Your favorite writers ?
 

So let's see if there are some book lovers round here!
Who are your favorite writers ?
( No Hugh Heffner's not a writer)

I'll start with a short list of american & european writers, i may add some later.

American writers:

Charles Bukowski
William Burroughs
John Irving
Philip Roth
Henry Miller
Kerouac
Philip K. Dick

European Writers:

Kafka
Camus
Dostoievski
Celine
MC Liam Wilson
Andric

Bret Easton Ellis

Robert Ludlum
Robert Tanenbaum
Stuart Woods
Nelson Deville
Michael Crichton
David Baldacci
John Grisham
Michael Connelly

Terry Pratchett
Tom Holt
Anthony Piers

Tom Sharpe
Carl Hiaasen
John Grisham

Isaac Asimov
Tolkien
Enid Blyton

Agatha Christie
Erle Stanley Gardener
P G Wodehouse

niall mansfield hands down the best :thumbsup

Anne Rice
John Grisham

Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte

Chuck Palahniuk :thumbsup

I dig his stuff.. I also like

John Steinbeck
Fyodor Dostoievski
Arthur Rimbaud
the entertwining books of Kerouak, Burroughs, the beats
Jim goad
Leornard Cohen
etc..

Hunter S Thompson...

larry flynt?

HP Lovecraft

raymond carver
dostoevsky
samuel beckett
kafka
sartre

Kerouac
Bukowski

poe
thoreau
emerson

Cohen's Beautiful Losers is a very nice read :thumbsup

J.R.R. Tolkien
Dan Brown
Sydney Sheldon
John Grisham
Umberto Eco
James Patterson
Tom Clancy

:thumbsup

Robert Greene, Robert Cialdini, Dale Carnegie.

dickens
poe
austen
dostoyevsky

camus
beckett

grisham
turow
dan brown
stephen king

Hunter S. Thompson
Daniel Pinchebeck
Leo Tolstoy

how about some sidney sheldon or john grisham.

JRR Tolkien
William Shakespeare
isaac asimov

Michael Crichton

martha stewart :Graucho

Carlos Castaneda

William Gibson
James Frey
Chuck Palahniuk
J.G. Ballard

i love the plot twist on most of sheldon's books, esp in Windmills of the Gods

WOW you got fucked 2 years ago?:1orglaugh

Great listings.

I'll add:

WEB Griffin

William Gibson and Terry Pratchett

Patricia Cornwell
Authur C. Clark
Miguel Ruiz
Dean Koontz
Isaac Asimov
Kurt Vonnegut
Angus Oblong

Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins are top of my list lately.


-P

Nikos Kazantzakis - The Last Temptation of Christ. Don't see the movie. Read the book.

I love the brazilian writer, Paulo Coelho

Dan Brown (liked 'Angels and Demons' even more than 'The Da Vinci Code')
Isaac Asimov (Foundation = best Sci-Fi Set ever)
Tom Clancy (anything he didnt collaborate on)
Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse 5 is still stuck in my head 15 years later)
Robert Heinland ('Stranger in a Strange Land' my fave book of all time)
Hunter S. Thompson
Jack Kerouac

...gotta read "Last Temptation of Christ"... thanks for the recommendation.

D.H. Lawrence
T.S. Eliot
V.S. Naipaul
James Joyce
Joseph Conrad
Saul Bellow

Charles Dickens - favorite
Kurt Vonnegut
Alexandre Dumas - second favorite
Tolkien
Jack Kerouac
JD Salinger
Jonathan Swift

Like you can even read!

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