Who is your favorite author?

[angel0105]

I love J.D. Robb and Jennifer Weiner. J.D. Robb writes about a homicide division that is set in the future, very interesting and easy to read. Jennifer Weiner is a wonderful writer and her characters are people that you can relate to. They made one of her books into a movie last year - "In Her Shoes". They are also making another one of her books into a movie, "Little Earthquakes".

[Melanie]

My fabourite at the moment is Phillipa Gregory. She writes stories about Tudor England - her latest is the Constant Princess, which is about King Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine.

Mel

[~Jodie~]

VC Andrews Flowers in the Attic is her most famous one.

Love all of her novels, can't get enough always on the hunt for more of her books.

[angel0105]

I used to love VC Andrews when I was younger. I loved the series when she was still writting them. After she died and they had staff writers, I found the books weren't the same. Plus I felt I couldn't relate because they were about teenagers. I did get my niece hooked, so I was glad to have someone to pass my collections onto.

[GINAinLA]

I was soo addicted to v.c andrews also.. I loved her books. I think her family started writing some of them after she died.
I alos liked nancy drew and judy blume. but that was when I was younger too

[angelic_rebel]

I like JRR Tolkien...i think he's very talented. I love his writings specially his Lord of the Rings Books

[Telori]

I loved The Hobbit by Tolkien.

My fave author is John Grisham but I also love Jean M Auel, with her Earth's Children series.

[nj27au]

Mine is Jodi Picoult...if I choose just one, it's her. Some of her books are:

Keeping Faith
Perfect Match
Salem Falls
Picture Perfect

her latest is The Tenth Circle which I haven't read yet.

[sjc]

I love Helen Garner, her books are at times very confronting.
also Jodi Picoult.
Mitch Albom, The five People you Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie, two of my favourite books.


Sheryl

[Naomi]

Patricia Cornwell, Agatha Christie, Margaret Atwood.

Used to like Bryce Courtenay but he's just getting really wordy and a bit repetitive.

I don't know, I'm sure there are others. How do you choose just one?

[mejane]

Isaac Asimov at the moment..

[robbie]

Hello
I love Agatha Christie, Elizabeth George, Ruth Rendell ,PD James. In fact I just love murder mystery authors mainly English. Robbie

[5littleducks]

patricia cornwell
kathy reiches [sp]
alex kava

[nj27au]

At the moment I'm really into Jeffrey Deaver and just can't enough of his books.

I've just finished Jodi Picoult's latest book " The Tenth Circle". I picked it from Target for under $20, a bargain considering it's a new one.

I also like Nicci French. Has anyone read any of hers? I prefer her to Patricia Cornwell.

I was soo addicted to v.c andrews also.. I loved her books. I think her family started writing some of them after she died.
I alos liked nancy drew and judy blume. but that was when I was younger too


Me too, I was addicted to Nancy Drew and I also read all of VC Andrew books in high school and passed them on to my sister.

[michelle_72]

I always change what I am reading - as a teen I loved Virginia Andrews and Stephen King. Now I tend to read whatever looks interesting. I am currently reading Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See which I am finding very interesting. It is a novel about chinese women. I just finished The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble and I thought that was a really good read too - I managed to finish that one in a couple of days.

[~Jodie~]

I was soo addicted to v.c andrews also.. I loved her books. I think her family started writing some of them after she died.
I alos liked nancy drew and judy blume. but that was when I was younger too


:yes: The family are still writing her stories, working from note's she left some unfinished.

I try to read the whole series, They start as teenagers but by the end they are Grandparents, so its easier to relate as story gets along in series .

[missiegold]

James Patterson (Alsx cross/Womans murder club books are pretty good especially the earlier ones)
Tess Gerretsten mostly Medical thrillers - all really good.
Asne Seierstad Bookseller of Kabul and 101 days in Bagdad are really good (she is a journalist) reading With their backs to the world (about Serbia at moment)
Alex Cava A perfect Evil is excellent!

Must go book shopping again soon. Might try the internet as books are sooooo expensive over here.:faint:

[nj27au]

Did anyone know that Nicci French is actually a pseudoymn(sP) for Nicci Gerrard? Nicci French co-authors books and shes written two others on her own which are really good:

SOLACE
THINGS WE KNEW WERE TRUE.

[famousrowena]

Stephen King is the best

[michelle_72]

Mine is Jodi Picoult...her latest is The Tenth Circle which I haven't read yet.

I have that one to read next - I havent read any of hers before although I did buy My Sister's Keeper for my mother for Christmas.

[grammyjo]

I like a good who done it thriller with alittle romance. Sharon Sala is one of the better author. Some of her books The Chosen, Missing, Sweet Baby, Dark Waters, Snowfall & Reunion. Catherine Coulter is another one . Blow Out, The Cove, The Maze, The Edge & Riptide.

