My favorites are David Drake, John Dalmas, and Alan Dean Foster. There are a whole bunch more, but it is a long list.

I like clancy, Jeff grubb, and a list far to long to go into, though those two are presently the authors I am reading right now.

Clive Barker, Stephen King, Bret Easton Ellis, Poe, Andrew Harper, the list goes on.

Mine are Anne Rice, Julien May, Jean M Auel, Raymond E Fiest, Barbara Erskine, among others.

I'm sure this thread has been done sometime before....
*shrugs shoulders* Oh well.

Robert Jordan
Raymond E. Feist
Poppy Z. Brite
Sara Douglas
Terry Brooks
David Eddings

((((Geez, I wonder what genre I like reading ))))

Gotta be Tom CLancy and WEB Griffin

That would have to be Anne Rice.

John Grisham . . .

It's been done at least a dozen times..

But Here ...

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."
Terry Pratchett.

for music ..

Jim Steinman is the best writer )

Michael Crichton is another excellent writer.

koontz

Ooh, I forgot Ben Elton

Well there have been a number of threads already on this but why not again!

Some of my favourites are Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, Peter.F.Hamiliton, Matthew Reilly, Kevin.J.Anderson, Sara Douglass, Tad Williams and the list just keeps on going.

I like older authors. (Perferably dead )

H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Micheal Crichton, Johnathan Swift, Arthur Miller, and Voltaire.

!!!

He made We Will Rock You, a rock opera based on the music of Queen!

My favourite author is Alexander Dumas, who wrote The Count Of Monte Cristo (my favourite book) and The Three Musketeers.

Tier 1 Likeability: Roger Zelazny, Ayn Rand

Tier 2 Likeability: JRR Tolkein, Mary Shelly

Tier 3 Likeability: Machiavelli, CS Lewis

Tier 4... lots and lots, very few that I actively Dislike...

Did he? I didn't know that. He's probably best known for his comedy scripts for TV shows such as Blackadder and The Young Ones. But he wrote one of the funniest books I've ever read - Stark! Not to mention Gridlock, though it doesn't quite reach the heights of Stark. He's also a prominent Crime writer, mixing murder/mystery with black comedy at times.

Stephen King.
Mary Shelley.
Tolkien.
Poe.
Lord Byron.
Lord Bacon.

Poets mostly.

dean koontz
stephen king
douglas adams
sir arthur conan doyle
richard adams
and numerous comics (newspaper comics not graphic novel comics) authors

Michael Crichton
Bryce Courtenay("The Power of One", excellent book )

My Favourite Writers Are....
J.K Rowling (Love the Harry Potter Series!)
R.L Stine (Everything He Ever Wrote)
Edgar Allen Poe (Read Only Few of His Work But He is Indeed Good)
Charles Dickens
Juliis Verne (Journey at the CEntre of Earth etc.
H. G. Wells (War of the Worlds)
Jane Austen ( Pride and Prejudice)

etc. These are only a Few of my Favourites.!

My Favourite Writers Are....
J.K Rowling (Love the Harry Potter Series!)
R.L Stine (Everything He Ever Wrote)
Edgar Allen Poe (Read Only Few of His Work But He is Indeed Good)
Charles Dickens
Juliis Verne (Journey at the CEntre of Earth etc.
H. G. Wells (War of the Worlds)
Jane Austen ( Pride and Prejudice)

etc. These are only a Few of my Favourites.!

the guy that does Calvin and Hobbes.

and Gene Wolfe.

Bill Watterson

I love R.L Stine. Piers Anthony is a good author too.

Hunter S. Thompson

Vivian Van Velde (Read almost all of her books ) and Ray Bradbury are really good authors too

H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen Crane, Arthur Machen, Frank Herbert, Edward Abbey, Hunter Thompson

Albert Camus!!!!!!!
All of it.

Stephen King, James Herbert, David Gemmel, H.G Wells, Mary Shelly

My favourite writers are Clive Staples Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

MAn! Their imagination is exquisite, They are genius!

You can experience the writing power of CS Lewis in his Master piece Chronicles of Narnia.

Sagan
Clarke
Asimov

Then Koontz and Auel

New favorite would be Darren Shan! Absolutely love his Cirque Du Freak AKA The Saga of Darren Shan series.

poe, james patterson, and dave freedman

Anne Rice, Stephen King, Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Fay Weldon, J.K. Rowling, Douglas Adams, and others I can't think of right now.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs, Colin Wilson, Dale Brown, Steve Alten, Anne Rice, H.G. Wells and Stephen Coonts to name a few.

Raymond Feist
Dean Koontz
Brian Lumley
Neal Stephenson

Fantasy, thriller (I don't call Koontz or Lumley Horror-writers, their style and talent is better than that); my fav genres.

Ah well now (tips chair back,puts feet on desk)where shall we start?

Stephen King's dark tower series,just so good.

Robert Jordan.Nuff said.

Dan Abnett

Peter.F.Hamilton

Terry Pratchett (kneels on the steps of the unseen university and bows in reverence)

L.E Modesitt

Walter Jon Williams

Tom Clancy

David Eddings
I could go on but you get the picture,I read a lot

Tom Clancy
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Brian Keene
Myself (lol)
Edgar Allen Poe
Clive Barker
H.G. Wells

... and a lot more!!!

H.P. Lovecraft
Robert W. Chambers
Douglas Adams
Augest Derlith
Algernon Blackwood
Hunter S. Thompson
Issac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
H.G. Wells
John Keel

and Jhonen Vasquez

My favorite writers are

Edgar Allan Poe

John Keel

Budd Hopkins

Raymond Fowler

Whitley Strieber


oh yeah, and also a writer named Ashiana N.

http://ashiana.conforums.com/index.cgi

~ Isis

Stephen King, Robert Jordan, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Tom Clancy, Dave Barry, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Poe, Ray Bradbury and C.S. Lewis.

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Tolkein, HP Lovecraft is my altime fav, Anne Rice

Hi Dixiepixie

I don't know why, but I just can't get into Stephen King's books, Dean Koontz books or fiction in general. But I absolutely love Stephen King's movies as you'll see in the thread I'm posting today. I guess I'm more of a visual action person. In other words, I have to see it on the screen in action to enjoy it. It's the same thing with history. I never did well in History but I love to see movies about it. Gee, if he hasn't already done so, I wish Dean Koontz would make a movie based on one of his books.

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~ Isis

He has made several that you can find in most video stores. They were usually made-for-tv movies but if you like King movies, you'd like them.

I really enjoy reading Brian Keene, or a Frank Miller comic, and sometimes even Richard Matheson.

Stephen King, Anne Rice, Terry Pratchett, Charles Dickens, M. Lori Motley, Dean Koontz (but only for completely shallow reading), just getting into Robin Hobb, Poe, Tolkien....

I really only have 2 writers that I read religiously. Stephen King. Ann Rule, for those who might not know, she is a true crime writer from the Pacific northwest. She was the one who wroter "Stranger Beside Me" about Ted Bundy, she worked with him on a suicide hotline. Yep, during the time of the murders!