Who Do You Love (Writers)?

Ellen Steiber. I have a love/hate relationship with her.

I loved her Rumor of Gems book. I hated that even after I emailed her and bugged her to write the sequels, she's not done so yet. Darn it. Hurry up and write it already. *entertainment demands*

I'm far too inexperienced a reader to be able to say which author I looooooooooooove..... but I will say out of the last few books I've read, I really loved Fiona Gibson's style in Wonderboy. She's a UK writer, and it's kinda hard to get copies of her stuff, but totally loved her voice. When I read something that sounds like something out of my own mouth, I'm on board. It's all about relating. I guess. I dunno.

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I love them both in equal measures.

Mr. Pratchett sees the world as it is; its absurdities, its pleasures, its dark corners. He paints vivid pictures of society and civilization with his tongue firmly jammed in his cheek.

Neil Gaiman blows me away with his prose. He keeps things simple. And yet there is nothing simple about his stories. American Gods? Perfection.

aadams73 said:

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I love them both in equal measures.

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Hell yes!

I also have an on/off love affair with CJ Cherryh. I completely and utterly adore some of her stuff. Others I can't get through. But when she does a style I like...her heroes*swoon*...I admire her characterisation. Her characters always feel completely real to me. Even when they're totally bonkers.

Wally Lamb, Wally Lamb, a thousand times Wally Lamb.

And he writes women SO FUCKING WELL.

I cannot praise him enough.

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies
and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these
mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isumZjs3dKA

Although I will be honest the RZA's lyrics are better than his writing. That stuff is just weird. I actually think he'd get on really well with William Blake.

Juliet Marillier. At least I think that's her name. I absolutely love her writing.

aadams73 said:

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I love them both in equal measures.

Mr. Pratchett sees the world as it is; its absurdities, its pleasures, its dark corners. He paints vivid pictures of society and civilization with his tongue firmly jammed in his cheek.

Neil Gaiman blows me away with his prose. He keeps things simple. And yet there is nothing simple about his stories. American Gods? Perfection.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: we must share a brain.

Mitch Albom.

His books were one of the first adult ones I started reading, and I loved them.

It's not as much for beautiful prose as much as beautiful stories.

W.P. Kinsella

Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum is the most perfect book ever.

I also couldn't live without Austen and there are others, many of them blow me away.

HP Lovecraft. Nobody can set a mood of dark, brooding, nameless fear like he could.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; 1821-1881.
The greatest writer who ever lived,
and a god in human guise to be sure.

Ken said:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; 1821-1881.
The greatest writer who ever lived,
and a god in human guise to be sure.

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I wish I could read him in Russian.
The Idiot and The Gambler are definitely awesome to no end.

... I hear you. I love Russian Lit so much, in general, that I really should try to learn the language.

Theodora Goss, although she's only published short stories and poems so far. No novel yet. I'd definitely buy her novel if she ever writes and publishes one. Her writing is beautiful. I wish I could write as well as her.

Myself.

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Seriously, though... Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite writers. I have never read anything by him that I did not like. The man is fantastic.

Piers Anthony and his Xanth novels. Too much fun. Love his wit.

I could fill the page with other authors I love. A couple of the authors in my list haven't put out a lot of books. But from the work I have read of theirs, if they put out another book I would buy it. A couple of ones that pop into my head are R. A. Salvatore, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Haydon, Barbara Hambly, David Eddings, Tracy & Laura Hickman, Robert Newcomb, Margaret Weis, Diana Wynne Jones, Kate Elliot, Jonathan Stroud, David Farland, Terry Brooks, Eoin Colfer... I could go on, but as you can see the list gets long quite quickly.

Writers who spin an engaging story... "these are a few of my favorite things."

Ambrosia said:

Seriously, though... Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite writers. I have never read anything by him that I did not like. The man is fantastic.

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One of my mom's scottish colleagues knows him He's a good author.

James Joyce. He walked the earth like a colossus. Except Finnegans Wake was a bit pants.