What modern author have you read the most of?

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What modern author have you read the most of? Not necesarily your favorite, you just happen to have read a lot of his/her stuff?

For me, Robert A. Heinlein probably tops the list. For the longest time, "Time Enough for Love" was my all time favorite book, probably because I was in my teen years, and the main character gets lucky... a lot.

Stranger in a Strange land was great. In Cat Who Walks Through Walls, I think that one has the hero proud that in his heel, like Max Smart, he has something cool. In his case, it was, I think 500 Gig of data storage. Heck, I got that in my PS3 now.

JOB a Comedy of Justice was pretty good. Number of the Beast brought together a bunch of characters I loved from diverse books together. Lot of fun that guy. Wish they made more of his stuff into movies (Puppet Masters and Star Ship Troopers is all I can think of.)
 

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Alastair Reynolds. I read and like all his books. Amazing hard scifi, great tech.
 

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R. A. Salvatore's books are my favourite and I've read most of his works with some pieces missing that aren't available yet in Northern Europe.
 

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The only author I can think of that has a large library that I have read a lot of is John Grisham. I think I have read more than 7 of his books. Either that or J.K. Rowling. Yeah, I'm definitely above 7 now that I think of it.
Not really the most intelligent author, but I usually cool down after a hard semester with a good Grisham book.
 
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I read a lot of Chris Ryan. And ummm Rick Riordan who did the Percy Jackson Series. And Eoin Colfer. A lot of teenager books....
 

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I'm not exactly sure I'd call Heinlein 'modern' considering that he did most of his writing back in the fifties and sixties if I remember correctly.

Anyway I'd probably go with David Weber, I've probably read at least 20 books by him which is far more than I can say for anyone else.
 

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Define 'modern'.

Past decade? Past century?

I'd have to say Terry Pratchett and JIm Butcher (the Dresden Files series is just awesome).

And depending if he counts, Mika Waltari. The Egyptian, The Etruscan and The Secret of the Kingdom are great, great literary works, books I think everyone regardless of nativity should read.
 

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Hunter S. Thompson, who is also probably my favourite author.

The only one of his books that isn't excellent is Hell's Angels, mostly because it's a pretty boring read - nowhere near the standard of his others.
 

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Chuck Palahniuk. Amy Hempel. David Sedaris. Joe Meno.
Do Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson count?
I'm more a fan of the lost generation writings of the 20's and 50's though.
 

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Walter Dean Myers. I actually don't enjoy his prose that much and his books all seem to be about the same things, but his characters are involving.
 

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Well, the most books I have to JK Rowling.

In terms of enjoyment: James Cobb (military stuff) and George Orwell (1984 is great, but his essays, e.g. shooting an elephant are just simply great9.
 

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MaxChaos said:
Hunter S. Thompson, who is also probably my favourite author.

The only one of his books that isn't excellent is Hell's Angels, mostly because it's a pretty boring read - nowhere near the standard of his others.
I liked "Hell's Angels" but prefer "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail".
 

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Steven Erikson would be one of my main favourite writers. Writes fantasy but with an interesting twist on it.
The other would be Steig Larson who wrote the millennium thriller series. it's very good
 

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Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, R.A. Salvatore, for quantity, I suppose. I've been reading a lot of Naguib Mahfouz, recently, alongside a few eastern philosophy books, and some science of the normal day, a bit of Faraday,things like that.
 

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Bradbury...
Not sure if that is modern enough, but he is still alive, so I guess it counts.
 

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Well, I've read every Discworld book so far save for The Last Hero and own them all save for that and Eric. I also read the Discworld Companion, two of the Mappes books, and am currently working my way through The Folklore Of Discworld.

So I should think my answer to this thread is pretty obvious ;)
 

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Neal Shusterman or Claudio Sanchez. Amazing stories for both writers. Look up unwind or everlost next time your at a library.
 

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I read a lot of Terry Brooks and George RR Martin. Terry Brooks is my all time favourite author, and i always find myself re-reading Martins books. I am however currently a little bit pissed off at Martin. Ive been waiting years for the next book in his Song of Ice and Fire