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**Emperors Faithful**

Okay, we've had favourite books, favourite songs ect. But I have yet to see this. Who's literary work to you most enjoy?
Write the author and whatever books of theirs were your favourite.

Mine would have to be Brian Jacques and his "Redwall" series. (well, it was kind of a series).
He's the one that started me on my love of writing.

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

Kinda doesn't count, but David Hine. He mainly does comics, but I enjoy his work almost always. That's not to say there aren't select books from other (legitimate?) authors I enjoy more, just him overall.

**Lord-Loss**

Robin Hob, James Herbert and Stephan King.

**Emperors Faithful**

I'm not sure that comics actually count as literary becuase isn't the focus mainly on the pictures? It's alright I guess, but I would prefer it if you chose a 'real' book.

**SilverMK2**

Got a few really...

Michael Moorcock - I like his Castle Brass series, as well as the other books based around Hawkmoon. He also has loads of other books in the same universe (and other slightly related, and still others which are just crazy), all of which are good in some way.

John Whyndham - Day of the Triffids is my favorite book. Chrysalids and Midwich Cuckoos are fantastic too.

Asimov and Clarke were my two biggest writers when I was growing up reading all my dads old sci-fi books.

Pratchett is also great.

**Emperors Faithful**

Ninja'd.

(Last post was directed @ Cannerus)

@Lord Loss: Could you please also specify which (for each) was in your opinion their best piece of work?

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Amazing.

I considered my self well versed enough in the literary world, but there are quite a lot of authors who I have never heard of before. (or at least never read)

**VermilionButterfly**

Ray Bradbury ~ Fahrenheit 451 is a really interesting book.

**Lord-Loss**

Stephan King: I love his style of writing, Im half way through "Cujo" and I love how he does the 80s country folk sterotype.

James Herbert: I loved Others, as well as the Ghost of Sleath. He's a great at horror.

Robin Hob: The Assassin Aprentice series is one of my all time favorite series. Love the story.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

I don't have one.

I have fave characters that I like to read, but I don't ever really look at a novel and go, omg it's written by 'insert name' I must get it.

Seeing a book written by a writer I like a character of does not mean I'd rush to get the novel if it isn't about the character I like.

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

My main problem with naming an author is that I don't always enjoy their work. I like a few Ayn Rand books, but the rest are so overly idealized they bore me to tears. And I'd disagree that comics are more about the visual. Somebody writes and somebody else draws 90% of the time.

**Emperors Faithful**

True. I understand exactly what you're say, but for me if I realise that the books I'm enjoying seem to be sharing the same author again and again, then I tell myself to keep an eye out for more of them and see if they are any good.

**warpcrafter**

Peter F. Hamilton. His Night's Dawn trilogy is in my opinion the equal to Lord of the Rings or Dune in every way.

**Cheese Elemental**

David Gemmell, bitches. Look at this guy.

He stared cancer in the face and told it "Feth off, I'm not done writing."

**SilverMK2**

warpcrafter wrote:Peter F. Hamilton. His Night's Dawn trilogy

The first book was great, but the second and third were less so.

**Dreadwinter**

George R. R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire

Surprised that he wasn't already mentioned.

**99MDeery**

What about Raymond E Fiest, i've read upto the Serpent War Saga and so far all of his books have been throughly enjoyable reads.

Dan Abnett, nuff said really bring on Prospero Burns.

**Redbeard**

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen.

**Albatross**

J.R.R Tolkien - Obviously!

Terry Pratchett - Love his 'Guards' books in the Discworld series. Totally devastated about him having Alzheimer's.

Simon Scarrow - Just great historical fiction. I urge everyone to go out and find his 'Revolution' series of books about the ascendancy of Napoleon and Wellington. Just brilliant. He does some great roman stuff, too.

Martin Amis is great, as is Will Self.

**J.Black**

Iain M Banks - The pseudonym he writes his Sci-FI stuff under. Use of Weapons is probably my favourite book.

