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jose saramago
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My favorite fiction writer is Sydney Sheldon.
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Danny Wallace and Dave Gorman. Brilliant men
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Vladimir Nabokov. The way that man plays with words... it's mind boggling.
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Angela Carter
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John Keegan or Harry Turtledove. They are both great writers.
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Stephen King. The way he evokes his characters is amazingly detailed, and yet he manages not to go off on tyrades about it.
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I don't have one particular author. But here are a few of my favorites: Lord Skies, Yotna Altoub, cmsix, Kristina Katyn, DB Story, Rachel Gumm, Azil, The Night Hawk, Romangirl, Nina, Karen Wagner, Ann Douglas, Laura Love, Blackie, Victoria Day.
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Charles Bukowski, Boris Vian, Albert Camus, Tennesee Williams, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck...i can't choose between them
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Stephen King
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JK Rowling is my favorite author of fictional prose. This is a fairly recent change. Before that, my favorite author was Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz).
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George Orwell
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Richard Bach
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J.K.Rowling, Ray Bradbury, Harper Lee, Frank Mcourt, Louis Sacher, Mitch Albom, William Golding, Arthur Miller, Aldous Huxley, Lois Lowry, John Steinbeck. etc....
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I have two: Charles Dickens and George Orwell
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Sophie Kinsella, i like books i dont have to think about, i do enough thinking at work!
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Ken Kesey or Kurt Vonnegut
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Wow...there are so many good ones...umm....Steinbeck, London, Orwell, Brown, Kingsley, King, etc...
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Terry Pratchett
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anne rice. her books are the only ones i cannot put down.
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I used to love Anne Rice. She could take 2 pages to tell you how humid the air was outside the door the protagonist would never open. I loved the way she built up settings and gave feeling to her stories this way. The are others that I have valued at one point or another and for various reasons, but lately I have been reading a lot of non-fiction and biographies, so I don't really have a favorite right now.
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Erin Hunter
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Too many great authors for favoritism but I do love the Story telling of Jean Auel her research is brilliant it really takes something to make Neanderthal man attractive and interesting
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Lee Child - just fantastic!
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Edith Wharton
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Dean Koontz
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Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Ray Bradbury, J.K. Rowling, Ronald Kessler and the old favorites, Edgar Allen Poe and Shakespeare. John Boscos christian inspirations are very good as well, as he started a movement for such literature in 1985.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Ann Rule
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George Orwell
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Neal Stephenson.
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Dean R. Koontz.
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Stephen Spielberg Dean Koontz William W. Johnstone
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Michael Connelly & Chris Blaine
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Dan Brown Jim Marrs David Icke
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Stephen King. Neil Gaiman. Sylvia Plath. In that order.
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Terry Pratchett Jayne Ann Krentz Laurell K. Hamilton Christopher Stasheff David Weber Hisaya Nakajo Jude Devereaux Patricia Wrede Diana Wynne Jones Ellen G. White Elizbeth Lowell John Ringo Robert Asprin (etc., etc., etc.)^Not in any particular order.
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Definitely, Stephen King (even if I should be ashamed of that). I like very much also Dean Koontz and Isaac Asimov...
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Poppy Z.Brite (Exquisite Corpse, Lost Souls, Love in Vein) H.P.Lovecraft (The Call of Cthulhu, Necronomicom, Dagon) Christopher Golden (Prowlers, The Shadow Saga) Anne Rice Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (Occult Rootsof Nazism) Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe)
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PYNCHON!
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Non-fiction: Thomas L. Friedman, David McCullough Fiction: John le Carré
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J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (of course) Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy
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T.C Boyle, Piers Anthony, Alan Dean Foster, Andre' Norton, E.E (Doc) Smith, King, Koontz, and Timothy Zahn.
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Several favorites: Ann McCaffrey Dean Koontz Mercedes Lackey just to name a few! I used to like Stephen King, but once I had kids, it was too scary for me. I can think of my own horrors now.
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I'll be a writer one day :) i love my own stories
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Oh dear, I have a few. Probably the out-and-out favourite though would be Terry Pratchett for his Discworld series. Very, very intelligent humour - 25 books and I've never grown tired of them! Michael Scott Rohan wrote the most magnificent fantasy trilogy I've ever read (Winter of the World - The Anvil of Ice, The Forge in the Forest and The Hammer of the Sun). Just awesomely epic. Barbara Hambly has written my favourite vampire books (Those who hunt the night and Travelling with the dead), and also 3 fabulous novels revolving around witchcraft (Ladies of Mandrigyn, The Witches of Wenshar and The Dark Hand of Magic). Her worlds and characters are so intimately imagined.
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Barabara Kingsolver Michele Jaffe Meg Cabot
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Dean Koontz He has this way of painting a BEAUTIFUL picture of his stories, he always has some intelligent advice, and his stories are just so captivating...
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All of the people who write Archie comics!