Jo

[Teeka]

Patricia Cornwell and Sue Grafton for me

[kels]

Gabriel Garcia-Marquez is a master. As are Milan Kundera and J.M. Coetzee. These guys are a little more intense than lazy summer reading usually goes, but I think it's all the more rewarding.

[grammyjo]

I forgot Kay Hooper. Her new one is Sleeping with Fear. It's a Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

Jo

[Briar_Gregory]

I love VC Andrews... I raced around getting every single novel and then I got a little turned off by the fact all the new ones had the same sort of plot. I still love reading them when I need something light and easy.

At the moment my favourite author is Alexandre Dumas. Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo. Other ones are Margaret Mitchell, Raymond E Feist, Jane Austin, JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling... and I best stop there or I'll go on forever!

[CarolineBreck]

Wow. Ya'll all read a number of the books I like. I LOVED VC Andrews in high school but have not read those in a while. I also really like Phillipa Gregory. I am into the Tudor England series, too, and its time to buy the next book!

I am obsessed with Harry Potter and read the new book on the first day it is out everytime. :)

I will really read about anything. I was a real big John Grisham fan but his books all started sounding the same. Same with Patricia Cornwell. I like Ken Follet...

[Kjoy]

I collect

Colleen McCullough
Ben Elton
Clive Cussler
Matthew Rielly
Nikki French
Kathy Riechs
Linda Fairstien (similar to Kathy and Patricia Cornwall - forensicy)
Jeffrey Deaver
Andy McNab

Tonnes of others too cos my friends at work and I are always swapping new authors - I will pretty much read anything forensic or crime based.

And I love autobiographies of my favourite actors from all decades.

[Briar_Gregory]

And I love autobiographies of my favourite actors from all decades.

I love reading autobiographies as well. Do you have any favourites?

[crashtestwoman]

I am currently in a true australian crime phase,The Snowtown Murders, The Jaidyn Leskie Murder, etc. Nothing scarier than a true crime novel.
My favourite authors are Janet Evanovich series, Dean Koontz (especially the older ones) and of course the Stephen King novels (can't beat em).
Read all the Patricia Cornwell novels and John Grisham but now find em all pretty much the same.
Because of insomnia I read about 3 books a week so I will just about read anything, but the above books I will read over and over again.
Cheers
Debby

[jens]

I love Danielle Steele, I'm just a romantic at heart.

Also like reading biographies and motivational books. Just finished "Screw It, Let's Do it" by Richard Branson....excellent!

[Kjoy]

I love reading autobiographies as well. Do you have any favourites?

For sheer entertainment value I cant go past David Niven or Michael Caine. Ooh and Michael Crawfords was a good laugh too. I re-read all of them all the time.

For a good cry - Christopher Reeve.

Becase she is/was the coolest woman in the world - Katherine Hepburn.

Most recent one I read - which was really good and quite an eye opener - was Jacki Weaver's.

I also have everything ever written by Shirley MacLaine. She is a brilliant writer.

Pamela Stephensons books about hubby Billy Connolly are extremely good.

For life inspiration - Dirk Benedict (Battlestar Galactica and The A Team). Not only a talented writer but what he has done regarding his health is amazing.

Those that were disapointingly dull when I desperately wanted them to be good - James Mason and Michael Palin. James' - I must be 2/3rds thru it and he still hasnt started acting ! He is still talking about boarding school. And Michaels is nice and sweet ! Too nice and sweet. he wont bitch about anyone and has been with the same woman his whole life ! Its sweet - but doesnt make for a good autobiography ! They are both on my desk at work and I just sorta return to them everynow and then when in the mood.


I am currently in a true australian crime phase,The Snowtown Murders, The Jaidyn Leskie Murder, etc. Nothing scarier than a true crime novel.
My favourite authors are Janet Evanovich series, Dean Koontz (especially the older ones) and of course the Stephen King novels (can't beat em).
Read all the Patricia Cornwell novels and John Grisham but now find em all pretty much the same.
Because of insomnia I read about 3 books a week so I will just about read anything, but the above books I will read over and over again.
Cheers
Debby

Me too crashtestwoman re Aus crime!! I am waiting for my friend to finish reading The Snowtown Murders so I can have it !! And just finished Paul Kidds book on the History of Australian Seriel Killers. And it has made me want to find the many books he refers to in the bibliography.
I also have a huge book on the UKs Yorkshire Ripper called Wicked Beyond Belief thats on my pile of "still to read" beside my bed.

And I, like you, suffer chronic insomnia, so I get thru a fair few books.

I also usually have one by the bed, one near where I have breakfast in the morning, and one at work on the go as well !!

And yep - like you I will read just about anything I am given or find in $2 bookshops ! But certain faves I read over and over again.


