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Who's your favorite writer?

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Hey all! I've been following the "What are you reading?" thread for quite a while now. Who is your favorite writer (or writers, I guess)? If I had to be stranded on an island with a single writer's library, I think I'd like to be stuck with F. Scott Fitzgerald's works.
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Scores of English authors of both genders, and -
Edward Gibbon
Homer
Rick Warren
Stephen Covey
Donald E. Westlake (Richard Stark)
William Shakespeare
James Grant (Lee Child)
John D. McDonald
Friedrich Nietzsche
Zane Grey
Samuel Clemons (Mark Twain)
Louis L'Amour
Franz Kafka
Sir Richard F. Burton
- and - . . . .
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I'd want Hardy and Trollope too.
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There are many, but here are a few:

Winston Churchill
Rudyard Kipling
John Buchan
Joseph Conrad
Ian Rankin
John Le Carre
Pierre Burton
H. Rider Haggard
Margaret MacMillan
Arthur Bryant
Arthur Conan Doyle
Saul Bellow
Ron Chernow
Niall Ferguson
John Keegan
John Mortimer
Harper Lee
John Tolkien
And many more.
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Ray Bradbury (what a poet, knows how to set a mood)
John Brunner (vastly under-rated, IMO)
Douglas Coupland
William Gibson
O. Henry (short stories)
Stephen King
Larry Niven (earlier work, for hard SF)
Thomas Pynchon (when I feel like punishing myself)
John Steinbeck
J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Turtledove

There are a couple of authors who have written series that I had binged through, but I don't continue to look for new or more works by them.
Edgar Rice Burroughs - John Carter/Barsoom series.
Arthur Conan Doyle - the Sherlock Holmes stories
Ian Fleming - I read all of the James Bond canon in 1968. Hey, I was 15 years old.
Robert E. Howard - Conan
Roger Zelazny - 10-part Chronicles of Amber
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I've a few of John Brunner's books - who couldn't enjoy Stand on Zanzibar? And much as I like some quirky SF writers (Edmund Cooper comes to mind) I don't think they'd be on my desert island list. Maybe some Heinlein from his mature, but not yet overripe, period. Stranger in a Strange Land to Time Enough for Love.
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It occurred to me that only one author allowed on the island would result in me choosing myself as my favorite. Never have written a book, but with my projected 24/7/365 solitude, I would request about a thousand reams of blank paper and enough writing utensils to cover them all. I could just write down everything going on in reality and in my own imagination. Then when I finally get rescued, I'd sell my books and movie rights.
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Gary, That is brilliant. I will be your agent. Jay
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id take somerset maugham, ken follet and max hastings. if one only, hastings gets the trip!

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jthomas1264 wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:39 am Hey all! I've been following the "What are you reading?" thread for quite a while now. Who is your favorite writer (or writers, I guess)? If I had to be stranded on an island with a single writer's library, I think I'd like to be stuck with F. Scott Fitzgerald's works.
This. So descriptive you can read a passage and close your eyes and there everything is: sights, sounds, smells, the feel of something. So good.
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107 thumbs up on your return

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fallingwickets wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2020 7:35 am 107 thumbs up on your return

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