Okee, while we're sharing, gimme your 5 favorite authors right now

[Bossy Monkey]

Don't think about it, don't recriminate, I know the list changes from moment to moment like all lists of favorites. Come across: who writes good?

Mine, this minute:
Dashiell Hammett
Andrew Vachss
Douglas Adams
John Le Carre
JRR Tolkien

Wasn't that easy?

[CBGLuthier]

1. OK, without thinking too much

Roger Zelazny
John Irving
Stephen King
Neil Stephenson
Clive Barker

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Horror, sci-fi and fantasy here:

Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Piers Anthony
Orson Scott Card
Alan Dean Foster

Sorry, I know this is against the rules to make addendums but let me also add Michael Moore and Al Franken!

[vi5]

3. Mine

Toni Morrison
James Joyce
William Faulkner
Thomas Hardy
Hubert Selby Jr.

Honorable mentions go to any of the Bronte sisters, Charles Bukowski, and Stephen Kin.

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. Mine, right now...

Iris Chang
Robert Heinlein (he never leaves the list)
Joseph Conrad
William Barton
David Webber

[mac56]

5. Right now, off the top of my head -

Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Kurt Vonnegut
Joseph Heller
William Faulkner

[Caution]

6. 5 Favorite Authors: Fiction

Terry Pratchett
Christopher Moore
J.K. Rowling (Yeh I admit it I'm a Harry Potter freakin addict...and I'm 30...and no I don't have kids)
Kurt Vonnegut
William Shakespeare

[deutsey]

7. Mine

Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut
Virginia Wolfe
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Pynchon

[Kellanved]

8. OK

Heinrich Mann
Neal Stephenson
John Brunner
Michael Stackpole
Steven Erikson

[JanMichael]

9. OK.

1. Albert Camus.

2. Dostoyevsky.

3. Milan Kundera.

4. Victor Hugo.

5. Faulkner.

[chenGOD]

10. At the moment...

Homer
Arthur C. Clarke
Tom Robbins
William Gibson
Philip K. Dick
and Kurt Vonnegut as my bonus choice. :7

[emad]

11. Hate being put on the line, but:

Fiction: John Scarlett (Chair, JIC, UK MoD) for Iraq: The Dossier
(Ghostwritten by Alistair Campbell) 2002/2003
Libel: Peter Mandelson (Good Friday Agreement, Stormont 1998)
Fantasy: Tony Blair (Labour Party Manifesto 1997 and 2001)
Horror: Margaret Thatcher (Autobiography)
Total bloody crap: George H W Bush (Autobiography)

[nuxvomica]

12. I'm not a heavy fiction reader any more but here's my list

E.M. Forster
J.R.R. Tolkein
Donald Barthelme
Jorge Luis Borges
Mark Twain

edit: reviewing the list, I just realized that I didn't know how to pronounce two of these guys' names when I was reading them a lot.

[GOPisEvil]

13. Three fiction and two political humorists!

Shakespeare - he's just off on his own - bonus selection

James Ellroy (Yes, he's a freak, but his stories are so damned good)
Walter Moseley (Easy Rawlins, Devil In A Blue Dress)
Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, etc)

Jim Hightower
Molly Ivins

Edited for italics

[liberalpress]

14. Here's My five...

Janet Evanovich
Arthur C Clarke
JK Rowling
Stephen E. Ambrose
Michael Crichton

[LanternWaste]

15. I love these questions

I love these questions- they let me puff up my posting numbers w/o pissing too many people off...lol.

(Although there's always an unspoken qualifier in my responses to "list" questions that my answers can change day to day or even hour to hour depending on what kind of mood I'm in...)

C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia, Four Loves, etc)

Shakespeare (not trying to be elitist. heck, I only began reading his stuff in my own time about ten years ago and have still to make a dent in his works)

Studs Terkel (The Great Divide, The Good War, etc)

Stephen Ambrose (Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, etc)

JRR Tolkien (do I really have to give examples of his works?...lol)

[Bossy Monkey]

17. Ok then, report to my "What's your screenname mean?" thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=157449&mesg_id=157449

[LanternWaste]

25. Done and done

Done and done. :)

[VelmaD]

16. My 5

Terry Pratchett - funniest person writing today period.
Shakespeare
Harper Lee
Douglas Adams
Anais Nin

Darth Velma

[Richardo]

18. My five - this week

<---- this guy
Joseph Heller
Carl Hiaasen
Jeffrey Toobin
Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island, etc)

Another five:

Arthur C Clarke
Michael Crichton
Joe Conason
Zadie Smith (Autograph Man)
Walter Mosely

[catpower2000]

19. 1. JD Salinger

2. John Irving
3. Marge Piercy
4. Margaret George
5. Gregory Maguire

That's just today's list. But Salinger is always #1.

