Who is your Fav Author, based on their entire body of work?
 

Mine would be Stephen King for all his books collectively, although my fav book would be by Dean Koontz...

What say you?

Grisham - Perfect for travelling...

my ass for the poetry in the bowl every day :thumbsup

one of: ROBERT PARKER

Ian Banks but only his mainstream stuff, I hated his Sci-Fi

Umberto Eco

King and Demille

I've always preferred Koontz over King.

As cheesy as some of her books are, my favorite author is probably Patricia Cornwell, with James Patterson a very close second.

I've read a lot of excellent books by excellent authors, but there isn't enough established work to consider them. Ken Follett wrote an amazing series (Pillars), but the rest of his work sucked. George R.R. Martin with GOT, but that's it. I used to be a huge fan of Clancy, but his stuff just started getting really redundant. Same with Koontz, King, Grisham, et al.

My all time favorite book is Trinity by Leon Uris. :thumbsup

King, Robert Parker, John Sandford, Michael Connelly, Lee Child.

Elmore Leonard

Clayton Bigsby

Karl Marx

i have a few Elmore leonard, stienbeck, hemmingway and Joe R Lansdale King is up there too...when he is good he is amazing.

but i guess tops would have to be Mark Twain

I have only read one author's entire body of work. That's my pretend butt buddy coup.

Enid blyton

Kurt Vonnegut

leon uris :thumbsup

I would like to read more of his books, but of the ones I've read, Vincent Bugliosi was a fantastic author.

The only author that I liked enough to read ALL his work is Harlan Coben. He has a new book coming out next month and I can't wait.

bell hooks, John Connolly, Sherene Razack

In that order

Peter F. Hamilton

Roald Dahl

Danielle Steele

Roald Dahl is AWESOME :thumbsup

The kids stuff was great but I LOVED "Tales of the Unexpected"

So for me:

(1) Roald Dahl

(2) Stephen King

Neil Gaiman
Neal Stephenson
Elmore Leonard

Plato ...

+1

Every one of his books are different...

Robert a heinlein.






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Vonnegut

Joyce Carol Oates

Philip K Dick

And Neal Asher would be my other favorite.

Glen Cook

Koontz, King, Barker

+1

I became a big Heinlein fan in my early teens and read every book.

He had a huge influence on my political views.

King is also great.

I would add Chuck Palahniuk :thumbsup

I'd read any book by any of these authors.

In hindsight - I'd have to say my favorite author was actually Leslie McFarlane (aka Franklin W. Dixon).

As a kid, his books were the ones that got me hooked on reading.

Ah! A kindred spirit then! That is exactly true of me also. We should talk sometime...

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I made it this far and was going to post "I'm surprised nobody said Chuck Palahniuk" yet.

I mostly read nonfiction. And for that, I'll go with Robert Greene.

ditto......

Greg Iles for me...

Some of the edgiest sci-fi ever written to day right there. Way ahead of his time during the 40's and 50's especially. He was a mentor to Ray Bradbury as well, another of my all-time fave authors.

King, Grisham, Follet, James A. Michener, Clive Cussler, Orwell, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy... and an untold number more, I've voraciously eaten up their works over the years.


Stephen King fans, are you familiar with his book The eyes of the dragon? It was a huge deviation from his usual horror stuff, was set in fabled medieval times. It's been probably 30 years since I read it but damn I remember it being really good.

Robert Greene (Mastery)

James Baldwin