Favorite Author

Illustrator: Have you read Automated Alice by Jeff Noon? Very interesssstinnnnggggggg.... a psychedelic science fiction spin on Alice in Wonderland :)

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I also have to add - I like weird authors like Jeff Noon, haha... love people who dare to think differently.
 
Originally posted by Angelcat
I like Stephen King and Anne Rice. I like both of them bec I like the way they think in horror stories by imaging things to be scary so much. :D

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Ooooooh...another Stephen King fan!! Yahoo! I absolutely am one of Stephen King's Constant Readers! I have read all of his books with the exception of the Gunslinger (Dark Tower) series. I found that series so unlike King's writing style.
I also read books of his under his different pen name of Bachman. Another must to read is by King and Peter Straub teaming together to write 2 books: The Talisman and Black House. (Both are about the same character..first book is about the boy's life around age 12 and the latter is when he's an adult)

Stephen King is an expert on creating stories, so vivid and deep with description that I can actually almost visualise what he wants us to see.
Go King! Go King! :) The latest book I read of Stephen King's was 'From a Buick 8' - very GREAT book!

Goldie
 
Originally posted by LeviathanC
Nothing can beat Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkein, and J.K. Rowling.
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Yeah...Tolkein and Rowling...yeah, you're right...I like reading books by them as well! :bowdown:
I must admit that the books written by Tolkein beat hands down --over the movies. I was disappointed with the results of the movies.
Same went with some of King's books converted to movies. Except for Carrie. Carrie was very good...although the ending was a bit silly -- oh well, that was Depalma. :)

Goldie
 
<----Tom Clancy fan along with books by Lord Archer (Jeffrey Archer)

My fave Clancy would be "The Sum of All Fears"

The best Archer I ever read was both US and UK versions of "First Among Equals". I prefer the UK version over the US one.


Right now burying my nose in Patricia Cornwell's "Isle of Dogs"

Edit: I forgot to add a few more authors that rocks when it comes to HISTORICAL FICTION:

1) John Jakes the guy who wrote the North and South books that started off the North and South miniseries on TV in 86.
2) Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles
3) Lord Archer again with "As the Crow Flies", "Kane and Abel" and "The Fourth Estate"
4) Edward Rutherfurd's London book that chronicles London from the Roman times to 1997
5) Pat Conroy's "The Lords of Discipline" Its a story of senior year at a military college that is like the Citadel in Charleston, SC during 1962
6) a Tom Clancy surprise departure from the 1980s-2000s when he wrote "Without Remorse" telling the story of the 2nd most popular Clancy character Mr. Clark and how he came to his CIA job during 1972.
7) ALL the James Michener novels especially my all time fave Michener "Chesapeake"
 
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Originally posted by sablescort
<----Tom Clancy fan along with books by Lord Archer (Jeffrey Archer)

My fave Clancy would be Sum of All Fears

The best Archer I ever read was both US and UK versions of "First Among Equals". I prefer the UK version over the US one.


Right now burying my nose in Patricia Cornwell's "Isle of Dogs"
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*sighing* :) It's good to see more and more deafies talking about books....to be honest, when I was growing up and at CSDF, a lot didn't like reading books. I was often teased for being a bookworm and having my nose glued in a book every day.

I have been trying to encourage my deaf step son to read more...he's 15, but he's constantly refused and keeps on saying he hates to read. He has trouble with his english already and is always asking me what was said on tv and what it meant, etc etc.

Oh well...enuff said. *stepping off soapbox*

Goldie
 
*ouch* on the stepson refusing to read a book.


That why I keep a lot of books around the house and get little kids books for my daughter when she starts growing up and once she sees me nose in a book she be more likely to pick up a kiddie book and start looking at it but it has to be done early and most important...SLOW. then as she gets more older she might progress to more complex stuff (i.e. Harry Potter) and make it much easier by just let her watch what I do since kids learn a lot from seeing wot adults do.
 
Originally posted by sablescort
*ouch* on the stepson refusing to read a book.


That why I keep a lot of books around the house and get little kids books for my daughter when she starts growing up and once she sees me nose in a book she be more likely to pick up a kiddie book and start looking at it but it has to be done early and most important...SLOW. then as she gets more older she might progress to more complex stuff (i.e. Harry Potter) and make it much easier by just let her watch what I do since kids learn a lot from seeing wot adults do.
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Bingo...that's how I got into books....I grew up seeing my Mum sitting in the loungeroom (livingroom, that is) with her nose in a book. Picked up a book and was instantly hooked because I found a way out of the real world into a world of fantasy. :) It was a great getaway whenever I felt stressed.

