Favourite Authors

cookiecutter said:
I have a problem reading a book in which much of the female characters' time is taken up with worrying about their dress and how "proper" it looks. It's boring and annoying. It's not like you are seeing cleavage.
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so if it was a movie or a graphic novel then you wouldn't have a problem with it :lol:
 
Neal Stephenson
Joseph Heller
Charles Bukowski
D.B.C. Pierre
China Miéville
Clive Barker
Stephen King
 
I loved the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman, I think there is a film of the 1st book soon to be released. Also reading the Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) currently (Found it got a little dry around book 5 so I took a break). Bernard Cornwell is a hell of a writer, I love the Sharpe Stories and all his other books. George Orwell is also one of my favourites, Nineteen-Eighty-Four had a big impact on me, as did Lord of The Flies by William Golding.
 
Sabin Frost said:
Referring to fictional novels here, not poets, political and non-fictional writers.

As much as people hate him for Scientology (rightfully so) I like L. Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth is a masterpiece (the movie as opposed is a load of shit).

I like a lot of science fiction, Issac Assamov would be up there as one of my all time favourite authors, Shirow Masamune is another favourite science fiction writer of mine.

From a fantasy pov, I hold Eddings and Rowling in high regard, I dont mind a lot of Raymond E. Fiest or the assorted authors that write for Games Workshop's black library and wizards forgotten realms based novels. My favourite author however is Robert Jordan, the Wheel of Time has got to be my favourite series of books, one of the greatest series ever written imo, utterly epic and as detailed and complex as Tolkein.
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I am not that well read but yes I like Issac Assamov and some of his essays. So far, I like George Orwell the best and a Japanese writer named Shiba Ryotaro around second.
 
Hatebreeder said:
I've only read Robot Visions and the first Foundation novel by Asimov, but I find him to be quite an amazing writer. He makes complex, fantastic scientific concepts into something that even the most uninformed reader could grasp. I wish I could say the same about other sci-fi writers. :erk:
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He is truely legendary, he is to sci-fi like Tolkein is to fantasy, I recommend I-Robot, it is nothing like the movie, dont worry, it is just a very influential and important book from a historical perspective.
 
Fuck Ayn Rand. And fuck JK Rowling, since I saw her listed back in 1. Grown adults in costumes obsessing over children's books? Fuck me.

William S. Burroughs
Kurt Vonnegut
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Franz Kafka
Albert Camus
Jean Paul Satre
Leo Tolstoy
Sam Delany
George Orwell
BF Skinner
James Joyce
Philip K. Dick
William Faulkner
Salman Rushdie
 
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