Who are your favorite authors?

Nathanael · 10-19-2002, 06:49 PM

This is probably pretty close, but I keep forgetting things.

Robert Hienlien
Frank Herbert
Philip Dick
Ray Bradbury
William Gibson
Kurt Vonnegut
James Clavell
Michael Chrichton
John Douglas:kgrin:

barefooter · 10-21-2002, 06:31 PM

*ugh* Definately not Dickens.

Right now, it's James Herriot, but that's because I'm reading one of his books.

I'm also rather fond of Garrison Keillor.

everyman · 10-23-2002, 06:27 PM

Robert Penn Warren - Favorite book: "All the King's Men"
Fyodor Dostoesky - Favorite book: "Brothers Karamazov"
Gabriel Garcia Marques - Favorite book: "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
William Styron - "Sophie's Choice"
Dan Simmons - Favorite book: "The Crook Factory"
Michael Chabon - Favorite book: "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"
George Pelecanos (Mystery writer)
James Lee Burke (Mystery writer)
Philip Jose Farmer (SF writer) - Favorite book: "To Your Scattered Bodies Go"

A recent find is "Peace Like a River" by Leif Engel, who is a writer who happens to be a Christian, as opposed to a "Christian writer." Highly recommended.

**meatfinger** · 10-23-2002, 11:47 PM

Adding Dave Barry and Agatha Christie to my list.

elwing78 · 10-24-2002, 02:07 PM

My favorite authors are(in no particular order): J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, and the guys who wrote the Myst trilogy(Rand and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove).

YamahaFG180 · 10-24-2002, 06:45 PM

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My favorite authors are(in no particular order): J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, and the guys who wrote the Myst trilogy(Rand and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove).

oh gosh, I think I left Arthur Conan Doyle off of my list. I don't like Conan Doyle at all, but I absolutely love Holmes and Watson and the lesser characters. Conan Doyle did, in my opinion, a terrible job telling their stories. They deserved someone much better than ACD to chronicle those tales.

Scott · 10-25-2002, 02:01 PM

I'm restraining myself over that ACD comment....

emo_boy · 10-26-2002, 07:50 AM

Well, I like alot of diferent authors, but my top three are:
1. J.R.R Tolkien, This guy is SO imaginative. I mean, he made up his own language, world history, and geography.

2. louis l'amor. His books are just awesome. The Sackett series is esspecially good. I can't believe hardly anybody mentioned him.

3. Franklin W. Dixon. He wrote the Hardy boy's series. Great mysteries.

YamahaFG180 · 10-26-2002, 10:01 AM

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Originally posted by Scott
I'm restraining myself over that ACD comment....

why are you restraining yourself? You can say it.

**meatfinger** · 10-26-2002, 12:28 PM

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Originally posted by Dirt_Jumper
3. Franklin W. Dixon. He wrote the Hardy boy's series. Great mysteries.

YOu do know that he and Gertrude Chandler, the "lady" who wrote the Nancy Drew series, are one and the same person, right?

Nathanael · 10-26-2002, 12:59 PM

I thought it was a group of authors.

YamahaFG180 · 10-26-2002, 01:07 PM

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YOu do know that he and Gertrude Chandler, the "lady" who wrote the Nancy Drew series, are one and the same person, right?

Uh, Carolyn Keene wrote the Nancy Drew series.

Actually (I just looked it up because your statement piqued my curiousity), Edward Stratemeyer, the creator of the Hardy Boys and Bobbsey Twins, hired a journalist to write the Nancy Drew stories based on his outline. Then Stratemeyer died and his daughter took over and actually wrote some of the books. (From MysteryNet's Nancy Drew web site -- http://www.mysterynet.com/nancydrew/grownups/nancy/)

Well look, I've already learned something new today.

Scott · 10-26-2002, 08:15 PM

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why are you restraining yourself? You can say it.

Ok, you are officially insane.

I can't express in words how wrong you are

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**meatfinger** · 10-26-2002, 11:36 PM

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Originally posted by YamahaFG180
Uh, Carolyn Keene wrote the Nancy Drew series.

Actually (I just looked it up because your statement piqued my curiousity), Edward Stratemeyer, the creator of the Hardy Boys and Bobbsey Twins, hired a journalist to write the Nancy Drew stories based on his outline. Then Stratemeyer died and his daughter took over and actually wrote some of the books. (From MysteryNet's Nancy Drew web site -- http://www.mysterynet.com/nancydrew/grownups/nancy/)

Well look, I've already learned something new today.

All right, I'm trippin'. Who was Gertrude Chandler then? And you are right about the Carolyn Keene thing, and probably about the other stuff too. I'd heard that they were the same person, I wasn't sure. I was hesitent to even post it. And now I'm eating my own foot.

YamahaFG180 · 10-26-2002, 11:39 PM

Alright, about ACD, I was slightly joking. Maybe I should clarify myself. I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan, and in that sense I think ACD was wonderful. I love his writing style. Reading his writing makes me warm and peaceful inside. What I meant was that I'm irritated by his mistakes in the Sherlockian Canon. I think that he should have been much more careful in writing it, because the Holmes stories are so wonderful.

Do you see? I know, I know--it's horrible to joke on message boards if it's not completely obvious that you're not serious. Oh well.