Your favourite author/genre

[Donald Trump]

It's a fairly simple concept, you name your favourite author or indeed authors, and why you like them.
The same applies with your favourite genre.

 

[Rubicant]

Raymond E Feist is my favorite author. His Midkemia series is awesome, just drags me in and his style of writing is very readable.

The Genre is obviously Med Fantasy, love it!

 

[Dirges for Damcyan]

The late Michael Crichton. Great Sci Fi stuff that actually had strong scientific components. Anything by Grisham is good too (though legally sometimes untenable) and other than that I love the classics.

D4D

 

[Testra]

Graham McNeil for his warhammer 40k books are amazingly gory in detail etc. which is the kinda books that I like reading.
And my second favourite author is Stephen King with the tommyknockers.
So all in all my favourite genre is Horror/Sci Fi

 

[Saints&Storms]

My Favorite Author is Lemony Snicket! Man his writing is awesome, What Genre I like, well it would probably be Mystery and stuff like that.

 

[Davey Gaga]

I'm quite a fan of Cliff McNish: though his intended audience was older readers, he managed to grab quite a few younger readers as well with his interesting interpretations of fantasies: his first three books surrounded witches and wizards in a very interesting way, I fully recommend reading The Doomspell Trilogy. One of his other books, Breathe, gave another viewpoint on ghost stories and was quite mature but still focused on children in the story. Angel, his latest, feels more mature already.

As for genre, I'm into my fantasy novels, though I'm stretching this over to sci-fi novels as well.

 

[Franice]

If dirty sex is a genre, it's my favorite, and Bataille is my favorite of that genre. Not as hilarious as Sade, but certainly as entertaining.

Otherwise, Virginia Woolf ranks up there. Her prose is absolutely stunning, and probably the first time I was ever rendered breathless by any writing ever was in Mrs. Dalloway.

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif] Through all ages – when the pavement was grass, when it was swamp, through the age of tusk and mammoth, through the age of silent sunrise, the battered woman – for she wore a skirt – with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love – love which has lasted a million years, she sang, love which prevails, and millions of years ago, her lover, who had been dead these centuries, had walked, she crooned, with her in May; but in the course of ages, long as summer days, and flaming, she remembered, with nothing but red asters, he had gone; death’s enormous sickle had swept those tremendous hills, and when at last she laid her hoary and immensely aged head on the earth, now become a mere cinder of ice, she implored the Gods to lay by her side a bunch of purple heather, there on her high burial place which the last rays of the last sun caressed; for then the pageant of the universe would be over.[/FONT]
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[Sir Kenneth]

Graham McNeil for his warhammer 40k books are amazingly gory in detail etc.

Really? I'd always imagined that most people would pick Dan Abnett out of all the Black Library readers. Graham McNeil is good, but I've always thought that everything he did, Abnett does much better.

My own favourite writers are J.R.R Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, and George R.R Martin. The favourite genre is obviously fantasy.

J.R.R Tolkien was not only a great writer, but he also really made the setting of his books really come alive due to all the work he put into the comprehensive background of Middle-earth. My biggest problem with most fantasy writers is that the universe their work is set in often seems a bit shallow and cardboard set piece-like. Tolkien however really makes you believe it.

Robert E. Howard I like because of his powerful prose and entertaining, nihilistic writing style and stories. He really had a way of describing things which almost makes me feel than I am there with Conan or one of his other anti-heroes.

George R.R Martin I like for many of the same reasons that I like Tolkien. His universe is vast and comprehensive, and his books have so many plot twists and turns that it almost makes me dizzy. Great great author.

 

[Seed]

Michael Crichton was my favorite, I have read his book Timeline
multiple times. I love his other books too. His books are the only sci-fi I read.
I don't really have a favorite genre though.

 

[Caedus]

My favorite book of all time has to be The Brothers War by Robert J. King. He writes the novels for Magic: The Gathering. Epic visionary and form. His books need to be movied. Bad.

 

[Marcus]

Ian Flemming has to be my favorite author as i am a huge james bond fan, needless to say my favorite genre has to be spy genre as well. although i am really into Andy Mcnab books at the moment.

 

[King Sean]

Eoin Colfer. this person's books are perfect and the descriptions of ordinary events make you see life in a different light. this person's artemis fowl books are the best books i have ever read and might ever read

 

[!ELLE]

Gonna have to go with C.S. Lewis here, for favorite author. His writing styles in Narnia are just so whimsical and lovely and cute. :3

But underneath that, he has this crazy beautiful insight into religion and philosophy. It's very fresh. <3

 

[Aerineth]

Favorite author... Would have to be Richard A. Knaak for his work on the Diablo series. I have read and own all of them he wrote. He wrote other's for WOW and SC apparently, but I haven't been able to get around to purchasing them yet. Not a very rich person yet lol. But either way, love his writing style! Great author!

 

[FFMusician]

Christopher Paolini is my all time Favorite Author. I haven't gotten the chance to Read Brisingr yet, But Eragon and Eldest were awesome books, The story line has drama and action and everything you need in a fantasy novel, a fantastic magic system.

