Top 10 Authors i like.....

Published on September 9, 2005 By ----- In Misc

1. J.R.R. Tolkien
2. John Jakes
3. Stephen Baxter
4. Barry Metcalf
5. Stephen Hawking
6. Katherine Kurtz/Deborah Turner Harris
7. J.K. Rowling
8. Harry Turtledove
9. Charles Dickens
10. Tom Clancy

Comments

dharmagrl

on Sep 09, 2005

Mine are:

Jack Kerouac

John Steinbeck

PD Cornwell

Iris Murdoch

James Herriot

Jack Kornfield

JK Rowling

I know that's not 10, but it's late and I can't think straight....

-----

on Sep 09, 2005

Oy, its what midnight there? (St. Louis?)

dharmagrl

on Sep 09, 2005

Oy, its what midnight there? (St. Louis?)

Yeah, close to St louis and it's 1:15am.

msladydeath

on Sep 09, 2005

I don't think I can get ten, but I'll try.

JK Rowling

JRR Tolkien

R L Stine

Dean Koontz

Stephen King

Dan Simmons

Douglas Adams

Ann Rice

And the lady that wrote the book "Children in the Attic"

dharmagrl

on Sep 09, 2005

"Children in the Attic"

VC Andrews?

momijiki

on Sep 09, 2005

LOL... tastes sure vary! It's always interesting to see who likes what.

VC Andrews is an author I would put in my top 10 list for BAD books. I still feel poisoned from reading them in junior high school. It was like some sick rite of passage for teenage girls at my school.

And yet strangely compelling-- like a car accident. Of course, no one has to agree with my opinion.

my top 10... (not in order)
Serrilyn Kenyon
Mary Jo Putney
JK Rowlings
Anne McCaffrey
Jean Le Carre
Elizabeth Moon
Clair Sterling
Dave Barry
Amy Tan
JD Robb (who is really Nora Roberts, but I don't always like her Nora Roberts books)
EM Forrester (if I am in the mood)
Jane Austen (except for Northanger Abbey)
Amanda Quick (who is also Jayne Anne Krantz)

And I am sure that I will have lots of people groaning at my list....

Dr Guy

on Sep 09, 2005

I like your list, but would drop John Jakes for James Mitchner, and add Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein while dropping 4, 6, 7 and 8.

msladydeath

on Sep 09, 2005

"Children in the Attic"

VC Andrews?

yea! That's her!

I like your list, but would drop John Jakes for James Mitchner, and add Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein while dropping 4, 6, 7 and 8.

I would have to add Isaac Asimov as # 10 for me. good stuff! Or put in Dr. Seuss, but I have kids, so what they like, I either like or learn to like it LOL.

bakerstreet

on Sep 09, 2005

Umberto Eco
HP Lovecraft
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
William Gibson
Jorge Luis Borges
William Shakespeare
Phillip K. Dick
Tolkien, JRR
Sax Rohmer
Charles Dickens

-----

on Sep 09, 2005

Asimov is good, haven't read much heinlen..., and i can't believe i for got clarke...

Shovelheat

on Sep 09, 2005

Robert Pirsig
Richard Dawkins
Carl Sagan
Larry McMurtry
Mark Twain
Ayn Rand
Stephen King (for Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and The Stand. I'm not into some of his gross-out stuff)
C.S. Lewis ( really only for The Great Divorce)
Jonathan Swift
let's see one more...

Charles Dickins, especially for Tale of Two Cities

crimson

on Sep 09, 2005

In no particular order:

JG Ballard
Brian Aldiss
William Gibson
Stephen King
Sam Shepard
John Irving
Tomson Highway
Octavia Butler
Chuck Palahniuk
JK Rowling

Furry Canary

on Sep 10, 2005

By 'authors', I'm assuming you mean novelists, hence you'll find no Shakespeare (plays / sonnets), Alan Moore (graphic novels) or Paul Davies (non-fiction) here, for example. Anyway, here's today's list. Tomorrow's would doubtless be very different ...

Iain Banks
John Banville
Julian Barnes
Richard Brautigan
Philip Dick
Elizabeth Gaskell
Ernest Hemingway
Jerzy Kosinski
Dylan Thomas
Robert Tressel

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