Who is your Favourite Author and why?

**RATM** · 04-20-2009, 03:32 AM

I was just curious, i have read a fair few books and wanted to know if anyone had any they would like to share with me? I need something new to pick up and read please...?

I have just finished a George Orwell and i love Douglas Adams and Juliet marillier so if anyone knows of any Authors like them, i am into sci-fi, political, fantasy, war etc.. could you share?

OH anything but a love story please, i really dislike romance (no offense to anyone).
Mr objective - Thanks your are so articulate and enlightening.

I have read stephen kings pet cemetary, it scared the hell outta me ha ha :P

Thanks for all the answers so far!

**girls are stupid!!** · 04-20-2009, 03:32 AM

I'm a huge fan of steven king.

**mutterhals** · 04-20-2009, 03:32 AM

Ernest Hemingway, because he can say so much with so little, and also he has a very manly style. Lastly, reading his books proved to me that love stories can be very compelling and interesting, if written honestly.

**Savvy Bulge** · 04-20-2009, 03:32 AM

Don't listen to any of these fools--there is only Vonnegut. Why? He's got voice. No one appreciates voice anymore. I couldn't give a damn about cheap, recycled story--I want the writer to speak to me, and then be quick and clever with it. I read one book, then I read them all (except Cat's Cradle..maybe Player Piano--total trash, but they can't all be winners), and the man ruined literature for me. I will never be a writer, and I will never read anyone else. I've read Breakfast of Champions at least 5 times and I'm still not bored with it--like an old friend. Vonnegut, man--do it.

04-20-2009, 03:33 AM

Iain Banks is up there in my favourites.

04-20-2009, 03:35 AM

The ones I really love are classic "horrors" like:

Phantom of the opera
Dracula
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Interview with a vampire
Frankenstein
etc

So I'll say my favourite author is Gaston Leroux. If you liked Orwell you'd probably like "A clockwork Orange" but might have already read it...

**karo k** · 04-20-2009, 03:36 AM

BEVERLY CLEARY JUST BECAUSE IT BRINGS ME BACK MEMORIES FROM WHEN I WAS LILL AND NOW MI KIDS HAVE READ HER BOOKS AND THEY SEEM TO LIKE THEM TOO

04-20-2009, 03:36 AM

I love Jane Austen! people always assume they're romance novels but they're really not, they're witty and ironic and about different personalities and literary elements.

i think you should try the tomorrow series by John Marsden. it's about a group of teenagers who go camping and when they come back there's a war on and it's about what happens after that and how they wage a guerrilla war on the enemy soldiers. the series is fantastic, plus it's based on places near where i live!

**Gazz B** · 04-20-2009, 03:37 AM

Playboy. It has some great articles and jokes by many different people.

I don't care so much for the pictures.

04-20-2009, 03:38 AM

Eion Colfer.

His stories are the type that you can't put the book down until you can finish the whole thing, especially Artemis Fowl. I have read ALL of them and everyone went by very fast and put a smile on my face.