Do you have a favorite author?
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I prefer to have ChatGPT write novels for me.
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Hmm. Probably Terry Pratchett with Roger Zelazny a close second.
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I love Stephen king, Patricia Cornwell, John Scalzi, John Grisham, Lincoln Child among many others. I guess I read a little too much lol.
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Wide variety for me: Hunter Thompson, John Steinbeck, Robert E Howard, Jack London, Craig Johnson, Jim Butcher, Roger Zelazny, George RR Martin, Ernest Hemingway, Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, Michael Moorcock and others I can’t think of atm.
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George RR Martin, Michael Crichton, Kenneth Oppel, Thomas Sowell, Christine Golden, Richard A Knaak (dodges tomatoes), Mario Vargas Llosa, and Armando Vallares.
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I have a lot. JRR Tolkien, Michael Crichton, James Rollins, Tom Clancy, George RR Martin, John Scalizi, and there are probably others. The bottom line is I love to read.
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Maybe not my absolute favorite, but I enjoy Haruki Murakami quite a lot.
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Robert Jordan. Terry Brooks.
That means Sam Altman will be the owner of your work.
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Mine has changed over my lifetime.
My first big one was Tolkien then C.S. Lewis
Since then I have gone through phases. Stephen King, Christi Golden, Charles Dickens
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Soooo many…
LE Modessit’s
JN Chaney
Audrey Faye (specifically Ghost Mountain Shifters series)
Glynn Stewart
Bianca D’Arc
Mercedes Lackey
Laurel K Hamilton
and so many more…
Don’t really have one, however my favorite series are the Harry Potter series and the Left Behind series.
Could just stick with a classic and say Tolkien. But, I also like:
- Margret Weis
- Mercedes Lackey
- R.A. Salvatore
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Richard Knaak, Christie Golden, Reki Kawahara, Edgar Allan Poe, and at times Mark Twain.
HP Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Garth Ennis, Cormac McCarthy and a couple more.
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Clive Barker has made a name for himself with his dark and creative works, like The Hellbound Heart, the inspiration behind Hellraiser, and Books of Blood, a collection of short stories filled with vivid horror and masterful storytelling.
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Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Andy Weir
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I would say the author I have read the most and enjoy the most is Shakespeare
I love Macbeth. The Merchant of Venice. Twelfth Night. A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The novel Candide by Voltaire is probably my favorite singular work. I read it in High School for fun, wasn’t even assigned it. It was an interesting story, and touched on alot of philosophical issues.
I wasn’t a big fan of the Tolken franchise until I read The Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales. The tale of Hurin and his Children is pretty rough. I think those stories are much better than LotR or The Hobbit, but they are not as well known.
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As a long time comic collector, Stan Lee hands down.
Silmarillion at the very least is not a easy read, So much information and not a big story line. They might also be a bit diffrent as I think in Tolkens time they had been unfinished and his son finished them after Tolkens death. I will try to unfinished tales for sure. Recently been on a James Patterson kick with the Alex Cross series and Linda Castillo with her series with the main character being former Amish and now a small town police chief, To say the least very entertaining.