John Steinbeck
Cormac McCarthy
Joe Hill
Patricia Highsmith
Amy Tan
Cormac McCarthy
Joe Hill
Patricia Highsmith
Amy Tan
Your five favourite authors
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Stephen King
Michael Connelly
Joe Hill (if you have not read HORNS you are missing out.
Gillian Flynn (read "GONE GIRL" now)
Michael Connelly
Joe Hill (if you have not read HORNS you are missing out.
Gillian Flynn (read "GONE GIRL" now)
Clive Barker
Dean Koontz
John Jakes
James Clavell
Joe Hill
Dean Koontz
John Jakes
James Clavell
Joe Hill
There's just way too many for me to pick. Way too many. Steinbeck, Koontz, Crichton, Lansdale, McCammon, Rice, Hill, Tabitha King, Flagg, Don Robertson, Tan, Grisham, Irving, Morrell, Straub, Charles Grant, Herbert, Jance, Cronin, John Dunning, Strieber, Tryon, Shirley Jackson, Bloch, Matheson, Dan Simmons.........way too many!
I forgot how I love Poe, and Amy Tan. Five is just not enough. And Shirley Jackson, and Wharton and Welty. Anne Rice.
Not a bad problem to have! It would be really tough to go through life without author "friends". And I do consider all of them my friends.
Tough question! Its really hard to narrow it down to just five 
Dean Koontz
Joe Hill
Roger Zelazny
Arthur C Clarke
Isaac Asimov
Dean Koontz
Joe Hill
Roger Zelazny
Arthur C Clarke
Isaac Asimov
Jack London, even though I sometimes hate his dialogue.
I feel this way too. Can't pick because they ALL have merit, they have all touched me in some way. If ranked via re-reads and given I love short stories, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, Earnest Hemingway, James Thurber, TC Boyle
Did anyone mention Dickens? Lord, I sure hope so because I consider King to be the Dickens of our times!!
When I first read your post, I thought Huh? Then I realized you're right... They both create/created real-life characters with a bit of the supernatural occasionally thrown in
Forgot: T. C. Boyle! - He's one that can totally creep you out while you're in the middle of laughing. I talk out loud to him while I read his stuff.
all-time fave:
- Stephen King
5 runner-ups (in no particular order):
- Joe Hill
- Ray Bradbury
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Jonathan Hickman
- Garth Ennis
honorable mentions:
- Robert Kirkman
- Mark Waid
- Mark Millar
- Isaac Asimov
- Clive Barker
- Stephen King
5 runner-ups (in no particular order):
- Joe Hill
- Ray Bradbury
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Jonathan Hickman
- Garth Ennis
honorable mentions:
- Robert Kirkman
- Mark Waid
- Mark Millar
- Isaac Asimov
- Clive Barker
Actually, I've always thought of John Irving as the Dickens of our times. His very intricately drawn characters and the way their lives weave in and out each others is very much like Dickens.
What I meant was that Dickens wrote about the ordinary life of people during his lifetime. People still read him today and can get a good glimpse of what life was like back then. I hope that the same will happen with King's works. If you leave out the vampires in 'Salem's Lot you get a perfect look at what small town life in the early '70's was like. King uses his stories as a mirror for us- he shows us things that we tend to overlook in our daily lives, but they are there if we look for them.When I first read your post, I thought Huh? Then I realized you're right... They both create/created real-life characters with a bit of the supernatural occasionally thrown in
1. J.D Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
2. J.K Rowling - Harry Potter series
3. George Orwell - 1984
4. Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality
5. Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas series.
It must be the in thing to do serial books these days, or with the genres I like.
I also like Aldous Huxley, H.P Lovecraft and Richard Mathis. I loved the movie 'Trilogy of Terror.'
2. J.K Rowling - Harry Potter series
3. George Orwell - 1984
4. Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality
5. Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas series.
It must be the in thing to do serial books these days, or with the genres I like.
I also like Aldous Huxley, H.P Lovecraft and Richard Mathis. I loved the movie 'Trilogy of Terror.'
I actually have read 'Horns' and 'Heart-shaped Box.' For some reason I liked Heart-shaped Box better but I thought both were great.
I haven't read NOS4A2. I read one page and was too disturbed to read further.
I think he'd appreciate the comparison
I do see Dickens in his pacing, especially.I like your reasoning. I've only connected Mr. King to Dickens in scope of novel (not just length, but the size/scope of the storylines), but you have something there. I don't think I've ever read Mr. King's reaction to Dickens--wonder if the connection is conscious or subconscious? One writer whose influence I see clearly at work in 'Salem's Lot is Faulkner--the sections where Mr. King talks about the town, describes it and its secrets, are very Faulknerian in pacing and voice.
Without SK, here are my favourites:
John Fowles
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu (Romanian Agatha Christie)
I think "five" is too much...I mean, I love so many books by different authors, but when I think about my favourite authors I refer to those that made me feel a connection to them...maybe Fowles did this best for me
John Fowles
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu (Romanian Agatha Christie)
I think "five" is too much...I mean, I love so many books by different authors, but when I think about my favourite authors I refer to those that made me feel a connection to them...maybe Fowles did this best for me