Thread: Who are you 10 favourite writers?

10 is a big number...

I guess I really only have one...

Agatha Christie (sp?)

She wrote 10 Little Indian Boys (And then there were none), and Murder on the Orienintal Express.

Really great books, I'd highly recommend 10 Little Indian Boys.

10's not a big number. I could have gone to 25 I don't read much, but I love it.

I don't think i could even list 10 writers.

Then do 5

1.Hitler-Mein Keimf
2.The Una Bomber-That manifesto of a rather
3.God-Bible
4. "The Jolly Roger"(dunno the real name)-Anarchist's cookbook
5. David Duke-title slips my mind

I think that's all of them.

Feh, I don't think I could name that many authors.

It's not that I never read, its just I don't usually care who wrote the book I'm reading or I just don't remember
But then again I seem to have a thing with names; I could probably list my known names of cars, actors, directors, celebrities, or songs on my hands and feet. Doesn't make for good small talk

In anycase Stephen King would be somewhere on my list.

I can't think of ten, so I'll list off whatever I can.

1. Orson Scott Card
2. Arthur C. Clark
3. Michael Crichton
4. Isaac Asimov
5. J.R.R. Tolkien (I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and haven't seen the tLotR movies yet.)

suprised no one has said Chuck Palahniuk

1. Chuck Palahniuk
2. Carl Sagan
3. Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
4. Aldous Huxley
5. George Orwell

Originally Posted by Odd_Nonposter

I can't think of ten, so I'll list off whatever I can.

1. Orson Scott Card
2. Arthur C. Clark
3. Michael Crichton
4. Isaac Asimov
5. J.R.R. Tolkien (I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and haven't seen the tLotR movies yet.)

That's a good list. Different from mine, but good. Not so sure about Michael Crichton--he seems on par w/ Dean Koontz in terms of craft, and while I loved Koontz as a kid (wrote a high school paper on him), I can't get three chapters in to one of his novels today. Clarke is hit or miss, but when he hits, he really hits--I'm thinking Songs of Distant Earth, and his recent Time Odyssey series with Stephen Baxter. And, of course, Rama.

My list:

1. Italo Calvino
2. Hermann Hesse
3. Anton Checkov
4. Stephen King
5. Frank Herbert
5. Jeanette Winterson
6. Arthur C. Clarke
7. Tolstoy
8. Greg Bear
9. Chuck Pahluniak
10. Heinlein (at the risk of endorsing his Ayn Randian side, or his Old Pervian side).

Originally Posted by slayer

10 is a big number...

I guess I really only have one...

Agatha Christie (sp?)

She wrote 10 Little Indian Boys (And then there were none), and Murder on the Orienintal Express.

Really great books, I'd highly recommend 10 Little Indian Boys.

i second this

Can't think of anyone except for David Eddings...and his wife, Leigh, who pretty much wrote most of his books with him.

@ninja: 10 really is a big number if you're someone like me who reads a lot of books, but only becomes partial to the works of a select few authors. Sure, I greatly enjoyed The Great Gatsby, but that doesn't mean F. Scott Fitzgerald will necessarily make it into my top 10 list.

New day, new list. And I've just noticed my original list had two #5s

1. Italo Calvino
2. Hermann Hesse
3. Stephen King
4. Frank Herbert
5. Jeanette Winterson
6. Anton Checkov
7. Ursula K. LeGuin
8. Arthur C. Clarke
9. Greg Bear
10. Heinlein (at the risk of endorsing his Ayn Randian side, or his Old Pervian side)

Originally Posted by Taosaur

5. Jeanette Winterson

i think dante should be higher on the list
also
why isnt Stephanie Meyer there?
lol kidding

Originally Posted by Arcana

why isnt Stephanie Meyer there?

Nice to see another Dante fan.

So, Ninja, Edwin Abbot Abbot? I assume you're read Flatlands, then?

Ooh, I love to read! This should be easy . . .

1. Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows
2. J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter
3. Erin Hunter - Warriors series and Seekers series
4. Christopher Paolini - the Inherritance Cycle
5. Kenneth Oppel - Silverwing series
6. Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time and many others
7. Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
8. Micheal Buckley - The Sisters Grimm series
9. Patrick Carman - The Land of Elyon series
10. Nancy Yi Fan - Swordbird

Wilson Rawls is high above everyone else at number one because I fell in love with his book Where the Red Fern Grows. It is absolutely my favorite book, and I've read it fully several times.
Then J. K. Rowling with the world famous Harry Potter books. It amazes me how she can continue a story through more than 2000 pages total.
Third is Erin Hunter, a little-known author who happens to be the author of the best selling series Warriors and another series, called Seekers.
Christopher Paolini, the author of The Inherritance Cycle, wrote Eragon, Eldest, Brsingr, and is currintly in the process of finishing that final book in the Inherritance Cycle.
In fifth place there is Kenneth Oppel, author of some of my favorite books of all time, the Silverwing series and Darkwing.
Madeline L'Engle takes sixth place for being an author that I love, and I hope to someday be focused enough to read the rest of her series.
Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, was definately going to be on the list. Although not my favorite author, I like the style in which he wrote The Phantom Tollbooth and the strange adventures of Milo, Tock and the humbug, so he gets seventh.
Eighth goes to Micheal Buckley, the author of the Sisters Grimm series, which I have strange feelings for, not loving the books, not hating them, but liking them fairly.
In ninth place there is Patrick Carman, who would have been much higher had his books in The Land of Elyon series been much easier to read without becoming bored.
And lastly, in tenth place, I have Nancy Yi Fan, the twelve-year-old author of Swordbird. I admire her for her courage to publish a book at the age of twelve, and I like her story.

Oops ... that was long ... I always tend to go overboard. I love reading!

Originally Posted by oniman7

So, Ninja, Edwin Abbot Abbot? I assume you're read Flatlands, then?

Excellent book

Herman Hesse
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carlos Fuentes
Ernest Hemingway
Fedor Dostoievski
Juan Rulfo
Salman Rushdie
Julio Cortazar
Stephen King
Gary Jennings
Leo Tolstoy
these come to mind.....
my favorite books being Steppenwolf and Demian.

has anyone read the Divine Comedy? i want to read it, sounds intresting.

Originally Posted by CeDeR

Herman Hesse
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carlos Fuentes
Ernest Hemingway
Fedor Dostoievski
Juan Rulfo
Salman Rushdie
Julio Cortazar
Stephen King
Gary Jennings
Leo Tolstoy
these come to mind.....
my favorite books being Steppenwolf and Demian.

Based on this list, especially #1 and #2, you needs you some Calvino. You might want to start with Cosmicomics or The Baron in the Trees, but at some point definitely pick up If on a Winter's Night a Traveler...

Really in no particular order (I'm just numbering to keep track of how many):

1. David (may he rest in peace) and Leigh Eddings
2. Frank Herbert
3. Edgar Rice Burroughs
4. Ted Dekker
5. Nikolai Gogol
6. Orson scott Card
7. Piers Anthony (though I've been taking a break from his books for about 8 years or so)
8. J.K. Rowling (just for fun)
9. Robin Hobb (though I wasn't pleased with her most recent trilogy, I've loved her others)
10. Francine Rivers