Whos YOUR Favorite Author?
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Whos YOUR Favorite Author?
I just copied this from da Hangar, but who cares. Whos is YOUR favorite author of all time?? Not just fantasy....but Im sure itll be a fantasy author..hehe, but who is it?
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J.R.R. Tolkien.
The others (in no particular order) include C.S. Lewis, Stephen Donaldson, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Steve Jackson & Ian Livingston, and Sarah Douglas (Australian fantasy author!), David Eddings etc etc... there's more but I can't think of them right now.
The others (in no particular order) include C.S. Lewis, Stephen Donaldson, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Steve Jackson & Ian Livingston, and Sarah Douglas (Australian fantasy author!), David Eddings etc etc... there's more but I can't think of them right now.
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Tolkien is awesome! First fantasy/sci fi(?) I read. I also enjoyed the Dragon Bone Chair series by Tad Williams and destiny series by Elizabeth Hayden. Tad Williams has a gift sim to Tolkien in the imagry & languages he makes up, I would recomend 2 anyone! (trilogy except book3 is 2 parts). Eliz. Hayden is good - first book was tough to get through, but moved along after that.
I've read Hobbit/LOTR more times than I can count. Silmarillion is good too, though I always had a slow read thru - only read it 2 or 3 times. Maybe I'll reread after the Covenent series.... so many words, so little time....
Give Tad Williams a read - been thru it 4 times in 2 years
I've read Hobbit/LOTR more times than I can count. Silmarillion is good too, though I always had a slow read thru - only read it 2 or 3 times. Maybe I'll reread after the Covenent series.... so many words, so little time....
Give Tad Williams a read - been thru it 4 times in 2 years
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Tolkien
David Brin
John Varley
Frank Herbert
George R. R. Martin
Tom Robbins
Douglass Adams
H.P. Lovecraft
Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Priest
Robert Anton Wilson
Cormack McCarthy
Issac Assimov
Tad Williams
Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury
Herman Hesse
E. R. Eddison
Roger Zelazny
Jack London
Fredrick Pohl
Dr. Suess
Ursula K. LeGuin
yeah! C. S. Lewis 2!!!!
David Zindell
Walter Jon Williams
Tolkien
David Brin
John Varley
Frank Herbert
George R. R. Martin
Tom Robbins
Douglass Adams
H.P. Lovecraft
Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Priest
Robert Anton Wilson
Cormack McCarthy
Issac Assimov
Tad Williams
Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury
Herman Hesse
E. R. Eddison
Roger Zelazny
Jack London
Fredrick Pohl
Dr. Suess
Ursula K. LeGuin
yeah! C. S. Lewis 2!!!!
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No subject.
In no particular order...
OK, in more-or-less chronological order...
Stephen Donaldson, of all people - first fantasy/SF author I read
Anne McCaffrey
David Eddings
J. R. R. Tolkien
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Death Gate more than Dragonlance)
Robert Jordan
Roger Zelazny
George R. R. Martin
H. P. Lovecraft
...and probably some others I missed.
OK, in more-or-less chronological order...
Stephen Donaldson, of all people - first fantasy/SF author I read
Anne McCaffrey
David Eddings
J. R. R. Tolkien
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Death Gate more than Dragonlance)
Robert Jordan
Roger Zelazny
George R. R. Martin
H. P. Lovecraft
...and probably some others I missed.
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Fantasy/sci-fi:
SRD
Philip Pullman
Terry Bisson
Non-genre fiction:
Kent Haruf
Barbara Kingsolver
Margaret Atwood
Toni Morrison
Weird guys:
Richard Brautigan
Kurt Vonnegut
Mysteries:
Tony Hillerman
Holdovers from when I was younger:
Edgar Allan Poe
Charlotte Bronte
I guess you would call my taste eclectic....
SRD
Philip Pullman
Terry Bisson
Non-genre fiction:
Kent Haruf
Barbara Kingsolver
Margaret Atwood
Toni Morrison
Weird guys:
Richard Brautigan
Kurt Vonnegut
Mysteries:
Tony Hillerman
Holdovers from when I was younger:
Edgar Allan Poe
Charlotte Bronte
I guess you would call my taste eclectic....
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Well, this is an old discussion but since I am new I will post a little list of my own.
Now my favourite author is Stephen Donaldson, but this is more a matter of choice. He is definitely not my choice of reading for all occasions. Quite the contrary.
But I also have a good opinion of these following authors:
Tolkien (of course)
Barbara Hambly (check out the Witches of Wenshar)
Tanya Huff (enjoyable but light fantasy and SF)
Raymond Feist (Magician and Silverthorn, the quality goes downhill from there)
Patricia Wrede (Mairelon The Magician)
Barry Hughhart (The Bridge of Birds and Eight Skilled Gentlemen)
Lois McMaster Bujold (Just about everything. my favorite is Memory)
Janni Wurts (The Mistwraith Saga is epic.)
Jim Butcher (also quite light contemporary fantasy, a little bit reminiscent of the Anita Blake series, which incidentally is a little bit heavy on the sex and low on the plot for my taste)
C.S. Friedman (The Coldfire Triology, a quite novel approach to several fantasy themes)
Roger Zelazny (Amber is good, at least the first five books.)
David Weber (quite good, but the latest books are far too long and the plots far to difficult to follow.)
Now my favourite author is Stephen Donaldson, but this is more a matter of choice. He is definitely not my choice of reading for all occasions. Quite the contrary.
But I also have a good opinion of these following authors:
Tolkien (of course)
Barbara Hambly (check out the Witches of Wenshar)
Tanya Huff (enjoyable but light fantasy and SF)
Raymond Feist (Magician and Silverthorn, the quality goes downhill from there)
Patricia Wrede (Mairelon The Magician)
Barry Hughhart (The Bridge of Birds and Eight Skilled Gentlemen)
Lois McMaster Bujold (Just about everything. my favorite is Memory)
Janni Wurts (The Mistwraith Saga is epic.)
Jim Butcher (also quite light contemporary fantasy, a little bit reminiscent of the Anita Blake series, which incidentally is a little bit heavy on the sex and low on the plot for my taste)
C.S. Friedman (The Coldfire Triology, a quite novel approach to several fantasy themes)
Roger Zelazny (Amber is good, at least the first five books.)
David Weber (quite good, but the latest books are far too long and the plots far to difficult to follow.)
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