Read books? Who's your fav authors?

[xenophobe]

My favorite authors right now:

Hunter S. Thompson
H.P. Lovecraft
Notable authors:

Douglas Adams (rip)
Harry Harrison
Frank Herbert
Steve Martin (cruel shoes)
Laura and Tracy Hickman (original Dragonlance trilogy)

And yours?

 

[Kveldssanger]

Books are along with music my favorite occupations, although I've not been paying a lot of attention to my book collection lately.

Favorite authors?

William Blake
Charles Baudelaire
Terry Pratchett
William Shakespeare
T. S. Elliot
and quite a few others (been trying to get into William Burroughs lately but his style is a bit strange...)

 

[Parasite]

Poppy Z. Brite

 

[Voice of God]

Right now I'm reading:
Orson Scott Card - Alvin Journeyman
Dan Simmons - Hyperion saga (2 books to go)

All-time favorites:
Tolkien
Stephen King (all the good books, not the crappy ones )
William Gibson
Neil Gaiman (if you count in graphic novels... his normal one wasn't so great, just good)

Good:
A.C.Clarke
Mika Waltari (though I've only read one of his, but that was great)
Jules Verne
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett

 

[Board]

I read a lot of books when I was younger, but I think I haven't read a book outside of school work since 8th or 9th grade, which is 5-6 years ago!
When I read books I read a lot of the Danish write Dennis Jürgensen. He writes both horror and comedy. His book called "Monsteret i kælderen" (translates to "The monster in the basement") is among the best books I have EVER read. I don't know if it's avaliable in English, but I doubt it.
Another one of my favorite books is Stephen King's "The dark half". Those two are the best books I've ever read.

 

[InFlames101]

James Joyce, Frederich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Jack Kerouac.

 

[MorbidKisses]

I haven't read many exceptional books. So, I'll have to go with my favorite books' authors: J.D. Salinger and William Golding.

Or Rebecca Wells, I love the Oprah Book Club !

 

[Tristessa]

@InFlames: Sublime choices!

 

[Ziller]

Gibson is. Is what, you ask? He just is, comes the answer.
Not far behind come the books of Iain M. Banks, and not just the SF stuff.

 

[parimal2k29]

Tom Clancy
Arthur Hailey
Steve Pieczenick
Steve Perry
Kim Stanley Robinson

 

[bonecraft7]

H.P. Lovecraft
Dean Koontz
Hemmingway

 

[Moonwitch]

I guess some of my favorites would be:
1. Hemmingway
2. Anne Rice
3. Shakespeare
4. Louie Amore

 

[NAD]

Tolkien and a bunch of political philosophy (Locke, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Nietzsche, etc.) I disagree whole-heartedly with Nietzsche, Marx, and the like, but they still are a blast to read. I read the Los Angeles Times as well, but I'm not sure if any of them count as authors.

 

[Board]

Steve Perry

Isn't that the guitar player from Journey or something?

 

[enitharmon]

Originally posted by ChokingParasite
Poppy Z. Brite

I have read the Lost Souls and A Beautiful Corpse from her.

Lost Souls I could read again, but not the Beautiful Corpse. That is too "weird" for me at the moment. But she really writes great!

 

[Parasite]

Yeah, Exquisite Corpse ( I knew what you mean ) Was a bit overdoing it on the brutal scale, but it wasn't thast bad.

Lost Souls is my favorite book ever.

 

[parimal2k29]

Originally posted by Board

Isn't that the guitar player from Journey or something?

Not this one... This one's a co-authored Net Force: Cybernation along with Pieczenik and Clancy.

 

[Sonnenritter]

1. Stephen King (can't wait for DT5 and DT6)
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. Karl Marx
4. Clive Cussler
5. Dante
6. Shakespeare

The Dark Tower series is by far the best work King has ever done. Perhaps even as great as Tolkien's trilogy, but.. maybe not.

 

[xenophobe]

Originally posted by Moonwitch
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4. Louie Amore [/B]

Really? I was given two books by him... they've been sitting for years. Haven't even read the teasers...

Cowboy stuff, eh?

 

[Jotun]

Stephen King
Anne Rice