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Favorite author
« on: April 29, 2009, 11:18:06 PM »
This isn't a "best" author as in most skilled...but who's works do you enjoy reading the most... I have a tie between Robert Heinlein and Rodger Zelazny
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 07:36:35 AM »
If we say just fantasy mine is Brandon, but if you say all of writing ever it's most likely Agamben.
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« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2009, 08:21:54 AM »
Roger Zelazny is on a pedestal to me. So he's number one. After reading The Hero of Ages though I started really wondering if Brandon was my new favorite. Man, that scene at Kredik Shaw was really cool (sniff--why couldn't Matrix Revolutions have ended cool like that).

Right below them though would be Steven Brust and E. E. Knight. Brandon, Brust and Knight are about the only three authors that I keep track of when their new stuff is coming out.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2009, 09:18:42 AM »
I'm going to go against your will, Kaz, and say Tolkien, who is not the person whose writing I prefer the most.

The problem is, when it comes to quality of read, I'm just not that attatched to authors—some are better than others, certainly, but I find more relevance in discussing books and series than talking about the author.

For example:  I considered Elantris to be middling Fantasy (on the better side of middling).  But I think Mistborn is excellent.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2009, 10:59:49 AM »
Can't say that I can settle on just one favorite.

I'd say that the top few are Watson, Jordan, Hogan, and Chalker.

No scratch that. Dumas kills em all. :D
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2009, 11:36:26 AM »
Three Musketeers was excellent.  He's a hard read in French, though.  Man's vocabulary was huge.

(Nothing quite so exasperating as looking up a word to discover you've never heard of its translation!)
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2009, 03:09:07 PM »
Douglas adams is by far my favorite. Every book of his is a complete joy to read, and I find no parts of any of his work boring or mundane.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2009, 04:30:25 PM »
Like most I can't decide on just one. A few of my favorites would be Martin, Sanderson, and Jordan.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2009, 05:56:19 PM »
I love Diana Wynne Jones. She was the first fantasy author I read, and I've loved her ever since. I also love Terry Pratchett, Patricia C. Wrede, Patricia McKillip, and Robin McKinley.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2009, 10:05:12 PM »
Now Lynn Abbey is particularly good.  But I prefer the work she did in the Sanctuary anthologies.  Haven't been able to get into her novels.  If she hit on a topic and plot as good as Shadowspawn in her novels I'd move her into the list above. ;P
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2009, 01:34:21 AM »
For me it depends on my mood.  If I am feeling lazy I know I can always read a Pratchett novel and they are all on my bookshelf so i don't need to go to the library.
I've loved Heinlein since I was a kid but I don't reread him so much anymore. 
New authors, Sanderson (of course), I just read Old Man's War and I think I'm going to have to check out the rest of Scalzi (ducks :P), and Dianna Wynne Jones.
I have found a lot of authors that I love one or two things enough to buy and re read but can't stand some of their other stuff, Connie Willis for example.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2009, 08:14:29 PM »
Hemingway.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2009, 10:09:30 AM »
The Old Man and the Sea was enough to put me off Hemingway forever...

Granted, I read it when I was so young that I should probably give him another chance...
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2009, 05:19:26 AM »
Quote from: The Jade Knight on May 02, 2009, 10:09:30 AM
The Old Man and the Sea was enough to put me off Hemingway forever...

Granted, I read it when I was so young that I should probably give him another chance...

That's my favorite novel (despite the fact it is in truth a novella), and I too read it at a young age.
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Re: Favorite author
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2009, 03:08:24 PM »
I can't settle for one author. If I HAD to pick it would be Brandon or Rowling (I feel like I spelled that wrong).
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