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Who is your favorite author and what about them and their capacity as a writer makes you like them??
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Jan 31, 2024 06:41PM
i'll start, some of my fav authors are Olivie Blake and Holly Black. They tend to write a lot of YA, fantasy, romance etc
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What i like about them is their writing style, they are capable of amazing world building, they never make it seem 'cringe' (i hate that word but i dont know how else to descibe it). They are capable of planning ahead with their writing and very cunning?? Like something repeated earlier in their books that didnt seem important before impacted the future immaculately, and just little details like that. I also appreciate both of their abilities to give characters well rounded, intense, meaningful depth. I just all around adore them
I don't have one I have three (and maybe in the future I could have more) 1. Jeff Kinney (The author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid) even though I don't read these books anymore, I've always admired his books (they were the reason why I started reading) I remember saying I wish I could write like him when I was younger.
2. Chris Carter and Jason Pargin (I can't choose who is the 2nd and who is the 3rd I like both equally) their books are amazing. I love the way they write a story and the ending is always something you did not see coming. Anyone asking me for book recommendations, I always suggest one of their books.
I read Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman last year. It was a horror story taking place in France during the Black Plague, and it was fabulous. After that, I found a fantasy book by him titled The Black Tongue Theif, and that was on par or better than his other entries.
For me that's Douglas Kennedy who grew up in a small dysfunctional family just like me. In his novels I can relate to everything he mentions about his childhood and youth. His master piece is definitely "Pursuit of Happiness", but "The Big Picture" is another great novel that he wrote, even though it's inspired by "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith.
Stephen King is the GOAT; how can you not respect an author who describes a central character as “as exciting as tuna on brown, hold the mayo.”Also, Douglas Stuart for writing love scenes that aren’t cringe.
Marian Keyes for making the reader almost part of the story and for capturing the voices of her narrators so well.
Matt Haig for taking the reader emotionally further than I would have thought possible.
And Lionel Shriver for the way in which she can dissect her characters with forensic precision.
ummm i don't really have a 'favorite favorite' author but i really like Emma Lord's and Lynn Painter's books > > >
Have you read Brandon Sanderson? I can't even explain how good his books are. Their characters are epic, they are great. The world he builds is impressive, very well done, with very elaborate and super exciting magic systems. At no point does any of his books become complicated to read or heavy, because he simply knows how to write a book, he knows how to explain things and how to keep you interested in the story. Brandon Sanderson is one of the best I have ever read in my entire life.
sarah j maas, cassandra clare and stephanie garber, elle kennedy
One favorite author? Absolutely impossible.For some authors...
"tis the difference between the lighting bug and the lighting."
Steinbeck, for his unparalleled ability to take you into the soul of his characters, all within the scope or boundaries of everyday society.
Hemingway, for bringing to your mind the dramatic situation or raw and nake moments as if both eyes are firmly planted upon the same horizon.
Masters...or better yet...masters of the written word...amongst their own right. Shelley, Dickens, London, E & C Bronte, Twain, Tolstoy.
Favorite authors (alive and deceased): Nelson DeMille, Daphne DuMaurier, Douglas Kennedy, Michael Allegretto, Mary Higgins Clark, Barbara Erskine, Joy Fielding, Nancy Thayer (everything she wrote before 2000), Stieg Larsson, Peter Robinson, P. D. James, Val McDermid, Judith Michal, Susanna Kearsley, Luanne Rice, Anita Shreve (only her first 4 or 5 novels), and especially Anne LaBastille, Jo Bentfeld, Kathrene Pinkerton, David Conover and Richard Proenneke (all wilderness autobiographies).
Toni Morrison because of her heartbreaking lyrical prose. In just 200 pages she can deepen your understanding of humanity and it's complexities. Her themes are dark but she writes them beautifully and with such empathy.
Douglas Adams, for his ability to describe things in the most unique way that you've never even thought of but it instantly makes you picture it in your mind, and his humor and whimsy in every book. Holly Black, for her ability to weave a story so seamlessly you forget you are reading and her strong characters and beautiful worlds.
Hannah Whitten, for her dark fairytale vibes that are basically my teenage self on a page.
there are many more, but those 3 popped in my brain first.
