who is your favourite author and why?

Answer 1

margret peterson haddix, cause she writes the shadow children novels (GOOD)

Answer 2

My favourite author is David Eddings, he has written a few series of books as well as some stand-alones. Of these, I think the best one is The Belgariad series.

It's fantasy genre, with magic, spells and demons. Five books long, it follows the quest of nine people to retrieve the Orb of Aldur which was stolen by the dark god Torak.

Answer 3

T oo many to mention but the fastest author gotta be Norman Tebbitt in Brighton when he went through 15 storeys in 3 seconds xx

Answer 4

Charles Dickens for ever!

I love every word of it. The way he says things is just as (and often more) important than what was said.

It's magical realism, it's hyper-reality, it's painting with words, it's stories that can be filmed over and over again because there's so much in there.

How can you resist sentences like "She had a long drab face, like a face in a tablespoon." ? On Mr Wopsle plays Hamlet - ".. on the question whether t'was noble in the mind to suffer, some roared yes, and some no, and some inclining to both opinions said 'toss up for it'; and quite a Debating Society arose."

Or Mr Guppy proposing to Esther and then taking it back and then trying to propose again. Or poor Arthur Clenham being tortured by an appalling tea party at the appalling Mrs Gowan's, or the love story of Mr Swiveller and the Marchioness? Or the murderer Sykes in the inn listening to the peddlar selling cleaning stuff to take out "wine-stains, fruit-stain,water-stain, paint-stain, pitch-stain, mud-stain and blood-stain - " over and over again until it drives him out and back to London and his death.

I finally bought an expensive hardback of Bleak House because I'd read three paperbacks to destruction and am gradually replacing the rest as they fall apart. I own his journalism and am collecting his letters - he can be hilarious while writing to the Water Company.

If you've never read him, if you've been put off by comments here or being forced to read them in class ( I had Northanger Abbey ruined forever by reading in class), try again. Start with Great Expectations, it's shorter than some and damn near perfect.

Answer 5

probably john fante simply for ask the dust. i consider myself fairly well read yet i know of only a few authors or poets who i'd really hanker to read again. i can only describe ask the dust as genius. when everyone was creaming about hemingway's macho intellectualism there was little john fante writing the truth about human frailty and agony, the agony of every slipped phrase and the frailty of saying it, the frailty of beleiving in your own intelligence and the agony of realising your own stupidity. i will never stop praising this book because it is the best i've ever read. i beg everyone who reads this to at least check it out, if the first few lines don't grab you you're a machine and you need oiling.
'I am arturo bandini!' - bukowski

Answer 6

Charles Dickens, I suppose I like the "old world" ways about his stories and characters. A Tale of Two Cities is a magnificent book, and I've always enjoyed a reading of A Christmas Carol every year during the holidays.

Answer 7

I don't really have just ONE favorite author, but here are some authors that I tend to read more of than others:

Brian Jacques
Diana Gabaldon
JK Rowling
Lois Lowry

Answer 8

Dostoevsky is definitely my number 1 - because he makes me feel I'm not alone in this world, because he makes me laugh, and ache, and feel, because he can be extremely amusing and extremely brutal, because his characters are extreme and passionate - that's why I love his works. I'm very much like the two elder brothers (Dmitriy and Ivan) in 'The Brothers Karamazov', which, I think, is one of the best books ever.
I quite like Victor Hugo as well. Although I haven't read many of his works (just about 6 novels), I've considered him one of my
favourite authors since I read his 'The Man Who Laughs' when I was 10.
Some people have mentioned Salinger, Pynchon, Fitzgerald, Mark Twain - different as they are, I quite like their writings.

Answer 9

Thomas Pynchon, the most enigmatic English language author currently living (not only my opinion!) -- anyone else read his works?

Furthermore his first novel is nine years -- 6th in all -- is coming out between November 21st - December 6th according to publisher alerts on Amazon.com

Answer 10

Can't pick only one. I like Lindsey Davis, Bernard Cornwell and Alexander McCall Smith. But I've gotta give Jim Butcher a plug for Dresden Files, because they're smart, funny, full of action and just generally rock.

Answer 11

Neil Gaiman is my favorite writer. I really like that he writes intelligent fantasy. It is very rare that a fantasy writer can be so literate. You never know if he is going to take inspiration from Shakespeare, Norse mythology, or who knows what next. He also can mix humor and horror with out diminishing either. Just an overall fantastic writer.