Who is your favorite author?

[CardcaptorEd2019]

My favorite author would probably be Haruki Murakami. I discovered him in 2017 starting with Norwegian Wood and have enjoyed reading his other books as well. My favorite book of his is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

 

[No-Bo-Dy]

William Gibson, Frank Herbert, K. Dick and Lovecraft, in that order.

 

[Tonberry]

Tove Jansson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tolkien, and Robert E. Howard come to mind first.

 

[Nidstang]

Tolkien, for sure.

I also like Karen Travis a lot for her Star Wars work.

 

[DunkeyKong]

JK Rowling and Stephen King. Other than that though, I like Robert Browning's monologue

 

[RustySK]

I don't think I have a favourite author as such. My opinions usually change from book to book in that regard. With Murakami for example I really liked After Dark, but Hard-Boiled Wonderland left me cold.

That said, I think the book that most affected me in recent years was written by Philip Roth, so I suppose that would be my pick.
That man had a knack for writing very real, flawed and most importantly relatable characters and as a reader I respond more strongly to characterization and dialogue than plot in general.

There's also Jörg Fauser's semi-autobiographical Raw Material. Loved that one as well.
A very honest (read: kinda gross and depressing) look back at his early days as a young author, drifting from dubious living arangement to dubious living arrangement while wrecking himself by taking just... all the drugs. Darkly comedic and, again, very real and resonant.

 

[ladyerrant]

I dunno about favorite, too many to choose from. On the list would be Frank Herbert, Vernor Vinge and Ann Leckie. Really liked the Ancillary series.

 

[miguk]

I've jumped from one author to another over the years: from Dr Seuss (earliest writer I can remember reading) to Stephen King to Bret Easton Ellis to Chuck Palahniuk to various others.

At this point, I'd probably go with Alan Moore for favorite fiction writer. He rarely disappoints and he deserves more credit than his "fans" give him. (Yes, he argues "against" typical comic writing, but in a way that actually helps evolve the medium, not destroy it. If you didn't get that from Watchmen, you failed at reading it.)

As for non-fiction, I'm going with Noam Chomsky. Typical answer, I know, but he's considered the greatest living intellectual for a good reason.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Agatha Christie

 

[Jeanfranc]

Either Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Parini or Italo Svevo. There are also many dramatists I've come to appreciate but alas we are talking books here

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Made me interested in dark poetry in general. Was obsessed with him when i was like 14. I even named my dog "Fausto"
Jô Soares
People really sleep on how Jô is an awesome author, even here in Brazil. His books tend to get so gory and morbid but at the same time so funny and intense. The way he plays with historical figures and events is awesome, specially if you don't know about said event and search for it to see how close from the reality his story is. I also love how he jumps from stupidly comical events to detailed descriptions of the most disturbing shit i've ever read.

 

[Octopus]

I'm a pretty basic bitch, I'd say either Robert E. Howard or Lovecraft for my number one favourite. After that, I'm a big fan of Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, and David Wong/Jason Pargin.

 

[Bakuma1997]

The great and only

May the North Kai let you drop in his house to let you take a break for the Serpent Road master, R.I.P

 

[beefbowl]

Victor Hugo easily. Les Misérables changed my life and made me pursue literature as a degree. It's also a point where two of my main hobbies intersect thanks to Arm Joe.

 

[Bonkers225]

Jeanine Basinger
Bill O'Reilly
Mario Puzo
Nicholas Pileggi
Peter Evans
Charles Higham
Tim Hornbaker

 

[LiberoVulpes]

David Drake, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Poe.

 

[Capricorn_is_Goat]

Jeanette Winterson- "Art and Lies"

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Wendelin van Draanen, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Stephen King, Rosalind Wiseman, Salla Simukka, Sir Terry Pratchett...

 

[Guinea]

Hard to pick just one. My favorites are: Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Hideki Kikuchi, Donna Boyd, Frederick Pohl, Louis L'Amour and Ha Jin.

 

[kanesha]

saki

 

[jon2]

Frank Herbert and Tom Clancy

Yoshiyuki Tomino if he can be considered one

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

Dostoyevsky (sp?), Camus, Kafka, JD Salinger, Shakespeare.

I also like George RR Martin but he's a lazy bum.

 

[Capricorn_is_Goat]

Dostoyevsky (sp?), Camus, Kafka, JD Salinger, Shakespeare.

I also like George RR Martin but he's a lazy bum.

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Dostoyevsky (sp?), Camus, Kafka, JD Salinger, Shakespeare.

I also like George RR Martin but he's a lazy bum.

Sadly, my copy of "Notes From the Underground" was stolen before I could read it.

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

Samuel Becket, Emil Cioran, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Juan Carlos Onetti, Omar Jayjam, Thomas bernhard, Clarice Lispector, James Joyce, Flann O'brien, Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec.

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

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Sadly, my copy of "Notes From the Underground" was stolen before I could read it.

Haven't read that one but Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov are great.