Favorite Author

Allright guys and girls, who is your favorite author and/or genre?

Mine's Melanie Rawn and sci fi/fantasy genre. She writes some of the strongest most realistic characters i've encountered in the fantasy/sci fi genre couple with political intrigue and machinations that are quite complex and believable. Additionally, the landscapes and imagery she paints is so vivid that the pages come to life and the characters feel genuine to the reader.

willy faulkner. i guess a lot of people dont really like him too much, but I've always been a fan.

I would have to say Sylvia Plath, I guess.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Doubt any of you have ever read any of the recluse books, but he is hands down best fantasy author ever.

Charles Dickens

This thread seems kinda silly as its in all our profiles, but.. I'm all about books so.. (I can't say just one)

William Burroughs
Thomas Mann
Yukio Mishima
Jorge Luis Borges
Franz Kakfa
Italo Calvino
Emile Cioran
Samuel Beckett
Cormac McCarthy
Nathanial West
Vladimir Nabokov
Raymond Carver
Susan Sontag
Denton Welch

mine would be so fucking obviuosright now...so i will go with me...

john irving
nick hornby
ann rule
shel silverstein
anais nin
j k rowling
king
grafton
vonnegut
watterson (calvin and hobbes)
kafka (which im currently reading and is awesome)
the list goes on and on and on

Douglas Adams or Neil Gaiman, tough choice.

the excellence of my authorship is questionable because my sales are lagging...so i take myself off the list until i strike another hot book deal and sell the rights and get more notoriety so you will think my name is cool and then i will be on the list again...

gaiman or hornby

abstract reference has always been my fave...i have all his or hers collected works...

R.L. Stine

listen kid, i knew jan beahm and your no jan beahm....

Damn, I could've used your help a few weeks ago. I sent off email questions for an interview with her, just waiting on the reply now.

James Patterson
Richard Preston
Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman

Peter David
Eric Lustbader
Jilly Cooper

Spike

Truman Capote

I an Banks
Margaret Atwood
Timothy Mo

Christopher Moore

Dorothy Parker, J. K. Rowling (cause she makes me smile), James Joyce.

charles bukowski, hunter s. thompson, robert heinland, kurt vonnegut jr, ken kesey, hemmingway, issac asimov, jack kerouac, and everybody's favorite, chuck palahniuk... to name a few.

-bobby

[Edited on Aug 26, 2003 by cornelius]