Warren Ellis - For amazing comics (Transmet, Nextwave, etc...) and a couple of funny novels.

H.P. Lovecraft - For inventing science horror and being one crazy looking guy (Read 'The Unnameable' if you want to be creeped out for a full day)

Stephen Donaldson - The Gap series IS sci-fi's answer to LotR.

**Gwar!**

Cheese Elemental wrote:David Gemmell, bitches. Look at this guy.
http://i45.tinypic.com/1264mk4.jpg
He stared cancer in the face and told it "Feth off, I'm not done writing."

QFT x 9001 times. Gemmell is one of my favourite authors, along with Raymond E. Feist and James Oliver Rigney (aka Robert Jordan). Phillip Pulman is good too but he's a whore for letting them feth up the Northern Lights movie so much.

Terry Pratchett for when I actually wanna laugh.

Hmm, perhaps I should start a "most unliked authors thread" too

**Golden Eyed Scout**

VermilionButterfly wrote:Ray Bradbury ~ Fahrenheit 451 is a really interesting book.

QFT. I like the book, but i'm having a hell of a time reading it.
I go to read it, get through a chapter, set it down, and then i remember i meant to read it about three months later.

Lord-Loss wrote:Stephan King: I love his style of writing, Im half way through "Cujo" and I love how he does the 80s country folk sterotype.

Read the Dark Tower. Arguably one of my favorite series, but the ending, imo, sucks ass.

Stephan Colbert- Insanely funny.
R.A Salvatore- If you haven't heard of the Lengend of Drizzt, you don't deserve to live.
Stephan King- His books are jsut so hard to put down.
Tamora Pierce- I like the world she creates.
Homer- Who doesn't like anceint Greek tales?
Shelly Mazonable- Witty and helped me get my buddy into roleplaying.
J. K Rowling- I like the pretty pictures.

Stephani Meyer- Not really.

**JEB_Stuart**

GK Chesterton
Dorothy Sayers
CS Lewis
JRRT
Friedrich Nietzsche
Montesquieu
Blaise Pascal
Cicero

**dogma**

J.S. Mill
Bertrand Russel
Plato
Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway
Peter Singer
Jean-Paul Satre
David Hume
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab
Martin Buber

**FITZZ**

Nietzsche.
Terry Pratchett.
Stephen King ( even if he can be a one trick pony at times,for simple story telling I enjoy his works)

**dogma**

warpcrafter wrote:Peter F. Hamilton. His Night's Dawn trilogy is in my opinion the equal to Lord of the Rings or Dune in every way.

Yeah, I remember that scene where Frodo used Gandalf's staff to sling himself onto Sam's penis. Literary master stroke.

**Munch Munch!**

J.R.R. Tolkien for his work on "The Hobbit", "Lord of The Rings", and "The Simillarion"

**Mad Monk's Mekshop**

Munch Munch! wrote:J.R.R. Tolkien for his work on "The Hobbit", "Lord of The Rings", and "The Simillarion"

QFT!

**Quintinus**

Again, by no means comprehensive, but these are some of the greats in my opinion

Robert E. Howard
Timothy Zahn
Frank Herbert
JRR Tolkein

**GoFenris**

I love many writers named on here and some not named on here but I will pick one, not because he is necessarily great or writes great literature (although his stories were insanely popular in his day) but because through his writing (in third or fourth grade), I fell in love with story telling, literature and writing in general.

Edger Rice Burroughs

If not for him, I might have never cared to pick up another book. Through John Carter, David Innes, Abner Perry, Tarzan and others, I was introduced to the power within words. Admittedly I haven't read him since I was thirteen or fourteen. I am almost afraid to as his stories are idealized within my memory. His works were like the first high I have been forever chasing to feel again.

**Hawkins**

Glen cook, David Weber, Steve White, Heinlein, and Pratchett.