Who is your most faviorate author of all time?

Since I can't pick just one, in no order are some favorites:

Bukowski
Camus
Steinbeck
Nabokov
Wilde
Dickens
Emerson
Blake

Well, I consider myself to be well read and I love poetry.

Here's my current favourites.

My current read (and bloody good too) - Congo Blue by Mike Lunnon-Wood

For general fiction, odd and comic - Jodi Taylor, Karen Maitland, Nevil Shute and Elizabeth Gilbert
For Science Fiction - Alastair Reynolds, Peter F Hamilton and Iain M Banks
For Fantasy - Joe Abercrombie and Patrick Rothfuss
For history spanning epics - Ken Follett
For crime - Jussi Adler-Olsen

For amazing plays to watch - Shakespear, of course

a reply to: angeldoll

Yeah, Borges just has an old world gentlemanly style and intelligence and makes me feel ...er, connected. Virginia Wolf.. .yeah, been so long since I read anything of hers it'll almost be like reading it anew. Thanks.

Just remembered another couple fav female authors ... Dorothy Parker and Carson Mccullers. Of course there's the one hit wonder, Harper Lee, but everyone loves her!

Richard K Morgan is top 3 if not 1.


a reply to: paraphi

Alistair is quite good I agree. Space Opera if I remember correctly? I think you will like RKM, his Altered Carbon series is amazing. I've read his entire body of work 4 times now.

a reply to: Liquesence

And that is a lovely list... brings me back to English 102! So many great books... so little time. Might want to add Burroughs to it (William, not Edgar Rice, heh, though I devoured ERB when a kid, though even then could see the plot holes, heh).

Tolkien definitely

All time ever is Arthur C Clarke!

Some more favourites are Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and for some action/adventure I've not minded a bit of James Rollins.

For a bit of cheese, I've adored Philippa Gregory, Diana Gabaldon (terrible writing style but brilliant characters), Ken Follett, GRRM, Bryce Courtenay...

BOOKS! MOST BOOKS!

ALL THE BOOKS!


ETA: Forgot to add C.S. Lewis in there, mostly for his sci fi, less for fantasy, but I loved the Narnia series too of course