Pam Travers Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 who are your five favourite book writers?? (who are still alive) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samantha who? Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Paulo Coelho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika4Life13 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 louise rennison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violet_sky Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Nick Hornby, John Irving, Matt Ruff, Wally Lamb, Paul Auster (NOT the NY trilogy!), Jeffrey Eugenides. There are many more but I can't think of the names right now. Edit: Yes, I can count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 who are your five favourite book writers?? (who are still alive) We're not allowed to like dead ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam Travers Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 damn! I'm not for these times:naughty: hmm ok need time to remember some name..I'm a bit tired I'll return to this thread:punk: ok but please also tell me the dead ones,lol, im curious to know who you read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soaring Simpson Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Is this serious? I'll not miss the chance anyway Armistead Maupin Terry Pratchett (the City Watch series) Salman Rushdie (though I never actually finish his books) Ben Elton Helen Dunmore Sebastian Faulks All the Dr Who books ... so I got carried away- shoot me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soaring Simpson Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Paulo Coelho! Bought both, finished neither! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam Travers Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 We're not allowed to like dead ones? i really want to know about those who are alive much more, im really interested in that. "when you ask some people whats new in literature and the answer is: sartre, we wait for them to die." just a quote of one of mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soaring Simpson Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 ok but please also tell me the dead ones,lol, im curious to know who you read Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Mary Stewart (might still be alive but isn't a "current" writer), Nevil Shute (ditto) Camus (La Peste- can't read French well enough for the rest)-all very conventional What about you, Pam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika4Life13 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 louise rennison oh...five? 1.Louise rennison 2. Dan brown 3. J.K rowling thats....all i know : P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurel Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Stephen King/James Herbert Dean R Koonz Robert Jordan David Eddings Raymond E Feist I read so many books... but those are the authors I have the most books by.... As you can gather .... I'm a horror plus a fantasy nut.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artsyfartsy17 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 YAY WRITER THREAD!!!! Alive: 1) Anthony Bourdain 2) Sherrilyn Kenyon 3) Louise Rennison 4) Benjamin Certain 5) Eric Idle Dead: 1) Jane Austen 2) F. Scott Fitzgerald 3) Emily Dickinson 4) Charles Dickens 5) Agatha Christie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaatje066 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Stephen King/James HerbertDean R Koonz Robert Jordan David Eddings Raymond E Feist I read so many books... but those are the authors I have the most books by.... As you can gather .... I'm a horror plus a fantasy nut.... Ah, another one of those alive: Clive Barker (I really love Imajica and Weaveworld) Diana Gabaldon Marion Bloem (a Dutch writer) no longer among us: Pramoedya Ananta Toer Chaim Potok Robert Jordan (but why did he die before he finished part 12 of the Wheel of Time-series ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foalbaby14 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Lauren Brooke Elizabeth Chandler Rachel Hawthorne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika Freaka =) Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 J.K Rowling Francine Pascal The authors of the Point Horror books (different authors write different ones but i love them all) Dan Brown Sarah Manning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mici Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Wish i had time to read more books, but for now those are my favorites: Patrick McCabe - Breakfast On Pluto & The Butcher Boy are my top favorite books. John Grisham Stephan King Dan Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ela Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 John Irving (all novels) Terry Pratchett (The Discworld series) Alan Dean Foster (Spellsinger) Andrea Camilleri (Commissario Montalbano) Åke Edwardson (Inspector Winter novels) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah_Lollipop Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 My favourites are Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, JK Rowling and Stephanie Meyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Very tough to narrow down the list... When you say authors, you don't mean poets, or playwrights, but more "book" authors, novelists, right? Wow, very hard to keep it to 5 -- I could do 5 in multiple genres and eras Including children's literature, historical fiction, nonfiction... OK, here are my lists as of today -- the names that came to mind right away. Tomorrow these lists could be totally different! 5 Alive -- English language: Michael Chabon Toni Morrison Barbara Kingsolver Louise Erdrich Gore Vidal 5 Not So Alive Anymore: Kurt Vonnegut Mark Twain Edgar Allan Poe Roald Dahl Dr. Seuss dcdeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam Travers Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 Gore Vidal dcdeb really? what did you read from him? did you read his essays? i dont think ill ever be sure of what he said about warhol but there is sthg he once said that makes me laugh anytime i think of it: "what other culture could have produced someone like hemingway and not seen the joke?" i think it could work with madonna too, right? right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Random_Pink_Penguin Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Jaqueleine Wilson! Lol:naughty: Michael Morpurgo (is he still alive?) Malory Blackman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veroMica Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I absolutely love Ray Bradbury. I think he's a total genious! Apart from him... I like a lot Ernesto Sábato (argentinean), Julio Cortázar, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (you must read his rhymes, you will fall in love), Jules Verne, Charles Baudelaire and Marquis de Sade. There are also many other writers I love (cause reading is something I really enjoy), but I think those are my all time favourites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikaMeka Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Stephine Meyer, Scott Westerfield, JK Rowling, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, Jane Austin, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dr. Suess, Tyler Perry, and William Shakespeare:naughty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam Travers Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 Jaqueleine Wilson! Lol:naughty: lol, (well i had to check to be honest), the illustrations of her books are cool anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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