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Post by woebetide mourn on Jul 11, 2006 0:37:33 GMT -5
Who are your favourite writers..? 1.)Troy Taylor- He's wrote many great ghost books, the Ghost Hunter's Guidebook is really useful. And i liked Spirits of Saint Louis {I go there alot..  } 2.)Edgar Poe-The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart{Of course!}, The Cask of Amontillado, and a few other good ones. 3.)Piers Anthony-All of the Xangth books my school has.. I'm not sure of the title, but the one with {Irene?} and they go to the mundane king, and such.. Wow my memory is terrible.. 4.)JK. Rowling-Every single Harry Potter book made so far, and a few side Hp books. {Did she write them?} 5.)Alice Hoffman- My favourite of her books is Green Angel, it is one of the best books i have ever read. 6.)Steven King-I've never really finished his books, so i'm basing that i like him as a writer on the fact that i love the book based movies. -woe |
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Post by Avelon on Jul 11, 2006 1:34:23 GMT -5
That would be Centaur Isle you're referring to, in regards to Irene in Xanth.
Piers Anthony - His Incarnations of Immortality series will likely always be near the top of my list of favourite novels. His Apprentice Adept series is interesting; a blend of Science Fiction and Fantasy that actually -works-.
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth series is genius. The Stone of Tears (book 2 in this series) is my idea of the perfect fantasy novel.
Fred Saberhagen - The Complete Book of Swords (a trilogy volume; the series has no name and the books are simply 'The First Book of Swords', 'The Second Book of Swords', and 'The Third Book of Swords') is well-written and interesting from start to finish.
Anne McAffrey - I used to worship the ground the woman walked on and beg my brother to check out Pern novels whenever he went to the library - I wasn't old enough to have a card myself. I was also interested in the Freedom (Freedom's Landing?) series for a while, but that passed.
Louis McMaster Bujould - Author of the Miles Vorkosigan mysteries. I liked the early books better, but the later ones are enjoyable. The earlier books weren't so obviously mysteries and tended to be more focused on crisii - which Ms. Bujould writes beautifully.
Douglas Adams - Yes, I'm a Hitchiker.
I could go on, but I'll stop here...
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Post by woebetide mourn on Jul 11, 2006 5:55:09 GMT -5
That would be Centaur Isle you're referring to, in regards to Irene in Xanth. Thank you. :) To remember all of the Xanth books.. wow.. {And i havent even read them all} -woe |
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Post by Zade on Jul 11, 2006 11:57:26 GMT -5
1) Terry Pratchett. I'm a slave to the Discworld series. These books are one of the main things that keeps me wanting to write.
2) Tom Stoppard. His plays (such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) showcase truly masterful handling of language and thought.
3) Kurt Vonnegut. What can I say? I like the man. Especially some of his short stories.
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Post by forever.insane on Jul 11, 2006 12:55:38 GMT -5
1) Phillip Pullman... WOW... we love His Dark Materials, and I suppose that Lyra's Oxford one... but it was a bit short...  2) Douglas Adams... Gloomy robots are the best...  3) Terry Pratchet.... YAAAy... tortoise |
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Post by Jest on Jul 11, 2006 13:40:52 GMT -5
You actualy liked the entire His Dark Materials Series? I felt that series went really really downhill halfway through Subtle Knife.
Terry Pratchet- Discworld is cooler than pancakes.
Douglas Adams- Dirk Gently anyone?
Lemony Snicket- The "A Series of Unfortunate Events" has an amazingly good narrative
Robert Asprin- Though the Myth series has gone a little longer than it needed too.
I have favorite books by different authors that don't make this list cause I'm not familiar with all their work. Like I love Enders Game but I don't know any other Orson Scott Card books.
No, she only wrote the actual books. The rest isn't canon.
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Post by forever.insane on Jul 11, 2006 13:52:03 GMT -5
You actualy liked the entire His Dark Materials Series? I felt that series went really really downhill halfway through Subtle Knife. Yeah.. but I was a little dissapointed by Subtle Knife, even though I loved Amber Spyglass. |
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Post by Eskimo on Jul 21, 2006 0:41:17 GMT -5
It sounds interesting I'll have to read the first of it. My list of writers is shallow as I'm such a slow reader. So I won’t even bother to make a list. However at the moment I’m reading the first in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice. Which, aside from too much sexual content thrown around in seemingly random places throughout, has been a great book. The characterization was much better then those 2D juvenile delinquents presented by Robert Jordan(an 8 year old in a song of fire and ice was more mature then some of Robert’s adult characters) though somewhat slower in starting off.
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