Alex Ledante
I recently got a new bookshelf, which means I was able to rescue the creme de la creme of my library from my parent’s house. Whilst organizing my collection, it occurred to me that a useful metric for determining a favorite author might simply be real estate; who takes the most shelf space?
By that metric, my favorite author is easily Gene Wolfe; not only does he have a dedicated shelf, he spills over into the paperback section so he is the clear victor
Who is your favorite author? Use whatever method to determine favorite status that you’d wish, but please call out your methodology along with the winner in the comments. If you really want to, you can post about it and use the tag #FavoriteAuthorChallenge
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Who is your favorite author?
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Neil Gaiman
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Stephen R Donaldson
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William Gibson
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Michael Moorcock
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Jonathan Caroll
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PK Dick
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HP Lovecraft
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Robert E Howard
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JRR Tolkien
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not listed here (write in comments)
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There would be more than one but Norman Vincent Peale comes to mind considering he changed my way of thinking after I read his book
Power of Positive Thinking
I was thinking more along the lines of a fiction author. Unless you consider Mr. Peale to be a fiction author…
? I do not read much these days but when I did I went by what was recommended to me and therefore I cannot honestly say who my favourite author was I have read a few books but not many such as Woman of substance, Carpetbaggers, Hotel, Thorn Birds and many detective novels You can see from this for me variety is the spice of life.
Thorn Birds? You naughty girl…
I read it twice ?
in which case; you naughty, naughty girl!
My favourite author would be artist/illustrators because I mainly read comic books…
Oh, I used to like RL Stine…
Care to name one? My favorite author/illustrator is Masamune Shiro
I will have to get back with you on a favorite. Most of my reading over the past few years have been about child loss, self help, learning to live again, etc. Self help books. I have not found many books that hold my attention and focus. But I am still working on the Gene Wolf book The Shadow of the Torturer.
That’s sort of the opposite- as Severian is an orphan. Let me know when you finish walking with him from the gates of the necropolis to the Piteous Gate of Nessus. But if you do not make that journey with Severian, I cannot blame you; it is no easy road…
I will keep you updated.
Take your time, I know you’re busy with bluebirds…
Yes I am actually. Waiting on #5 to hatch.
I’m very tricky- you have to keep your eye on me
That is for sure. 🙂
I change it up when you least expect it. Something my go opponents eventually learn, right before they realize they’ve lost…
MUAhaHAhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Of course if # of volumes were the criteria I would have 2 other authors, Natsuki Takaya’s “Fruits Basket “series and Kane Hazuki’s Say “I Love You”. I finished the 18th book a few weeks ago, and now wait for something new from Hazuki to reach the American market.
Easy there, turbo. Save something for my manga poll…
My favorites are James Baldwin (No American author has written about race and sexuality with such perfect righteous experienced passion!) and Ernest Hemingway. His prose is like a high resolution camera that puts the reader in the picture. I ;love them both…
We should get Hemingway to write your biography
There are many authors that I like, but I don’t have a favorite one. One I can name without thinking too much is Patrick Süskind. This topic actually reminded me to revise his books.
I shall have to look into him, go revise his books now
My favorite author is Nicholas Sparks. His books a lot of times have a bittersweet ending. You never know which way he will go, but no matter what his ending turn out to be, I have never been disappointed.
Sounds like an author I can read and read again
I voted for J R R Tolkien sine his books are classics.
I was thrilled to rescue my copy of the Silmarillion- I will read it again after I finish Land of Laughs
I really enjoy horror books so Stephen King comes to mind. My next favorite is action symbolized by David Baldacci. My third select author is Dan Brown with his best seller “The DaVinci Code” and its follow up. I have several more authors that I enjoy reading but their names escape me for now as it is 11:35 p.m. right now and my bed beckons me. But thank you for letting me express myself.
You’re most welcome. You’re also the second person to list Baldacci as a favorite author, so I am going to have to check up on him
Actually, I have only started to read Baldacci. His books are interesting but also a very quick read which sometimes is enjoyable compared to some of the long winded books of Stephen King.
King does tend to belabor the point
I have several favourite authors that I like. JRR Tolkien is one of them.
However, the one I’ve been enjoyed reading is David Baldacci.
I just like getting into a book and getting into the story straight away from start to finish.
Some books take about 20 pages to get the car over one hill.
I don’t mind a long-winded author so long as there is a payoff. If they can’t deliver then it doesn’t matter how terse or verbose their prose is. But that’s just me…