Who is your favorite author?

Maybe my favorite is Doyle. Of all the books I've read I think I'm most invested and immersed when I'm behind Holmes as he investigates the latest capers of Moriarty.
 
My favorite is Kurt Vonnegut! He's also my dad's favorite, and he manages to be so wise and empathetic.. and do it all with aliens and time travel
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Hello!
Dropping in to give a shout out to Jasper FForde <3
His books really take you somewhere, and in his Thursday Next series, they take you into other books.
He breathes new life and character into old literary characters such as Ms Havisham (Great Expectations) such as what they do behind the scenes when they're waiting for people to read their books.
You'll cry, you'll laugh, you'll get interested in the murder of Humpty Dumpty as outlined in the book "The Big Over Easy." (Also another amazing Jasper Fforde novel.)
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Ursula K Le Guin
Tolkien (cus I'm a basic b*tch like that)
Garth Nix
Terry Pratchett
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Richard Matheson
Mary Shelley
James Herbert
Daphne Du Maurier
John Wyndham
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Almost forgot about Mervyn Peake. The man who wrote the only fantasy story I've enjoyed more than LOTR.
 
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William Gibson, Stephen King, Eric Flint (RIP), Robert Repino, Max Brooks, Brian Keene, Richard K. Morgan, David Moody and Neal Stephenson are my personal favorites for fiction. For non-fiction, I like Evan Wright, Bryan Burrough and George Orwell. The last of which did some great fiction (you know about Nineteen Eighty-Four, I assume), but I actually like his non-fiction stuff better, particularly Homage To Catalonia.
 
Gene Wolfe, Arthur Machen, William H. Gass, Clifford D. Simak.
 
I'm a Raymond Chandler fan. It's rare to meet others who knows who that is anymore though. Fantastic books, highly recomend "The Long Goodbye".
 
Peter Sotos because (while I don't think this is his intention) he spreads awareness of how evil and sadistic abusers are capable of being. Although I would never financially support his work because he's really just an asshole
 
From books and Comics :
Robert E. Howard , H.P. Lovecraft , Lester Dent , Micheal Moorcock , Kentaro Miura , Frank Miller , Todd McFarlane , Go Nagai
 
Various Philip K Dick, Jack Kerouac, Raymond Chandler books. I still have stacks of PKD and Chandler's books today, mixed with my comics and manga. I also dig comic and manga authors: Satoshi Kon, Frank Miller, and Frank Cho--most would believe these guys are more known as Artists but they were also Authors as well: Tropic of the Sea and Opus (Kon), Sin City and Ronin (Miller), Liberty Meadows and Shanna, The She-Devil "revival" miniseries (Cho)
 
Gonna have to say Brandon Sanderson - love the Cosmere series.
 
George R. R. Martin, although I may never see the next book in the series completed by him..

However, I love all the details and world building in each of his books.
 
does Dumas count? i know he didnt write any original concepts but i still love his way of writing. i think his magic isnt in the base plot itself but in the way he tells the story. i still believe the count of monte cristo is the best book of fiction ever written.
 
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
David Eddings
Raymond E. Feist
Terry Pratchett


I used to like Neil gaiman but that man has lost is marbles I still like his old books but yeah that man is not right in the head any more.
 
Miguel Delibes no doubt
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Peter Sotos because (while I don't think this is his intention) he spreads awareness of how evil and sadistic abusers are capable of being. Although I would never financially support his work because he's really just an asshole
I like Whitehouse and shock art but yeah Sotos is quite sussy baka
 
Harlan Ellison and Octavia Butler, both made weird and provoking sci-fi that riled up the status quo and and didn't care if the old guard couldn't understand them or didn't want to share the space in the genre and publishing. They wrote what they damn pleased and never stopped or compromised. I love that integrity and unflinching attitude to not allow the reader to be comfortable and force them to confront themselves, the author, the protagonist and world as they read.
 
Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Isabel Allende, Jorge Amado, Ursula K. Le Guin and Arthur C. Clarke. There's more, but I'm fine with these listed.
 
JK rowling and the following authors for disney's twisted tale such as liz baswell
 
I admire your courage to say that but I understand why you may like their books.
I am confused what you mean with courage I just like his works.And in sense of Character you have to consider the time he comes from.As those things where considered normal even if not right if we would uphold all old authors to modern views most would be unreadable as they had a whole other Zeitgeist.
 

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