 

[SapphireStar]

I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, have been for years. i love the fantasy genre as it allows me to escape the naff-ness that is my life rofl. My fav characters are Rincewind - the rubbish wizard, Death - basically Death lol, Susan - Deaths granddaughter, yeap thats right lol and Granny Weatherwax - fabulous old witch.

They are great, entertaining reads.

 

[StarMasamune]

My favourite author is Michael Moorcock with my favourite genre being high fantasy.

I enjoy a lot of genres, mainly high fantasy, science-fiction and young-adult. Some other of my favourite authors include David Gemmell, John Wyndham, Frank Portman and Joseph Delaney.

 

[mothcorrupteth]

Favorite genre is alternate history. Favorite author is Harry Turtledove. The first book by him that I ever read was Worldwar: In the Balance, the first of an 8-part series that describes an alternative timeline where reptilian aliens invaded earth in 1942. The aliens, who call themselves "the Race", have already conquered two other worlds, and they're totally convinced of their own superiority. However, they advance very slowly in their technology; based on probes they sent here in the Middle Ages, they came to earth expecting an easy victory, because they wrongly guessed that humans progress roughly at the same rate the Race does. The long-term theme of the series, then, is the Race's growing sense of indignation and dethronement as humans breathlessly invent nuclear weapons, space vehicles, and warp drive.

The other series he's known for is informally known as the "Southern Victory" saga -- an 11-part series that departs from our timeline when the Confederate States of America win the battle of Antietam and consequently their independence, thanks to the political intervention of France and Britain. Twenty years later, the U.S. starts another war with the C.S. and loses after getting its nose bloodied when French and British ironclads start razing their coastlines. Embittered by the strength the South's "foreign entanglements" have won it, the U.S. begin cultivating an alliance with Imperial Germany. When World War I breaks out, North and South find themselves at war yet again, but this time the Confederacy loses. In the ensuing economic depression in the C.S., the Confederate version of Hitler rises to power. Thus, the last four books in the series document World War II between an essentially fascist C.S.A. and an increasingly socialist U.S.A.

 

[The Witch]

- Alexandre Dumas. I love his writing, it's always so interesting. I adore his stories and view him as the greatest author. When I read, The Three Musketeers, I was 11. It immediately became one of my favorites simply for the action and great story.

- I love Durante Alighieri too. The Divine Comedy is one of my favorite books of all time and is one of the very few books I can reread over and over again. To me, if I can reread it and not be bored of it- it's a great book. Also, I love how much of a picture Dante paints in your mind. It's brilliant and unlike anything else.

- Lemony Skicket is another favorite of mine. His stories are always so unique and mysterious. Sure, the stories of his aren't always that mature or adult, but if you think about it, his mysteries in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" is packed full with loads of random information and great mysteries. The series can really teach children facts that they'll take with them forever. I've always admired how he managed to keep the reader interested in the story. Whether it's by him interrupting himself to explain a fact or just how he makes you feel as if you know the character.

- Jane Austen is my favorite female author of all time. Her stories might have been about romance or simple life, but how she wrote these hilarious and romantic stories is the amazing part. The fact that she had to publish her books under her brothers name just so her literature could be read, is bittersweet. Even though, she couldn't publish books as a woman she looked past that and did what she loved most, write, even if people didn't know she was the one to write it. That's amazing.


They are my favorite authors. C:

My favorite genre to read would have to be Mystery, Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy or Romance.

I love being able to read a Mystery book and trying to guess who's doing what or what's what. It's so involving.

Adventure is my favorite because I love to see different scenarios take place in different parts of the world. Also the action is great too.

Sci-Fi is something I usually don't read, but if it's a good story I'll read just because it expands your imagination and makes you think of different places, people, and things.

Romances are always great, because they can either be sad, happy, uplifting, bittersweet, tragic, or a comedy. To me, it shows that good things do exist no matter how long it's there- it's still there.

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Due to my big interest in history, especially Medieval history, it shouldn't be too surprising that my favourite genre is historical fiction and fantasy in a medieval setting (which it is usually, but not always). Doesn't mean I can't enjoy a book in a more present setting though. I love travel stories, especially those which tell about adventurous travels in the Former Soviet Republics, Russia, Asia and Scandinavia.

My favourite authors are all fantasy authors as they are the only ones I actually read more than one or two books from. For example there's Ken Follet who wrote a brilliant piece of literature with Pillars of the Earth which is easily one of my favourites, but one book is not enough to become a favourite author. That's why I'm choosing for Robert Jordan (may he rest in peace), Steven Erikson and George RR Martin.
All three of them have created such an enormous world (figuratively, not literally) it's mindblowing. None of them feature the classic fantasy elements (dragons, elfs, etc.) which made many a fantasy book look cheap and all of them are masters in keeping a story exciting.
If you ever are in need of some new fantasy, pick one of these three and you shan't be dissapointed.