I thought I'd open a second thread for this and invite you to post your favorit authors if you have any.

here are mine:
Douglas Adams
Patrick O'Brian
Robin Cook
Dan Brown

Edit: Ken Follet and JK Rowling aren't that bad aswell

Robert Cormier
Edgar Allen Poe
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

:eek: Robin Cook? As in the bearded cabinet politician?


I only really read non-fiction and I cant remember any names. Although I used to like John Grisham.

no as in the clean shaved Dr. Robin Cook who writes "medical thrillers" xD

Never heard of him, is he a yanker?

my humble knowledge of english fails me to understand what you ask so I'll just post the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Cook_%28novelist%29

I meant, is he american? I doubt most people would know that though.

yes I think he is...

I didn't understand because of this:

yanker - jerker,puller - someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself

may I remind you I'm from switzerland and writing in english isn't my streng as I said in the other Thread ;-)

lol Yeah. Its an English tradition to call americans 'yanks' and my variation is 'yanker', implying..............(well, Ill leave that to your imagination).:D

I've read some Robin Cook. Not bad. Very technical, and I find some of the endings a little disappointing, but overall entertaining.

I love Arthur Haley. Why? Because he is like Robin Cook, but picks always a different industry and you can learn a lot while you are still being entertained.
Auto, airplane, electric, banking industry, he does the hard work of learning about it, and tells you in a novel. He passed away a few years ago...

I also love DeMille's books because of his characters. The Golden Coast is one of the great American novels.....

Come one, imaplanck! Play nice! :D Actually, I had noticed shortly after my first exposure to British slang how much "Yank" sounded like "wank". I probably should have been offended, being such a star-spangled patriot and all, but I found it more funny than offensive. I'm sure my hyper-right winged compatriots would disagree. Screw 'em if they can't laugh at themselves!

Syzygys I had started reading "The Golden Coast" when we pulled one of our spur of the moment moves out of state and it got lost in the packing. I need to get it again.

Richard Adams
Jean Auel
Robert L. Forward
Alan Dean Foster
James P. Hogan
P. D. James
Harry Kemelman
Dean Koontz
Robin McKinley
James Michener
A. A. Milne
Larry Niven
J. K. Rowling
John E. Stith
J. R. R. Tolkien

Neil Gayman, George Pelecanos, Ben Elton, Richard Adams. There are more but I can't remember their names.

Come one, imaplanck! Play nice! :D Actually, I had noticed shortly after my first exposure to British slang how much "Yank" sounded like "wank". I probably should have been offended, being such a star-spangled patriot and all, but I found it more funny than offensive. I'm sure my hyper-right winged compatriots would disagree. Screw 'em if they can't laugh at themselves!

Syzygys I had started reading "The Golden Coast" when we pulled one of our spur of the moment moves out of state and it got lost in the packing. I need to get it again.

I love you americans really, I mean! you invented cheerleaders.:)

Bernard Cornwell
Mercedes Lackey
Robin McKinley
Jasper Fforde

I'm quite fond of many others, too... but I'd say that's the core group.

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Robin McKinley
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You like Robin McKinley too? Cool!

Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Steven Brust, Jack Cady ... I've got this weird thing at the start of the alphabet. Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, Robert McCammon ....

Douglas Adams (I probably wouldn't have thought of him without the previous posts, but I loved his Hitchhickers Guide Series. Babblefish, Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistro Mathmatics..chuck full of fascinating and humerous ideas)
Larry Niven (esp with Jerry Pournell)
David Weber
John Ringo
Ann Rice
Ayn Rand
Peter Hamilton

Ah! A pox on me for not mentioning Washington Irving!

Stanislaw Lem (http://www.lem.pl/)
Strugackie brothers

John Fowles
John Steinbeck
Umberto Eco
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jose Saramago
Louis de Bernieres

Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Steven Brust, Jack Cady ... I've got this weird thing at the start of the alphabet. Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, Robert McCammon ....

The beginning of the alphabet does seem a little charmed. I'm still not sure if it's that better authors happen to have names in the beginning of the alphabet, or if they just get more notice. But I work at a library and the authors whose names begin with A, B, or C seem to get more circulations. There are exceptions to the rule, but for the most part outside of those letters the only books that get a lot of circulations are the ones from particular well-known authors. Also being anywhere near a well-known author helps a book's circulation.

What's an "autor"?

oops ^^ I'm not used to typing on my notebook...

And its correctly spelled if it would be german ^^