Who are your favorite writers of fiction?

[pedroh 21]

Elena Garro

Ray Bradbury

Chuck Palaniuk

Jack Kerouac

Juan Rulfo

Jorge Luis Borges

Julio Cortazar

and many graphic novels..

[pedroh 21]

would Michio Kaku be considered a fiction writer? even though he's a physicist?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Elena Garro

Ray Bradbury

Chuck Palaniuk

Jack Kerouac

Juan Rulfo

Jorge Luis Borges

Julio Cortazar

and many graphic novels..

Bradbury's cool - I've met him a few times in LA. Very old now though - and wheelchair bound.

Not too many of the old-school guys around any more.

Richard Matheson is another fave of mine. I am Legend is probably one of my favorite novels. I also like a lot of his short stories (interesting story behind the writing of "Duel" - it was based on an incident when he was run off the road, and he and his wife basically drove out through Ventura Country so he could make a note of all the things along the route as part of his prep work).

I have a signed copy of The Incredible Shrinking Man when he did a book signing a few years ago.

would Michio Kaku be considered a fiction writer? even though he's a physicist?

I just got Physics of the Impossible through work. Interesting stuff.

Edited July 23, 2008 by Number 6

[pedroh 21]

I have all of his books.. I'm a hobby quantum physicist lolol.. I like Kaku, Brian Green, Neil deGrasse Tyson

for Kaku number 6, read parallel worlds dude.. that's 10 times better than physics of the impossible

and also there's a good movie about quantum theories with Marlee Matlin called -what the bleep! do we know

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I should also add Iain M Banks to my list.

Great SF writer.

And Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars)

Kudos Seis, that guy is awesome!!!!

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Elena Garro

Ray Bradbury

Chuck Palaniuk

Jack Kerouac

Juan Rulfo

Jorge Luis Borges

Julio Cortazar

and many graphic novels..

Mario Vargas Llosa ---- The Feast of the Goat is freaking amazing.

Rulfo drove me insane in high school.

Borges drives me insane today; but he is one the greatest.

Bradbury's first works are cool, then he went pretty pyscho.

And for funnies: Guadalupe Loaeza and German Dehesa.

[Peikko 1,575]

My fav Victorians are of course:

Jane Austen

Emily Bronte (The other two I read but wasn't so enthralled)

George Elliot

Thomas Hardy

Wilkie Collins

Lewis Caroll

William Thackaray

Anthony Trollope

Oscar Wilde (more plays than books, but the Picture of Dorian Gray is fab)

If we include poetry I would have to give a thumbs up to G.M Hopkins, despite his religious fervour!

[Minya's wife 24]

Jane Austen

Bronte Sisters

Fyodor Dostoevsky

LevTolstoy

Johen Steinbeck

Charles Dickens

Stendahl

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Issabel Allende

Laura Esquivel

Diana Gabaldon

Jaqueline Carey

Patrick Suskind - Perfume

J.K. Rowling

Jean M. Auel

That's all I could think of for now...I'm sure I've left out some, but these writers come to mind most often as 'favorites'.

-P

[Peikko 1,575]

Then, I read all of Iris Murdoch

Perfume was a fabulous book. Did he ever write anything else?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Then, I read all of Iris Murdoch

Perfume was a fabulous book. Did he ever write anything else?

Patrick Suskind? I don't know. Good questions though, because Perfume was one of a kind.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Then, I read all of Iris Murdoch

Perfume was a fabulous book. Did he ever write anything else?

Is that the book that the recent movie was based on? About the autistic serial killer obsessed with scents?

[Peikko 1,575]

I had a thing for Agatha Christie and P.G Wodehouse for a while, that was insane!

[eric&gen 0]

What is a book?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I like Arthur Conan-Doyle. The Sherlock Holmes stories are fun. With no shortage of horrible TV and movie adaptations.

The BBC did Hound of the Baskervilles (again) a couple of years ago with Richard Roxburgh as Holmes. Grotesque miscasting...

Jeremy Brett was the best by far.

[SteveLaura 0]

John Irving

Tom Robbins

Kurt Vonnegut

Roald Dahl

John Updike

Philip Roth