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Favourite Authors

I've recently been rather enthused by Terry Pratchett. There's little I can say about his works, though, without sounding like I'm citing the backs of his books, though, as all profound statements about his works seem to have already been made by people who get payed to make them. So I'll just settle for saying that his books are funny, and that silly things happen, yet he manages to write stories in such a way that they're still not total nonsense.
He's also pretty darn good at setting up puns. (A particular scene in Guards! Guards! near the end of the book involving Carrot and Vimes comes to mind.)
 
Erin Hunter/Vicky Holmes wins, hands down. She's amazing beyond words.

I also adore Jane Johnson, under her many pseudonyms. The Wild Road and The Golden Cat are spectacular, though they can drag on a bit at times. Her children's series is pretty darn good, too.

Hmm... that's about all, I suppose. I love too many books to possibly count, but the authors themselves don't usually stand out in my mind.
 
This is one of the questions I hate, because I have a million authors I love and I'm never going to remember them all. If I just keep it to people who have written multiple books/series that are awesome, then, uh, in no particular order... Tamora Pierce (yay fantasy), Scott Westerfeld (vampire science fiction~), Terry Pratchett (:D), Gail Carson Levine (rewritten fairy tales ftw), Dave Barry (way too quotable), Roald Dahl (go, nightmare-inducing kids' books!), Shel Silverstein (best. poetry. ever.) ... and... all the approximately one thousand and forty-six people I can't think of because it's early in the morning.
 
Dannichu said:
Huur, I spelt it wrong. Janet Evanovich
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Still male, dear. :P The -vich suffix (or whatever the suffix technically is) means "son of". So technically her surname is "son of Evan" or something. Really, I think sometimes the ovich thing isn't intended to be a surname at all. But it doesn't really matter. I mean, I'm not exactly what my last name would imply I am. :D (Oh, how lovely it would be if I were, though.)

Still don't have a favorite author other than Jacques, but I do have a list of people whose books I have really enjoyed so far and have been meaning to read more by, so I guess they could potentially become favorites. Uh, let's see... Stephen King, Terry Pratchet, Kurt Vonnegut and, uh, this one guy named Robert Sawyer who writes about dinosaurs and is awesome. If only that series wasn't out of print and hard to find... D: Damn you, library.
 
Kratos Aurion said:
Still male, dear. :P The -vich suffix (or whatever the suffix technically is) means "son of". So technically her surname is "son of Evan" or something. Really, I think sometimes the ovich thing isn't intended to be a surname at all.
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That's because it's a middle name. Like, Putin is called Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin because his father is/was called Vladimir, and as such the suffix -vich means son of, like Ericson, son of Eric. But his wife is called Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina because her mother was/is called Aleksandra and the -ovna means daughter of. It's sort of automatically added in as a middle name so I don't get why people have it as their family names but uh :V
 
...Yeah. That.

See I could be more clear about it if I actually remembered anything from Russian Lit but I don't. Uh.
 
Tamora Pierce, Anne Ursu, J.K Rowling, Rick Riordan, Tom Atkinson, and Hilari Bell.

...I'm a fantasy person. And...well, Tom Atkinson is another story.
 
George Orwell and Ray Bradbury are two that immediately come to mind.

J. K. Rowling is nice too I guess

Edit: Ah, Eoin Colfer and D. J. MacHale too.
 
if i had to pick, probably ayn rand or f. scott fitzgerald. i like j.d. salinger and stephen chbosky too.

edit: how could i forget daniel keyes?
 
Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and Garth Nix restore my faith in SFF.

re: ayn rand - doesn't e have an eighty-page speech about how capitalism and eir random stu are morally superior to everything in one of eir books

re: anyone who said paolini - I don't know you.

re: rick riordan - entertaining but crap

re: eoin colfer - would be decent if e realized when to STOP WRITING ABOUT ARTEMIS FOWL, HOLY FUCK THE CASH COW IS DEAD STOP BEATING IT
 
surskitty said:
I didn't say anything about communism.
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my bad. i'm not entirely sure about her glorifying capitalism in each book, but i know that her famous books outline her personal philosophy underneath a narrative. one of the books she wrote that deals with the philosophy specifically was called 'capitalism: the unknown ideal,' and that explains her ideals about it.
 
Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and Garth Nix restore my faith in SFF.
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Huh, I'm not sure I agree with Garth Nix. Sure, he's better than average, but not on the level of the others (not that either Pratchett or Gaiman are on the level of Le Guin but hey). I feel compelled to add Robin Hobb and, again, George R. R. Martin for proving that epic/high/whatever fantasy CAN be done right (I am looking at you, Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind!).

And while I'm at it, let's throw in some old school SFF; Asimov, Clarke, it's all good (unless it isn't).

re: ayn rand: all I know about her is that she wrote Atlas Shrugged, which has always struck me as a pretty cool title.
re: paolini: stop reading pale imitations and go read what he ripped off (alternatively, stop being eleven)
re: salinger: did he ever write anything except Catcher in the Rye (I jest! he um wrote some short stories that is all I know god this is embarrassing)
re: eoin colfer: great fun because no one outside of Ireland can pronounce his name
 
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