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Who’s Your Favorite Author? Why?

Who are your favorite authors? Those would be the ones that you would want to read everything they have ever done. Share you picks and tell us all why. Who knows, we may find a few new favorites. Here are mine:

Malcolm Gladwell – Tipping Point – ties in how micro influences macro and Blink – rationalizes my gut instincts, his New Yorker Articles are great as well.

Michael Crieghton – such a variety, early stuff is fantastic (Great Train Robbery, Andromeda Strain, Eaters of the Dead), all his stuff is well written – can’t put it down when you start, read about 75% of his stuff.

Kurt Vonnegut – truly the most prolific social anthropologists of our time, able to provide fantastic ideas into social explanations. I have read everything he has written.

Desmond Morris – book on Human Sexuality “Intimate Behavior”, “The Human Zoo” and “The Naked Ape” will make you understand people on a new level.

Fritjof Capra – not the first to tie interdisciplinary, but most prolific, provides great insight into reality.

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Old 02-10-2005, 12:14 PM
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Spider Robinson - irreverent Sci-Fi/Fantasy with tons of humor (including god awful puns) thrown in.
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Tobias Wolff - The best author of the last 50 years, IMO. "Back in the World" even has a story about a 911 Targa!

Robert Olen Butler - "Tabloid Dreams" is probably my favorite short story collection.

Thomas Harris - Have always really enjoyed his writing style and word selection.

John Sundman - His work in "Cheap Complex Devices" is really great.
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I think it'd have to be Hermann Hesse for me at this point for a number of reasons.

Vonnegut is pretty dang good too.
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Do I have to pick A favorite? How about: Ian Rankin, Ursula K. Leguin, W.E.B. Griffith, David & Leah Eddings, Frederick Forsythe and Ken Follett.
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Raymond Chandler...The Big Sleep...Farewell My Lovely....

Ross Thomas....The Fools in Town are on Our Side...

George McDonald Fraser...The Flashman Series

Dashel Hammet...Maltese Falcon etc

Donald Westlake....The Hot Rock etc

John Toland...WW1, WW2....

Robert Leckie...USMC in WW2

Martin Caidin....USAF in WW2 etc

Edwin Hoyt...USN in WW2

Paul Carel....German point of view in WW2...Hitler Moves East and Scorched Earth...the war in Russia 1941-1944...
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George R R Martin -- Fire and Ice series

currently plowing through Wilbur Smith novels (start with Birds of Prey). many of my long time favorites get stale as they try to force new books to fulfill a contract. Ken Follet, Clive Cussler, Michael Creighton,
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Herman Hesse
Kurt Vonnegut
John D. MacDonald

Oh yeah.....and Dr. Suess....everything you need to know in life from these authors....
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Ayn Rand, she makes you think... Atlas Shrugged by Rand is the 2nd most read book in the world after the Bible.

Ernest K Gann, one of the best aviation authors in the world.

Clive Cussler, popcorn for the mind but fun reading.

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Jose Saramago - translated from Portuguese - fantastic novels - The Stone Raft is a work of art
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Alexander Dumas, best writer of all time. The Count of Monte Cristo, i swear it changed my life
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It's a toss up between John Irving (World According to Garp, Ciderhouse Rules, Owen Meany, many others) and Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead).
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Clive Cussler, popcorn for the mind but fun reading.
Ditto that.
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I read a lot, mostly because I haven't had TV in 15 years, and love it.

My reading is either technical, or mindless fun. So, I read lots of different magazines, half of which relating to Porsches, the rest consuming all my other interests.

Most of the books I read are just for mindless fun, and the tops of the list are Clive Cussler & Steven King. I read from many authors but I list those two as the authors I read & enjoy the most when shutting down the brain is the objective.
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Ayn Rand, she makes you think... Atlas Shrugged by Rand is the 2nd most read book in the world after the Bible.
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I read Fountainhead and Virtue of Selfishness - both were excellent but for the life of me I could'nt get through Atlas Shrugged even after 5 attempts! Found it to be work...
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