Wow--too many to list! Just recent ones: Fredrik Backman, Louise Penny, Louise Erdrich, Kristin Hannah, Nicola Griffith, Philippa Gregory, Candice Millard, Erik Larson, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Gabriel García Márquez, Barbara Kingsolver, Carol Anderson, Michael Harriot, James McBride, James Baldwin, Iceberg Slim, Colson Whitehead, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maya Angelou, Robin Hobb, Lois McMaster Bujold, Martha Wells, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (the OTHER Tolstoy, no relation to War and Peace!), Alexandre Dumas, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, the Brothers Grimm, Balzac, Hemingway, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Chaucer, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, Salman Rushdie, Shakespeare (whoever he was), Tolkien, Poe, Orwell, J.D. Salinger, Daniel Mason, Toni Morrison, Natalie Haynes, Edith Wharton, Jack London, Jason Reynolds, Carsten Jensen, Jared Diamond, Sir Richard Burton (no relation to the actor, who stole his last name--the actor's real name was Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.), Toni Morrison, Ken Follett, Ronen Bergman (now scrolling through my C&S in Amazon), Homer, Anthony Doerr (I give up, there are more than 1200 books in my stash--and that's only the last four or five years) --GAAAH, way too many!I prefer real literature, not fan fic, with intellectual rigor-- a great plot, hefty significance, and characters you'd recognize, whether to love or despise, if you came across them in real life.
Charles de Lint.... his writing is like music, fairy tales of Urban fantasy and he's just one of the most amazing authors I have ever read.
J. R. R. Tolkien for me! I love how he develops a beautiful world and creates an epic battle of good versus evil. His descriptions are absolutely gorgeous and he always points readers to the light!
Holly black, she just builds her world so well and is able to keep the story going so well I am able to read her books so quickly
Dee wrote: "Wow--too many to list! Just recent ones: Fredrik Backman, Louise Penny, Louise Erdrich, Kristin Hannah, Nicola Griffith, Philippa Gregory, Candice Millard, Erik Larson, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf..."Is Anthony Doerr the author who wrote a WW II novel set in St. Malo? I so very much wanted to read it, but just couldn't get into his writing style.
Patricia Briggs, Seanan Mcguire, Chloe Neill, Maria V. Snyder. Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost, Cindy Williams-Chima, Elizabeth Lim, Jessica Cluess, Sarah j. Maas, R.F. Kuang, Rachel Caine, Rick Riordan, Patricia C. Wrede, Tanith Lee, Tamora Pierce, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling. And that's just off the top of my head. Plus the writer of the witcher series which I can't spell without help. Andrew Sap something. And I'm just mentioning those not yet named already. And that doesn't include graphic novel authors even, so yeah, too many favorites to name here. Franz Kafka really is great too, plus all the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance playwrights. Point is, you can't have just one book or author that's your only favorite IMHO. Especially collaboration between multiple authors and editors. Just saying.
John Steinbeck brought me back into reading after I graduated from college, and he holds a special place in my heart. "Grapes of Wrath" opened my eyes to the suffering of those surviving on the margins, and "East of Eden" showed me the power of "timshel."
Erica wrote: "John Steinbeck brought me back into reading after I graduated from college, and he holds a special place in my heart. "Grapes of Wrath" opened my eyes to the suffering of those surviving on the mar..."I couldn't get into "Grapes of Wrath" or "Of Mice and Men", but when the three James Dean movies were re-released in Germany around 1969, I read "East of Eden" and loved it.
When I left my first former ex-husband in 1997, I rented an RV and drove from Vancouver to Los Angeles. Every evening I've read another chapter or two from this wonderful book: https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Novel-...
I'm more into fantasy and my favorite writer is Leigh Bardugo.I love the Grishaverse. Her characters are well written and everyone is unique (unlike some writers, whose characters have similar characteristics). The stories are amazing and I love the way SoC started as a different storyline but it mixed with SaB/KoS. I really like the way friendships formed.
RINA KENT!!!>>>>> I recently discovered her last year and I have been obsessed with her books ever since. her ability to make morally grey men so problematic but hot at the same time always gets me. i just cannot get enough of her books
Dee wrote: "I prefer real literature, not fan fic, with intellectual rigor-- a great plot, hefty significance, and characters you'd recognize, whether to love or despise, if you came across them in real life." I enjoy classics as well, but this does come across as a little dismissive of less "intellectual" books. They may not be for everyone, not even me, but there are nicer ways to express this. Also, there's nothing wrong with fanfiction :).
