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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #30 on: August 01, 2008, 08:19:26 PM »
Figured I would add my short list in:

Robert B. Parker
Raymond Chandler
John Connolly
Stephen King
Richard Laymon
Joe R. Lansdale
Charles de Lint
Tim Pratt
George R. R. Martin
Scott Lynch
J. R. R. Tolkien
Bruce Sterling
Philip K. Dick
H.P. Lovecraft
Jim Butcher
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #31 on: August 04, 2008, 09:17:42 AM »
Dick's Do Androids Dream... is staring at me as I type this. On my "to read" list. Have read one thing by Dick and liked it much, "Minority Report."

Tolkien will always have a special place in my heart and I was so happy Peter Jackson did him justice on the big screen, even if he left Tom Bombadil out.

Just re-read King's Running Man. Damn, still a great book! Only convinces me that King has fallen off in the last decade or so, IMHO.


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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #32 on: August 07, 2008, 10:22:22 PM »
Quote from: Monchinski on August 04, 2008, 09:17:42 AM
Just re-read King's Running Man. Damn, still a great book! Only convinces me that King has fallen off in the last decade or so, IMHO.

That's for sure - Running Man is probably my all-time favorite King story.  A close second is The Long Walk.

But yeah, I don't think I've read a decent book by him in at least ten years, with the possible exception of Cell, which I thought was fairly good.  He REALLY dropped the ball on the Dark Tower series.  God, what a disappointment that turned out to be...   :'(
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #33 on: August 09, 2008, 06:27:05 AM »
I have not read The Dark Tower series but always wanted to. I have heard its at the very end that he drops the ball. True?

Funny you mention the Long Walk. I wanted to re-red 2 King books this summer, Running Man and Long Walk. Both excellent books. I am writing a nonfiction academic text for a publisher and may include a chapter on dystopian games, including the 2 King books.

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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #34 on: August 09, 2008, 10:06:51 AM »
I've been reading a lot of Robert E. Howard's stuff lately.  Definitely not a writer for those who insist on adjective-sparse prose, but the worlds he creates and the unbridled enthusiasm in his work makes it a lot of fun to read  :thumbsup:
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #35 on: August 09, 2008, 11:56:35 AM »
Quote from: Monchinski on August 09, 2008, 06:27:05 AM
I have not read The Dark Tower series but always wanted to. I have heard its at the very end that he drops the ball. True?
Well, without giving anything away, let's just say that an integral character to King's universe (in more books than the DT series) is given incredibly short shrift.  So disappointing.  Especially when you wait more than two freakin' decades only to read... that.  Bleh.  I also didn't care for how King works himself in as a character.  Hubris, thy name is Stephen!  :D

But IMO the first four books are some of the greatest feats of imagination in history.

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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #36 on: August 14, 2009, 07:23:46 PM »
Robert B. Parker.  I just love the Spenser series of books. I have all 30+ of them.
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #37 on: August 15, 2009, 05:57:50 PM »
Quote from: Diamond on August 09, 2008, 11:56:35 AM
Quote from: Monchinski on August 09, 2008, 06:27:05 AM
I have not read The Dark Tower series but always wanted to. I have heard its at the very end that he drops the ball. True?
Well, without giving anything away, let's just say that an integral character to King's universe (in more books than the DT series) is given incredibly short shrift.  So disappointing.  Especially when you wait more than two freakin' decades only to read... that.  Bleh.  I also didn't care for how King works himself in as a character.  Hubris, thy name is Stephen!  :D

But IMO the first four books are some of the greatest feats of imagination in history.


I'm going to have to get around to those 4 books then...recently finished The Terror by Dan Simmons. Awesome book! Bruce M. recommended it and he was right on!
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #38 on: October 20, 2009, 10:49:15 PM »
Brian Keene
Tim Lebbon
Scott Sigler FDO
Simon Clark
Kim Paffenroth
Richard Laymon
Mark Morris
Stephen King
David Wellington
Kim Paffenroth
Jack Kilborn
David Moody
Jack Ketchum
Tony Monchinski
Johnathan Maberry
Bret Easton Ellis

Not in this order really, well maybe top 5 are


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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #39 on: October 20, 2009, 11:10:36 PM »
Sir Raymond of Bradbury
JG Ballard
Milan Kundera
Raymond Carver
Donna Tartt
Bernard Cornwell
Cormac McCarthy
Clive Barker
James Joyce
Mikhail Bulgakov
Iain Banks
Michael Moorcock
Dylan Thomas
Arthur C. Clarke
Isaac Asimov
Roald Dahl
Vladimir Nabokov
Tolkien
JD Salinger
tons more I forget through slight inebriation
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #40 on: October 21, 2009, 05:57:34 AM »
Lists like these always remind me that no matter how much I think I've read there is always more good stuff out there to entertain and edify!!!
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #41 on: October 21, 2009, 06:20:57 AM »
Over the past several years I've been reading a lot of translated Japanese fiction, mostly in the sub-category of "women's crime fiction." Some of my favorite authors are Natsuo Kirino, Miyuki Miyabe and Asa Nonami. They're all excellent. I have a beat up copy of Kirno's novel Out, plus the hardback, plus the two-volume original Japanese paperbacks (which I can't even read, sadly) and I've recently found out that there's also a German edition of the novel that might be a bit pricy to snag but I'm determined to track it down.

Some other authors I can't get enough of are William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, Max Barry, Haruki Murakami (I've got a love-hate relationship with his work, but I can't stop reading them), Ryu Murakami, David Mitchell and Francesca Lia Block.

Strange, none of my favorites are traditional "horror" authors.
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #42 on: October 21, 2009, 08:41:35 AM »
Lets start right off with all the Permuted writers. I have yet to find a bad one.
with that said.......
C.S. Lewis ( The Screwtape Letters ) Changed me.
David Wellington
Richard Matheson
David Moody
Scott Sigler
Cormac Macarthy
Brian Keene
Dan Simmons
William R. Forstchen
Max Brooks
Peter Benchley
Judy Bloom* come on she ruled!
Shell Silverstein
Lewis Carroll
Charles Dickens
Marshall Dodge
Robert McCloskey ***** grew up on him! The best!! blueberries for sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of wonder, Make way for ducklings, the CLASIC***HOMER PRICE, and many more....
I will say again though, Permuted has given me plenty more people to love!!!
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #43 on: October 21, 2009, 09:00:16 AM »
The incomplete list:

Ray Bradbury
Neil Gaiman
Roger Zelazny
R.A. MacAvoy
Robert E. Howard
Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
Robert B. Parker
Tony Hillerman
S.J. Rozan
Leigh Brackett
C.L. Moore
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Umberto Eco
Manly Wade Wellman
Harper Lee
and many more...
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Re: Favorite fiction authors?
« Reply #44 on: October 21, 2009, 11:03:08 AM »
Despite his short comings as a human being, Lovecraft will always be my favorite author.

Also,

Michael Crichton
George Orwell
Chinua Achebe
China Mieville
Eoin Colfer
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Chuck Palahniuk
Margaret Atwood
Lewis Carroll
William Gibson
Josef Conrad
TS Eliot

I am looking forward to reading Neal Stephenson, Djuna Barnes, the Brunte sisters, Bruce Sterling, Malinda Lo and David Dunwoody.
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