~*~ favorite authors thread ~*~

[FREAK-A-ZOID]

hi, you guys all know me but i want to know your favourite authors.mine are Jacqueline Wilson,C.S.Lewis,Julia Donaldson,Emma Harrison and lots more.:muslimah:

[Riyadh-ul-Jannah]

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My favourite is J.K Rowling.

:w:

[FREAK-A-ZOID]

:sl:

My favourite is J.K Rowling.

:w:

hey!thats my fwends favorite aufur

[Riyadh-ul-Jannah]

:sl:

Really? Is your friend into Harry Potter books?
Cause I am...(Obviously)

:w:

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[FREAK-A-ZOID]

:sl:

Really? Is your friend into Harry Potter books?
Cause I am...(Obviously)

:w:

definately and shes a tumboy hehe:giggling:

[Riyadh-ul-Jannah]

:sl:

definately and shes a tumboy hehe

What do you mean? Shes a tomboy

:w:

[IbnAbdulHakim]

Alfred Hitchcocks pretty good,
R.L Stine gave me some good childhood lol,
Charles Dickens ,
Roald Dahl ,
Stephen King <--- VERY GOOD!!!! ,
J K Tolkien <-- AUthor of Lord of the Rings,
JK Rowling is good too although it got a bit repetitive!
HANS ANDERSON <-- VEEERY GOOD !!
Beatrix Potter <-- she rocks !


thats some off the top of my head !


Assalamu Alaikum

[Riyadh-ul-Jannah]

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R.L Stine, I've read some of those books, they're quite good.

:w:

[Umm Hurairah]

Asalaamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatu,

My current favorite ones are Christopher Paolini and Sharon Creech. :D

[Zahida]

:sl: When i was a child i was besotted with C.S.Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia......................... as an adult i quite like Josephine Cox, Maeve Binchy,(I did say as an adult.... I should of put OAP!)..............:w:

[BlissfullyJaded]

:sl:

Hans Anderson was really good. Others I liked as a kid and still read when I'm bored are Judith Viorst, Beverly Cleary, Astrid Lindgren, and Gordon Korman, andd...more adult choices are Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway, and some others whose names I can't remember. lol

[sevgi]

Well dickens. obviously. you either love him or you hate him. and i cant live without him :P

cliche i know..but Austen.

virginia woolf.

roald dahl.

w/s

[mkh4JC]

Contemporary authors for me would be Steven Erikson for his A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series and Robert Jordan, but only his early Wheel of Time books. Umm...J. R. R. Tolkien is good, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, good sources for an aspiring fantasy author.

And I have a liking of Stephen King as well. I haven't really explored fiction that's not fantasy, sci fi, and horror, though I intend to change that and will start by reading Huckleberry Finn and its prequel. Really all the classics.

[Olive]

Anyone heard of Michael Mopurgo?

[~Taalibah~]

:sl:

MC Beaton
Alfred Hitchcock
Captain WE Johns
Loise Trimble
Dickens
Monica Dickens
Higgins
I'm still trying to find adult authors i like so my favorites are still children authors.-WE J and Alfred Hitchcock :D

[Muezzin]

Roald Dahl
Phillip K Dick
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Aldous Huxley
Stephen King
Harper Lee
Stan Lee
Herman Melville
China Mieville
Alan Moore
George Orwell
Chuck Palahniuk
Robert Louis Stevenson
Matthew Woodring Stover

And I have a liking of Stephen King as well. I haven't really explored fiction that's not fantasy, sci fi, and horror, though I intend to change that and will start by reading Huckleberry Finn and its prequel. Really all the classics.

Check out China Mieville's or Matthew Stover's fantasy/science fiction work.

[Saimah Ali]

JK Rowling

RL Stine [ahh the memories-Goosebumps!]

Roald Dahl

Virginia Andrews

[Muezzin]

JK Rowling is good too although it got a bit repetitive!

The last book more than made up for that. So... anti-formula. Great stuff.

[Trumble]

I'm still trying to find adult authors i like so my favorites are still children authors.-WE J and Alfred Hitchcock :D

Hehe.. I loved Biggles as a kid. They are dated in some ways but terrific entertainment. By Hitchcock do you you mean the 'Three Investigators' stuff, or something else? I don't think he wrote any of them, he was just a name to sell them. Still great fun though.. I remember Terror Castle, Stuttering Parrott and Whispering Mummy after what must be thirty years - most adult novels I've forgotten a month after reading them. I think the Strugatsky brothers 'Roadside Picnic' is the only decent novel I've read in years, although to be fair I do read mostly non-fiction.

