Authors

[Luba]

Who is/are your favourite author/authors? What books do you suggest should be read and why?

[Vautrin]

I am a big fan of Balzac ("Lost Illusions" is a must), and Kafka (did not write that much. "The Trial" and "Metamorphosis" are must-reads). And those who cannot appreciate Dostoevsky ...

Balzac was a sheer genius of human psychology. A nice thing about his writings is that most stories are interconnected; in one story a character can be a poor student, whilst 20 years later we run into him as a Minister of State in a different story.

Kafka is realistic in an a very disturbing surreal way; it is hard to describe his works in a few sentence without such a wild contradiction.

Dostoevsky is similar to Balzac in the sense of a great understanding of human psychology.

[NoTargeT]

Isaac Asimov and Douglas Adams when it comes to Science Fiction.
Moebius for comics strip.
Other then that I rarely read.

[Luba]

Henry David Thoreau - "Walden" my very favourite book in the whole world!

Stephen King - almost any book he's written

[Vautrin]

And Goethe. A wonderful writer.

[IR_Efrem]

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (they have Co-Authored a few books, but i have read works by each of them separately) Dragonlance, and The Death Gate Cycle, plus anything else they have written

Orson Scott Card - Best Sci-Fi writer that I know - Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide

C. S. Friedman - Coldfire Trillogy

I could go on and on and on...... these are some of my favorites

[Luba]

Isn't WONDERFUL that people STILL read books?

[Vautrin]

I saves us from collective amnesia.