What Writers do you like?

[tinmeigut]

I admit I don't read enough except for textbooks. Recently I fancy Tom Clancy. His books got easy vocab and exciting storylines. How about you guys?

[Mundane]

Robert Thurston. The Legend of the Jade Phoenix Trilogy was breathtaking.

K.A. Applegates's Everworld series was (in my opinion) excellent.

Brian Jacques. Loved Redwall as a kid, do now as well. The Angel's Command was also very well-written.

[Kaysow]

CS Lewis is great when he's doing non-fiction.
I also like BE Easton and Chuck Pahlaniuk. Among others.

[drinian]

I get the feeling I answered a similar thread about a year ago.

For some reason, I suffer under the delusion that I'm British, and as such am a fan of most of the usual authors, like C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, J.K. Rowling (she is a hack, though). Did read a lot of Brian Jacques when I was younger before I noticed that the plots of the newer Redwall books were becoming very similar.

Charles Dickens is a remarkable observer and lover of humanity, and conveys this in most of his novels.

More recently, Douglas Adams is of course in the "must-read" category, and his old friend Richard Dawkins also does some excellent non-fiction, although he can be quite arrogant.

Dante has a special place in my library, but his Commedia is best read under the tutelage of an excellent teacher like I had at the time.

As far as science fiction goes, I'd like to read more P.K. Dick and revisit some old friends like Ray Bradbury and Issac Asimov, if I can find the time.

Right now I'm reading The Cunning of Unreason by John Dunn. It's the first book I've read in a while that has been written so well and using such deftly complicated sentence constructions that it challenges my reading ability. Unfortunately, his eloquence lets him get away with questionable holes of logic in his arguments.

I could go on, but I won't.

[master0rolando]

i dont remember tha name of the author but...Artimes Fowl was a really cool book series...Tolkien i likes....

i remember that for the past two years of high school no one in my English class gets sheakspeare...(spelled wrong)...so i gotta stand in front and translate... :roll:

[Hunter21]

I get the feeling I answered a similar thread about a year ago.

Same here but I can't find where.
But Authors I like are Tolkien, Neil Gaimen, and Homer.

[Faußtin]

Well, I like many, but to mention someone who wasn't and you know that guy, I'd say Mark Twain. His "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arhtur's Court" was hilarious and quite memorable.

[drinian]

i remember that for the past two years of high school no one in my English class gets sheakspeare...(spelled wrong)...so i gotta stand in front and translate... :roll:

I've always found Shakespeare to be a lot more comprehensible/enjoyable when it's being acted out... it's unfortunate that this often isn't the case. Did a couple of Shakespeare productions in early high school.

[Ornette]

Unix Network Programming, by W. Richard Stevens

best book ever written. I own every edition and have a first edition signed by Stevens himself.

[Kaysow]

I have a "Teach Yourself Unix"-book at my place. I never did teach myself Unix, tho.

[Mr. Tines]

I read mainly hard SF; and there are a number of authors who I liked in the day, but they seem to have rather gone off the boil in later years, where it would be a case of having to hand-pick individual recommended books

If I had to name a favourite author it would have to be Vernor Vinge, who has just been getting better and better - do grab his new novel, Rainbows End.

@tinmeigut - for you, I'd recommend Glen Cook's Black Company series : it's in its own little military fantasy genre (and about the only fantasy I've read in the last 20-odd years).

[Ripple_in_Eternity]

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[Titus]

No1 that actually writes shit I have to read....

8)

[BobBQ]

Did read a lot of Brian Jacques when I was younger before I noticed that the plots of the newer Redwall books were becoming very similar.

My brother says the same thing.

For my part, I read a lot of Robert Heinlein, William Gibson, Stephen Jay Gould, Arthur Clarke and Douglas Adams.

[Ornette]

http://www.etni.org.il/farside/analogies.htm

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

I can't believe this sentence was ever written. Simply brilliant.

[Legend of the Past]

Pratchett was nice-The Discworld books were pretty nice. Also I enjoyed Bulgakov-maybe it's my russian side and my partial understanding of the humour, but I REALLY liked The Master and Margarita. For horror, I liked King. And for sci-fi, I've enjoyed some of Card's books, namely Ender's Game.

[Shnooks]

Tess Gerritson does great murder mysteries (not for people with a weak stomach. They're pretty greusome).

Also, Anthony Bourdain has two good books on the 'underbelly' of the resturant world. Its pretty neat

[ice reaper]

Andy McNab is my author of choice at the moment: anyone who manages to survive being in the SAS and then writes about it has my full and undivided attention. his best seller The Agressor was a particular joy to read and gave me some good influence on my own writing style. Mark Twaine - in my eyes - is the writer i compare to most. not that i'm saying i'm as good as him, but i like to portray true human nature and the darkness it entails blah blah blah. his The Mysterious Stranger was a classic as far as i'm concerned.

yeah, i write.