Favorite Author?????????????

[Alaska animal lover]

sundance
I haven't heard of BOTM, I will have to check it out.

I love Paperback swap because I only have to pay $2-3 to mail out a book to someone, and I have gotten quite a few brand new bestsellers. There is a place for you to put books that aren't in the system on a wish list, and as they are posted into the system they go straight to you.
I don't get anything for telling people about PBS by the way.I just really love to read and the people in the forums there are so great. It is awesome to be able to have a conversation with someone that has the same likes/dislikes.
I love this site too, since I am the only person I know that has chickens, and most people don't "get it", this is a great place to come and feel normal!

 

[rooster0209]

My mother installed a great love for reading in her children. I will read anything and everything.

My favorite authors are
Stephen King
Anne Rice
Dean Koontz
John Saul

King's new book "Duma Key" was great.

I also have "Marley.." by John Grogan..another awesome, easy read.

I even like the old classics too


by the way..animallover...what is normal?

Ella, "the hitchhiker's guide" was loaned to me a few years back. I dont usually read sci-fi as first choice, but u are right. It was hilarious!

 

[tabsmonsters]

I like Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rebecca York, Nora Roberts, Laurell K. Hamilton (very steamy!) and thats just a few. I really scaled my collection down. My husband is military and it gets tiresome hauling 20 boxes of books everywhere! I was really into Danielle Steel in my jr/sr years of high school. I got away from her books due to it seemed to me that she kept killing off my favorite character in the book! I can waste an entire day reading since I can't seem to stop in the middle, I can't get anything done for wondering what happens next! I am currently rereading all my books.

 

[ncgnance]

James Michener, Jean Aul, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, I'm sure there are many others, but then I've been reading for 55 years now, I've forgotten alot of them. LOL. Oh, yeah, J.K. Rowling, to me, is one of the most original writers in a long time. Loved her books....

 

[NoelTate]

bamadominaker, I am so glad you said that! I am going to print it out and post it in the English dept workroom at my school. I gripe all the time about the selections they insist on for summer reading and in class reading. I always suggest we do something light and fun, especially for summer, since the whole point is to get kids to actually read the assignment and to learn to enjoy reading. I always lose, though *sigh* I try to bring a few fun things into my own classroom, though, and try to take a different slant on the required reading so kids will enjoy it more.

It's surprising how many of us on here are into vampire stuff. They are definitely my favorites.

Vamp a Billy, you and I seem to have a lot in common. We gotta sit down and chat one of these days!

As for my fav authors...
*Fannie Flagg
*Amistead Maupin
*Shakespeare...can't beat good ol Will!
*Anne Rice, at least her earlier stuff
*Christopher Moore
*Chris van Allsburg (WONDERFUL children's books)
*LOVE Harry Potter, but I will hold off on calling Rowling a fav until I read something else by her
*Rick Riordan is a current fav...really good young adult series called Percy Jackson...movie to come out next year...I highly recommend them to fans of mythology
oops...forgot an old favorite! He is long gone from us, but my mom introduced me to the Walter Farley books when I was a child, and I still love them!!!

 

[Pupsnpullets]

Dick Francis, the Brit author

Jk Rowling is great, too, as is Walter Mosley .

Arthur Upfield, long since deceased - can ya tell I love mysteries.

 

[love-my-wolves]

Well, my all time fav is Johanna Lindsey. I love a good ancient romance, not too smutty.
Also:
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Christine Feehan
Maggie Shayne
Jean Auel
The Harry Potter Series
Michael Cricton - Jurassic Park Series
And anything Werewolf, Vampire, and Paranormal Romance

 

[mangled]

My absolute favorite of all times: Jean M. Auel, the author of "The Children of the Earth" series. The movie "Clan of the Cave Bear" was based off her books. Terrible movie, but the book was awesome.

Second favorites: Kathleen O'Neal Gear %& W. Michael Gear, and their "People of the..." series. They write historical fiction about the ancient Indians of North America. Good stuff.

I'm going to have to check out PBS ... my husband will be thrilled, LMAO...
Em

 

[airmom1c05]

Well, Ann Olive Burns who wrote one book and started another which her daughter finished after her mother's death. The Cold Sassy Tree has got to be my all time favorite novel. I only wish she had lived a long time so she could have continued to write.

 

[mangled]

Okay .. to whoever it was that original posted Paperbackswap.com ...

OMG!!! WHY? WHY?? WHY???

I can feel a new addiction coming on...and I've only been there a few minutes.

Em