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What authors do you read?

Discussion in 'Tilted Entertainment' started by Borla, Jul 30, 2011.

  1. EventHorizon

    EventHorizon assuredly the cause of the angry Economy..

    Location:
    FREEDOM!
    Dr. Seuss! and i meant to say Alan Moore my apologies
     
  2. sbscout

    sbscout Getting Tilted

    Too busy now that school is back in session...

    I'm pretty much limited to YA authors at this point.
     
  3. Spiritsoar

    Spiritsoar Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    New York
    Robert Heinlein
    Chuck Paluhniuk
    Orson Scott Card
    Terry Goodkind
    Neal Stephenson
    Dean Koontz (some good, some bad)
    R.A. Salvatore
    Ayn Rand

    I'm sure there's more, those are the ones that come to mind.
     
  4. PonyPotato

    PonyPotato Very Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    I haven't been able to read for pleasure for quite a while (school, working and training for triathlons or half marathon or whatever at the same time), but I still love these authors:

    David Sedaris
    Chuck Palahniuk
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Charlotte Bronte
    Francesca Lia Block (YA)

    ...Otherwise, I pick random memoirs or audiobooks. I have a ton of textbooks, though.
     
  5. CinnamonGirl

    CinnamonGirl The Cheat is GROUNDED!

    I absolutely love Charles de Lint....I haven't read all of his stuff, but I've yet to read anything of his I DIDN'T like.

    I also like Neil Gaiman, but not everything. Could NOT get past the first few chapters of American Gods. I really loved Neverwhere and Stardust, though.

    I'm another one that dips into Young Adult fiction quite a bit... the Hunger Games is my current favorite, but I'm also a big fan of Patricia C. Wrede (the Enchanted Forest Chronicles) and Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness.)
     
  6. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    Some of the authors I have enjoyed reading would include:
    Gary North - Theological books, his book showcasing the failures of the 'imminent rapture' thinking is quite good
    Stephen King
    Robert Jordan/ Wheel of time Series
    J.R.R. Tolkien - 'nuff said
    C.S. Lewis
    G.K. Chesterton
     
  7. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    i read a lot - i mean a LOT - especially when i'm in florida, which is 8 months of the year...

    this is my authors list:

    hon. patricia benke
    william bernhardt
    jay brandon
    john brandon
    stephen j. cannell
    lorenzo carcaterra
    william j. caunitz
    harlan coben
    michael connelly
    patricia cornwell
    william j. coughlin
    robert crais
    jeffery deaver
    ken follett
    j. f. freedman
    philip friedman
    thomas gifford
    w. e. b. griffin
    john grisham
    robert harris
    carl hiaasen
    greg iles
    dennis lehane - i'm currently reading 'the given day'
    john t. lescroart
    david l. lindsey
    phillip margolin
    michael palmer
    barbara parker
    robert b. parker
    james patterson
    richard north patterson
    ridley pearson
    barry reed
    john sandford
    daniel silva
    james swain
    robert k. tannenbaum
    robert w. walker
    david wiltse
    stuart woods

    i used to find most of my books at the used book store here or in florida but the last couple of times i went on a buying foray, i went through amazon books. in a lot of cases, the shipping costs more than the used book itself.

    tried a kindle but i am just not comfortable reading off a screen...
     
  8. Nikilidstrom

    Nikilidstrom Vertical

    Location:
    Michigan, USA
    Have you read many of Goodkind's books? I've only read the Wizards First Rule so far, and while I liked the story, his writing style strikes me as very amateurish. Has he improved at all throughout the series?
     
  9. Spiritsoar

    Spiritsoar Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    New York
    That's the thing about Goodkind, he's not the best writer, but tells a great story, if that makes sense. That series is still one of my favorites, the whole way through.
     
  10. greywolf

    greywolf Slightly Tilted

    My authors tend to be heavily in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy realm:

    Asimov (he's reached the status of being a single-namer!!)
    Piers Anthony
    Jack Chalker
    Julian May
    Philip Jose Farmer
    David Gemmell
    David Pratchett

    In other areas, I tend not to follow a lot of authors, but go more on a book by book basis, with the exception of
    Agatha Christie
     
  11. sapiens

    sapiens Vertical

    Location:
    Fort Worth, TX
    Here are a few:

