I love to read (when I actually have time), and I know some of you have mentioned a love of reading too. So I was wondering, who are some of your favorite authors, both current and from the past?
I read it @violet1183. It didn't suck but it took me 3 days to digest the ending before I liked it. I didn't hate it, but it took some time. I did eventually like it though. I'd love to discuss it with another person when you finish it!
Augusten Burroughs Dickens (love Great Expectations) George RR Martin
Love George RR Martin but only read the first couple of books in his series so far.
I love how he toys with your emotions and no character has plot armor
I'm just glad he told producers of the TV show who he ultimately wants on the throne at the end. Dude probably isn't going to live to finish writing the last books of the series.
I love Charlene Harris as well.
I have a love/hate relationship with Dean Koontz. Love his plots, but something about the execution/editing always annoys me
I didn't realize he told them. I'm terrified he's gonna die before the series ends. The books are so addictive.
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Well I'll have to give it up to Margaret Atwood because I currently have a signed copy of A Handmaid's Tale made out to Elowyn on my bookshelf. I have more favourite books rather than favourite authors. I also really enjoy non-fiction.
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No way, really? Did you meet her? I love A Handmaid's Tale, but I think my favorite book of hers is The Blind Assassin. I also really like Oryx and Crake, Edible Woman, and probably some others I am forgetting.
Diana Gabaldon, JK Rowling, Iris Johansen, Philip Pullman, Michael Crichton, Linda Howard... I can't remember all their names, there are too many!! ETA Jane Austen, the guy who wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series....
And I will say this... even though it isn't FFFC time- I read VC Andrews, Lurlene McDaniel and Nicholas Sparks even though the plotlines are entirely predictable and repetitive.
I like JK Rowling and the Hunger Games author too- but I haven't read anything besides HP and HG, so I can't say if I like them in a series READ ALL THE BOOKS way, or a one-hit-series-wonder kind of way.
Our lil' diva: late like her Momma: 40 weeks 5 days!
@kh59- Haven Kimmel for "A Girl named Zippy"? Have you read her other stuff? I couldn't get in to Iodine and abandoned her as an author!
My list: JK Rowling, Jonathan Tropper, John Steinbeck , JD Salinger, I could name so many more…
Iodine is an outlier in terms of style. My favorite of hers is called The Solace of Leaving Early. It's part of a loosely related trilogy, and I loved all three.
Well I'll have to give it up to Margaret Atwood because I currently have a signed copy of A Handmaid's Tale made out to Elowyn on my bookshelf.
I have more favourite books rather than favourite authors. I also really enjoy non-fiction.
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No way, really? Did you meet her? I love A Handmaid's Tale, but I think my favorite book of hers is The Blind Assassin. I also really like Oryx and Crake, Edible Woman, and probably some others I am forgetting.
Re: GTKY: Favorite Authors
Dickens (love Great Expectations)
George RR Martin
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Past: Jane Austen, Chaucer, Shakespeare, L.M. Montgomery, Edith Wharton, Henry James
I know I am forgetting some, but these are the ones that jumped out to me at first. I will add more as I think of them.
Past: Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Flannery O'Connor
Maggie Stiefvater
David Levithan
A.S. King
Lauren Oliver
John Green
Rainbow Rowell
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Bradley 05-04-11 & Tyler 06-18-13
my read shelf:
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Ernest Hemingway
Stephen King
Louise Erdrich
Margaret Weis
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Bradley 05-04-11 & Tyler 06-18-13
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I didn't realize he told them. I'm terrified he's gonna die before the series ends. The books are so addictive.
Nicholas Sparks
Jennifer Weiner
Emily Giffin
Eric Jerome Dickey
Sophie Kinsella
Maya Angelou
A few other favorites:
John Updike
DH Lawrence
David Sedaris
John Steinbeck
Chelsea Handler
my read shelf:
I didn't read the 3rd divergent book yet. My reading time has seriously decreased since MJ.
I have more favourite books rather than favourite authors. I also really enjoy non-fiction.
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No way, really? Did you meet her? I love A Handmaid's Tale, but I think my favorite book of hers is The Blind Assassin. I also really like Oryx and Crake, Edible Woman, and probably some others I am forgetting.
My list: JK Rowling, Jonathan Tropper, John Steinbeck , JD Salinger, I could name so many more...
ETA Jane Austen, the guy who wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series....
James Patterson- I love reading his books for mind numbing entertainment. I love the short chapters. It keeps me saying, "Just one more chapter."
Harper Lee- No matter how many times I've read To Kill a Mockingbird, I still find new lines to love.
And I will say this... even though it isn't FFFC time- I read VC Andrews, Lurlene McDaniel and Nicholas Sparks even though the plotlines are entirely predictable and repetitive.
I like JK Rowling and the Hunger Games author too- but I haven't read anything besides HP and HG, so I can't say if I like them in a series READ ALL THE BOOKS way, or a one-hit-series-wonder kind of way.
Our lil' diva: late like her Momma: 40 weeks 5 days!