying Daggers (amongst other things) as Sayuri/Chiyo, the main char. of the book.

My Favourite author is Terry Pratchett. His books are comical and merge a lord of the rings fantasy world with modern day ideas in a medieval era. Like a vampire camera man who uses flash photography which is lethal to him as it turns him into a pile of ash. To bring him back to life the vampire caries a little bottle of blood around his neck which he has to rely on bystanders to pour on him!
When people die, or get seriously injured, you can tell the persons injuries were fatal if the speach of another character is capitalised. This character is death and it's always funny when death appears in the book, because you're never sure if someone is dead and when something like, "OH DEAR, THAT WAS A BIT OF A NASTY FALL" suddenly appears THEN you know:) . Pratchett does it more subtle than that though!

Does anyone else here read Terry Pratchett?

In response to Spiderfall I love Terry Pratchett too, the last one about the post office was very funny! I once met him at a book signing and I got really excited I was bouncing round like Tigger!

My other favourite authers are Laurell K Hamilton, Robin Hobb and her alter ego Megan Lindholm, Anne Rice, J K Rowling, Richard Layman and Sophie Kinsella (brilliant for Chic lit), My book cases are actually spilling out to piles on the floor now I think I need a tidy up!

I love Nora Roberts...trashy romance novels are the best...
Does anyone else read Nora Roberts books?

George Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series (starting with Game of Thrones) is some of the best fantasy I've ever read with some of the best characters.

Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters trilogy is also right at the top for me. The books are very emotional and really make you feel close to the characters. Son Of The Shadows (book 2) actually put me in mind of My Immortal.

I also really like alot of Robin Hobb's work.

I love Nora Roberts...trashy romance novels are the best...
Does anyone else read Nora Roberts books?
oh ive heard of her. my neightbor reads her books allthe time. i might wanna pickup a copy. i love romance novels :D

Has anyone read a book called All About Eve? It is meant to be very good, but the only thing I have found on it is the movie review.

The only thing I know about the book is that it is fairly old.

Does anyone know what it is about?

-Stephen King
-Christopher Pike
-Alice Sebold
-Cheryl Porter
-Michael Crichton

Just a few...I'm a big reader, but suprisingly, I can't remember half the authors I like...

Well, maybe I'll remember later.

I have a bunch I love, but my three top are:

Stephen King, VC Andrews, and Laveryl (sp?) Spencer.

joanne kathleen rowling!

Woohoo for the Harry Potter-ness! :)
I also very much like John Steinbeck, King, Poe and Julie Anne Peters

Francesca Lia Block <3 I'm quite in love with everything she's ever written.

Neil Gaiman
JK Rowling
Lewis Caroll
Peter Beagle
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
And of course, Tolkien.

Francesca Lia Block. <3

I'm currently enraptured with Philippa Gregory

Garth Nix
George Orwell

I love these two authors. Their works are very original, inspiring, and powerful. Once you've read 1984 you're outlook on society will never be the same again. And Garth Nix should recieve MUCH more praise then he gets. He's earned it. Hands down one of the best fantasy, sci-fi writers of all time. He's so good he has earned the right to stand amongst J.R.R. Tolkein and Frank Herbert in both genres. The Abhorsen Trilogy is a must-read series.

Garth Nix ftfw!

JRR Tolkien ! He is GOD!

A.H. Tammsaare (Estonian author), Lloyd Alexander, Robert Jordan, Dave Pelzer, Dan Brown, Sue Townsend, Peter Pohl, J.K. Rowling, Tove Jansson, Knut Hamsun, E.M. Remarque etc. There are so many good authors and I've counted only some of them.

Jodi Picoult. If you haven't read her, do. She is brilliant.;)

Juliet Marillier
Jacqueline Carey
Anne Rice
Isobelle Carmody
Neil Gaiman

Kelley Armstrong.

Jane Austen
JK Rowling
JRR Tolkien
CS Lewis

Paulo Cohelo is the best.

Kelley Armstrong.

QFT! Kelley Armstrong is teh shizz.

So many books, so little time! Some of my favorites:

Tokien - Duh!
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Stephen Donaldson - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
Ray Bradbury - Farenheight 451 (no it's not a Michael Moore movie!), Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Stephen King - Dark Tower Series
Steinbeck - East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath
Shakespeare - Pick one

There are more but that's a good start.

Whoever it was the asked - Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22 - a brilliant book.

I absolutely agree with you, I'd like to add:
Neil Gaiman
Philip K. Dick
Chuck Palahniuk
Diana Gabaldon

nice thread :-)

In no order here are some of my favs:

George Orwell
Elizabeth Kostova
James Frey
Eoin Colfer
JK Rowling
E.A. Poe
Daniel Handler
Abraham Stoker
Mary Shelley
Wilkie Collins
Philip Pullman (probably my fav)
Khaled Hosseini

J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling. :)

Stephen King (especially his Dark Tower series) is by far my favorite. I also love David Clement-Davies, Meredith Ann Pierce, Brian Jacques, and a ton of others that I can't remember.

Stephen King (favorite author ever!)



Laurell K Hamilton
Anne Rice
Dean Koontz (haven't read much Lately)

^ I read a book by Dean Koontz once...was it Lightening? I can't remember, but it was about time travel - a guy comes from the 1940's during the war, to present day, this chick is married to some guy who sends her frogs and they have a son called Chris, anyway Stefan, the guys name is, the time travel guy, he keeps going back in time because these bad guys also time travel, and are trying to change the past to change the future, and make it so Hitler won the war, and they have to try and stop it.
Awesome book, I loved it, especially at the end, with all the time travel when the lady and Chris are being chased by the bad guys, and Stefan has to go back and forth in time to save them...:)

Just to name a couple......

Stephen King..... Is just Astounding!!!!

Anne Rice..... Is just awesome!

Theres alot more, but those are the main ones. :p

Um okay.. Virginia Andrews, Kathy Reichs, E. Rose Sabin, oh and Meg Cabot!

Um okay.. Virginia Andrews, Kathy Reichs, E. Rose Sabin, oh and Meg Cabot!

Hell yes to Virginia Andrews. That woman is a genius.

Hmmmm...

I really like Marya Hornbacher, even though I've only read her book "Wasted." I'd like to read "The Center Of Winter," her first novel. I like her style in "Wasted," of course it was a memoir, so it was probably a lot more raw and real than what it would be like in "The Center Of Winter," as that one is fiction.

I like Dean Koontz too. My favorite from him is "Velocity." That one really sucked me in.

Edgar Allan Poe is the best !!!!!!!
Also Stephen King
Charles Bukowski
Anne Reise.

i think john saul and dean koontz are both brilliant writers i love john sauls "Black Creek Crossing" i've read that book a billion times and it never gets old

Neil Gaiman ftmfw!

kthnx

I have a new one I quite like - Karen Rose. I'm reading Die For Me right now and it's totally awesome. I highly recommend it, and her.

I have a few!! And I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them right now!

Philip Pullman. His Dark Materials and the Sally Lockhart series rock!
Sarah Waters. She wrote Fingersmith, which is my favourite book, so enough said! <3333333333333
Anne Frank. Duh...
Maureen Lee. I just love her books even though they're written for people older than me :p
Joanne Harris. Chocolat, Chocolat, Chocolat!
Kate Mosse. Sepulchre and Labyrinth are awesome!
Michelle Magorian. I grew up reading her books and watching the adaptions, and I always loved them.

My favourite author is Malorie Blackman.
Closely followed by Kate Brian.

It may be Stephen King, but I have read only 1 book of his, so I guess he can't be my favorite author yet... but I guess he will!