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So we have a thread about dreadful authors how about authors that write books you like?

Jim Butcher is writing a series on wizardry with the main character being a wizard/PI in modern day Chicago. I would say it's like Harry Potter and CSI combined but the detail and nuances put into the powers that be are much more complex and entertaining as the main character has a bull in china shop mentality at times.

He writes another series that's a fantasy but I haven't read any of em.

How 'bout you?
 
Paulo Coelho
Haruki Murakami
Ian M. Banks
Frank Hurbert
Rawi Hage

...and various others that I'll add when I remember them *goes to check her library*
 
Oh, Kav, riding on my coattails XD

Anyway, I have a very long list of favorite authors. I really like Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus), Shakespeare on some occasions, Gaston Leroux, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... I don't feel like listing off everyone (sorry, Authors, I love you all!) but those are the ones I most recently read.

Note: I'm also too lazy to elaborate on WHY I like them XD
 
love jean plaidy. phillippa gregory, although some of her stuff is very over the top fluffy. stephen king's a classic. jeffery deaver. terry pratchett.
 
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This is also Chaz's response.
 
Yes I should note that one author I've been rereading the series to date so I'm a little predisposed to talk about it.

Stephen King is another that I really like to read
Dan Brown, but his first(angels and demons) was the best and have refrained from the most recent for this reason that Da Vinci Code was so-so.
Steinbeck's shorter stories and novels I thought were decent the long ones killed me
F. Scott Fitzgerald was good as well

There have been several other no name books I've read in passing that were good but can't remember the author. I've been told Terry Goodkind is a good read but haven't gotten around to him yet.
 
Oh, and Frank Herbert of Course (DUNE)
 
Margaret Atwood
Yvegeny Zamyatin
J. G. Ballard
Douglas Hofstadter
Jorge Luis Borges
Willa Cather
Italo Calvino
Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
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So, Stephanie Meyer, then? XD just kidding.
 
Almost all books written by Roy Porter and Richard Fortey (all nonfictions).
I rarely read fiction anymore. I love works by old school authors like Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo, Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Robert L Stevenson, King, Crichton etc. Most of the authors I listed are dead though...
 
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From the literature i had to read in school, i actually enjoyed reading Maggie Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane and The Pearl.
 
Vonnegut is by far my favorite. Kerouac is up there as well.
 
J.R.R Tolkien
Eckhart Tolle
Thich Nhat Hanh
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'll come back to this hehe
 
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Jim Butcher is writing a series on wizardry with the main character being a wizard/PI in modern day Chicago.
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The Dresden Files, you mean? His Codex Alera series is pretty good too. It's a fantasy series set in a much more medieval time.

To answer your question:

Haruki Murakami
Kurt Vonnegut
William Gibson
Neil Gaiman
Palahniuk
Foucault
Nietzsche
 
Favorite dead author - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (esp. The Brothers Karamozov)

Favorite live author - John Irving (esp. The Cider House Rules)

Lots of others I like, but those are my two serious favs. I like to read King and Koontz for a good morality play, and loved Anne Rice's older stuff.



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I have a host of favorites, and I'll probably miss some.

John Le Carre
Kurt Vonnegut
Neil Gaiman (his books over his comics, go figure)
James Herriot
Robert Goddard
Larry McMurtry
John Irving
Anne Tyler
DH Lawrence
Evelyn Waugh
Octavia Butler
Orson Scott Card
Tad Williams
Ray Bradbury
Harlan Ellison
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allen Poe

Aaand...I know I'm missing many, many more. My childhood was spent in libraries, reading crazy books. :D
 
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This is also Chaz's response.
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In no particular order:

Italo Calvino
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Osamu Dazai
Edgar Allan Poe
Graham Greene
Haruki Murakami
Philip K Dick
Jostein Gaarder
Natsume Soseki
Agatha Christie
Roald Dahl
Kurt Vonnegut
GK Chesterton
Maurice Leblanc
Robert Graves
Pearl S Buck
Oscar Wilde
Daniel Handler
William Shakespeare

I can't think of anymore, but I probably missed some.
 
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