Your favourite author?

Lionel Shriver -- don't know if that's a woman though, but that's who wrote that book didn't know so looked it up (thus the link)

yes ... manga/graphic novel writers count as authors in my book *snigger at bad pun*

 

Yep thats the one!! first time i heard it i thought it was a man too but shes not. Unlesss... Bad puns also rock. My dad has a tonne of them. Alot of things rock.

 

Indeed. Like... rocks.
...
Soon medication (SELF medication, that is, by which I mean DRUGS).
yeah, cold turkey's a bitch. Tastes shit. Fuck Thanksgiving, although we don't have it in this country so give thanks! Oh wait.

 

Stephen King
Irvine Welsh
Anne Rice

Couldn't choose between them. All three can take the unbelievable and make it believable.

 

terry pratchett definitely. the guy's a genius! did anyone hear the sad news about his early onset alzheimers? ruined my year that.

then oscar wilde, hunter s thompson, oscar zeta acosta... maybe kafka.

 

Michelle Magorian probabaly, her books always make me cry. And quite possibly Monica Dickens, since my Mum gave me a Follyfoot farm collection for Christmas!!!

 

My hero is Dostoevsky.

His psychological portrayal of character is pure genius.

 

Wilbur Smith.

 

Woah i remember this thread.. This was ages ago and my lists changed slightly now - take of Lemony Snicket and add Joe Meno.

I just gave in my coursework on his stuff on thursday. Plus we did both LOTF and about Hardy. :tongue:

 

Eugh, lord of the flies, horrible book!

George Orwell
Jilly Cooper (I'm so sorry that I'm not so intellectually read as some of you and like her books )
Jaclyn Moriarty
Nick Hornby!
Charlotte Bronte
Harper Lee (how dare she only write the one amazing book?)
Jodi Piccoult

 

frank mccourt and oscar wilde.

 

In no particular order at all:

Douglas Adams
Philip Pullman
Roald Dahl
William Shakespear
Stephen King
Nick Hornby

 

Oscar Wilde
Douglas Adams
Lisa Mason (wrote Summer of Love)
Francesca Lia Block (wrote Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books)
Johnen Vasquez (wrote graphic novel Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)
Virginia Woolf