Who is your best author and what is the best book you ever read?

Answer 1

Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

Answer 2

Somerset Maugham, Charles Dickens, Robert Penn Warren, E.L. Docktorow, William Thackery, Emily Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John le Carre, George Eliot, Pat Conroy, Anita Shreve, Fyodor Dostoevsky and John Steinbeck.
Excellent books; Steinbeck's East of Eden
Pat Conroy's Beach Music
Dicken's Great Expectations
George Eliot's Adam Bede and Silas Marner
E. L. Doctorow's Waterworks and Billy Bathgate
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Notes From the Underground

...and I could go on...:-)

Answer 3

It's awfully hard to pick one. My favorite would probably be JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, I've read it at least 10-12 times. Moonheart, by Charles de Lint, though I've read and liked most of his work.
The Dragonrider series by Anne McCaffrey
Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Harry Potter books by JK Rowling
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,
also, many of RAH's other books as well

Answer 4

Hands down David Sedaris is the best author. The best book I have ever read, Naked, Ishmael, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Answer 5

Hard to pick out just one.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.The hero is Edmond Dantés, a young French sailor who, falsely accused of treason, is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of Château d'If. After staging a dramatic escape he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dantés, believing himself to be an `Angel of Providence', pursuing his vengeance
to the bitter end before realizing that he himself is a victim of fate.The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.For God's sake don't see any of the movies based on the book.They don't do justice to the book.

Answer 6

My favorite author's are Alice Walker-More for "Grange Copeland" than "Color Purple". I also love "Sula" by Toni Morrison. However if you are in the mood for something lighter and more contemporary a book that I can't get out of my mind is by Tama Janowitz called "That Certain Age"- it's totally readable and fun but with enormous social implications should you choose to analyze it as a work of literature.
Happy reading!

Answer 7

Hands down - The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad....if ya can't read the book, watch Apocalypse Now - based on the book, but in a Vietnam setting

Answer 8

Tuesdays With Morrie was great. So was The Notebook.
but the best book I ever read was Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams. It is the first book of a trilogy. I have never laughed so much in my life. m

Answer 9

My favorite author is Isaac Asimov for both fiction and non-fiction. However my favorite book is a toss-up between Dune by Frank Herbert and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

Answer 10

Um...My favourite book is Elf Queen of Shannara, by Terry Brooks. I don't really have one favourite author though, so here's a list of authors and my favourite books/series written by them. =)

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl, Supernaturalist
O.R. Melling - Chronicles of Faerie
J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Terry Brooks - Heritage of Shannara
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow
Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code

Answer 11

I liked a lot Harry Potter books, and J. K Rowling is a great author! She knows how to capt the attention of the reader, don't u think?