tilly_felds Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Not being cruel as I too am a fan but please leave JK Rowling out of this post, otherwise she'll be every other message! lol Who are your favourite authors in each catagories? Try to only chose one! Classic/Deceased: Beatrix Potter (although dickens is a close 2nd) Adult Modern: Val McDermid Childrens Modern: Jill Murphy (with R.L Stine and Jez Alborough in joint 2nd) Author of your favourite book: Arthur Golden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Classic/Deceased: Evelyn Waugh Adult Modern: Marian Keyes Childrens Modern: J K Rowling Author of your favourite book: Fynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Excellent idea for a thread! Classic/Deceased: Probably Dickens; even though he's overfond of using coincidence as a plot-device, his characters are so funny. I laughed out loud reading The Pickwick Papers on the bus and got some weird looks, but who cares; it was fun! Adult Modern: Difficult. If I'm in a romantic mood, I'd say Anita Shreve but for sheer style, Donna Tartt, maybe? I would have said Wally Lamb, but I Know This Much is True has a Hollywood ending. Ack! I can't decide! Childrens Modern: Jacqueline Wilson. Author of your favourite book: Wally Lamb. I know, I know. An Oprah selection, a Hollywood ending, but...but I choose him. So there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Classic/Deceased: I'm not a great fan of anything pre-20th century. 20th century classics, perhaps Kafka, or Evelyn Waugh. Adult Modern: David Mitchell (probably, although Murukami and Kadare and Philip Roth and JG Ballard are all in with shouts) Childrens Modern: I don't think I know any childrens modern, really. Author of your favourite book: Changes daily, but today it's Mikhail Bulgakov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Classic/Deceased: I'm not a great fan of anything pre-20th century. Nor me - somehow things changed round about 1920 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tilly_felds Posted March 18, 2008 Author Share Posted March 18, 2008 No-one else got any faves? OK I'll go again with my faves from 10 years ago: Classic/Deceased: Shakespeare (closely followed by Beatrix Potter) Adult Modern: Stephen King Childrens Modern: R. L. Stine Authour of your favourite book: R.L.Stine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Here are mine... Classic/Deceased: Jane Austen Adult Modern: Douglas Preson/Lincoln Child Children's Modern: J.K. Rowling...sorry, she's the only children's author I read, being an adult and all:tong: Author of your favorite book: J.R.R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Classic/Deceased: P. G. Wodehouse - The Jeeves and Wooster books (Superbly funny and finely written - they always elicit a well-mannered giggle that turns into an unruly guffaw!) Adult Modern: Terry Pratchett - The Discworld Series (The entire Discworld is so superbly realised that you could almost believe it's real, and the characters become old friends in no time at all as you read the books. In over 35 books, there have been only 3 that didn't really cut the mustard for me, and even they weren't bad!) Childrens Modern: Astrid Lindgren - Ronia, The Robber's Daughter (I must have read this book a thousand times and it never ceases to delight me on every level) Author of your favourite book: Stephen King - The Stand (It's a whopper at over 1000 pages, but each and every one of them is a gem. Mr King's finest achievement to date!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Children's Modern: J.K. Rowling...sorry, she's the only children's author I read, being an adult and all:tong: Same here! And I've been an adult longer than children have been children Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 You mean you don't even read C. S. Lewis? Philistines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 You mean you don't even read C. S. Lewis? Philistines! I generally don't do kids books at all I have the Chronicles of Narnia on Mount TBR but not read any since I was eight So that's a very long time ago and so not recent enough for me to comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Classic/Deceased: Jane Austen, although there are so many others that I love as well! Adult Modern: Bill Bryson. After looking back at the books I've read over the last few years, I've noticed that not only do I not read a lot of modern fiction, but the ones I have read haven't impressed me as much as older stuff. So Bill it is! Childrens Modern: John Marsden (and JK Rowling) Author of Your Favourite Book: Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Young Adult: Markus Zusak Women's: Nora Roberts ( older stuff and not JD ROBB) General:Zoe Heller, Khaled Hosseini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Children's Modern: J.K. Rowling...sorry, she's the only children's author I read, being an adult and all:tong: Same here! And I've been an adult longer than children have been children You mean you don't even read C. S. Lewis? Philistines! I generally don't do kids books at all... I reckon I must just be a big kid at heart then, as I read books aimed at the youth market all the time! In fact, I have several on Mount TBR right now that I'm DYING to get to (including one from The Edge Chronicles and also Skulduggery Pleasant), and I have heaps of them on my permanent shelves, most of which have already been reread multiple times as I love them so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I quite enjoy childrens book too, Kell. Classic/Deceased: I haven't read much pre-20th Century fiction, but I do love Shakespeare, and he is dead, so I'll say him! Adult Modern: Emily Barr Childrens Modern: Philip Pullman Author of your favourite book: My 'oldest' favourite is Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. My new favourite books are either The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini or The Book Thief by Markus Zusac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I read kids' books all the time. Luckily I'm at the age (31) when booksellers think I'm buying them for my own children (which I do not have and never will) so I don't have to feel embarrassed any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Classic/Deceased: Jane Austen (pretty much liked all her works except for Emma) Adult Modern: James Rollins, J. D. Robb/Nora Roberts Childrens Modern: Brian Jacques (Redwall series) and Garth Nix comes in second. Author of Your Favourite Book: James Rollins for Amazonia and Emily Bronte for Wuthering Heights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 My fav authors would probably be umm... Lynne Reid Banks (she wrote Harry The Poisonous Centapede) Phillip Pullman (Northern Lights) J.R.R Tolkien Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nox Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Tarry Pratchett Jonathan Strout Kim Harrison Douglas Adams Garth Nix and J.K.Rowling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Classic/Deceased: Jane Austen & Tolkien Adult Modern: Stephen King, Freda Warrington, Terry Pratchett Childrens Modern: Holly Black, Terry Pratchett - Wee Free Men etc. Author of Your Favourite Book: Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice, Tolkien - Lord of the Rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbng1983 Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Kids: Beatrix Potter Adult: Nora Roberts, Marian Keyes and Danielle Steele Deceased: Shakespeare, Jane Austen So hard to stick with one. So very sorry for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Oh don't apologise. The more you read the better in my opinion! Not being able to decide shows how many great authors there are out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAlligator Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Classic/Deceased:- Wilkie Collins and Jane Austen Adult Modern: Ian McEwan, Kate Atkinson, Kazuo Ishiguro Children's Modern: Dont really read children's books. Author of your favourite book: Elizabeth Von Arnhem for Enchanted April & Sebastian Faulks for Birdsong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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