(( Drum roll please )) Who is your favorite author?

[Room101]

GORE VIDAL

I have read 9 of his books. He makes me feel like a voyeuristic fly on the wall during histories most epoch moments. "Creation" sits on a pedestal as my favorite. I get the same joy reading him as I did watching my favorite TV show when I was a child.

Who is your favorite author? Only one! If you could only read one person who would it be?

[obxhead]

1. James Clavell....

His Asian saga is awesome with so many late turns that force you to reread every book.

[6000eliot]

2. Anthony Trollope

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

[Blue-Jay]

32. Yep.

:thumbsup:

[leftstreet]

4. Hunter S Thompson

Gore Vidal :thumbsup:
Henry James
Dr Seuss

[Heidi]

5. Don DeLillo,

Umberto Eco, Jack Kerouac, Isabelle Allende . . . can't name just one.

[leftstreet]

7. Oh! I forgot Isabelle.

:thumbsup:

[Ptah]

6. Peter Bowen

Bowen's admirable, highly original Gabriel Du Pre series

Du Pre’s latest Montana tale is a terrific thriller, but it is the tons of sidebars that reflect on many of today’s issues such as the health of returning veterans from Iraq, a slowly dying small town, and religious fundamentalism that make the story line fascinating. For instance, the impact of real sacrifice (not BuSh claims of Americans giving up so much to suppor

[WCGreen]

8. It is really hard to pick.....

I read so many different authors...

I was really into Colleen McCullough's Rome series... But have never read anything else by her....

I have read a lot of John Irving and Gore Vidal....

But mostly, I pick what I think I will like......

[MrScorpio]

9. My two faves

Noam Chomsky (Non-Fiction)

Phillip K. Dick (Fiction)

[rucky]

10. Eudora Welty

Flannery O'Connor
Anton Checkov

shit, only one?!

Welty

[enigmatic]

11. Bukowski

I read him for the first time when I was 15; 27 years later he's still far and away my favorite, as well as keeping me alive since then w/ his words..

[mb7588a]

12. tim o'brien. nt.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. only ONE?

I guess I'd have to go with an author who I personally know:

John Morgan Wilson...

He writes crime fiction......The Benjamin Justice novels. They are about a young journalist who has been disgraced after it was discovered that he fabricated his Pulitzer award-winning newspaper article.....

Our hero is gay, and is putting his life together once again. There are a series of books, the first of which is called "Simple Justice." They are well worth reading...

But I have many, many favorites... Just finished "1776" by David McCullough.....

[AlienGirl]

14. James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon)

[AVulgarianHue]

23. She must be my favourite author

Reread Up the Walls of the World twice this week! Her writing is elegant. Tyree is my dream world.:D

[Robeson]

15. Vidal, is mine too! I've read about everything he has done....

...I also love his essays. About the only books I haven't read of his, are the three mystery novels he did under the name "Edgar Box". I'd love to get my hands on those, since they received some nice reviews.

[Room101]

31. kick

for morning crowd

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. More than one...

William S Burroughs
Hunter S Thompson
Vladimir Nabokov
Kurt Vonnegut
Thomas Pynchon
Neal Stephenson

[NMMNG]

17. I cannot choose only one

I am incapable of choosing a single favorite book or author. :shrug:

[XemaSab]

18. JK Rowling

:bounce:

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

19. Today, in non-fiction, Molly Ivins...

I've been deep-diving in her stuff all week!

Current fiction queen: Octavia Butler

[RebelOne]

20. I've got three favorites.

Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Ray Bradbury

[tjwmason]

21. Tim LaHaye

As if.....

[NMMNG]

25. Aaaaahhhhhhh

:scared:

[AtomicKitten]

22. p.g. wodehouse

His short stories always make me laugh.

[Ohio Joe]

24. George C. Chesbro

Mongo, Garth, Chant and Veil. If you don't know them, you should.

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Larry McMurtry....always has been always will be.

He tells an excellent story...from cowboys, to rodeos, to vegas showgirls, Texas oilmen and a lone picture show operator. He's the best. :hi:

[hippywife]

27. Howard Zinn and James Michener.

Sorry, couldn't pick just one. ;-)

[BlueIris]

28. Jean Hegland. Everyone, go buy her stuff. NOW!!!

It's very important. Especially for you fellas. She should give you some insight into the females of your life you likely do not have (because no one anywhere addresses the issue that Jean does--seriously).

[Tredge]

29. If I must pick just one...

...then I would choose James Joyce.

Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I can read without straining myself. Ulysses I have read about 4 times and I would estimate I've gathered 40% of, over three years. I had to read two biographies of him and one book of his letters to get there. By the end of my days I hope to have that around 80%.

Finnegan's Wake is impenetrable to me right now. Mainly I use it as a lullabye for myself - I open it up and read it quietly aloud and can't help getting drowsy. Not because it's dull, but because it's a "night book", and read aloud its singsong cadences are conducive to sleep. Just listen to him read from it:

http://www.finneganswake.org/joyce1.mp3

So I chose Joyce - I can read him the rest of my life and never be finished.

[LostinVA]

30. Bill Bryson

[skygazer]

33. Neil Gaiman

Mark Twain
JRR Tolkien

[GirlinContempt]

34. Tolstoy

Followed by Dostoyevsky.

Delicious delicious Russia :9

If I limited it to fiction that is

[miss_american_pie]

35. Fitzgerald

[terrya]

36. Margaret Atwood

I absolutely love her. Consistently interesting writer.