Who is the best author you have ever read?

Answer 1

My opinion would be different if you asked me another day. I can never stick with a favorite for long. Today -- Beckett. Tommorow, who knows? Maybe Faulkner, maybe Joyce, maybe Delillo. Maybe Pynchon.

Answer 2

Two stand out w/ me: Michael Crichton and Gene Simmons.

Crichton is more like Jules Verne: His work on the Andromeda Strain eerily parallels with the challenges faced during the early days of the AIDS epidemic. In Westworld, Crichton pretty much coined the phrase (in my opinion) "computer virus"; the strange mechanical malady that turned tourist friendly androids into Terminators (before Jim Cameron's were born....the film's characters, that is.....). And there's the ado about his successes with Jurassic Park and the established TV hit icon "ER"....but there's more yet to come from Crichton.

Gene Simmons, KISS bassist/rock icon god of music and savvy entrepreneur--he galvanized the American Dream forming from scratch an idea for a rock band--and worked with three other rockers to make it happen and carved forever his place in rock history. His first book, KISS and Tell, is impressively well written, told bluntly point blank as only Simmons would do it.

To read KISS and Tell is to get a very clear picture into the life of this man who immigrated from Haifa Israel and became Rock's "God Of Thunder"---and being let in on all his joys and sorrows (and the business of rock music) in between.

Answer 3

Cormac McCarthy
David Sedaris
Erik Larson
Truman Capote
Langston Hughes

Answer 4

TOOOOO MANY.
Some that I remember,
John Christopher
J.K Rowling
Eoin Colfer
Jane Austin
Dan Brown
Christopher Ronaldi (Don't know if I've spelled it correct, he's the author of Eragon and Eldest.)
Jules Verne
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
Stephan King
Nora Roberts
J.R.R Tolkien
G.R Martin
Robert Jordan
Cornelia Funke

Answer 5

1. William Shakespeare
2. Kumara Velu
3. Helen Wong

Answer 6

Ranked in my order of preference:
1. Gerald Seymour
2. Daniel Silva
3. Frederick Forsythe
4. Ken Follett
5. A.J.Quinell
6. Martin Cruz Smith.

Answer 7

Sharon Kay Penman, Pauline Gedge, Edward Rutherfurd, Margaret George. All write terrific and well researched historical fiction.

Answer 8

1. J.K Rowling
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Answer 9

Victor Hugo. The best. The greatest book ever -> Les Miserables.

Answer 10

Stephen King, with Harper Lee and Arthur C. Clarke, and John D. MacDonald hot on his heals, but King, I mean The Stand, The Dark Tower Series, come on, who else is that prolific and that readable!

Answer 11

Annie Dillard