Who are your Favorite authors (excluding pTerry)?

Discussion in 'BOARDANIA' started by QuothTheRaven, Aug 31, 2005.

  1. QuothTheRaven

    QuothTheRaven New Member

    Mine are:
    Neil Gaimen
    Gene Wolf
    Christopher Moore
    Neal Stephenson
    William Shakespere
    Douglas Adams
    John Steinbeck
    Tad Williams
    Lemeny Snicket
    Jim Butcher

    (Edit: to add a few that i forgot.)
     
  2. mowgli

    mowgli New Member

    ::deep breath:: Douglas Adams, Tom Robbins, Gregory Maguire, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Madeline L'Engle, Elizabeth Peters, O'Henry ::another deep breath:: Dina Rubina, Tatyana Tolstaya, Strugatskiye, Bulgakov, Omar Khayam ::phew::
     
  3. QuothTheRaven

    QuothTheRaven New Member

    How the hell could i forget shakespere?
    For that matter, how could i forget douglas adams?
     
  4. mowgli

    mowgli New Member

    :) How the hell could I forget John Steinbeck?
     
  5. Kat_in_the_Hat

    Kat_in_the_Hat New Member

    Douglas Adams, Tom Holt, Anne McCaffery, J. K. Rowling, George M. Martin, Robin Hobb, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks
     
  6. Victimov8

    Victimov8 New Member

    Tom Holt
    Robert Rankin
    James Bibby
    Colin Bateman
    Douglas Lindsay
    Bruce Bethke
    Douglas Adams
    Neal Asher
    Richard Morgan
    James Herbert
    Brian Lumley
    Shaun Hutson

    I could go on... :oops:
    It varies day to day
    Due to my odd reading habits, I could sometimes put in JKRowling
    Today, however is not one of those days :?
     
  7. Cynical_Youth

    Cynical_Youth New Member

    Philip Roth
    Milan Kundera
    Wilfred Owen
    Franz Kafka
     
  8. hermes

    hermes New Member

    To limit myself, Italo Calvino and Haruki Murakami. George Orwell and Neil Gaiman would be close in the lists.
     
  9. Marcia

    Marcia Executive Onion

    Not very good at favorites, but some might be:

    William Blake
    Philip K. Dick
    Douglas Adams
    Stephen Jay Gould
     
  10. Nester

    Nester New Member

    Neil Gaiman
    Michael Stackpole
    Terry Goodkind
    Bernard Cornwell
    wow...sometimes I forget I'm a nerd and something like this comes up and reminds me :D
     
  11. Ivan_the_terrible

    Ivan_the_terrible New Member

    Well, here they go:

    Juliam Barnes,
    Mihail Bulgakov,
    Evelyn Waugh,
    Pushkin,
    Chehov,
    Bredbury,
    Asimov,
    Shekley,
    Strugatskiy brothers,
    Yuriy Andruhovich,
    Umberto Eko,
    Milan Kundera,
    Yaroslav Hashek,
    Nabokov,
    Bunin,
    Pasternak,
    Blake.
     
  12. ArthurDent

    ArthurDent New Member

    Stephen King
    Neil Gaiman
    Douglas Adams
    Ray Bradbury
    Dave Barry
     
  13. Mimiru

    Mimiru New Member

    Let's see...

    Douglas Adams
    Nick Sagan
    J K Rowling
    Lian Hearn

    Those are the ones I can think of from the top of my head. I'd do better, but that would require me to actually sit down and think about this.
     
  14. Saccharissa

    Saccharissa Stitcher

    Tom Holt
    Tom Robbins
    Jane Austen
    Eoin Colfer
    Irvin Yalom (salutes)
    Dave Barry

    Nikos Tsiforos
    Bost
    Petros Markaris
     
  15. Mady

    Mady New Member

    here the list goes:

    Neil Gaiman
    Douglas Adams
    Orson Scott Card
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    Anne Mcaffery
    Terry Brooks
    Connie Willis
    Ray Bradbury
    George Mcguire
    Kage Baker
    Shakespeare
    Tolkien (of course)
    C.S. Lewis

    yeah, well... I read alot
     
  16. Ecksian

    Ecksian New Member

    There are several authors out there I enjoy reading, some of them are,

    Douglas Adams
    Anne McCaffery
    J. K. Rowling
    Brian Lumley
    C.S. Lewis
    L. Ron Hubbard
    Traci Harding

    But as far as 'favorite' authors, I only have one other than Pratcho.

    R.A. Salvatore
     
  17. jaccairn

    jaccairn New Member

    I like

    David Gemmell
    David Eddings
    Anne McCaffrey
    Robin McKinley
    Barry Hughart
    J R R Tolkien
    Neil Gaiman
    Roger Taylor
    Alan Dean Foster
    and others
     
  18. redneck

    redneck New Member

    Neil Gaiman
    Douglas Adams
    Orson Scott Card
    Terry Brooks
    Ray Bradbury
    Shakespeare
    Tolkien (of course)
    C.S. Lewis
    C.S. Forrester
    Richard Adams
    Dir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Mercedes Lackey
    Rodon R. Dickson
    Ian Irvine
    Christopher Moore
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Quoth, have you read Fluke or Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore?
     
  19. QuothTheRaven

    QuothTheRaven New Member

    I have read all of his novels.
     
  20. TamyraMcG

    TamyraMcG Active Member

    Larry McMurtry
    John Irving
    Anne McCaffrey
    Madeleine L'Engel
    Margot Benary-Isbert
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    Robert Heinlein
    Isaac Asimov
    Tom Clancy
    Tom Robbins
    Tom Wolfe
    David Weber
    Eric Flint
    Mercedes Lackey
    Elizabeth Moon
    Roger Zelazny
    Joan Aiken
    Jean Auel
    Anya Seton
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Rose Wilder Lane
    Beverly Lewis
    Andrew Greeley
    Jon Hassler
    Will Weaver
    Alan Dean Foster
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Arthur C. Clarke
    Piers Anthony
    Alice Walker
    Keith Laumer
    Larry Niven
    Jerry Pournelle
    Harry Harrison
    Fanny Flagg
    James Michener
    Helen Hooven Santmeyer
    Amy Tan
    Rumer Godden
    John Varley
    Maya Angelou
    Margaret Mead
    Farley Mowat
    Douglas Adams
    Phillip Jose Farmer
    J.K. Rowling
    C.S. Lewis
    T.E. White
    Judy Blume
    Erica Jong
    Dr. Suess
    :shock: :lol:
    [/list]
     
  21. Mady

    Mady New Member

    I thought I read alot.
     
  22. TamyraMcG

    TamyraMcG Active Member

    Well I did have 30 years head start.
     

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