i dont know about authors but my favorite books are 'the apprenticeship of duddy kravitz', 'one hundred years of solitude', 'the great gatsby', 'anna karenina' and 'little big man' by thomas berger. so thats pretty much a spark notes list i know. and also 'the sterile cuckoo' by what's his name. and 'the long goodbye' and 'the longest journey' by forster.<br /><br />Post edited by: chizboog, at: 2008/01/30 10:55
C.S.Lewis by far
as a kid and even as a teen I loved his Narnia series
and then I found Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy...just as well written in my opinion and provides a perfect juxtaposition (though i dont really relate to his anti-Christian sentiments) to Narnia
QUOTE: Right now, I guess one favourite author would be J.K. Rowling, I mean, come on, Harry Potter is timeless. Other really good books written by really good authors are the "Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Isabel Allende is also really good, I think. And then there's Phillip Pullman, with his trilogy, oh man, I forget the name, I think "His Dark Materials"...? It was fantastic. I could not put them down. Dan Brown's books were also good reading. I guess mainstream will be mainstream. But who cares? Reading is reading, and I'm always in for a good read no matter how widely read the novel.
Allende and Pullman are geniuses!
I'm a huge fan of Helen Oyeyemi. She writes the most beautiful books I have ever read.
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