Who is your Favourite Author and why?

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I was just curious, i have read a fair few books and wanted to know if anyone had any they would like to share with me? I need something new to pick up and read please...?

I have just finished a George Orwell and i love Douglas Adams and Juliet marillier so if anyone knows of any Authors like them, i am into sci-fi, political, fantasy, war etc.. could you share?

OH anything but a love story please, i really dislike romance (no offense to anyone).
Mr objective - Thanks your are so articulate and enlightening.

I have read stephen kings pet cemetary, it scared the hell outta me ha ha :P

Thanks for all the answers so far!
 
Ernest Hemingway, because he can say so much with so little, and also he has a very manly style. Lastly, reading his books proved to me that love stories can be very compelling and interesting, if written honestly.
 
Don't listen to any of these fools--there is only Vonnegut. Why? He's got voice. No one appreciates voice anymore. I couldn't give a damn about cheap, recycled story--I want the writer to speak to me, and then be quick and clever with it. I read one book, then I read them all (except Cat's Cradle..maybe Player Piano--total trash, but they can't all be winners), and the man ruined literature for me. I will never be a writer, and I will never read anyone else. I've read Breakfast of Champions at least 5 times and I'm still not bored with it--like an old friend. Vonnegut, man--do it.
 
The ones I really love are classic "horrors" like:

Phantom of the opera
Dracula
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Interview with a vampire
Frankenstein
etc

So I'll say my favourite author is Gaston Leroux. If you liked Orwell you'd probably like "A clockwork Orange" but might have already read it...
 
BEVERLY CLEARY JUST BECAUSE IT BRINGS ME BACK MEMORIES FROM WHEN I WAS LILL AND NOW MI KIDS HAVE READ HER BOOKS AND THEY SEEM TO LIKE THEM TOO
 
I love Jane Austen! people always assume they're romance novels but they're really not, they're witty and ironic and about different personalities and literary elements.

i think you should try the tomorrow series by John Marsden. it's about a group of teenagers who go camping and when they come back there's a war on and it's about what happens after that and how they wage a guerrilla war on the enemy soldiers. the series is fantastic, plus it's based on places near where i live!
 
Eion Colfer.

His stories are the type that you can't put the book down until you can finish the whole thing, especially Artemis Fowl. I have read ALL of them and everyone went by very fast and put a smile on my face.
 
Anything by Stephen King, James Herbert, David Ambrose.

Memory of demons
Misery
The fog
The Dark

Look into them :-)
 
I love EVERY Feminist out there who comes on here writing her 'fantaseez' of world domination, perpetual victimhood, gender-based wage-gap, and compares babies to snot.
 
The last book I couldn't put down was Cell by Stephen King. Watch it before the film is made and released later this year (if all goes to plan).
 
My favourite author is Agatha Christie. Nobody else writes mysteries as good as hers.

If you like Douglas Adams, you might enjoy Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series which is pretty funny. The first one is 'The Colour of Magic', but you don't really have to read them in order.

YOu might also like Jasper Fforde's books, his 'Thursday Next' series is very funny and offbeat, the first one is 'The Eyre Affair'. His Jack Spratt series is also good, the first one is The Big Over Easy. His books are rather like Alice in Wonderland for adults.

My husband's favourite author is Clive Cussler, who writes adventure stories often to do with sunken ships, hidden treasure etc, he has written loads of books in different series, but you don't have to read them in any particular order, my husband says each book can stand alone.

He also really likes Dan Brown, the Da Vinci Code etc.
 
James Patterson. His books have humor in them and they're fast moving and seem like they could really happen. Even his sci-fi books are that way.
 
I love Leslie Thomas. I read for escapism, and his books provide just that. They are fast, they are fun, they are exciting, they are hillarious, they are smutty, they are erotic and they are adventurous.
 
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