Favorite Novelist?

[Guest greyhalo]

Some favorites:

Hermann Hesse

Neil Gaiman

Chuck Palahniuk

Douglas Coupland

Milan Kundera

Poppy Z. Brite

Francesca Lia Block

[Simon Bar Sinister]

sticking with those I'm pretty sure are still living:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Isabel Allende

William Gibson

David Brin

[Azeuron]

I'm not sure that he did any actual novels so i don't know if this goes here lol but Harry Bates who did the short story "Farewell to the master" one of my favorite stories of all time

Farewell to the Master

[StormKnight (1)]

Tom Robbins.

[jynxxxedangel]

I have three:

Tanith Lee. Her "Tales From The Flat Earth" series is my absolute fave.

Piers Anthony. I loved his "Incarnations Of Immortality" series.

Ray Bradbury. 'Nuff said.

[taysteewonderbunny]

Virginia Wolf

Alice Walker

Knut Hamsun--Hunger, read two translations thus far and prefer the one by Robert Bly

John Steinbeck

Henry Miller

and what's his name that wrote U.S.A., the trilogy

[Guest greyhalo]

Virginia Wolf

Alice Walker

Knut Hamsun--Hunger, read two translations thus far and prefer the one by Robert Bly

John Steinbeck

Henry Miller

and what's his name that wrote U.S.A., the trilogy

I was going to mention something about Hamsun too. It's been years since I've read "Hunger" or "Pan" though. Did you see the movie about him entitled "Hamsun"?

[taysteewonderbunny]

I was going to mention something about Hamsun too. It's been years since I've read "Hunger" or "Pan" though. Did you see the movie about him entitled "Hamsun"?

No, and I haven't read "Pan" either. Though "The Wanderer" I've read. Want to lend me your copy? of "Pan", that is.

[Guest greyhalo]

No, and I haven't read "Pan" either. Though "The Wanderer" I've read. Want to lend me your copy? of "Pan", that is.

Sure.

[Guest greyhalo]

Dostoevsky.

He is not THE best, just near the top. That top would be Tolstoy. However, he became my personal favorite when I realized that I had thought either about him or his work at least once everyday since I first picked up a book by him.

I agree. "Crime and Punishment" is one of my favorite books. I also love "Netochka Nezvanova."

OK, this thread is addictive for me...

[jynxxxedangel]

Oh, greyhalo! I LOVE Poppy Z. Brite, too!!! "Swamp Foetus (reprinted as "Wormwood")" is one of my faves!!!

[Guest greyhalo]

Oh, greyhalo! I LOVE Poppy Z. Brite, too!!! "Swamp Foetus (reprinted as "Wormwood")" is one of my faves!!!

I even like her new novels that aren't in the horror genre.

[jynxxxedangel]

I'm going to kick myself for forgetting Hunter S. Thompson in my first post!

[Guest Megalicious]

Hunter S Thompson

Kurt Vonnegut

Burgess and not for Clockwork, but for The Wanting Seed.

Philip Roth

J.R.R Tolkien

Ernest Hemingway

ON the philosophy side of things:

Darwin

Locke

Sartre

There are a great many more, those are just the ones that come to mind at the moment. I love to read, it is the only time I get to escape