Your favorite author?

[Chatato]

For me Matthew Reilly hands-down his writing always entertains me and he's one of those authors that are willing to take risks in their books plots and not just sticking to what would make the reader happy.
I also like Catherine Jinks however her sequel to one of her books, The Reformed Vampire Support Group, has fallen into the group that was formerly teen fiction thats right it was a BLOODY TEEN VAMPIRE ROMANCE BOOK however the first book was awesome and her Evil Genius trilogy was extremely well written and kept me hooked.

 

[redisforever]

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Roadside Picnic, which the movie Stalker and the STALKER games are loosely based off of)

I started reading the translated version of Roadside Picnic, but I gave up. Nothing to do with the quality, I was just scared shitless. As far as I got though, very good.

For some reason, after being a zombie fan, playing Dead Space 2, and other horror games, not much scares me anymore. Except Amnesia. But I found myself watching a movie and actually anticipating the "pop-out scary" part, and wasn't surprised by it, no flinching, jumping or anything. This could be a potentially bad thing...
ED: One more thing...
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When the Cicadas Cry) didn't scare me, but it was really freaky and was more of a psychological horror show rather than a scary show. Shion's arc is still my favorite, though.

Yeah, I don't like horror movies, but I can anticipate those pop-out scary parts easily. I also wasn't scared by the STALKER games, most of the time, but I love it, because of the atmosphere.

 

[popparik]

Roger Zelazny -- amazing writer, and even better storyteller (try reading the first couple of pages of Lord of Light or Creatures of Light and Darkness aloud).

Christopher Moore -- he rivals Terry Pratchett for laugh-out-loud moments in Fool and Lamb.

 

[liquidsolid]

I'm not sure I have a "favorite author" despite the fact that I like to read. I mostly read non-fiction books but I love literature. I found this nifty website with a bunch of classic books in public domain available to read.

http://www.online-literature.com/

There is a lot of good stuff in here, though I wish they had H.P. Lovecraft

 

[st0pnsw0p]

In fantasy it's Tolkien (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings).
In science fiction it's Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 days).
In horror it's Howard Phillips Lovecraft (The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness).
In comedy it's Douglas Adams (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
In mistery it's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes).
In poetry it's Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven, The Bells).

 

[BENZOOKA]

J.R.R. Tolkien.

That's the way a-ha a-ha I like it

 

[weker]

Rob Grant hands down and Incompetence (irony as I had to google search it) is such a great book

 

[Lord Kodous]

I have three favorite authors: Karen Traviss for the Republic Commando series, Michael Stackpole mainly for the X-Wing series, and R. A. Salvatore for the Legend of Drizzt series.

 

[E.Blackadder]

It depends how I'm feeling and what I'm reading, Terry Pratchett is in top position at the moment but James Herriot's in the running...
However, for my favourite EVER character, Pratchett's Death gets no competition.

 

[MetalDooley]

Hmm, probably David Eddings, author of the fantasy series the Belgariad. Was the first set of books I actually read that I could sit through (close second being Harry Potter) mainly due to the fact that before my dad lent me the David Eddings books I didn't have access to fantasy novels.

Anyways, great series of books, simply love them.

Love most of Eddings' work as well but his last series "The Dreamers" was just poor and had one of the worst endings to a series I've ever read.If you haven't read it yet I'd actually recommend skipping it as it'll just taint your opinion of him

At the moment I'd say it's between George R.R. Martin and Robert Jordan for me

 

[Max Cool]

Pick up Tim Dorsey. Read Florida Roadkill. He has raised the roadkill bar.

 

[Smertnik]

Terry Pratchett, by far. I just adore his writing style and how his books are both insightful and hilarious.
I also respect him greatly for keeping writing, even though he's got Alzheimer. And he made a friggin' sword for himself after having been knighted. Best author ever.

 

[Still Life]

John Jakes.

The North and South trilogy is a wondrous story. Loved every second of it.

 

[wilson_ty]

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Roadside Picnic, which the movie Stalker and the STALKER games are loosely based off of)

I started reading the translated version of Roadside Picnic, but I gave up. Nothing to do with the quality, I was just scared shitless. As far as I got though, very good.

For some reason, after being a zombie fan, playing Dead Space 2, and other horror games, not much scares me anymore. Except Amnesia. But I found myself watching a movie and actually anticipating the "pop-out scary" part, and wasn't surprised by it, no flinching, jumping or anything. This could be a potentially bad thing...
ED: One more thing...
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When the Cicadas Cry) didn't scare me, but it was really freaky and was more of a psychological horror show rather than a scary show. Shion's arc is still my favorite, though.

Yeah, I don't like horror movies, but I can anticipate those pop-out scary parts easily. I also wasn't scared by the STALKER games, most of the time, but I love it, because of the atmosphere.

The X labs in Shadow of Chernobyl actually scared me at the time, mainly because there was a half-invisible zombie that showed up as a silhouette attacking me while I was looting lockers. The ones in Call of Pripyat didn't scare me that much though.

 

[Gabe Koszegi]

Most definitely Kurt Vonnegut, I'd read Cat's Cradle or Slaughter House 5 over and over, but I have done the same with From A Buick 8 by Stephen King so I guess it's a tie.

 

[UrbanCohort]

Jim Butcher, by far...Author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera. I'm not going to recommend him because if you pick up one of his books then his writing speaks for itself.

Ninja'd by first response. Damn. It's normally me who recommends his stuff. >.<

OH-HOHO! But I *didn't* recommend him, I said that people should read one of his books and see for themselves - YOU CAN STILL GO FOR IT!!

 

[Tharwen]

I like Terry Pratchett very, very much.

However, I sometimes feel his latest books have been slightly less... good? It's as if he's lost some of the subtlety he was so good at.

Next is Douglas Adams and Tolkien. Also good are Garth Nix, Eoin Colfer and Anthony Horowitz.

 

[Rooster893]

Brian Jacques. Redwall got me through some tough times.

R.I.P Brian Jacques.

 

[The_Evermind]

For horror I love me some lovecraft, my personal favorite is his short story The Rats in the Walls, I'm sure you can find it online, check it out. Also, Stephan Kings Dark Tower series was really good.
As far as sci-fi goes I love Dune but Frank Heberts son kind of ruined the series, Orson Scott Card is good as long as you read the begginings of series, they usually kind of fall apart later on (plus Card is a total dick).
However my all time favorite autor has to be Douglas Adams, I still find his books hilarious no matter how many times I have read them, not even just the Hitchhiker series either, the Dirk Gently books are often even more random and crazy.