Apart for Terry who do you consider the best writers?

[bikkit]

Brandon Sanderson :3 (anyone heard of him? Brilliant stuff. My second favourite author)
Alan campbell (Steampunk kinda stuff)
DOUGLAS ADAMS ^o^
Alison croggon
Niel Gaiman
Whoeer it was that wrote The Book Thief
Ian Irvine
Terry brooks
Robin hobb (like David eddings but better)
Margaret Weiss and Tracy hickman(One word: RAISTLIN)
&many more


I raid the fantasy section for the more obscure things, as you can see.

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Stephen Fry

 

[ramtopsman]

Best read

Douglas Adams
Max Brooks

 

[ghostsecurity28]

OOOH !!!

1. Markus zusak
2. James herbert
3. C j sansom
4. Robyn young
5. James mcgee

pre 1900

1.Shakespeare
2.William blake
3.Edgar allan poe
4.Lord byron
5.Mary shelley

 

[high eight]

I find that Stephen King is somewhat inconsistant. I've read increadibly good books by him and also complete garbage.

Sometimes he does the good and the garbage in the same book. Pinches quite a bit from obscure 60s and 70s British SF and dark fantasy, too.

My favourites? Tons, including:

Kipling (Best short story writer in the English language)
Keith Roberts (Second best. Also a grumpy old sod and general misanthrope. My kind of guy. :twisted: )
China Meiville
Robert Holdstock
M R James (Best ghost story writer in the English language)
John Gordon (Second best. Also good at Garneresque fantasy. Speaking of which....)
Alan Garner
T H White
Tolkien (Though he does witter on a bit)
Patrick O'Brian (Best writer of historical fiction and sea stories, etc.....)

And loads more.

 

[chevy67]

i have so many faves other than Terry


Stephen King
Clive Barker
John Saul
Shaun Hutson
James Herbert
Anne Rice
Sergei Lukyanenko
Kathy Reichs
Tess Gerritson
David and Leigh Eddings

to name a few i could go on and on.

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm a real fan of Kathy Reichs as well. I've got one of her books sitting there waiting to be read after I've read Monstrous Regiment. She's much better than Patricia Cornwell.

 

[BatrickPatrick]

I'm suddenly very into Gregory Maguire...Wicked FTW

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm suddenly very into Gregory Maguire...Wicked FTW

I'm curious. I've seen the letters "FTW" in various places on the Internet but when I try to find what they mean I get either "For The Win" (which I don't understand) or F*** The World (which I do).

What does it mean?

 

[Bouncy Castle]

What? No love for Robert Rankin?

C'mon people. Where is the love?

 

[BatrickPatrick]

I'm suddenly very into Gregory Maguire...Wicked FTW

I'm curious. I've seen the letters "FTW" in various places on the Internet but when I try to find what they mean I get either "For The Win" (which I don't understand) or F*** The World (which I do).

What does it mean?

When I use it I mean "For The Win"...I should really just use an ordinary adjective but I've been on too many forums and have picked up bad habits...

Urban Dictionary says:

(2)English Translation: For the win.
/phrase/
/adjective/
-\A term which can be originated to a popular game show "HollyWood Squares" when , on the final move contestants would announce their move was "For the win".
-\Used oftenly when giving importance to a specific noun.(ei. "My computer, FTW")

 

[Tonyblack]

Thanks for the explanation!

I remember the days when I didn't know what 'LOL' meant.

 

[raisindot]

Thanks for the explanation!

I remember the days when I didn't know what 'LOL' meant.

ZKEWRQB!!!!!!!



J-I-B

 

[jonny]

ZKEWRQB!!!!!!!

What ?

 

[Tonyblack]

ZKEWRQB!!!!!!!

What ?

I think he's pulling oor leg.

 

[high eight]

I'm a real fan of Kathy Reichs as well. I've got one of her books sitting there waiting to be read after I've read Monstrous Regiment. She's much better than Patricia Cornwell.

I've never forgiven Patricia Cornwell for not only accusuing Walter Sickert of being Jack the Ripper but destroying at least one of his paintings in a loony attempt to prove it. :x

 

[Tonyblack]

That really was an awful book! Talk about fitting someone up.

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Thanks for the explanation!

I remember the days when I didn't know what 'LOL' meant.

ZKEWRQB!!!!!!!



J-I-B

Roflcopter...

There's LOL and *BOL* (bursts out laughing) now, too, which sometimes gets * for actions for some unknown reason while LOL doesn't.

 

[high eight]

What? No love for Robert Rankin?

C'mon people. Where is the love?

I like the first four in the Brentford Trilogy and the tales of Hugo Rune, especially the Brightonomicon.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

I've now read three books by Robert Rankin and loved them all! I wish his books were more available in the Netherlands