Good writers of both old and new literature

[perry_78]

Hej.

I'm mostly interested what authors you read :)

I have just recently discovered the amazing Stephen King by reading one of his earlier novels The Dark Half. I must say brilliant :) Now I have about 6 more booksbyhim from varios EUR 1 book sales ;) The wit and sarcasm with which he writes is something that makes me put tags into the book and review at a later point.

Otherwise among my other favourites, in order of the thought coming to my head:

Dennis Le Hane - e.g. Mystic River, excellent book, conversion to movie semi succesfull
Vince Flynn - e.g.Term Limits
Dan Brown? - This man is a terrible writer but for one reason or another I have 3 of his books at home :confused: The Da Vinci code was excellent not because of the poor writing skills presented but because of the factual information it contains.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Sydney Sheldon
Anthony Horrowitz - This author I know primarily as the author of "The Diamond Brothers series" and not his latter work. Very good author though.
J.D. Salinger - e.g. Catcher in the Rye
Tom Clancy
George Orwell - e.g. Animal Farm
H.G. Wells - e.g. The Time Machine, Story of Days to Come
Harper Lee - e.g. To Kill a Mocking Bird
Paulo Choelho

Some are more philosophical than others, but all are according to my humble opinion excellent writers with many good books.

Please recommend us more good things to read, right now I'm reading Plato : The Republic :D

[jayjaya29]

I've been reading all the Tom Clancy books that I can find. I read other stuff in school, but I dislike it. Stuff like The Great Gatsby and Othello. We are reading The Pianist right now, and I enjoy that. I am running out of Tom Clancy novels though. :eek:

[Rauf]

I really like Terry Goodking. his books are the only ones i read.
I strongly recommend him. specially his first book: Wizards First Rule.
It's fantasy but even if you don't like that genre it's still worth reading.

[Crankster]

Orson scott card, the one and only

[antipop]

I think i can quote a hundred writers, i'm a huge reader but among my fav books there is "Le comte de Monte Cristo" ( the count of monte cristo) by Alexandre Dumas, i also like Dostoievsky (the Karamazov brothers). I like Shakespeare a lot too.
My latest book is Ayn Rand, the fountainhead which is very good. The american don't have a lot of classics but this is a good classic. I'm more into non fiction book atm, i'm reading books about economy and geopolitics. Oh and i have another american classic waiting for me in my bookshelf (catch 22). Right now my reading queue is something like ten books long, i buy more books than i read :D Sometime i have this frenzy and i go and buy ten books at the same time.

[Disposibleteen]

My current favorite author comes in as a tie between Tom Clancy and Christopher Buckley.

[Chipmonk]

William H Burrows = Naked Lunch aint bad
Anthony Beevor = Stalingrad or Berlin
Guy Sajer = The Forgotten Soldier
Plus anything that can be found in the library @ Sandhurst College UK for my Degree in the conflicts of the Second World War in Normandy and North Africa.

A thin book but a good one is PEGASUS BRIDGE by Steven Ambrose, ( he's a yank that gets bits a little wrong by misreading the english mindset but gets a bloody good story across)

[bxa121]

thomas hardy.. classic melencholic and i think they do some of his work in english lit.. dunno...
mayor of casterbridge..springs to mind

my sister loves his work too.

[jayjaya29]

My current favorite author comes in as a tie between Tom Clancy and Christopher Buckley.


What does Christopher write about, since I'm on the last Clancy book that I can get from the library, I would like to find a new author.

[One_Hertz]

I really like Terry Goodking. his books are the only ones i read.
I strongly recommend him. specially his first book: Wizards First Rule.
It's fantasy but even if you don't like that genre it's still worth reading.

Second that, really liked the book, even though I do not usually like fanatasy. Its adult fantasy, so its not like rainbows and butterflies, instead there is quite a bit of violence, I mean it. Pretty long too, which is good. I think it is about 300 computer pages font 10 new roman. Also read the second one(wizard's second rule), it was also good, more violent then first, but kind of more interesting. REALLY shouldn't be read by kids :stick: so there you go... adult warning...no joke. Rauf, do you know if there is a third one?

EDIT: spelling

[Rauf]

Rauf, do you know if there is a third one?

actually there are nine books in the Sword of Truth series. he's writing 2 more to conclude it. the latest book is called chainfire and is the first part of the triology he's making to end the series.

If you want the names of the books visit: http://www.terrygoodkind.com/Truth.php

[perry_78]

Phillip Pulman is also good. I didn't particularly enjoy his Amber Spyglass series, but "Broken Bridge" is an excellent book in my opinion. The discworld series by Terry Pratchet are also good!

I havent seen the movie Titan A.E., but the novel by Steve and Dal perry is good.

[blinky]

fyodor dostoevsky

[cjc_75]

I really liked RA Salvatore who wrote the Dark elf trilogy, Icewind dale trilogy etc. It's all D&D fantasy, and pretty easy reading.

[zabomb4163]

suprised you left out authors like mark twain and c.s lewis

[STEvil]

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Forget the authors, but they wrote: Ender's Game, Grass, Willow Series... and lots my headache prevents me from recalling atm.