Goldie
 
My favourite author changes all the time as I discover new authors. John Grisham is my favourite, I loved the law stories he wrote, especially The Street Lawyer which shows humanity. J.K. Rowling is also good, there are just so many authors I like. However, one good book does not make an author good, which is why I try and read all the books I can by one author. My favourite science fiction author is Claire Carmichael.

Ziusudra
 
Originally posted by Ziusudra
My favourite author changes all the time as I discover new authors. John Grisham is my favourite, I loved the law stories he wrote, especially The Street Lawyer which shows humanity. J.K. Rowling is also good, there are just so many authors I like. However, one good book does not make an author good, which is why I try and read all the books I can by one author. My favourite science fiction author is Claire Carmichael.

Ziusudra
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Hey, yeah, you're right. I do try to read other authors' books if I find them interesting. I just remembered that I liked Alan Dean Foster's books -- science fiction. He's the one who started the 'Alien' craze years ago.
I tried reading Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.', but I didn't find it appealing. Hubby liked his books.

Goldie
 
*confused with different threads* i think books and author threads should be seperated...

i dont have any favorite author, but i do read the books. i like non fiction books better. i like reading harry potter books and tom clancy's books. :)

a current book i read is "climbing free" by lynn hill & greg child and
the last book i read was "Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climber's Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia" by greg child.
 
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Originally posted by deafclimber
*confused with different threads* i think books and author threads should be seperated...

i dont have any favorite author, but i do read the books. i like non fiction books better. i like reading harry potter books and tom clancy's books. :)

a current book i read is "climbing free" by lynn hill & greg child and
the last book i read was "Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climber's Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia" by greg child.
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I like reading non-fiction and biographies, too. I especially liked the book by Anne Frank when she was writing in her diary during WW2 -- venting how she was feeling and what was happening around her in the Annex. Very emotional and sad.

Goldie
 
Whoa. People who actually read. Not quite my taste in books, but hey, its literature!

Orson Scott Card
J.D Salinger

These two authors have probably written the most memoriable books that I have ever read. No, I am not saying that they are my favorite authors, because I, in fact, have no favorites. I merely have favorite books.

I don't read books based on authors, in fact, I tend to get bored with an authors writing style rather quickly. Things become predictable, and therefore, not as good as they should be.

I simply pick books with a good reputation behind them, things I've heard from friends, rather than critics.
 
I know I'm double posting. Blow me.

I didn't even mention the book's that I particuarly enjoyed by these two authors.

Orson Scott Card -- Enders Game. By far my favorite book of the series, though the rest of the series is great as well. If you care to give it a try, read Enders Game first, then read the parallel novel, Enders Shadow. These two Sci-Fi books can be read and enjoyed by anyone -- even people who don't enjoy sci-fi. If you do like sci-fi, however, go grab the rest of the series while you're at it.

J.D Salinger goes -- if you don't know the book I'm refering to, you need to stop smoking pot. Catcher in the Rye, of course. A classic. Nothing bad can be said about this book.

On a side note, I just though of another great book that many of you may enjoy. I'm not sure of the author, but the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is fantastic. The movie was good, I suppose, but the literature version -- a classic. Well, maybe not that far. . . but close!
 
Originally posted by Xero

Orson Scott Card -- Enders Game. By far my favorite book of the series, though the rest of the series is great as well. If you care to give it a try, read Enders Game first, then read the parallel novel, Enders Shadow. These two Sci-Fi books can be read and enjoyed by anyone -- even people who don't enjoy sci-fi. If you do like sci-fi, however, go grab the rest of the series while you're at it.

J.D Salinger goes -- if you don't know the book I'm refering to, you need to stop smoking pot. Catcher in the Rye, of course. A classic. Nothing bad can be said about this book.
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Orson Scott Card's works i dont particularly like too much as its not my type of genre -- i have read "Enders Game" and found it quite boring :zzz:

J D Salinger is by far one of the best classic novelists -- and yes ive read his work of "Catcher in the Rye" and of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" -- i thought those works are quite compelling -- read them quite some time ago -- unfortunately those authors is banned in schools along with quite a few works of other classic novelists due to racial words, sexuality, drug use and etc

what abt the works of Samuel Clemens better known as Mark Twain qq i thought his work was quite compelling as well -- 1 being "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" among others -- a total classic! i remmy i read the works of Mark Twain when i was much younger :thumb:
 
I love reading historical fiction too.