[Olive]

I think most people would go for JK Rowling here...

[~Taalibah~]

Hehe.. I loved Biggles as a kid. They are dated in some ways but terrific entertainment. By Hitchcock do you you mean the 'Three Investigators' stuff, or something else? I don't think he wrote any of them, he was just a name to sell them. Still great fun though.. I remember Terror Castle, Stuttering Parrott and Whispering Mummy after what must be thirty years - most adult novels I've forgotten a month after reading them. I think the Strugatsky brothers 'Roadside Picnic' is the only decent novel I've read in years, although to be fair I do read mostly non-fiction.

A biggles fan?? Lol. Yea, i enjoy them and still trying to get certain books.
And yes i mean the three investigators. His other stuff are kinda ghastly.

[~Taalibah~]

I think most people would go for JK Rowling here...

Except for me.:skeleton:

[Al-Zaara]

Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Franz Kafka
Edgar Allan Poe
J. W. Goethe
Oscar Wilde
Jonathan Swift
Mark Twain
Henrik Ibsen
Shakespear
James Joyce
Lewis Carroll
R.L. Stine
Khalid Hosseini

... And much more! My latest favourite author has become Stephenie Meyer.

[IbnAbdulHakim]

The last book more than made up for that. So... anti-formula. Great stuff.

the last one was real good! i was impressed that Rowling could climb out of such a big hole :ooh:




have any of you ever read "the witch princess" ? It was a thrilling horrific short story... and possibly the best one ive ever read. yet im not sure if it was Hans Anderson who wrote it or not :ooh:

[sevgi]

I think most people would go for JK Rowling here...

ive never read a sentence she has constructed. i dont think i ever will..nor will i allow my children to. she is a dufus of a new kind.

wait, i did read a sentence..in order to kill the argument "how can u know she sucks if u have never read anything she has written"..what i read just gave me a better understanding of how trash her work is.

but weve had heated discussions abt this before..

*shudder*

[mkh4JC]

Check out China Mieville's or Matthew Stover's fantasy/science fiction work.

Mieville has a dedicated section on a fantasy/science fiction forum I visit, I don't think I've ever heard of Stover though. I'll wiki both of them to see where to start.

[~Taalibah~]

:sl:
Oh yes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mark Twain.

[FREAK-A-ZOID]

:sl: When i was a child i was besotted with C.S.Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia......................... as an adult i quite like Josephine Cox, Maeve Binchy,(I did say as an adult.... I should of put OAP!)..............:w:

omrrrrrrrr i love the cronicles of narnia i love it i love it i love ittttttt i have all the narnia books at home woopee:bump1:

[Tony]

After Allah it has to be Terry Pratchett, Dean Koontz and De La Mare

[Muezzin]

After Allah it has to be Terry Pratchett, Dean Koontz and De La Mare

You win at life.

:D

I've never read Koontz, though. Maybe I'll 'borrow' that book of his my mum owns.

[Tony]

You win at life.

:D

I've never read Koontz, though. Maybe I'll 'borrow' that book of his my mum owns.

HeHeHe. Try Intensity by Dean Koontz, you will not put it down untill finished, always wanted to be Danny in Danny champion of the world.

[czgibson]

Greetings,

There are quite a few.

Top three:

James Joyce
William Shakespeare
Anthony Burgess

Honourable mentions:

Homer
Plato
Martial
Cicero
Suetonius
Dante Alighieri
Geoffrey Chaucer
Michel de Montaigne
John Dryden
Jonathan Swift
Edward Gibbon
Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson
John Keats
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Shelley
Lord Byron
George Eliot
Emily Bronte
William Hazlitt
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oscar Wilde
Franz Kafka
Virginia Woolf
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
William S. Burroughs
Georges Perec
Vladimir Nabokov
Albert Camus
Jorge Luis Borges
George Orwell
Hunter S. Thompson
Umberto Eco
Douglas Adams
Stephen Fry

Pick up a bit of writing by any of those and I guarantee you'll find something to amuse, amaze, surprise or entertain you. :)

Peace

[Muezzin]

...to which I can but add Philip K. Dick.

[czgibson]

Greetings,

...to which I can but add Philip K. Dick.

Agreed! :)

Peace

[maisha]

ELOW teaj u might no diss but i like jaquline wilson! :)
hee hee!
and micheal mopurgo!
if dats how you spell it! :) :D

[FREAK-A-ZOID]

i know you always talk about him at mosque, whats so good about him?
lol

[Fטлку]

and micheal mopurgo!
if dats how you spell it! :) :D

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