Favorite authors

obieone
obieone Posts: 5,077
edited January 2012 in The Clubhouse
I don't know what y'all like, but, here's mine
In no particular order:

James W. Huston*
Vince Flynn
Brian Haig*
David Poyer
Harold Coyle
Larry Bond
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Coonts
Dan Brown

*If you like Grisham, you might like these guys. They're legal thillers, in a miltary setting.




























9not Dean)
I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • coolsax
    coolsax Posts: 1,824
    edited January 2012
    I'm more of a fantasy/alternate history type myself though I do enjoy Grisham from time to time and love a good sports book as well doesn't matter if its fiction or non fiction.

    current fav authors.
    Harry Turtledove (i'm in the middle of the 11 book "Great Wars" series pretty good)
    George R R Martin
    Stephen R Lawhead
    Tad Williams
    John Grisham
    Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
    Suzzane Collins (Hunger Games Series)
    JK Rowling
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2012
    Michael Crichton
    Agatha Christie
    Dashiell Hammett
    David Brin
    Robert Heinlein
    Robert Silverberg
    Orson Scott Card
    Joe Haldeman
    Jules Verne
    H.G. Wells
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited January 2012
    James Michener
    Robert Heinlein
    John Steinbeck
    Thomas Hardy
    Charles Dickens

    and the list goes on.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    Michael Connelly
    Sue Grafton
    James W. Hall
    Cormack McCarthy
    etc.

    etc.
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,079
    edited January 2012
    Mark Twain (actually I am related to him)
    All of the authors of the Bible
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited January 2012
    Stephen King
    Anne Rice
    Frank Herbert
    Michael Gear
    E.E. Doc Smith
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    J.R.R. Tolkien
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,079
    edited January 2012
    starkiller wrote: »
    J.R.R. Tolkien

    Add him to my short list.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited January 2012
    James Clavell
    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • arun1963
    arun1963 Posts: 1,797
    edited January 2012
    Stephen King
    John Le Carre
    Richard Bach
    Agatha Christie
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited January 2012
    Fern Michaels
    Mary Higgins Clark
    Carol Higgins Clark
    Rebecca Brandewyne
    Laurell K Hamilton
    I used to like Anne Rice til she went off the deep end.
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited January 2012
    /\ reported/\
    David McCullough
    Lawrence Krauss
    Christopher Hitchens
    Mark Twain
    Elmore Leanard
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited January 2012
    James Michener
    Arthur C Clarke
    Dean Koontz
    Michael Crichton
    Stephen King
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited January 2012
    Neil Gaiman
    Clive Barker
    Tim O'Brien
    Chuck Palahniuk
    Orson Scott Card
    Max Brooks
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited January 2012
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    Stephen King
    Arthur C Clarke
    John Grisham
    Michael Chrichton

    To name but a few.
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  • HTguru1982
    HTguru1982 Posts: 1,066
    edited January 2012
    Most of my favs have already been listed. Here's one more:

    Stieg larsson(Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited January 2012
    HTguru1982 wrote: »
    Most of my favs have already been listed. Here's one more:

    Stieg larsson(Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)

    Good read, I have only read one of his though. Have you read the others in the series? What did you think?
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited January 2012
    shack wrote: »
    David Brin
    Robert Heinlein
    Orson Scott Card
    Joe Haldeman
    starkiller wrote: »
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    Fongolio wrote: »
    Arthur C Clarke

    Add to those guys submissions the following:

    Larry Niven
    Fred Saberhagen
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited January 2012
    I am sure they are all "out" today, but I still really like:

    Thomas Pynchon
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Italo Calvino

    as well as the aforementioned Arthur C. Clarke (his first novel, Childhood's End, remains one of my favorite-ever books)

    and Ray Bradbury
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited January 2012
    Fred Saberhagen
    Orson Scott Card
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    Clive Cussler
    Piers Anthony

    And my current all-time favorite...Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited January 2012
    Ken Follett
    David McCullough
    John Grisham
    John Irving
    Martin Cruz Smith
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,395
    edited January 2012
    Clive Cussler
    Glenn Beck
    Anne Coulter
    The Founding Fathers
    Ronald Reagan
    and Tom Clancy
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  • coolsax
    coolsax Posts: 1,824
    edited January 2012
    zombie boy 2000 wrote: »
    Neil Gaiman

    love his stuff.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,395
    edited January 2012
    Forgot to include...

    Anyone who writes a letter to the forums of Penthouse.:cheesygrin:
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  • mudwrx
    mudwrx Posts: 367
    edited January 2012
    I like many of the authors already listed. Here are a couple of lesser known, but I really enjoy them:

    If you like Sci-Fi stuff try John Scalzi. He has a series called Old Man's War, loved those.

    If you like "end of the world" type scenarios, I am currently reading David Moody. He has two series. One is called Autum and I think has five books (I am on the second one). The other is a trilogy that starts with Hater, then Dog Blood and finally Us or Them. I have read the first two and have ordered the third.

    Check these out, if you like these type of books I think you'll enjoy these reads.
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