Who are your favourites? A few of mine are: Stephen King Hunter S. Thompson William S. Burroughs James Rollins Tom Robbins
Douglas Adams all the way. Haven't been reading much lately, though. Just so much school-work. Hoping to get 20 books in (give or take) over the summer.
Richard Laymon Stephen King Patricia Cornwell Linda Fairstein Dean Koontz Mark Billingham P.J Tracy John Grisham and a few more....
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, those three have written some brilliant fiction, rich backstory, many details, and ludicrous characters (like the Son of a "God")
Cormac McCarthy is my favorite. I like a lot of other writers, though. Nabokov is probably runner up.
Tolkien ain't bad for pure entertainment. David Quammen is great if you're interested in natural sciences. For "serious literature," Dostoyevsky is better than anyone.
Current: Stephen King Classical: Jack London -- he writes stories that just dwells on my mind for a long time.
Others in this thread have said Douglas Adams and Tolkien, and I agree with them. I also like Orson Scott Card(Children of the Mind), Greg Bear(Queen of Angels) and even Chuck Norris. Most people don't know, but Chuck Norris is an author. I got The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book for my birthday, and it is by Chuck Norris himself. For school, I recently read two essays by Emerson. I lost interest in his Nature essay when he divided it up into a bunch of little sections, such as Commodity, Beauty, Ideology, etc.; but I really loved his Self-Reliance essay.
Oh gawd no. The Alex Rider series ended for me when he went to space. I remember the Maltese Falcon and it's connected books were pretty good though (can't remember the detectives name) Eoin Colfer Rupert Thomson (I only discovered him by chance whilst I was browsing for Hunter S Thompson, but he is a great author, Divided Kingdom is superb) Tim Dorsey (All but one of his novels follow the antics of a deranged homicidal man name Serge A Storms, compelling and good for fans of creative killings)
Are you that closed minded? If you don't you have any courteous for others beliefs. I would rather believe four people with the inspiration of God than some crock with a name with numbers in it. Besides you're so ignorant you think the Gospel is the entire Bible. Shitting on someone's beliefs is not cool. See you in Heaven. Nope. I won't because life is like a candle when you're time is up. There is nothing more.
lol yeah, I used to love Anthony Horowitz, but he milked the Alex Rider franchise to death. Any normal teenager (that was trained by an Uncle that was spy since his parents died in an airplane crash planned by a family friend) would've died after that many near-death experiences. You can't outsmart every single maniacal millionaire/spy enterprise you run into. The Diamond Brothers was a good series, though. I remember reading the Maltese Falcon. Artemis Fowl will always have a place in my heart, despite me now being able to go through every book in a day. Shouldn't have tried to top Douglas Adam's though. Well, not top, but at least emulate. Wait, what? Life is a candle? Huh?
