Who Is Your Favorite Author?

[nickmajor890]

It could be any Author in the world, who would you pick?

[Souldarkness]

Terry Pratchett. I loved the way he found the absurd in reality and could just twist it slightly. Reading his books was like watching humanity and it's obsessions in a hall of mirrors. It think he was far deeper than those who would read him for the humour understood.

[burlyshirley1]

Male - Douglas Kennedy.
Female - Martina Cole.

[chanel5]

Anita Brookner

[Ken4155]

Stephen King

[Old_Geezer]

I'm not good at having a favourite whatever. If I think of one of something I then think of another, then another etc.. Terry Pratchet was a great favourite of mine with his Discworld series (especially the early ones). Then there's Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker's Guide series. Prior to that there would have been umpteen science fiction/fantasy writers. And before that, classical authors. And I'm sure I've got more that I just don't recall at present.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably should add Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Frank Herbert for their Dune series.

[Khandro]

Enid Blyton

[Abi77]

Kate Morton
Lucinda Riley
Santa Montefiore

[Ken4155]

If i enjoy a book, i tend to read more from the same author, sometimes to the point where i have read most, if not all of their novels. Harold Robbins, Leslie Thomas, James Patterson, Douglas Lindsay and, more recently, Mick Herron, to name but a few. Stephen King is the one constant since about '75, and i have read almost everything he has written in that time. Last night i began reading one that had slipped by me - The Colorado Kid - from 2005.

[maggiebee]

Think there's a lot of "snobbery" about books and authors. Favourites for Desert Island Discs were The Bible and Shakespeare which I very much doubt anyone actually read. My taste has changed through the decades from Enid Blyton to Terry Pratchett, Tolkien, Nevil Shute and everything in between.

[naomi24]

//Favourites for Desert Island Discs were The Bible and Shakespeare //

They would be my choices... because there's a lot of reading matter there. Imagine being stranded on a desert island with just a couple of novels.

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah. And you'd want lots of toilet paper too.

[Dagman]

Assuming 'author' as a writer of novels then it would be Bernard Cornwell, but factual authors would be Bill Bryson and Gerald Durrell.

[Mozz71]

Like a few others, I love the absurdity of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams (Spike Milligan, Robert Rankin) and the escapism of Tolkien, Howard or Pullman, but if I have to name just one, it'll be Iain Banks. His real world novels had such imagination and originality, and his Sci-Fi combined the best of Clarke and Asimov with the imagination of George Lucas.

[ToraToraTora]

I read a fair amount of Sci Fi and always enjoy Robert Heinlein.

[Mozz71]

If you like Heinlein Tora, then you may well like Banks' Sci-Fi stuff.

[steg]

Probably Nigel Tranter or Hunter S. Thompson

[lankeela]

Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell. (Sorry can't decide between them). Favourite poem The Rivers Tale and favourite book Animal Farm. Also like Alexander McCall Smith for the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

[webbo3]

Bill Bryson

[david small]

J B Priestley.