~*~ favorite authors thread ~*~

Trumble said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
Muezzin said:
The last book more than made up for that. So... anti-formula. Great stuff.
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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:
 
Hanz said:
I think most people would go for JK Rowling here...
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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*
 
Muezzin said:
Check out China Mieville's or Matthew Stover's fantasy/science fiction work.
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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.
 
Zahida said:
: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:
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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:
 
After Allah it has to be Terry Pratchett, Dean Koontz and De La Mare
 
Muezzin said:
You win at life.

:D

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

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