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I know we have a long had the "what are you reading" thread, but I want to know your favorite authors are, mainly those working with fiction in the form of novels, novellas and short stories.
I have here a list of my top 64? I wrote down off the top of my head to help get the ball started rolling
and then right underneath are my first 8 which I shall present with a picture of the cover of my fave book of theirs:
1. Chuck Palahniuk
changed my life, will never look at reality the same
2. Umberto Eco
found in college(1st time around) already adored Foucault and the film "In the Name of the Rose"
had no idea what I was in for, love it completely, read again and again, feel priviliged to have heard Eco speak once about "semiotics"
3. William Gibson
another nerdy kid in junior high gave me my 1st copy, bought my 1st computer after finishing
4. J. R. R. Tolkien
It is one of the books that inspired me to read and I have read over and over
5. Philip K. Dick
If you love his short stories, but want something longer but with some terror, this is it
6. Bret Easton Ellison
I think one of the most important books about "our time" at least here in America
7. Neil Gaiman
one of those book I always give/tell people to read & if they do, they love it
8. Yukio Mishima
if you are hiding from yourself in some way, then read this book!
Albert Camus
Irving Welsh
Christopher Moore
Terry Pratchett
Bruce Sterling
William Burroughs
Neal Stephenson
Cormac McCarthy
Raymond Chandler
Ernest Hemingway
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Poppy Z. Brite
Amy Tan
Kurt Vonnegut
Vladimir Nabokov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
James Ellroy
Jan de Wetering
Haruki Murakami
Dante Alighieri
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
George Orwell
Franz Kafka
Herman Hesse
Thomas Mann
Robert Heinlen
Joseph Heller
Mark Twain
Scott Turow
William Faulkner
Dashiell Hemmett
Joseph Conrad
John le Carre
F. Scott Fitzgerald
JG Ballard
JL Borges
HG Wells
Jules Verne
Victor Hugo
Alexander Dumas
Ray Bradbury
Jack London
Frank Herbert
Stephen King
Margaret Atwood
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy L. Sayers
Anita Loos
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Mary Shelley - yes, just based on one book, but an incredible book!
Miguel Cervantes
John Fowles
Gore Vidal
Truman Capote
Voltaire
&
Last on this list, but cerntainly not least, Oscar Wilde(a lof of his stuff was for stage, but I have mainly read it, not seen it performed, so I am making an exception here.
ps: at the last second I made it a poll to find out how much read is actually going on here...
I have here a list of my top 64? I wrote down off the top of my head to help get the ball started rolling
and then right underneath are my first 8 which I shall present with a picture of the cover of my fave book of theirs:
1. Chuck Palahniuk
changed my life, will never look at reality the same
2. Umberto Eco
found in college(1st time around) already adored Foucault and the film "In the Name of the Rose"
had no idea what I was in for, love it completely, read again and again, feel priviliged to have heard Eco speak once about "semiotics"
3. William Gibson
another nerdy kid in junior high gave me my 1st copy, bought my 1st computer after finishing
4. J. R. R. Tolkien
It is one of the books that inspired me to read and I have read over and over
5. Philip K. Dick
If you love his short stories, but want something longer but with some terror, this is it
6. Bret Easton Ellison
I think one of the most important books about "our time" at least here in America
7. Neil Gaiman
one of those book I always give/tell people to read & if they do, they love it
8. Yukio Mishima
if you are hiding from yourself in some way, then read this book!
Albert Camus
Irving Welsh
Christopher Moore
Terry Pratchett
Bruce Sterling
William Burroughs
Neal Stephenson
Cormac McCarthy
Raymond Chandler
Ernest Hemingway
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Poppy Z. Brite
Amy Tan
Kurt Vonnegut
Vladimir Nabokov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
James Ellroy
Jan de Wetering
Haruki Murakami
Dante Alighieri
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
George Orwell
Franz Kafka
Herman Hesse
Thomas Mann
Robert Heinlen
Joseph Heller
Mark Twain
Scott Turow
William Faulkner
Dashiell Hemmett
Joseph Conrad
John le Carre
F. Scott Fitzgerald
JG Ballard
JL Borges
HG Wells
Jules Verne
Victor Hugo
Alexander Dumas
Ray Bradbury
Jack London
Frank Herbert
Stephen King
Margaret Atwood
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy L. Sayers
Anita Loos
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Mary Shelley - yes, just based on one book, but an incredible book!
Miguel Cervantes
John Fowles
Gore Vidal
Truman Capote
Voltaire
&
Last on this list, but cerntainly not least, Oscar Wilde(a lof of his stuff was for stage, but I have mainly read it, not seen it performed, so I am making an exception here.
ps: at the last second I made it a poll to find out how much read is actually going on here...
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