Who is your favorite author?

Question

Mine is Stephen King as he has got such a vivid imagination. I also love his movies.

There have been such a wide range of answers to this question that truly surprises me. I want to thank you all for all of the wonderful comments as it has given me some great ideas to try new authors.

I have read one Dean Koontz's books, but can not remember the name of it; I thought that it was terrific.

Answer 1

Orson Scott Card.

Answer 2

This changes A LOT! Here's a list:

Anne McCaffrey

Mercedes Lackey

Christopher Stasheff

The Brontes

Mark Twain

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Louis Stevenson

Edgar Allen Poe

Willa Cather

Charles Dickens

Shakespeare (yes, Shakespeare)

Agatha Christie

CS Lewis

Jean Auel

Victor Hugo

Can you tell I'm into literature? Also, Susan Monk Kidd is very good.

Answer 3

I love to read and could never pick on author as a favorite. To mention a few, I like,

Stephen White Elizabeth George
Minnette Walters Johnathan Kellerman
Faye Kellerman Michael Palmer
Robin Cook Lawrence Block
Carl Hiassen Catherine Coulter

And Many Many More!!!

Answer 4

Hermann Hesse for 'Steppenwolf', 'Demian', 'Sidharta', 'Knulp' and all the other wonderful books, a really spectacular writer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for 'The Sorrows of Young Werther', a book that charmed me when i was a little teen girl and that i simply don't want to read now as i know it wouldn't leave me the same impression now; and of course for 'Faust', the greatest book ever written, and for including the most amazing character among all the worlds literature of all times — Mefistofel.

Fiodor Dostoevsky for 'The Idiot', 'The Kamarazov Brothers' and 'The Crime and Punishment', the greatest Russian literature monuments.

Edgar Allan Poe and Anton Chekhov for the most amazing short stories ever.

Freud for the 'Interpretations of Dreams' and any other wonderful work on psychoanalysis.

Gabriel Garzia Marquez for 'One Hundred Years of Loneliness', hoping the other books will be as good as this one.

Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas for 'Altorių Šešėly', the book that could have been a worldwide known literature masterpiece if not the soviet literature censorship.

Michail Bulgakov for 'The Master and Margarita', the hugest literature work i know [3 plots, around 500 characters], having the best portrait of devil and also the book, which helped me to put my point of view about religion in words.

Deitel for JAVA How To Program because i wouldn't have survive in computer science without it.

Samuel Beckett for 'Not I', the play that i dream to read in an expressive reading contest, someday..

Pablo Neruda for the most magnificent poems.

My friend Aivaras for his special prose - you could f***** do great in literature if you wouldn't be a doc!

And that's all i remember now..

Answer 5

If you like King you should defenitely try Dean Koontz.

The door to december by Dean Koontz.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.

Read both Odd thomas and Forever odd by Dean Thomas.These books are about Odd Thomas who see dead people and is compelled to solve crimes.

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters - vampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Another supernatural detective series is Nightside book series by Simon R.Green.John Taylor, the main character, is a private eye specializing in finding things. He literally has a private eye, one he can open and find anything. This power only works in the nightside, but anytime he opens it, his enemies (and he does not know who they are, but they have been hunting him since he was young) pick up on his presence like his gift is a homing devise. He as quite a reputation, some of which is true, some not and it gets him into trouble, or sometimes out of it, but it is the fact that some of it has nothing to do with him so much as that he is his mother's son. A mother he never knew and no one will tell him about. One big case is covered in each book, but underlying tensions build up higher and higher running through out the series.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

Answer 6

Dean Koontz and John Sandford

Answer 7

Jonathan Stroud, J.R. Tolkien, Suzanne Collins, Agatha Christie, C.S. Lewis and Christopher Paolini

Answer 8

Stephen King.

The Dark Tower Series is absolutly wonderful.

Also, the author of The Sword of Truth Series. I can't remember his name right now. Sorry.

Answer 9

Sophie Kinsella

Answer 10

Iyanla Vanzant