I read Rutherfurd's London, Sarum and the Forest. Will read Russka one day.

John Jakes, love his North and South trilogy and Kent Family Chronicles.

Anya Seton, she wrote The Winthrop Woman, based on my New England ancestor, Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallet. It was strange reading a novel about my gggggggg grandmother.

Now reading Ahab's Wife or, The Star Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund.

Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River, about a dwarf growing up in a small town in Germany from 1910s to 1950s. VERY GOOD. One of Oprah's books


Originally posted by sablescort

Edit: I forgot to add a few more authors that rocks when it comes to HISTORICAL FICTION:

1) John Jakes the guy who wrote the North and South books that started off the North and South miniseries on TV in 86.
2) Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles
3) Lord Archer again with "As the Crow Flies", "Kane and Abel" and "The Fourth Estate"
4) Edward Rutherfurd's London book that chronicles London from the Roman times to 1997
5) Pat Conroy's "The Lords of Discipline" Its a story of senior year at a military college that is like the Citadel in Charleston, SC during 1962
6) a Tom Clancy surprise departure from the 1980s-2000s when he wrote "Without Remorse" telling the story of the 2nd most popular Clancy character Mr. Clark and how he came to his CIA job during 1972.
7) ALL the James Michener novels especially my all time fave Michener "Chesapeake"
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Originally posted by Fly Free
J D Salinger is by far one of the best classic novelists -- and yes ive read his work of "Catcher in the Rye" and of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" -- i thought those works are quite compelling -- read them quite some time ago -- unfortunately those authors is banned in schools along with quite a few works of other classic novelists due to racial words, sexuality, drug use and etc
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Not at my high school, they still have it.
 
I forgot a few others that I liked reading....Marion Zimmer Bradley's series that started with 'Mists of Avalon' -- women (priestesses) during the reign of King Arthur of Camelot, very intense read!
Another, I cannot recall the names of the writers, but the stories were true - one was 'Alive' - about an Argentinan Rugby team in a 1972 plane crash in the Himalyan Alps in Argentina and cannibalism. (It was made into a movie as well) and '83 Hours Til Dawn' about the kidnap and live burial of Barbara Jane Mackle, a millionaire's daughter's kidnapped for ransom in the early '60's.

Goldie
 
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I like Todd McFarlane and Stan Lee's stories...

McFarlane is the infamous creator of the Spawn comics...he writes and draw comics...

and I thought that Stan Lee can draw too but somebody told me that he's just a writer anyway...so he was famous for many stories on Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, and many more
 
Originally posted by Psycrow
Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk...and too many more.

I'm a frigging bookworm. :D [/B]
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Kindred soul! :cool:

Neil Gaiman is my most favorite author. Ever. I consider his Sandman series one of the most intelligent comic series out there. In fact, it's, kind of, my "bible." Have you read his other books such as Stardust, Smoke and Mirrors, and American Gods?

C. Palahniuk is, for lack of a better word, cool. Haven't read his other novels aside from Fight Club, though. Are they good? Which one would you recommend?

Haruki Murakami of "Sputnik Sweetheart" and "A Wild Sheep Chase" fame is another favorite. As far as I know, he's the most popular Japanese writer whose works have been translated to English (aside from Kensaburo Oe(sp?)).

Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged) is a very compelling writer. I would recommend her works only to those who are emotionally and philosophically mature though. Coming from personal experience, reading her books while you're still young and impressionable will warp your thinking about human relationships.

J.D. Salinger is a very funny writer. He's, like, the literary equivalent of Woody Allen.

And lastly, Anne Rice. *blush* Her books, along with John Grisham's, are classified under "Guilty Pleasure."

Oy vey, am I getting too long-winded? :crazy:
 
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*shudders shakly* i hated to hear the last name of Mcfarland or mcfarlane. its annoying for me to think like that.


btw, my fav author would be.. Terry McMillan or Nora Roberts.
 
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