    Ian Rankin (He writes the John Rebus detective series).
    Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, The Baroque Cycle, The Cryptonomicon, etc.)
    George R. R. Martin (Song of Ice and Fire)
    Terry Pratchett (Discworld series)
    Neil Gaiman (American Gods, The Graveyard Book, Coraline, Sandman, etc.)
    Patrick Rothfuss (Wise Man's Fear, etc.)
    Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, Gun with Occasional Music)
    Raymond Chandler (Classic detective fiction)
    Mickey Spillane (More classic detective fiction)
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
    Carlos Fuentes (The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo, etc.)
    Richard Grant (God's Middle Finger, American Nomads)
    Tony Hortwiz (A Voyage Long and Strange, Confederates in the Attic)
     
  12. Stick

    Stick Vertical

    Location:
    Mudgee, Australia
    Mrs. Stick is plowing her way through some lengthy Goodkind series. Apart from that, for her it's all technical, sciencey stuff seeing as how she's a high school science teacher.

    Lately, for me, I've been reading older authors a lot -
    Rudyard Kipling
    Jonathon Swift
    Nikolai Gogol
    Oscar Wilde
    Dostoevsky
    Mark Twain
    H. Rider Haggard
    Cervantes
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    and, of course, you can't go past Terry Pratchett for a bit of a laugh. Makes me want to live in Discworld.
     
  13. sapiens

    sapiens Vertical

    Location:
    Fort Worth, TX
    I've read The Nation (which I enjoyed), The Wee Free Men (which I enjoyed), and The Colour of Magic (which I enjoyed). Do you have any Pratchett recommendations?
     
  14. Stick

    Stick Vertical

    Location:
    Mudgee, Australia
    Mort.
    Mort was a kid who missed out on an apprenticeship with every trade known to man.
    Then Death came along and offered him a job.
     
  15. the_jazz

    the_jazz Accused old lady puncher

    Harry Turtledove
    Robert Massie
    Jack Campbell
    Stephen King
    Isaac Asimov
    Jack McDevitt
    Peter F. Hamilton
    Vasily Grossman
    Mark Twain
    E.L. Doctorow
    Umberto Eco
     
  16. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

    Location:
    Ipswich, UK
    I've read pretty much everything published by:

    George Orwell
    Martin Amis
    Will Self
    Henning Mankell
    Sjowall and Wahloo (Martin Beck series)
     
  17. wolf Evil Grin

    Location:
    Right Behind You
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    Anne Rice
    Kelley Armstrong
    George R.R Martin
    Steig Larsson
    Fred Alan Wolf - Quantum Physics
    Stephen King
    Dean Koontz
    James Patterson
     
  18. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    I got my copy of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton by my English teacher telling me to keep my copy out of the class set, and that he would pay for it. He got me hooked on Thomas Hardy, as once it became clear I liked Ethan Frome as much as he did, he recommended Tess of the D'Urbervilles. He said it was his favorite book, and because he was one of my favorite teachers, I went and got a copy and read it straightaway.

    If I were to list off all of the authors I read...it would be a very long list. I studied English in university, and I am still a voracious reader when I have time to be. General favorites, and authors I'm reading right now:

    Thomas Hardy
    Edith Wharton
    Jane Austen
    L.M. Montgomery
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    G.R.R. Martin
    Tasha Alexander
    M.C. Beaton (I love the Hamish McBeth mysteries)
    Margaret Atwood

    There are lots more, but those are what I can think of with one cup of coffee...
     
  19. POPEYE

    POPEYE Very Tilted

    Location:
    Tulsa
    Clive Barker, I have Sacrament, The Great and secret show, and Cabel
    H.P. Lovecraft
    Ann Rice and her son Chris
    You get the idea. I took pics but can't figure out how to post them with my phone yet.
     
  20. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    My reading is very eclectic. I don't follow any authors in the must-read sense. Over the years I have managed to read many, in some cases nearly all, books by certain authors. These are the authors I can think of right now.

    John Irving--many/possibly nearly all.
    Dennis Lehane--many/possibly nearly all.
    Cormac McCarthy--nearly all.
    Tess Gerritsen--quite a few, but she's written many novels.
    Ken Follet--a few of his legal novels, all of his historical fiction.
    John Grisham--a few of his legal novels, a few of his non-legal novels, & his non-fiction.
    Edith Pargeter, nom de plume Ellis Peters--quite a few, but The Cadfael Chronicles includes many books.
    Christopher Brookmyre--I read his first three novels, but lost interest.
    --- merged: Aug 13, 2016 at 12:20 PM ---
    I should've included

    Stephen King--a couple of his horror novels, a few non-horror novels which I much prefer.
     
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