My favorite authors would have to be Chris Colfer, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and of course Jane Austen. Also maybe Lois Lowry. There's so many good authors TBH.
One of my favorites is definitely Kazuo Ishiguro. I've only read one book by him (Never Let Me Go), but it's one of the best books I've ever read. I just thing he's amazing at subtle character writing and his characters feel really deep and realistic as a result.
I’ve only just started getting serious about making a book collection, and write now, my favorite author is Emma Lord.Still trying to finish the book, but from the first few pages of her ‘Begin Again’ one, she establishes the name of the small hometown the main character is from, the college setting, and the kind of hangs up the main character has.
The kind of world building that made it extremely easy to write my own characters into the setting, which I’m currently doing as I read the book.
It was so immersive, that I didn’t realize who the character’s love interest was until chapter 18.
Because it’s such a slow burn romance, and I love it so much. There were so many instances where the character could have just gave up on her relationship of 3 years, but she kept trying to make things work out, even though his parents have conditional love for her, he told her he couldn’t be there for her on Valentines Day, and so much more.
But at least at the part where I’m at, there wasn’t a single instance where she really doubted her relationship and thought, “maybe I should date this guy instead” which is wonderful.
Christine wrote: "Erica wrote: "John Steinbeck brought me back into reading after I graduated from college, and he holds a special place in my heart. "Grapes of Wrath" opened my eyes to the suffering of those surviv..."east if eden is one of my all time favorites!
Dar wrote: "Have you read Brandon Sanderson? I can't even explain how good his books are. Their characters are epic, they are great. The world he builds is impressive, very well done, with very elaborate and s..."agreed
Lisa wrote: "Patricia Briggs, Seanan Mcguire, Chloe Neill, Maria V. Snyder. Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost, Cindy Williams-Chima, Elizabeth Lim, Jessica Cluess, Sarah j. Maas, R.F. Kuang, Rachel Caine, Rick Rio..."Ilona Andrews is right up this alley. I lover her books.
I love everything by C.S. Lewis. I do enjoy Fredrik Backman (Anxious People). I just finished Mitch Albom's The Little Liar and it was excellent. I also enjoy classics by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George MacDonald, and Mark Twain. Their books are on my shelf and I reread them regularly.
Kristin Hannah is a wonderful writer. I've read all of her books and when I discovered "On Mystic Lake", I couldn't put it down. Looking forward to reading her new one, "The Women". My other favorite author is also my favorite actor, Henry Winkler. I just love him to pieces
Brandon Sanderson. cos he's is absolutely this generations, J.R.R. Tolkien, pure genius. uses hard magic systems, all connected, foreshadows like crazy, but still keeps you always guessing, always has reason behind why everything happens the way it is, in his books, which makes it more believable, though it's fantasy. and last but not the least, (my god) his ability to churn out super complex books in such a short intervals of time, feels like he has super powers. :)
I like Sarah j. Mass cuz she's one of the very first writers that got me into fantasy romance. she wrote The Mortal instruments and Throne Of Glass series (if you haven't read them I Highly recommend, I will never stop recommending these) which are my top favourite series. I think I mainly like Sarah j. Mass cuz she doesn't write books with spice. or if she did I haven't read it
hafsa wrote: "I like Sarah j. Mass cuz she's one of the very first writers that got me into fantasy romance. she wrote The Mortal instruments and Throne Of Glass series (if you haven't read them I Highly recomme...".cassandra clare wrote the mortal instruments not sarah j. maas. the a court of thorns and roses series and the crescent city series by have spice
@maja - oh yeah. lol!! can't believe I got them mixed up between them, lol. thanks for correcting my silly mix up
hafsa wrote: "@maja - oh yeah. lol!! can't believe I got them mixed up between them, lol. thanks for correcting my silly mix up" no problem
It is very hard to choose a specific author to classify as a favorite. Over the years as a reader, I have gravitated more toward some authors than others. But I don't have a favorite. From the authors in Spanish: García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel. From English authors: Robin Cook, Julie Garwood, Judith McNaught, David Baldacci, Dan Brown. But not even close, they are the only favorites I have.P.D. Sorry if I have some grammatical errors. English isn´t my first language
