Favorite Authors

[Gamma Male]

Who're your favorite authors? Why do you like them? What are their best books?

For fiction I like Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Tolkien, and R.A. Salvatore.

Yes, I did say Ayn Rand. I like Ayn Rand. Fucking sue me.
For nonfiction I like Peter Singer, Carl Sagan, and Noam Chomsky.

My favorite books are Animal Liberation, 1984, Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, Animal Farm, and The Demon Haunted World.

[CosmicNoodle]

Who're your favorite authors? Why do you like them? What are their best books?

For fiction I like Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Tolkien, and R.A. Salvatore.

Yes, I did say Ayn Rand. I like Ayn Rand. Fucking sue me.
For nonfiction I like Peter Singer, Carl Sagan, and Noam Chomsky.

My favorite books are Animal Liberation, 1984, Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, Animal Farm, and The Demon Haunted World.

Your taste is basically identical to mine, but without fucking Any Rand and with the addition if Douglas Addams

[Melodic]

John Green, Rainbow Rowell, Nicholas Sparks, and Sarah Dessen

Favorite books? TFIOS by John Green, Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks, and Someone like you by Sarah Desseb

[Gamma Male]

Your taste is basically identical to mine, but without fucking Any Rand and with the addition if Douglas Addams

I did say I liked her for fiction, and fiction only. But Objectivism? Fiscal conservatism? "The virtue of selfishness"? Nnnoooooooo fucking thank you. :D


I'd of added Douglas Addams, but I've actually never read the books, only the movie.





please don't hurt me

[CosmicNoodle]

I did say I liked her for fiction, and fiction only. But Objectivism? Fiscal conservatism? "The virtue of selfishness"? Nnnoooooooo fucking thank you. :D


I'd of added Douglas Addams, but I've actually never read the books, only the movie.





please don't hurt me

You telling me you've never read the books...but want me not to hurt you?
On a more serious note. Read them, they are about 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000x better than the film, in comparison the film was a steaming pule of horse shit.

[Magg]

Orwell, Tolkien, Coelho, among others.

[BuryYourFlame]

John Green, Matthew Reilly, Tolkien, J.K. Rowling
I'll add Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus to the list too although I've only just started reading their works. I also really enjoyed The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
I haven't read any of George Orwell but I've really been meaning to, same with Aldous Huxley.

[Hudor]

Who're your favorite authors? Why do you like them? What are their best books?

For fiction I like Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Tolkien, and R.A. Salvatore.

Yes, I did say Ayn Rand. I like Ayn Rand. Fucking sue me.
For nonfiction I like Peter Singer, Carl Sagan, and Noam Chomsky.

My favorite books are Animal Liberation, 1984, Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, Animal Farm, and The Demon Haunted World.

I like Ayn Rand as well. Cheers.
Apart from that Philip Pullman and Patrick Rothfuss would be my favourites.

[CassnovA]

i feel inadequate for reading books aimed at the demographic i belong to.

james patterson, dennis lehane, michael connelly, kevin brooks, robert muchamore, john marsden.

[Karkat]

You telling me you've never read the books...but want me not to hurt you?
On a more serious note. Read them, they are about 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000x better than the film, in comparison the film was a steaming pule of horse shit.

As a die-hard HGTTG fan, I assure you the movie was not a "pile of horse shit". :P It was written by Douglas Adams as well, actually, and the whole reason it's not the same as the books is that NONE OF THE ADAPTATIONS ARE. However, with the exception of the 6th book, they are all written by him in some way, shape, or form.

Douglas Adams liked to change it up a bit every time, just to fuck with people.

[Plasma]

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[Horatio Nelson]

You know, I really like to read, but I'm not an author based reader or much of a series reader.


Plus I'm having a super brainfart when it comes to author names.

[CosmicNoodle]

As a die-hard HGTTG fan, I assure you the movie was not a "pile of horse shit". :P It was written by Douglas Adams as well, actually, and the whole reason it's not the same as the books is that NONE OF THE ADAPTATIONS ARE. However, with the exception of the 6th book, they are all written by him in some way, shape, or form.

Douglas Adams liked to change it up a bit every time, just to fuck with people.

I'm not saying it was bad, notice I said, " by comparison", meaning the film is still good, but the books are intimately better. I think anyone can agree with that. So much more content, well written, funny, mind bending, just awesome all round.

[Karkat]

I'm not saying it was bad, notice I said, " by comparison", meaning the film is still good, but the books are intimately better. I think anyone can agree with that. So much more content, well written, funny, mind bending, just awesome all round.

Most people just don't know that he also helped write the movie, so they write it off as a "hollywood fail", when it's really just an alternate storyline :P

Well, you can't compare a movie to a book to begin with. It may be a rather short book, but movies are shorter still. However, as movies go, it was very-well cast, the effects were decent, there were some added gags that weren't in the books- which was nice, and the plot was...Liveable. It wasn't quite as cohesive as in the book, imo, but it was ok.

As movies go, it was pretty dang enjoyable, and as book to movie adaptations go, it was freaking solid. Book to movie adaptations are almost always TERRIBLE, and with a few exceptions, like, Holes, for instance (Why can't Disney go back to making movies that are that good???) they're not exactly great either.

