Your Five Favourite Authors

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    Pra said:

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    I really like these 'your favourite' threads. Mine are:

    1.Victor Hugo
    2.Jeffrey Archer
    3.George Orwell (I liked Animal Farm better than 1984)
    4.Ray Bradbury
    5.Jonathan Swift

    Keep in mind that you aren't limited to fiction authors or the number 5 either.
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    1. Orson Scott Card (glee!)
    2. Tolkien
    3. Stephen King
    4. Garth Nix (for sheer originality)
    Can't think of others, sadly

    How about LEAST favorite? That's easy:

    1. Christopher Paolini
    2. J.K. Rowling
    3. Christopher Paolini
    4. J.K. Rowling
    5. My newspaper columnists

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    1. Bernard Cornwell
    2. Martin Stephen
    3. Fidelis Morgan
    4. Bernard Cornwell
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    Terry Pratchett. :laughing:
     
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    Cluny the Scourge said:

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    Douglas Adams
    H. P. Lovecraft
    Graham Greene
    George Orwell
    Charles Dickens (yes, I know he's unfashionable, but there are)
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    1.Victor Hugo
    2.Jeffrey Archer
    3.George Orwell (I liked Animal Farm better than 1984)
    4.Ray Bradbury
    5.Jonathan Swift
    You've got to be kidding - Jeffrey 'Jailbird' Archer in the same league as Ray Bradbury?


    Grumble mumble...

    1) Isaac Asimov
    2=) Philip. K. Dick
    2=) Ray Bradbury
    3) Arturo Perez - Riverte
    4) John Steinbeck

    Least favourite:

    1) J.K. Rowling
    2) Dan Brown
    3) J.K. Rowling
    4) Jeffrey Archer
    5) J.K. Rowling
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prarara
    I really like these 'your favourite' threads. Mine are:

    1.Victor Hugo
    2.Jeffrey Archer
    3.George Orwell (I liked Animal Farm better than 1984)
    4.Ray Bradbury
    5.Jonathan Swift

    Keep in mind that you aren't limited to fiction authors or the number 5 either.
    Poetry

    1. Eschyle
    2. Sophocles
    3. Shakespeare
    4. Edmond Rostand
    5. Keats
    6. Dante
    7. Ronsard
    8. Theodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
    9. Giacomo Leopardi
    10. John Donne
    11. Milton

    Prose

    1. Choderlos de Laclos
    2. Hugo, good pick Prarara
    3. Dickens
    4. Eugéne Sue
    5. Milan Kundera
    6. Tomasi di Lampedusa

    Semi-decent modern sci-fi fantasy stuff

    1. Heinlein
    2. Tolkien
    3. Asimov
    4. Orson Scott Card
    5. Clifford Simak
     
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    How come no one mentioned Marquiz de Sade?
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    1, J.R.R Tolkien (Lord of the Rings fan, obviously)
    2, Niklas Krog (Swede that has done some very cool fantasy books)
    3, Thats about it i think (dont read alot of books)


    P.S Harry Pothead BLOWS *ahem..

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    1. Pratchett, T.
    2. Orwell, G. (and I like 1984 better)
    3. Adams, D.
    4. Brookmyre, C.
    5. Saylor, S.

    And for some further: Pullman, P. Aristophanes. Homer. Herodotus.
    And when yuo say Jeffrey Archer, do you mean the lying, adulterous, manipulative, Tory "peer"?
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    You've got to be kidding - Jeffrey 'Jailbird' Archer in the same league as Ray Bradbury?
    You don't like Jeffrey Archer? Why? As The Crow Flies was amazing, though I will admit that Bradbury is better.
    When I picked him, Archer that is, it was only with his works in mind, not his foibles.
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    1. Fuller, General J.F.C
    2. Holland, Thomas
    3. Xenophon, Arrian Flavius
    4. Caesar, Julius
    5. Xenophon

    I know all but one of them are dead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Farnan
    1. Fuller, General J.F.C
    2. Holland, Thomas
    3. Xenophon, Arrian Flavius
    4. Caesar, Julius
    5. Xenophon

    I know all but one of them are dead.
    Is this showing off? Heh. Anyway, what's Aristophanes not doing on the list?
     
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    1. Terry Pratchett
    2. Elisabeth Moon
    3. Jan Gulliou
    4.Tolkien
    5.Lian Hearn
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    Never read Aristophones yet, no I'm not showing off, I enjoy reading ancient authors, Rubicon is an execellent book, and Fuller wrote an awesome book on Alexander the Great. It is called the Generalship of Alexander, an excellent book I would recommend to anyone interested in that time period.
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    Read Aristophanes. if you like or get sexual metaphors, then read Lysistrata; if not, read something like the Frogs or the Clouds.
     
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    alright I'll try Aristophanes. He wrote comedies, right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Farnan
    alright I'll try Aristophanes. He wrote comedies, right?
    Comedic plays, yes. ALso try Homer if you haven't read him, and that is advice to everyone: READ A FULL TRANSLATION OF HOMER!
     
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    1.Tolkein
    2.Crichton
    3.Clancy
    4.C.S. Lewis
    5.eh, me?
     
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    I don't know if anyone here likes halo books but i've read them all. Also when i was about 12 these were my favourite Autors. I don't realy have a favourite author any more (apart from Terry Deary whos books i still read when i have nothing else) because i read single series books.

    1. Terry Deary (Writes horrible history books, Very good)
    2. Matt Riely (Ice Staiton, very exciting and well written)
    3. Jude Watson (Wrote Star Wars Jedi Apprences series, it was fun to read back when i loved Star Wars)
    4. Eric Nylund (Wrote 2 of the 3 halo books, i liked the series because it told alot more about the games history and what was happening to the other humans on halo)
    5. Emily Roddar (Was one of the first authors that got me into reading, Deltora Quest was a great series)
    I saw, I bought, I played