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James Joyce
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Lincoln Preston - the pseudonym of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. They write fantastic techno-thrillers that manage to cover not only an intriguing plot, but also well-rounded normal characters placed in abnormal situations (bar Pendergast, who is just plain weird yet lovely). I like the little idiosyncracies of each character. I like their style of humour and drama.
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Either Clive Barker or Alexander Dumas or Tuve Jansson -- I really can't choose. And there are so many more I'm not thinking of!
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Terry Pratchett Stephen King Terry Goodkind Chris Wooding
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John Kennedy Toole.
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Jack Kerouac and Sylvia Plath lately.
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My lovely mother-in-law, Jacqueline Marten:) A wonderful writer of historical romance (concentrating mainly on the American Revolution). Her heroines are strong-willed, smart, sassy and self-possessed. Her knowledge of colonial times/costumes/customs shines in her books.
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I really have a few writers that I like to read. I like mystery/thriller writers the most. Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Agatha Christy. I also liked Anne Rice but I don't like her new stuff. She's not the same writer she once was.
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English Speaking: Edgar Allan Poe. Recent: John Grisham and Michael Connelly. Spanish Speaking: Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende.
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Charles Dickens.
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I read all James Patterson's books
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At the moment, I am especially fond of Malcolm Gladwell: http://www.gladwell.com/ He has a knack for finding obscure but important topics to write about in an interesting and layman-friendly way.
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Willa Cather
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Sinclair Lewis
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I absolutely adore Anne Rice among many others.
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Jane Austen......insightful, witty and such a light touch. I read her novels over and over again.
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James Patterson or Clive Cussler.
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Isaac Asimov http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_catalogue.html
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J.K.Rowling.inspired me to watch the movie.
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Oh so many good authors to narrow it down...favorite author of all time is probably Kurt Vonnegut with John Irving as a close second and Tom Robbins in third place.
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Michael Moore. You may agree or disagree with his ideas or views, but you have to agree that he is quite amusing, never a boring writer.
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Ayn Rand, Vonnegut, and Mitch Albom. sorry I dont have just one favorite.
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I'd have to say Arthur C. Clark. Honorable mentions for Douglas Adams and the team of Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg, tho. And when I was younger, I thought Ted Geisel rocked.
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H. Beam Piper, Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, Anne McCaffery, David Weber, etc...
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Stephen King and Isaac Asimov
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Hunter S. Thompson
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Trainspotting, written by Irvine Welsh. To me, it deserves to sell more copies then The Bible, as stated by the praise on the book itself. It's instant philosophy, fun, with a dose of disturbance and sorrow. I love it, it's better then drugs. XD I also like Stephen King. I know his books are harmless, but I love the double meanings in them, and how they relate to very human elements, masked behind killer clowns, undead animals and crazy fan girls. That last sentence lists my three favourite books he wrote. Also, Dracula by Bram Stoker is a sweet story, and I love the concept of describing the vampire through the fear of the protagonists present in the book, coupled by the neat letter and diary narrative format it has. James Reece's Book of Shadows is completely fantastic and a real journey into magic. I've never read anything so charming and vibrant.
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Dean Koontz, everything he's ever written, except Icebound. Just couldn't get past the first chapter, no matter how hard I tried.
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Robert E. Howard, he wrote the Conan books... which are told by an amazing storyteller! You'll find that his books are edited by Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, who found unfinished works in his attic and are gurus in the style which Howard wrote, so I feel they're qualified to finish his unfinished works. You have to read the series to understand what I'm talking about. That is my suggestion!!
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James Joyce.
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David Feinberg
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Michael Crichton. Unfortunately he just died two days ago of cancer. Good luck?
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william saroyan
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Agatha Christie. She's the best, the most published, and most famous mystery writer of all time.
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I have a few -Stephenie Meyer -JK Rowling -James Patterson -Meg Cabot
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i have several. c.s lewis is up there (fiction and non-fiction), along with oscar wilde, terry pratchett, c.j. cherryh, dante alighieri, and william faulkner.
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The Holy Ghost O;-) The "Ghost writer"
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Thomas Hardy. Takes a while to get into his english style, but it's worth it
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Dr. Seuss :)
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Pearl Buck, Elizabeth Berg, Joyce Carroll Oats, to name a few.
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Stephen King, J.K. Rowling & H.P. Lovecraft
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Stephen King (since I was 8), C.S.Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Hard to pick just one but right now it's probably Rex Stout author of the Nero Wolfe books.
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I would not have picked Jules Verne for my answer, except that I watched a special on TV last night, which reminded me of the enjoyment I had when I was a child and read all of his books. So as a child, I liked Jules Verne.
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Kahlil Gibran. As far as novelists, Herman Hesse.
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Molly D Collie :-)
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I don't have just one... but some of them are... Mitch Albom, J.R.R. Tolkien, Malcolm Gladwell...
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J.K Rowling and Christopher Paolini
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