who are your favorite writers?

[Bobby D]

for me, they would be:

philip k dick

kurt vonnegut

hermann hesse

randy wayne white (a good friend, and great florida mystery fiction writer)

theodor adorno

robert pirsig

ikkyu, the crazy zen poet

[DocRock]

(in no particular order)

Margaret Atwood
Sir William Golding
J.R.R. Tolkien
Shusaku Endo
Franz Kafka
William Shakespeare
Jon Steinbeck
Mark Twain

I'm not much of a reader, as these are all authors whom I would have read in college or high school. But I liked what I read.

[Donner]

Hmmm yeah most of my favorite writers are t he ones t hat write books my kids will r ead !!!


The last time I was in a reading binge it was things like
Piers Anthony and Carlos Castenada

[cabo]

not much reading for me these days, but some of my past favorites were

Joseph Campbell

James Redfield

Deepak Chopra

Tony Hillerman

Hunter Thompson

[cosmonaut]

I am not terribly well-read, but here's a dozen..

Hermann Hesse
Anaïs Nin
Henry Miller
Bob Dylan
John Cage
William Gibson
Gilles Deleuze
Neil Gaiman
Stephen King's The Dark Tower 7-book series
Charles Bukowski
Charles Baudelaire
Steve Kilbey

[mills]

Not much time for reading that isnt a textbook for the last few years, but...

Hunter Thompson
Jack Kerouac
Ernest Hemmingway

And, every now and then the Art of War is worth a browse.

Otherwise, just whatever generic fiction drifts my way, but isnt really worth mentioning.

[Bobby D]

LOVE Hemingway, I guess you can't spend as much time in Key West as I do and NOT like Hemingway.

Lao-Tzu is a constant companion as well as Chuang Tzu.

Hunter S Thompson is CLASSIC, my buddy Randy Wayne White used to hang out with him and take him fishing, he has a few stories about Hunter.....

In this day and age where there are over 1,000 channels of cable TV, internet, and mp3 players with 120gb worth of music in them, I think the younger generation may be missing out on books.....I remember as a child going to the library, searching for a particular book, having to do "inter-library loan" and WAIT weeks for that book to come from some other library or university before I got to read it.

[BJF]

Hi,

Reading as in not technical or educational but just for joy and excitment?

I grew up in a home of books and live in one now. Actually I try to read on the subway on my way to work other than that I haven't had time to read as many books as I once did, more or less always carrying a book something I have enjoyed doing all my life, oh well at least I get to read a little:)

My favourite authors would include

Hjalmar Söderberg

Håkan Nesser

Hans Alfredson

Gabriel Garcia Marques

Isabelle Allende

Graham Greene

John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson

Donald E Westlake

Douglas Adams

Anthony Burgess

Geoffrey Household

Peter Süskind

Mikael Niemi

Arto Paasilina

Andre' Gide

Marcel Ayme'

Umberto Ecco

Michail Bulgakov

Have fun
BJ

[huckleboogie]

Truman Capote

Anton Chekov

Michail Bulgakov

Graham Greene

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanislaw Lem

Arkadi & Boris Strugatzki

and i have to add that even after the 10th time of reading it, Miles Davis' autobiography never gets boring....

[zion]

Edward Abbey

Thomas Rain Crowe

Terry Tempest Williams

Jim Morrison

John (From the Book of John)

Dave Foreman

Doug Peacock