Reviews for the Literary Inclined discussion

Tell me some of your favorite authors. The ones whose books left an impression on you.

JRR Tolkein is by far my favorite. Hands down, no question. But I also like:

JK Rowling
Rae Gee
Monica La Porta
HG Wells
Martha Grimes
Agatha Christie
Edgar Allen Poe
Rick Riordan
Dean Koontz

I have Edgar Allen Poe's complete works...A Tale-Tell Heart still gives me chills

Flora, you had me all teary-eyed, thank you :)
My favorite authors are: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury,Lovercraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Greg Bear, Philip K Dick...

So of my favoites:

Edgar Allen Poe
Shakespeare
JRR Tolkein
JK Rowling
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Jim Butcher
Karen Marie Moning
Charles Dickens
John Corwin (I am his #1 Book Pimp)
Ray Bradbury
Christopher Pike
H.D. Gordon
Ilona Andrews
Kelley Armstrong
Rachel Caine
Jennifer Armentrout
Dr. Seuss
Anthony Burgess
Anne Rice
Piers Anthony
Richelle Mead
Kim Harrison
Seanan McGuire
Patricia Briggs

... as you can see I have many favorites for different reasons...

Monica wrote: "Flora, you had me all teary-eyed, thank you :)
My favorite authors are: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury,Lovercraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Greg Bear, Philip K Dick..."

Awww, you're welcome. But was just being honest. You're awesome :)

Oh, man, you're asking for it! LOL

Michael J. Sullivan - I'm linking him because he's not the only current author with that name LOL
Lauren Oliver
Melissa Marr
Jim Butcher
Phoebe Kitanidis
Jodi Picoult
Cynthia Hand
Kimberly Derting
Lisa Schroeder
Maggie Stiefvater
Andrea Cremer
Stephanie Perkins

To name a few ...

Nevermore... doesn't that sound interesting too...? ;)Maybe I should give up sleeping :)

Monica wrote: "Nevermore... doesn't that sound interesting too...? ;)Maybe I should give up sleeping :)"

Good idea, Monica, and I'll join you! Which state are you in? (I mean state of being. Lol)

Richard Wright
John Steinbeck
Max Lucado
Jodi Picoult
John Green
Veronica Roth
Suzanne Collins
Lee Fullbright
Javier Robayo
Veronica Roth

To name just a FEW!

Sarajayne, I know, I know... :)
Vicki, my state of being is 'well done' at the moment due to an epidemic of sun that has most recently hit the Northwest. The phenomenon is leaving people baffled and dogs barking, but we, the Northwesterners, are a corageous lot and went out in throngs to confront the fastidious yellow thing in the sky. As you can surmise, I'm alive although slightly sunburned. If you were asking something else, I apologize for the lenghty and useless explanation :)

Monica wrote: "Sarajayne, I know, I know... :)
Vicki, my state of being is 'well done' at the moment due to an epidemic of sun that has most recently hit the Northwest. The phenomenon is leaving people baffled an..."

Oh my, you make me laugh! I'm in sunny CA, with degrees this past week in the 90's and summertime in the high 90's to mid 100's or even higher at times.

I AM sorry about your sunburn, though. Next time when the yellow thing comes out to play, hide in the closet with your e-reader. LOL

JK Rowling
Lauren Kate
Susanna Colins
Anthony Horowitz
Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens
James Pattinson
Meg Cabot
Roald Dahl
So many others to list.

Ooh, my Favorites? That's a tough one! I have so many!

Brandon Sanderson
Michael J. Sullivan (same one as PBN)
Raymond E. Feist
Kim Harrison
Seanan McGuire
Michael Crichton
Brent Weeks
Janny Wurts
Trudi Canavan
Robert Jordan
David Eddings
J.K Rowling
Jennifer Estep

Okay, I'll stop now... I think you get the idea... ;D

Sarajayne wrote: "Jessi wrote: "I have Edgar Allen Poe's complete works...A Tale-Tell Heart still gives me chills"

Have you read the YA book ? It revolves around Poe and is super creepy..."

No i haven't but now I'll have to add it to my tbr pile damnit woman...LOL :-P

And I agree sleep is over-rated. Also your lists are awesome... I haven't posted mine because there are over 25 authors on it....LOL

Flora wrote: "JRR Tolkein is by far my favorite. Hands down, no question. But I also like:

JK Rowling
Rae Gee
Monica La Porta
HG Wells
Martha Grimes
Agatha Christie
Edgar Allen Poe
Rick Riordan
Dean Koontz"

Jessi wrote: "Tell me some of your favorite authors. The ones whose books left an impression on you."

Your list is so similar to mine! Tolkien & Poe are hands down my favorites. So much so that one of Poe's books is discussed in my first romance novel, and Tolkien made me want to write epic fantasy. S. King has been a big influence on me, as well, but that also has a lot to do with growing up in Bangor; I LOVE some of his books and not so much others. David Eddings has always been a big favorite and a big influence, as well as Robert Frost (I know, poetry, but he wrote books of them :)). Reaching far back, AA Milne and CS Lewis, because the Poo and Naria series first interested me in reading lengthier books. And, of course, there are so many others, but I won't bore you with the huge list :D.

My favorite writers over the course of my life, based on my age at the time they were my faves:
Jack London
Mark Twain
Edgar Allan Poe
J.D. Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Stephen King

And today:
John Irving
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Haruki Murakami
Dave Eggers
Amy Tan
Khaled Husseini
Sara Gruen
Cormac McCarthy

I have read something by each of these, some I went looking for more and some I read everything I could find.

JRR Tolkien
Dean Koontz
James Patterson
Anne Rice
Roald Dahl
Stephen King (low on the list)
Edgar Allan Poe
J.D. Salinger
John Grisham
Mary Shelley
Nicholas Pekearo
Clive Barker
James Herbert
John Saul

Interesting how Edgar Allan Poe is a must for people who read very different genres.

Excellent point....Which brings me to my ulterior motive for this thread. The names that repeat the most by Oct 1st will be put into a poll to see what's the overall group favorite.

Jessi wrote: "Excellent point....Which brings me to my ulterior motive for this thread. The names that repeat the most by Oct 1st will be put into a poll to see what's the overall group favorite."

Oh Jessi, you sneaky Faery, you.

Haha I like being sneaky. And I'm extending the deadline for repeat names. I've decided to wait until Oct 15th before tallying and doing the polls

Double sneaky...

Sneaky's good...LOL

I don't know all of them off the top of my head, so I'll just put one down.

Robert Cormier (The Chocolate War duology, Fade, I Am the Cheese, The Rag and Bone Shop)

My favorite authors are: Danielle Steele, Nicholas Sparks, Stephen King, Anne Rice and Stephanie Meyer.. I also luv Robert Frost and the written works of Mother Theresa.