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Posted By: View Profile/ContactKevin Sep 08, 2004 - 03:07 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

My favourite Author from the U.K. is J.K. Rowling

From The U.S? I don't have a favourite. For some reason I don't read authors from the States. I haven't found any good ones from there.

My favourite Canadian authour is Kenneth Oppel, though Brian Jaques is all right as well.

From Australia: Garth Nix, my altogether favourite author. I recomended him to anyone who enjoys reading Fantasy.

Of Course I have to thow in South Africa to include Tolkien, who was the creater of fantasy.

That's it. Of course you can argue the fact. These are just my picks.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactDeathMaiden Sep 08, 2004 - 11:33 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

U.K.= J.K.Rowling

U.S= Tamora Pierce she's really good at fantasy

OZ= can't think of one

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactPat0214 Sep 10, 2004 - 06:23 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

UK = JK Towling
USA = Tom Clance & Anne Rice
Canada = Guy Gavriel Kay

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactHyperion Sep 11, 2004 - 05:22 am Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

UK = William Horwood + Alastair Reynolds + Peter F Hamilton.

US = Dan Simmons = Colarad USA. + Kevin J Anderson = Colarado USA.
William Gibson = Vancouver British Columbia.

Hyperion

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Sep 19, 2004 - 02:54 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

UK: J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling

US: Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Dan Brown

Kevin, I highly recommend American authors. The only author that I have read so far that surpasses them is J.R.R. Tolkien.

My favorite authors, overall, in order:

1) J.R.R. Tolkien

2) Dan Brown

3) Stephen King

4) J. K. Rowling

5) Michael Crichton

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactKevin Sep 19, 2004 - 03:17 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

I know. There's no reason why I don't read them, except by strange coincidence.

 

Posted By: View Profile/Contactgnollslayer Feb 26, 2005 - 11:01 am Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

How much Crichton have you read, Magus?

I've read:

Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Congo
Prey
Sphere
Timeline
Eaters of the Dead

I liked Jurassic Park the best, but they're all really good. Prey would probably come in last for me, it just didn't seem like he was writing at his peak.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Feb 26, 2005 - 02:44 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Only Jurassic Park, my second/third favorite book, and Timeline. I loved them both. I read most of Congo, but lost the book on he last week of school last year.

But I really really want to read more of him, especially Sphere, Eater's of the Dead, Prey and The Lost World. But, more then anything else of his, I want to read State of Fear.

And here's just an update of my favorite author list.

1) J.R.R. Tolkien

2) Stephen King

3) Michael Crichton

4) J.K. Rowling

5) Dan Brown

Same people, just in a different order.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactTheophilus Mar 11, 2005 - 05:32 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

For the sake of brevity, I'll limit this to sf/fantasy authors:

U.K.- Tolkien, Eddison, Lewis

U.S.A.- Le Guin!! I can't believe I'm the only one who has mentioned her. What's wrong with you people?

Erm... as for the rest, my mind fails me. That's been known to happen before.

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Mar 11, 2005 - 08:25 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

I'm only reading A Wizard of Earthsea now. And she is excellent!

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactNeurolanis Mar 12, 2005 - 12:50 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

UK: Charles Dickens (Tolkein close behind)

US: Edgar Rice Burroughs (Philip K. Dick close behind)

Canada: Pierre Berton

That's as far as I know. :D

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Mar 12, 2005 - 01:06 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Tolkein is close behind? The where does that leave Tolkien?

LOL

I'll do a list of several of my favorite authors , in no particular order:

America: Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, Ursula K. Le Guin, Edgar Allen Poe, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert

Europe: J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, William Shakespear

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactNeurolanis Mar 12, 2005 - 01:10 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Oh yeah POE!!! I have his complete works -- cost me ten bucks. lol. I love him!!

 

Posted By: View Profile/Contactaldan Mar 12, 2005 - 06:57 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

Magus, Willie's last name ends with an 'e', as in Shakespeare. Originally, back in the dark ages, or even before then, it probably didn't have the 'e' in it and was just a name describing what that person did/had done (he shook a spear).

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactMagus Mar 12, 2005 - 07:12 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

LOL

***Shakes a spear at Aldan***

 

Posted By: View Profile/ContactTemfor Mar 12, 2005 - 11:16 pm Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page/Submit ReplyRight click to create a link to this message  Search for posts by this user

UK: J.R.R. Tolkien

US: Robert Sheckley(my favorite of all time), Roger Zelazny, Ursula Le Guin, Isaac Asimov

Russia: Alexandr Belyaev, Ivan Efremov

Poland: Stanislaw Lem

Japan: Akutagawa Ryunosuke

 

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