Cat

[bowens43]

20. ok

Charles Dickens
Kurt Vonnegut
J.R.R. Tolkien
Neal Stephenson
Tom Robbins

[regularguy]

21. FUN! In random order:

1) Kurt Vonnegut

2) Dostoyevsky

3) Phillip Roth

4) Martin Amis

5) Flannery O'connor

[shrike]

22. I don't have favorite authors, just favorite books

And here they are:

1. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Native Son, Richard Wright
3. House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
4. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
5. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[zekeson]

23. Latest Reads

Probably right up there with favorite authors

Thomas McGuane
Lorrie Moore
Tim O'Brien
Vance Bourjaily
Russell Banks

[smirkymonkey]

24. This is hard....

1. Fyodor Dosteyevsky
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. J.D. Salinger
4. Oscar Wilde
5. Edith Wharton

so many...arghhhh...maybe it would be easier by genre

Also, special mention - Al Franken

[playahata1]

26. My top 5, in no particular order....

Alice Walker
Paul Beatty
Gloria Naylor
Tina McElroy Ansa
Terry McMillan

[MissMillie]

27. My five:

John Irving
Kurt Vonnegut
Al Franken
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker

[av8rdave]

28. My Favorites

Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams
Ernest Hemingway
Norman MacLean
Isaac Asimov

I'm only counting book authors...if you wanna go commentators and short stories....well, there's a whole new list!

Dave

[Aristus]

29. Here are mine:

Harlan Ellison
Stephen King
Lindsay Davis
Steven Saylor
Mark Twain

(no order)

[catmandu57]

30. Before I read everyone elses

choice and get influenced I'll list mine then go back and read who people like.
1. Vonnegut
2.Tom Robbins
3.Sam Clemmens
4.Tolkein
5.Nivens/Pournelle
Even though the last choice is a team.

[BurtWorm]

31. No Nabokov anyone?

I'm reading "Bend Sinister" now. Man, that cat could write! He's been on my list for a long time, but I haven't read him in a few years. So I decided a couple of weeks ago to look into the novels I hadn't read when I was in my teens and 20s. I could be on the verge of a new Nabokov Bend-er.

So here's my list, as of Sept. 4, 2003, 12:03 ET:

Vladimir Nabokov
Patricia Highsmith
Henry Miller
Saul Bellow
Gustave Flaubert


And I'm sure I've left a lot out. Like Shakespeare, who should be on there rather than Patricia Highsmith, except that I've been reading her lately and she blows me away.

[Cheswick2.0]

37. Nabokov..... Grrrrrrrrrrr

I hold him responsible in part for something that happened to me. x(

I don't judge anyone for liking him. I just happen to think he was a pervert.

Miller I don't mind. I wont even tell you some of the authors I read. I just have a particular problem with Nabokov's writing.

[BurtWorm]

39. Yikes! I'm sorry to hear that

And unfortunately, I can guess what the hell you're talking about. People misread that book though.

[mvd]

32. Right now:

John Grisham
Charles Dickens
Mary Higgins Clark
J.K. Rowling
Shakespeare

[trof]

33. Twain, LeCarre, Elmore Leonard, Jimmy Breslin,

Carl Hiaasen, Dan Jenkins, Dave Barry and on and on.
I read mainly for escape and pleasure. Not much heavy stuff.

[mitchum]

34. Gustave Flaubert, Hubert Selby, Richard Price, Mark Twain, Wm. Faulkner

(for novelists)

[Cheswick2.0]

35. hmmmmm

JRR Tolkein
Willa Cather
Dean Koontz
Steinbeck
Victor Hugo

Same as they have been for years

[theemu]

36. up to the minute:

William Faulkner
Flannery O'Connor
Zadie Smith
Haruki Murakami
Bill Bryson

[bif]

38. Mine

Pat Conroy
H.E. Bates
W.G. Sebald
Kurt Vonnegut
Anthony Burgess

[SOteric]

40. James Joyce, Dante, Milan Kundera, Barthelme and Virginia Wolfe

and so very many others.

[Twillig]

41. gotta go by who gets my repeat business

and the size of the collection...

1. Don Delillo--fav: Ratner's Star (best is Libra)
2. Kurt Vonnegut--fav: Cat's Cradle
3. Joseph Conrad--fav: The Secret Agent
4. Martin Amis--fav: Money
5. Nelson Algren--fav: The Man with the Golden Arm

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. At the moment:

Willa Cather
Mark Twain
Pema Chodron
Jeff Shaara
Jean Shepherd

[FloridaJudy]

43. I'm Willing to Pay Hard-Back Prices for:

Neal Stephenson
Kurt Vonnegutt
Sheri S. Tepper
Carl Hiaasen
Anne Tyler

[NightTrain]

44. At the moment....

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jack Kerouac
W. Somerset Maugham
John Steinbeck
Andrew Vachss