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Who is your favourite author, and why?

Darren said:
For me it's Clive Cussler, followed by John Grisham.
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Richard Morgan (at the moment) he has managed to revitalise the science fiction genre single-handed, breathe a new direction in edgy-writing (especially with his 'Market Forces') and has put respect back into the British science fiction school which had been sadly lacking.
 
Thomas Mann.

I was introduced to Buddenbrooks a few years ago and very much enjoyed it. So I bought a collection of short stories that culminated in the novella Death in Venice.

It took me an absurd time to read – three months – as I found myself working to comprehend Mann's themes.

Death in Venice itself shattered me. I couldn't write a word myself for another two to three months. I've read further Mann since then and his ability to probe – the entire concept of a 'novel of ideas' – fascinates me.

There are many other authors that I admire, whose work I love. But for me, at this stage in my life, Mann holds a special place.
 
Greg Park

I posted a thread about Greg Park earlier, but I guess the admins nuked it.
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He is my favorite author, but not the author of my favorite book...if that makes any sense. His books are very awsome. They are as addictive as the Harry Potter series was, but not like a fad. They are also in a completely different genre, and designated toward an older audience. His book series is called The Earthsoul Prophesies. He is a good friend, and was once my Japanese teacher. However, my views on his writing, and his character, are in no way bias. Google his name to find his website, it has book previews and other stuff. I think the reason they nuked my previous thread was due to my posting a link to his website...:D
 
Oh, I love that book, too! Michael Chabon is awesome. I'm also glued to Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

oops--I was responding to Morry, about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
 
I really like Paulo Coelho, he is the author of The Alchemist. That is probably the book most people would recognize by him. His books are short but they have a lot of plot to it and they always have some sort of philisophical question in them. The book The Devil and Miss Prym is about the human race being essentially good or evil. I loved that book! Paulo is a very intelligent man and I love reading anything he writes.
 
For me it's Steinbeck. I love all of his books, about 9, that I've read so far. Whenever I read his books, I can completely picture the setting and what the characters look like. I also love how his books are both humorous and still deal with serious subjects. With his longer books, East of Eden for example, I like how he has stories about some of the minor characters; right now I am thinking about the story Lee's parents.
 
Ever since i picked up Diana Gabaldon , all i read is historical fiction.
1) Diana Gabaldon
2)Ken Follet
3)Wilbur Smith
4)Sara Donati
5)Elizabeth Chadwick and a few others. But these are my top 5:D
 
I love Edith Wharton. The words and phrases she use in "House of Mirth" and "The Age of Innocence" are so beautiful. If I could write like any author, it would be her.

I also like Kazuo Ishiguro. His "Remains of the Day" is still my favorite book of all time. My wife doesn't read a lot of literature, but I asked my wife to read it and she just absolutely loved it. So much so that she picked up his "Pale View of Hills" and "Never Let Me Go." She's now an Ishiguro convert. Ironically, her next book is Ian McEwan's "Atonement." Like...how did that happen?

I like a lot of different authors. I loved Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things."

One author I could never "get" is Virginia Woolf. To this day, I could not get through the first five pages of any of her novels. LOL!
 
Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Terry Pratchett, and Sharon Kay Penman for fiction. And JK Rowling if she keeps up her standards after the Harry Potter series. Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, Richard Fortey, and Fareed Zakaria for nonfiction. All these (with the exception of Shakespeare, who has so many other talents) are exceptionally clear writers who are comfortable with their writing style and can convey information and atmosphere very impressively.
 
SeoulMan said:
I also like Kazuo Ishiguro. His "Remains of the Day" is still my favorite book of all time. My wife doesn't read a lot of literature, but I asked my wife to read it and she just absolutely loved it. So much so that she picked up his "Pale View of Hills" and "Never Let Me Go."
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I like Ishiguro including Never Let Me Go, a book which some people dislike intensely. The only one so far that didn't work for me as When We Were Orphans. I thought he went overboard and never made his character believable.
 
silverseason said:
I like Ishiguro including Never Let Me Go, a book which some people dislike intensely. The only one so far that didn't work for me as When We Were Orphans. I thought he went overboard and never made his character believable.
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I think salon.com or one of those types of sites wrote a Cliff's Notes type summary of "Never Let Me Go" that was just hilarious! I'll have to find it and provide the link.

I never read "When We Were Orphans" but my wife did and she also didn't like it much. She said she liked the first half but the second half was kinda weird to her. I think that's when she turned to McEwan's "Atonement."
 
My favorite author would be JRR Tolkein

Books are a great stimulant for my imagination and enable me to visualise situations. Personally, of the authors I've read, Tolkein is exceptionally good at enabling the reader to visualise himself/herself in a setting that is described.

As a nature lover, I just love his detailed descriptions on landscapes as well as his maps of Middle Earth.
 
Mide would be Jorge Luis Borges: he was the first writer whose work I consciously decided to follow and whose life I wanted to know more about. I now own almost everything he wrote, including his works in collaboration. I'm only missing his Libro del cielo y del infierno and the prologues he wrote for 'The Library of Babel' book series.

I love his short-stories and literary essays, which I reread constantly. The majority of the writers I've read lately - Papini, Chesterton, Buzzati, Casares - were all recommended by Borges; and he had a terrific taste: I haven't yet been disappointed.
 
For me it's Steinbeck. I love all of his books, about 9, that I've read so far. Whenever I read his books, I can completely picture the setting and what the characters look like. I also love how his books are both humorous and still deal with serious subjects. With his longer books, East of Eden for example, I like how he has stories about some of the minor characters; right now I am thinking about the story Lee's parents.
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To me, you can really picture and identify with to some extent, the humanity of the characters. If you've ever received a pink slip and you're mad at the boss, you can really see Tom Joad's world. The Grapes of Wrath and the struggles that every character in the book goes through is exactly what you see as well if you know people who are poor, who can't afford health insurance, or who are dependent upon the state for a given service. If you've had relative live through the Great Depression, it can also be almost religious like for you.
 
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