Like Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. HGTTG as an adaptation ranks higher than that by far. I love Kat Dennings, Michael Cera, and Jay Baruchel, but the adaptation was so poorly thought-out that I could hardly enjoy it. It's okish, the actors did good considering the movie itself, but I was SO disappointed. Because I love that book.

And don't get me started on Inkheart. Yet another really good cast in a terrible movie. And not the right cast, either. Love the actors, but not necessarily in those roles...

And admittedly, I didn't picture Mos Def as the ideal Ford Prefect, nor do I think Zooey Deschanel was the best pick for Trillian (because imo Trillian is a piece of work and a snob. She's probably the most expendable part of the series. Liked Fenchurch FAR better, and Zooey would've made an AMAZING Fenchurch. I cast Zooey as Fenchurch in my mind when I read the series.) even though I love Zooey.

I think Mos Def still did a good job though. I liked the twist he gave to the character. He was a bit more relatable than Ford was in the books. (If you take away the end book- he's a lot less...Idk, full of himself, I guess.)

Sam Rockwell and Martin Freeman were spot on, though. Loved Stephen Fry as The Guide, and Alan Rickman as Marvin. Once again, great casting.

I mean, I agree that the book/s were infinitely better, but dang, as far as movie adaptations go, it was solid as fuck.

[CosmicNoodle]

Most people just don't know that he also helped write the movie, so they write it off as a "hollywood fail", when it's really just an alternate storyline :P

Well, you can't compare a movie to a book to begin with. It may be a rather short book, but movies are shorter still. However, as movies go, it was very-well cast, the effects were decent, there were some added gags that weren't in the books- which was nice, and the plot was...Liveable. It wasn't quite as cohesive as in the book, imo, but it was ok.

As movies go, it was pretty dang enjoyable, and as book to movie adaptations go, it was freaking solid. Book to movie adaptations are almost always TERRIBLE, and with a few exceptions, like, Holes, for instance (Why can't Disney go back to making movies that are that good???) they're not exactly great either.

Like Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. HGTTG as an adaptation ranks higher than that by far. I love Kat Dennings, Michael Cera, and Jay Baruchel, but the adaptation was so poorly thought-out that I could hardly enjoy it. It's okish, the actors did good considering the movie itself, but I was SO disappointed. Because I love that book.

And don't get me started on Inkheart. Yet another really good cast in a terrible movie. And not the right cast, either. Love the actors, but not necessarily in those roles...

And admittedly, I didn't picture Mos Def as the ideal Ford Prefect, nor do I think Zooey Deschanel was the best pick for Trillian (because imo Trillian is a piece of work and a snob. She's probably the most expendable part of the series. Liked Fenchurch FAR better, and Zooey would've made an AMAZING Fenchurch. I cast Zooey as Fenchurch in my mind when I read the series.) even though I love Zooey.

I think Mos Def still did a good job though. I liked the twist he gave to the character. He was a bit more relatable than Ford was in the books. (If you take away the end book- he's a lot less...Idk, full of himself, I guess.)

Sam Rockwell and Martin Freeman were spot on, though. Loved Stephen Fry as The Guide, and Alan Rickman as Marvin. Once again, great casting.

I mean, I agree that the book/s were infinitely better, but dang, as far as movie adaptations go, it was solid as fuck.

I watched the movie before I read the books (sin, I know, but when I watched it I wasn't old enough to read) so I'm my head I used the same characters, it was great :)
To he fair. It was an OK film, but it just didn't hit the buttons for me. Don't k ow why but I just didn't get on with it as I did the books,

[Karkat]

I watched the movie before I read the books (sin, I know, but when I watched it I wasn't old enough to read) so I'm my head I used the same characters, it was great :)
To he fair. It was an OK film, but it just didn't hit the buttons for me. Don't k ow why but I just didn't get on with it as I did the books,

Wow, that makes me feel kinda old

Even though I'm like probably no more than a year and a half older than you at best

I think it came out when I was like, 8? WAIT, HAS IT REALLY BEEN ALMOST TEN YEARS?????

That's not cool

Edit: APRIL 29th 2005 HOLY FUCK IT IS ALMOST TEN YEARS OLD

Now THAT makes me feel old...

At least I was right- it did come out when I was 8 :P

[Hudor]

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Hmm. Surely you don't mean the guy who created Kvothe?

[Ben_Frost]

Richie Tankersley Cussick, J.K. Rowling and Isabel Allende.

[dame]

I like anything by James Patterson, Lee Child, Dean Koontz, & John Sandford. :P
I'm really into thrillers.

[poiuytrewq]

Gabrielle Lord solely for the fact that she wrote my favourite series of books I've ever read: "Conspiracy 365" highly recommended

[TheN3rdyOutcast]

Jodi Piccoult, James Patterson, Jeff Kinney (Sue me, but I like middle school humor sometimes), Jordan Sonnenbrick, Jack Gantos, Margaret Peterson Haddix....

I just realized that most of my favortie authors have names that start with "J"...interesting.

[audiophile5]

Oscar Wilde, John Fowles, Stephen King, Aldous Huxley and a few Romanian authors (who didn't always write in Romanian, some in English/French): Mircea Eliade, Liviu Rebreanu, Octavian Paler. I think this is a my list.

[James Dean]

Poe, Stephen King, RL Stine, KA Applegate,

[Typhlosion]

Gabrielle Lord solely for the fact that she wrote my favourite series of books I've ever read: "Conspiracy 365" highly recommended
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