Sponsor |  meanbean | Jun 30, 2006 3:27pm | The Buk, of course. Charles Bukowski, is consistently on of my fave writers. His style is as visceral as the themes he writes on.
For similar reasons, David Sedaris is quickly becoming a new fave essayist. |
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|  WhyCody | Jul 2, 2006 3:48pm | | For a certain classic style I love John Steinbeck. Mark Twain's writings are wry and sharply observant. I really enjoy William Saroyan's work and am surprised that he seems to be largely forgotten. As far as current fiction... hmm... I'd say Carl Haaisen and Barbara Kingsolver. |
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Sponsor | | barefootwanderer | Jul 2, 2006 4:07pm | | I have a few: Overall it has to be Terry Pratchett, brilliant satire and social commentary in a way only a fantasist can get away with. Damned funny too. Robert Jordan for the sheer amazing scale of the Wheel of Time series, a series that has just blown me away time and time again. And James Barclay for the sheer cinematic quality he brings to his writing, I love his character writing too, Absolutely brilliant |
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Sponsor | | ntltrmllgnc | Jul 3, 2006 3:04am | | Terry Bisson - Made Out Of Meat. Google it. Funniest thing I've ever read. |
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|  Indiosona | Jul 4, 2006 12:50pm | First off, hello to all.
Secondly, Mark Twain would have to be my favorite author overall. Mr. Hemmingway would come in a close second, writing from experience is quite impressive to me. Unfortunately, I cannot explain in too much depth why I like these few, just I know what I like. It reads well. |
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Sponsor | | ChristineKey | Jul 4, 2006 4:17pm | | I don't have a favorite one, I have ones that I love there writing. |
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| | vashsunglasses | Jul 4, 2006 10:41pm | | Chuck Palahniuk really gets me. I love his writing style. |
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| | akarra | Jan 29, 2007 9:22pm | I'm not sure what the criteria for a favorite writer is. There are writers who I read over and over again and whose style I have learned from - W. Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, and Ernest Hemingway are the three chief ones in both these regards. The books by them I recommend are "The Razor's Edge," "Decline and Fall," and "A Moveable Feast" respectively.
That last book, "A Moveable Feast," I can't recommend highly enough to anyone who is deciding to be a writer. Perhaps the best introduction to why that book is important is located on this page, if you scroll down. |
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|  Ladyknight24 | Jan 31, 2007 2:32pm | Stephenie Meyer, because her writing is so fresh and sarcastic. She captures nearly all the emotions possible in her books, and manages to make us think that the impossible happens daily, not just in her book. When I'm reading her books, I feel like I'm living the book. I live it and breath it until I finish, then I read it again.
And again.
And again.
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