Favorite authors. Does anybody read anymore?

[Irelandunfree]

Bill O'Reilly

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Orson Scott Card - I've read most of his stuff. Finish Alvin Maker already dagnabitt!!!! Ender movie in progress, he's writing the script.

Ray Bradbury - Writes all over the place.

David Webber - Gotta love the Honor Harrington series.

Harry Turtledove - Fun ways to look at history. In the middle of the World at War series. He's got some strange fasination with weird sex IMO.

Eric Flint - Ok so he doesn't do alot of solo writing recently, but he's been doing some really good co-operative works with other BAEN authors.

William Gibson - very hard to read, but worth the efford. Pattern Recognition was nice.


I realize that there are other authors who are more famus, but this is the group I like to read.

[spantol]

You can't go wrong with Douglas Adams.

Chuck Palahniuk is thirty-one flavors of awesome, too. Start with Survivor, even if you're a big fan of the Fight Club movie.

I'll second Frank Herbert (there's tons beyond Dune), but stay as far away from anything written by his son as possible.

[Jeffy-CanCon]

Douglas Adams is funny. As are Terry Pratchett and Tom Holt.

Contemporary writers, I like Neil Gaiman, WEB Griffin (cookie-cutter characters, though), Tom Clancy (earlier stuff, mostly) and Will Ferguson. Mario Puzo, excellent. I confess to having read a lot of Clive Cussler when I was younger, and liking it, but it is empty fluff. I have read a lot of Turtledove, and enjoyed it, too, but I found that his series go on too long. Still, he does the best alternate history out there.

Heinlein and Asimov are the kings of classic sci-fi, IMO. H Beam Piper is also worth tracking down(esp. the Lord Kalvan stuff), and Fred Sabrehagen's earlier 'Berserker' books. Frank Herbert is good, too.

Lois McMaster Bujold has a sci-fi series I like with a unique hero - Miles VorKosigan. Laurell K Hamilton two vampire & fairie series are also good, though they get a bit racy at times.

John Grisham writes good stuff, but the other authors of legal thrillers I have read are garbage. My friend keeps foisting them on me to try, and while soem of them can tel a good story, they don't know how to end it - like they just stop because they've hit a magic number of pages.

Oh yeah, and Farley Mowatt. Excellent storyteller, and an artist with prose imagery. The last chapter of "The Dog Who Wouldn't Be" still brings tears to my eyes twenty years after I first read it.

[chairman_mao]

Tom Robbins (no not Susan Surandan's husband he's Tim)
Mil Millington
Douglas Adams (RIP)
Hunter Thompson
Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Ludlum
All are authors I enjoy.

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Lois McMaster Bujold has a sci-fi series I like with a unique hero - Miles VorKosigan. Laurell K Hamilton two vampire & fairie series are also good, though they get a bit racy at times.

What is all out for that. I think I have the first 2 two book compilations. Young Miles and something else, I forget which.

[MarkM]

Harry Turtledove - Fun ways to look at history. In the middle of the World at War series. He's got some strange fasination with weird sex IMO.

I assume you mean that you are currently reading the World War series...I have those to start on and as for the sex comment...might well be true in that series as aliens and humans will make for strange bedfellows. In his other series the sex is quite normal and very restrained in some cases and never last more than a page not even a paragraph most of the time.

[SlipknotX556]

I dont read anything unless I have a book to read in school. I dont see any point to read a book outside of the class enviorment.

But I do like John Steinback(sp?) He published Of Mice And Men, very good book.

[dirty_canadian4894]

my favorites are robert jordan and terry goodkind great authors but theyre kinda new. i also like william c. dietz(sp) and all of the authors you guys listed

[Demobilized]

Card

One of those authors you can just shut down and enjoy.

[Eagle]

Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, Dan Brown, Tim Lahey, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan)

[SniperSmurf]

I'll second Frank Herbert (there's tons beyond Dune), but stay as far away from anything written by his son as possible.

Thank you so much! I couldn't have said it better myself. I get irritated when people say they're huge Herbert fans, and come to find out that they've only read Dune (or worse yet, only seen the movie)! Now, I did love about the first 4 Dune books, but there's just soooo much more to enjoy.

Also, I did neglect to include Asimov and Bradbury, which you guys have mentioned. I enjoy them very much as well.

[The Action Figure]

Avisimo, Grishim

[sharpshooter1286]

matthew reilly, j.k. rowling are my favorites.

[Maksimus54]

I cant believe I left out Lois McMaster Bujold, her vorkosigan series is one if not the best sci-fi i have read. I love her work.