It looks like its been a few days since anyone has started a new thread, so I thought I would start a general one.

Who are everyone's favorite authors?


What are everyone's favorite series?

Robert Jordan and his mammoth Wheel of Time series.

May the Dragon ride again on the winds of time!

How 'bout Franklin W. Dixon and the Hardy Boys series. I read at least 70 of those things when I was a kid.

Never did read the Hardy Boys series. The books looked too big and intimidating when I was 8. Though since, I've read Jean Auel's Earth's Children series, the coplete Harry Potter series, one by Moddesit, and a bazillion on history, wild edible plants, fly fishing, fishing, hunting, rod building, the Civil War, computers, the Diaries of Anne Frank, the Muas series by Art Speigelman, The Guide to Getting it on, one book by Anka Radikovich and other books about bonsai, trees, massage therapy, samurai, stick fighting, phsychology and self improvement, birds, ferrets, parrots, cocketiels, submarines, fighter aircraft, building a kayak, kites, Calvin and Hobbes, the Far Side galleries and about every single Reader's Digest I could get my hands on. This is not to mention all the crap I had to read in college.

I'm guessing I'm pretty well read on a wide variety of subjects!

Originally posted by LionelHutz
How 'bout Franklin W. Dixon and the Hardy Boys series. I read at least 70 of those things when I was a kid.

I liked Nancy Drew myself :)




Some of my current favorites include Tad Williams Otherland series, Anne Rice, Sue Grafton's Alpahbet series, Anne McCaffrey, Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and the Star Wars series.

Can I cheat and name three?

Favorite authors and their series:

Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time series
Merdeces Lackey and her various Valdemar trilogies
Melanie Rawn and her Sunrunner series (both of them)

:D

Dune. Frank Herbert. Great series.

Originally posted by Pepper
Dune. Frank Herbert. Great series.



Have you read any of the prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson?

Tolkien -- "Lord of the Rings" And every other book or partial book her wrote.

I agree with Pepper.

Originally posted by Blibblob
I agree with Pepper.




have you read any of the Dune prequel series? or do you just like the originals?

have you read any of the Dune prequel series? or do you just like the originals?
I've read them. They are good as a series seperate from Dune, because they don't read like a Frank Herbert book. Anderson doesn't have the same syle.

I'm big on Nick Hornby. High Fidelity is on probably my favorite book of all time. it provides me comfort when I get lonely being a music nerd.

I tried reading the first of the prequels, but didn't like the writing very much. I feel Mr. Herbert to be much more visually discriptive.

I'm starting Children of Dune again. Good good stuff.


Has anyone found an author who written a similar type of series? I have tried different authors but they never really leave me satisfied.

Originally posted by WhammyBar
I'm big on Nick Hornby. High Fidelity is on probably my favorite book of all time. it provides me comfort when I get lonely being a music nerd.

Haven't read the book but it was a damn good movie.

you should read him. he tells really good stories. the movie is also one of my favorites, partially because I love John Cusack. some of his monologues are lifted directly from the book, so you'd alsmot defintiely like it.