Favorite Author?

Roald Dahl.

I love his imagination, and every time I read one of his books I feel like I did when I was little. You know, no hospital bills, no work, etc.

[QUOTE][B]Mine: Bret Easton Ellis.[/B][/QUOTE]

right now: Eddie Little

Why: Read "Another Day in Paradise" and that should be enough of an explanation. No ordinary junkie fare.

Too bad he only wrote 2 novels before he passed away last year. He could have done so much more.

I read a lot of Laurell K. Hamilton, but I've recently realised that her actual writing ability is crap. Sometimes it gets on my nerves, and when I'm reading her novels I feel like editing them. I don't know who's doing the editing, but they suck. She develops great characters, though, and that's why you just have to keep reading.

But of course my all-time fave is none other than Chucky P.

irvine welsh

beacuse of 'filth'

Chuck Palahniuk.

william s burroughs
kurt vonnegut
tom robbins
james joyce
jack kerouac

tom robbins
nicholson baker
john steinbeck
gabriel garcia marquez...

this could go on forever, though.

James Joyce
J.D. Salinger
Don DeLillo
Jack Kerouac
John Steinbeck
but i need to squeeze in Hermann Hesse, H. D. Thoreau, Nabokov, adn of course I must add Chuckie P. and I agree wiht moe about the list.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by moe.ron [/i]
[B]
nicholson baker

this could go on forever, though. [/B][/QUOTE]

i have a new, and dirtier, opinion of you, moe. but in a [I]good[/I] way.

Here's a couple favorites:

MZD
Harry Crews
Philip K. Dick
Charles Bukowski
Denis Johnson

i could say the same of you, chicken boy! there's like, 3 people on this board who even know that name...

p.s. where've you been?

William Burroughs. I enjoy his cut-up style and even his somewhat "grounded" work in the 70s-80s such as the Western Lands trilogy. He's also the only author to whom I've written to which wrote back (this is back in 1994). We're born on the same day, 60 years apart. I just turned 30 last Thursday and he would of been 90 if he was still with us.

On a deeper level Burroughs never went with the norm. He followed his own path. A lot of the things he wrote into his stories came true (the forthsight of the Aids epidemic) and have a major impact on our culture (the term "Heavy Metal", the breaking through of the gray room where the reality projectors lie aka "The Matrix).

Plato.

Favourite books include Phaedo, Res Publica, and of course the lovely Phaedrus.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by moe.ron [/i]
[B]i could say the same of you, chicken boy! there's like, 3 people on this board who even know that name...

p.s. where've you been? [/B][/QUOTE]

i thought it was pretty well-known that a certain copy of 'vox' was used as evidence in the whole Clinton/Lewinsky fiasco...turns out Monica gave it to Willie (pun intended) as a sort of suggestion....

I thought vox and the fermata were pretty good, but I still need to find a good copy of the mezzanine on ebay or something. I also heard that his latest stuff is no good; can you back this up?

PS:
I've been really, really, really, busy lately with work - doing a lot of stuff on the side, too - and even cheating on The Cult with another forum (not literary).

why do you have to go to ebay for the mezzanine? and have you read u & i and the size of thoughts?? you should if you haven't. the one about the matches is on my list of books to get in the near future...i'll let you know how it works out.

another forum?? GASP!! a good one?

Stephen King....

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by moe.ron [/i]
[B]why do you have to go to ebay for the mezzanine? and have you read u & i and the size of thoughts?? you should if you haven't. the one about the matches is on my list of books to get in the near future...i'll let you know how it works out.

another forum?? GASP!! a good one? [/B][/QUOTE]

I feel like I need to bump up my feedback rating for some reason...

I haven't read those two - not a big fan of updike - but just for you I will.

The other forum is good...if you make architectural renderings for a living....

William s. burroughs
franz kafka

[QUOTE=tetsuo]One answer only please, or and "I can't decide". Let's not turn this into a listing.QUOTE]

I say LET'S, you fucking fucker:

LJ Smith- Great Stories
Charlotte Bronte- Only has one story to tell, but tells it well.
Chuck Palahniuk- He's brilliant.
Anne Rice- See LJ Smith.
Poppy Z Brite- Great grasp of the grotesque.
Bret Easton Ellis- Engrossing and witty.
Patrick McGrath- Nice and depressing.

at the moment

Alice Sebold
Because she writes with such brutal honesty.

Mario Puzo.

Read Fool's Die, The Godfather can wait.

Chuck Palahniuk

Simply, this question is too difficult for me to answer.

I dont know if this is cliche or not but...I would say my two favorite authors are CS Lewis and Chuck Palahniuk...And I know that sounds odd because they seem totally diffrent...But each one has something that makes me love the way they create and shape their writing.