Favorite Authors Thread

[BassDude726]

I'm sorry, but I happen to be a major snob when it comes to literature. I tend to divide things into as many categories as possible. Science fiction and fantasy seem to me to be rather logical subdivisions of fiction since they have definable characteristics that set them apart from standard fiction. And I choose to delineate pop-fiction from other sorts of fiction because in general, popular best-sellers are poorly written crap that I read solely for their mindless entertainment value. Pop fiction to me is like a sitcom, whereas fiction like Hemingway is comparable to an artfully directed and impactful motion picture, like Schindler's List or something.

 

[CivCube]

I'm just saying, don't knock a genre for what books are already published. The potential for what it can be is always there.

And dare I say it, I think War & Peace would have been better in space.

 

[Abulafia]

• Clive Barker
• Umberto Eco
• Italo Calvino
• James Joyce
• Jeffrey Eugenides
• JG Ballard
• Haruki Murakami
• Jorge Luis Borges

 

[Hawkster]

Science Fiction : Issac Assimov , Larry Niven
Fantasy : Katherine Kurtz , Michael Moorcock , Lawrence Watt-Evans , Christopher Stasheff

Fiction: A Conan-Doyle

Plus lots of non-fiction- depends on the topic

 

[Garbarsardar.jr]

Fiction: Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, Dostoyefsky, Raymond Chandler, Jerom Charyn
Science Fiction: Philip Dick, Dan Simmons (Hyperion) William Gibson (only the shorts)
Fantasy: JRR Tolkien, HP Lovecraft
Philosophy: Foucault, Spinosa.
Drama: Euripides, Marlow,Bernard Marie Coltes.

 

[Garbarsardar.jr]

I'm sorry, but I happen to be a major snob when it comes to literature

you wouldn't say that if you knew what snob means...

And I choose to delineate pop-fiction from other sorts of fiction because in general, popular best-sellers are poorly written crap that I read solely for their mindless entertainment value. Pop fiction to me is like a sitcom,

Chandler and Hammet were pulp when published, and highly praised later.

Hemingway is comparable to an artfully directed and impactful motion picture, like Schindler's List or something

..and that is a great unjustice to Hemingway.

 

[nonconformist]

Oh, yeah, for literatue, I forgot Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes rocks!

 

[bobgote]

Favourite Author would be Robin Hobb (Fantasy).

Currently getting back into literature stuff. Reading Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) again, and am loving it, again. after that i have crime and punishment hanging around somewhere, then les miserables.

Also was a big fan of wilbur smith but haven't read anything recently. Tom Clancy was excellent early on, with hunt for red october, no remorse etc, but has gone downhill badly since about debt of honour kind of area. now seems to churn things out without even thinking, and it shows. there was a reason he became famous in the first place tho.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Uh, Tolkien and Terry Pratchett.

I mostly read non-fiction though.

 

[eq1]

Fiction: Paul Quarrington, Yann Martel (Life of Pi was amazing)
Sci-Fi: Douglas Adams (though I don't know too much other sci-fi stuff)
Fantasy: Terry Prachett
Pop Fiction: Leon Uris, James Clavell

Hard to choose authors for this, I will read anything and like most of what I read.

 

[JohnRM]

Aeschylus

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[Gladinia]

Favorite Authors: John Roald Reuel Overusedlastname, Terry Pratchett, Raymond E. Feist, David Eddings, Leigh Eddings, Brian Jacques, Katharine Kerr, Spammy Lastname, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia Wyrd, Willard Price, Eoin Colfer, Enid Blyton, Philip Pullmann, Eva Ibbotson, Roald Dahl, Kate Forsyth, Dennis L McKiernan, Joan Aiken, Jostein Gaarder, Christopher Tolkien

Crime: Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie.

This is not by half all my favorite authors, and they are not arranged after favoritism.
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Fantasy: Don't read it.

BLASPHEMY!!!

 

[MaisseArsouye]

Sci-Fi : Asimov, Clarke
Fiction : Bernard Werber, Amélie Nothomb
Philosophy : mostly ancient greeks ( Epikuros, Plato,... )

Comics : Léo, Maltaite, Arleston, Franquin ( the greatest ever ), Dany, Michetz, Will, Jijé, Walthéry

 

[jack merchant]

Just off the top of my head, in no particular order:

'real' literature:
Mario Vargas Llosa, TC Boyle, Gabriel Garcìa Márquez, Willem Frederik Hermans, William Boyd, Martin Amis... and more that I can't think of right now

'pop' fiction:
Frederick Forsyth, Jeffrey Archer, James Patterson (despite the sledgehammer style), Louis de Bernières, JK Rowling....

Don't read philosophy & sci-fi.

 

[addiv]

Science Fiction: George Orwell, Jules Verne
Fantasy: Tolkien
Literature: Gerard Reve, W.F.Hermans, Multatuli, Lermontov, Tolstoj, Dostoyevski, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain...
Philosophy: Karl Marx, Adam Smith (yes, both), Naomi Klein...
Drama: Shakespeare, Molière
Detective: Georges Simenon, Agatha Christie, Thomas Ross

 

[MSTK]

My favorite authors are Orson Scott Card, J. R. R. Tolkien, Philip Pullman and Terry Brooks.
I can't seem to sort them properly

 

[nonconformist]

Jeffrey Archer

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[BassDude726]

I have to admit the only fantasy I've ever read is Tolkien. I didn't just stick to the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings like most people, I think he's a really great author so I did some digging and found a lot of his other works are just as great.

 

[Johann MacLeod]

Fiction: Giovanni Bocaccio (The Decameron)
Science Fiction: Douglas Adams (The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy)
Fantasy: J.R.R Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Literature: Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)
Philosophy: Voltaire (Candide, The Ingenu)

 

[The Last Conformist]

Philosophy: Karl Marx, Adam Smith (yes, both)

I must say that Marx is surprisingly readable.