Who are your favorite Writers?

[alexpnz]

The esteemed writers of this piece of fine literature:
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Thomas Lee and Nicholas Sixx :hatsoff:

 

[Namreg]

no one has mentioned de sade yet? i'm surprised, shocked, and disappointed.

i like michael ende, shakespeare, stephen king, dumas, any good mystery/conspiracy story (thus no dan brown because he sucksssssssssss), star trek books, jrr tolkien (i can't be the only one here who likes his works), orwell, twain... i used to read 1 book a week when i was a teenager, but now i have less time so i mostly read magazines and wikipedia now.

 

[AutoDrifter70]

Anthony Robbins?

 

[raynman68]

Some great choices have already been made, I will throw in some favorites that haven't been mentioned;

Homer, Coleridge, and Kipling

 

[Lust]

William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Tom Robbins
Kurt Vonnegut
Isaac Asimov
JG Ballard
Eudora Welty
Joseph Conrad
TS Elliot
Pat Conroy
Cormac McCarthy

many others but those came to mind.....

 

[ChefChiTown]

Two of my favorite authors are Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. I know that both of them catch a lot of crap (for some stupid reason), but they both have a plethera of very entertaining books. Crichton is one of the best story tellers of all-time, hands down. And, Robin Cook is an amazingly accurate medical thriller writer who does a really good job of making things interesting.

I also like some of Tom Clancy's work. But, Harrison Ford fucks it all up by starring in the movie versions. Eww, and Ben Affleck too. Damn him.

 

[Lust]

Two of my favorite authors are Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. I know that both of them catch a lot of crap (for some stupid reason), but they both have a plethera of very entertaining books. Crichton is one of the best story tellers of all-time, hands down. And, Robin Cook is an amazingly accurate medical thriller writer who does a really good job of making things interesting.

I also like some of Tom Clancy's work. But, Harrison Ford fucks it all up by starring in the movie versions. Eww, and Ben Affleck too. Damn him.

crichton is laughing all the way to the bank at his critics, the man is doing something right imo. he's entertained millions and has a great following. anyone who makes fun of him is jealous or misinformed......or both. he has a dedicated audience.

oh i forgot to mention SE Hinton in my list, the author of the first two books i ever read one summer for my upcoming english class. i also had to read the feel good book of the year Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, what a great summer that was! (heavy sarcasm)

interesting tidbit on trumbo, Steve Martin used to date Dalton Trumbo's daughter and he would go over there for dinner and toke with Dalton and other hollywood writers discussing deep literary shit. lol, i would so suck at that particular conversation. it'd be the only toke party i was kicked out of.

 

[StanScratch]

Poe. How could I miss Poe?

 

[knowone]

One of the most influential writers of the late 20th century: Stanley Leiber.

 

[TunnelOfLove]

Erlend Loe

 

[lechepicha]

Dan Brown and Saramago

 

[gotham123]

neil gaiman, oscar wilde, dante aligheri, john steinbeck, shakespeare...etc
there's too many

 

[BigSwede]

Richard Curtis,Ben Elton,Neil Simon,Al Franken...

 

[Jack Davenport]

Arthur C. Clarke

Hemmingway

John Grisham

Leo Tolstoy

Ann Coulter

Mark Levin

Shakespeare

Thomas Wolfe

Is it surprising that Hot Smegma hasn't listed anything?

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Everything written during that era was brilliant.

 

[ApolloBalboa]

Let's see....

The written word: Stephen King, Khaled Hosseini, Michael Crichton, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Dickey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, Jeff Lindsay, John Krakauer, and H.G. Wells.

The filmed word: Alan Ball, Vince Gilligan, Alex Haley (technically it's a book, but I have enough listed already).

Miscellaneous: Richard Corben, George Carlin, Frank Cho, the idiots at MAD Magazine and Stephen Colbert (What can I say? I enjoyed his book).

Some of these cross genres, but I tried to separate them as I felt appropriate.

 

[BlueBalls]

- Hesse, Bukowski, K. Dick, Huxley, Vonnegut, Kafka, DeLillo, Camus.

As I'm bored, drunk and tired, I guess I'll add some more now that the thread is back:

Fiction: Burgess, Murakami, Mann, Nabokov, Auster, Dostoevsky, Pynchon, Joyce, Tolstoy, Bolano, Lem. Non-Fic: Hobbes, Fisk, Popper, Hofstadter, McLuhan, Berlin, Paine, Rawls, Fromm, Schopenhauer, Hume.

Off of the top of my head: Charlie Kaufman and Michael Haneke are two of the best screen writers/film makers working today. I'm also a huge fan of Andrei Tarkovsky who was a fabulous writer/director.

I'm sure in several months when this thread is bumped again I'll have some more to add.

 

[xfire]

Joe Lansdale
Ray Bradbury
John Barth
Don DeLillo
Lew McCreary

 

[dbradford8589]

Daniel Silva
Stephen King
Dan Brown

 

[Spleen]

Cormac McCarthy
Chuck Palahniuk
Hunter S Thompson
Bill Bryson