Who are your favorite Writers?
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Lets see I could list a whole lot here.
In Books -Terry Goodkind, David Drake, For mindless fun R.A. Salvatore
Movies- Kevin Smith
Plays - got nothing
Stand up- Ummmmm got nothing
Columnists/Bloggers - Barney Stinson
TV - That is waaay to long of a list. So top 3.. Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson and Ty King
Graphic Novels and comics- couldn't say
Alice Monroe. Check her out. Amazing.
Also, Douglas Coupland.
For TV - Aaron Sorkin, I suppose.
Also, Douglas Coupland.
For TV - Aaron Sorkin, I suppose.
Dammit I forgot Aaron Sorkin. That guy rocks
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
1. Shakespeare - yep, I'm one of those people. I own the Riverside Shakespeare which contains all of his plays and sonnets. The first part of my user name is also an homage to one of his tragedies.
2. Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue, Made in America, A Walk in the Woods, The Lost Continent, Neither Here Nor There, and A Short History of Nearly Everything are all great reads.
3. Michael Crichton - Too many to name. I think I read every single one of his books. Truly a great author, may he rest in peace.
4. John Grisham - legal fiction, my vice. I've read most of his books as well.
5. Thoreau, Emerson, Hemingway, Whitman, and Twain. They're classics, read 'em.
2. Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue, Made in America, A Walk in the Woods, The Lost Continent, Neither Here Nor There, and A Short History of Nearly Everything are all great reads.
3. Michael Crichton - Too many to name. I think I read every single one of his books. Truly a great author, may he rest in peace.
4. John Grisham - legal fiction, my vice. I've read most of his books as well.
5. Thoreau, Emerson, Hemingway, Whitman, and Twain. They're classics, read 'em.
StanScratch
My Penis Is Dancing!
I go with a lot of the classics: Arthur C. Clarke, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Victor Hugo, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, James Michener, to name a few.
I'd like to add Ken Kesey, Herman Hesse, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Franz Kafka
GregCentauro
Banned
Thomas Pynchon
Philip Roth
Herman Melville
Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
Mickey Spillane
Philip Roth
Herman Melville
Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
Mickey Spillane
I forgot to mention Judy Blume. She made it so much more comfortable for me when I got my period.
PlasmaTwa2
The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
Myself. :thumbsup:
I have read most of Stephen King's books, Chuck Palanuik is a favorite of mine, and I really like Peter Maas but I have only read one of his books. I am also a big fan of John Steinbeck, S.E Hinton, and Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo is a great book.
Playwrites, I will have to go with Shakespeare, I haven't read or seen all of his plays performed but the ones I have I very much enjoyed. Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and of course Romeo and Juliet.
Columnists/bloggers Diablo Cody (she's is also in my movie section)
Steve Hammer (a local writer for Nuvo, the independant newspaper here in Indy)
Comedy: The holy trinity as far as I am concerned: George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce
TV/Movies: Joss Whedon, Ronald D. Moore, Jane Espenson, Diablo Cody, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, J.J Abrams, Oliver Stone, Judd Apatow, Ron Shelton, and David O. Russell
Comic books: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Peter David, Joss Whedon, Frank Miller, Brian Reed, Alan Moore, Dan Jurgens, Dan Slott, Mark Millar, Chuck Dixon, Warren Ellis
Playwrites, I will have to go with Shakespeare, I haven't read or seen all of his plays performed but the ones I have I very much enjoyed. Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and of course Romeo and Juliet.
Columnists/bloggers Diablo Cody (she's is also in my movie section)
Steve Hammer (a local writer for Nuvo, the independant newspaper here in Indy)
Comedy: The holy trinity as far as I am concerned: George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce
TV/Movies: Joss Whedon, Ronald D. Moore, Jane Espenson, Diablo Cody, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, J.J Abrams, Oliver Stone, Judd Apatow, Ron Shelton, and David O. Russell
Comic books: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Peter David, Joss Whedon, Frank Miller, Brian Reed, Alan Moore, Dan Jurgens, Dan Slott, Mark Millar, Chuck Dixon, Warren Ellis
I've read almost everything that I can get my hands on, and now tend towards SF and short fiction. Favs for authors would have to include Douglas Adams, G.R.R. Martin, Christopher Moore, Neil Gaimen, and the short stories of Steven King (Richard Bachman). I also like Williams Burroughs, but more for his spoken word than actually reading it. He's a cool voice to listen to his f'd up stories to.
As for the classics, I never read a book in class that I liked. I got significantly more perspective on the human condition from Hitchhiker's Guide than anything they ever forced me to study. If it can't entertain me, then it fails the first test to be enjoyable.
As for the classics, I never read a book in class that I liked. I got significantly more perspective on the human condition from Hitchhiker's Guide than anything they ever forced me to study. If it can't entertain me, then it fails the first test to be enjoyable.
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Fiction: Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Yann Martel, Haruki Murakami, William Shakespeare, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Francis Burney, Michael Crichton, Alexandre Dumas, Honore de Balzac
Journalism: Eric Felton, Maureen Dowd, Dan Shaughnessy, Mitch Albom
Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Christopher Macquarrie, DAvid Mamet, William Goldman, Billy Wilder, Oliver Stone
Journalism: Eric Felton, Maureen Dowd, Dan Shaughnessy, Mitch Albom
Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Christopher Macquarrie, DAvid Mamet, William Goldman, Billy Wilder, Oliver Stone