My most prized book is my original 1978 edition of The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. It has no front cover, is held together by tape, and is manhandled and re-read every year since 78 !!. Two years ago Colleen autographed it and suggested it was time for a new copy !!!!!LMAO

[Mimi1]

I love Emily Dickenson the poet. I love poetry!

[crashtestwoman]

OH Kjoy, don't ever get rid of that book by Colleen. I just read ON/OFF by her and it was excellent.
If you like I can send you the Snowtown Murder book if you promise promise promise to send it back. I don't think I will be reading it again soon as I only just read it in August and it is quite hard going at times so requires a bit of inner stamina. Another one that was excelent was a book called MY BROTHERS KEEPER about the Milat family and the Belanglo State Forest killings. Man the life that that family lead is unbelieveable.
Anyway just email me with your details and I'll post it off for you. Okay.
Cheers
Debby

[Heather]

Debby.............couldn't agree more that the Cornwell and Grisham novels all feel the same now.
I first started a Dean Koontz novel about 8 years ago and have been hooked ever since.........try not to read him now unless on holidays as I find it hard to put the book down (last one two years ago and read in one very long sleepless night).
Heather

[*Marie*]

I Just love to read, some of my fav author's are Riechs, evanovich, hooper, kenyon and robb.

[camsmum]

LOL Well I'll be game and admit that I only read light historical romantic fiction and no complex stuff lol. Amanda Quick, Johanna Lindsey, Julie Garwood... Love them all!
I do have most of Jeffrey Archer's collection though, do enjoy his books...

[Briar_Gregory]

For sheer entertainment value I cant go past David Niven or Michael Caine. Ooh and Michael Crawfords was a good laugh too. I re-read all of them all the time. Becase she is/was the coolest woman in the world - Katherine Hepburn.

I went to a second hand book fair and found all of David Niven's books and I just loved them! Michael Crawford's though has to be my all time favourite! Some of the things he did were just so funny! I liked Katharine Hepburn's as well.

Has anyone read Monty Python's autobiography? I always wanted to read it.

[Kjoy]

OH Kjoy, don't ever get rid of that book by Colleen. I just read ON/OFF by her and it was excellent.
If you like I can send you the Snowtown Murder book if you promise promise promise to send it back. I don't think I will be reading it again soon as I only just read it in August and it is quite hard going at times so requires a bit of inner stamina. Another one that was excelent was a book called MY BROTHERS KEEPER about the Milat family and the Belanglo State Forest killings. Man the life that that family lead is unbelieveable.
Anyway just email me with your details and I'll post it off for you. Okay.
Cheers
Debby

Oh what a lovely offer Debbie - I could possibly accept ! The pstage of a book from QLD to WA and back would make it so much. My pal here in Perth assures me she has nearly finished reading hers so I hope to get it off her soon ! But thanks so much for the offer !!
The one about Milat is listed in the Paul Kidd bibliography so I definitely have that on my list of ones to find (I go to a lot of second hand book stores and always have a list in my puse of stuff I am looking for). Yes most of that family should be in jail !

And yes ON/OFF was a brilliant read wasnt it. Colleens first forensic mystery novel and what a great job she did. I picked the right suspects but had no idea how big a twist that twist would be ! It blew my mind. An no - I will never get rid of the authographed ancient Thorn Birds - its so treasured to me. And inside it I have a pic of her while she was signing it. I didnt actually do it myself - I would dearly love to meet her. My dad actually took it with him for me on a writers trip to Norfolk Island and he met her and got the autograph for me. He told Colleen that I had had the book since I was a child !

[TeriTurtle]

Wow, seeing the name VC Andrews, brought back memories! I remember, I LOVED her Flowers in the Attic, and that whole series actually, I read the whole series twice. The movie, was SUCH a compact version of the book, I didnt' like the movie nearly as much, although the woman who played the grandmother was good in it.

I have read a couple of books by Jodi Piccoult, and I love her style. I could easily get into more of them. MY SISTERS KEEPER was excellent.
My favorite author though, Wally Lamb, doesn't seem to be getting anything out there, and he has only published 3 books. :(
She's Come Undone (you wouldn't believe for a second that it was being written by a man)
I Know This Much Is True..this book is very very long, but from the first page, I was enthralled and couldn't put it down. It still took me weeks to read it. But it was this book, that I found this author to be absolutely brilliant.

[mummyof3babes]

My fave author is Danielle Steel. My little bro, Lance, brought me 'the gift' by Danielle for my 16th birthday and I have read all her books since. I get so excited when a new one comes out!

[chris12]

Diana Gabaldon

Sara Donarti(sp)

[Stormy]

David Eddings....Sara Douglass....Paulina Simons...Marion Keyes...

To name a few :)