Mine are: Neil Gaimen Gene Wolf Christopher Moore Neal Stephenson William Shakespere Douglas Adams John Steinbeck Tad Williams Lemeny Snicket Jim Butcher (Edit: to add a few that i forgot.)
::deep breath:: Douglas Adams, Tom Robbins, Gregory Maguire, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Madeline L'Engle, Elizabeth Peters, O'Henry ::another deep breath:: Dina Rubina, Tatyana Tolstaya, Strugatskiye, Bulgakov, Omar Khayam :hew::
Douglas Adams, Tom Holt, Anne McCaffery, J. K. Rowling, George M. Martin, Robin Hobb, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks
Tom Holt Robert Rankin James Bibby Colin Bateman Douglas Lindsay Bruce Bethke Douglas Adams Neal Asher Richard Morgan James Herbert Brian Lumley Shaun Hutson I could go on... It varies day to day Due to my odd reading habits, I could sometimes put in JKRowling Today, however is not one of those days :?
To limit myself, Italo Calvino and Haruki Murakami. George Orwell and Neil Gaiman would be close in the lists.
Not very good at favorites, but some might be: William Blake Philip K. Dick Douglas Adams Stephen Jay Gould
Neil Gaiman Michael Stackpole Terry Goodkind Bernard Cornwell wow...sometimes I forget I'm a nerd and something like this comes up and reminds me
Well, here they go: Juliam Barnes, Mihail Bulgakov, Evelyn Waugh, Pushkin, Chehov, Bredbury, Asimov, Shekley, Strugatskiy brothers, Yuriy Andruhovich, Umberto Eko, Milan Kundera, Yaroslav Hashek, Nabokov, Bunin, Pasternak, Blake.
Let's see... Douglas Adams Nick Sagan J K Rowling Lian Hearn Those are the ones I can think of from the top of my head. I'd do better, but that would require me to actually sit down and think about this.
Tom Holt Tom Robbins Jane Austen Eoin Colfer Irvin Yalom (salutes) Dave Barry Nikos Tsiforos Bost Petros Markaris
here the list goes: Neil Gaiman Douglas Adams Orson Scott Card Ursula K. Le Guin Anne Mcaffery Terry Brooks Connie Willis Ray Bradbury George Mcguire Kage Baker Shakespeare Tolkien (of course) C.S. Lewis yeah, well... I read alot
There are several authors out there I enjoy reading, some of them are, Douglas Adams Anne McCaffery J. K. Rowling Brian Lumley C.S. Lewis L. Ron Hubbard Traci Harding But as far as 'favorite' authors, I only have one other than Pratcho. R.A. Salvatore
I like David Gemmell David Eddings Anne McCaffrey Robin McKinley Barry Hughart J R R Tolkien Neil Gaiman Roger Taylor Alan Dean Foster and others
Neil Gaiman Douglas Adams Orson Scott Card Terry Brooks Ray Bradbury Shakespeare Tolkien (of course) C.S. Lewis C.S. Forrester Richard Adams Dir Arthur Conan Doyle Mercedes Lackey Rodon R. Dickson Ian Irvine Christopher Moore Kurt Vonnegut Quoth, have you read Fluke or Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore?
Larry McMurtry John Irving Anne McCaffrey Madeleine L'Engel Margot Benary-Isbert J.R.R. Tolkien Robert Heinlein Isaac Asimov Tom Clancy Tom Robbins Tom Wolfe David Weber Eric Flint Mercedes Lackey Elizabeth Moon Roger Zelazny Joan Aiken Jean Auel Anya Seton Laura Ingalls Wilder Rose Wilder Lane Beverly Lewis Andrew Greeley Jon Hassler Will Weaver Alan Dean Foster Kurt Vonnegut Arthur C. Clarke Piers Anthony Alice Walker Keith Laumer Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle Harry Harrison Fanny Flagg James Michener Helen Hooven Santmeyer Amy Tan Rumer Godden John Varley Maya Angelou Margaret Mead Farley Mowat Douglas Adams Phillip Jose Farmer J.K. Rowling C.S. Lewis T.E. White Judy Blume Erica Jong Dr. Suess :shock: :lol: [/list]